Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1929, Page 41

Frocks of Linen BY MARY and Fine Cotton MARSHALL. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. Inadvertently leaders of fashion have provided more work for the laundress | and the problem of getting skillful laundresses to do their share in keep- Ing our wardrobes in condition this Spring and Summer will no doubt be added to our list of things to fret THIS LINEN ENSEMBLE CONSISTS OF SLEEVELESS FROCK OF PLAIN LINEN WITH LONG- SLEEVED, FULL-LENGTH COAT OF PRINTED LINEN. # about, unless we eliminate the laun-| dress entirely and learn to wash and | iron our dainty frocks of linen and fine cotton ourselves. Many of the new frocks of thin erisp cotton materials need 2 bit of starch if they are to retain their crispness and so the art| BEAUTY CHATS Nice Elbows. 1f it were as easy to treat every other part of the body as it is to treat the elbows, we could all be perfect beauties. The elbows need only this very simple daily attention: Once a day, preferably during your bath because it is easier then, scrub the elbows with & brush and soap and water. At the end of the bath, when most likely you'll use some hand lotion anyway, use the lotion also on the el- bows. Simply pour out a little more than m want and when you've rubbed your ds over, and over with it, be- fore it is dry. rub the hands over the elbows. It doesn't take half a minute extra and it makes all the difference | imaginable: At bedtime, when you rub your face and neck with cold cream, as you should if you want a really good skin, rub a little into the finger nails and some more:. _elbows. Wipe this off with & There not be | enough to stain the bed linen, but there | will be enough left in the skin to keep it soft and smooth. If you want an extra finish when you g0 out of an evening, after you've ‘washed, rub the elbows with vanishing | Make leftover rice into cakes, of using starch and ironing frocks that have been starched may be revived. various weights stand out as the materials chosen for sports frocks. | most favored of the lighter materials for evering and afternoon frocks. Eponge and gabardine are two old- time cotton materials that have been revived. The former is a loosely, rough | iaterial with the “nubby” appearance | that is now so much admired in woolen | materials and lends itself admirably to| | sports coats and jackets and to thej | lighter sort of beach wraps. i Of especial interest to the woman ! who plans to make some of her own | | Summer costumes are the new prlnred‘ piques with batiste or other fairly thin | cotton material printed to match. A| few seasons ago we had chiffon and | | crepe de chine printed to match—and | | now we have the same idea applied to | | cattons. | ""An old-time woolen material that has | been revived this Spring is_ etamine, | which was mentioned especially in re- | cent,_accounts of the new things shown by Jean Patou. Voile in both cotton {and linen has been mentioned and there are many basket weaves. And | 50 goes forward the vogue for loosely | woven rougher types of material. Some | of the newer imported tweeds are mark- |ed by this characteristic, belng lighter | and less closely woven than those we | have been seeing. morning and t In response to the request from many | readers we are offering this week a diagram pattern for two little garments for the wee baby—a gown and a tiny shirt. From these two patterns you may make all the little gowns, frocks, kimonos, bathrobes, etc., that baby will reed for his first outfit. if you would ke a copy of this illustrated circular, please send me your stamped, self-ad- | dreesed envelope and I will be very glad to send it to you, without charge. My Neighbor Says: fry them in bacon fat and serve with maple sirup. They are de- licious. A teaspoon of fine tapioca scat- tered over the lower crust of a fruit pie will prevent juices run- ning out. ‘To clean tapestry furniture rub it over with bran that has been heated in an oven. If the button hook has been mislaid shoes may be easily but- toned with a closed safety pin, BY EDNA KENT FORBES or cream on the whole arm, with a thick coat of powder, if your skin is not as smooth as you would like. And should the elbows ever get very dry and gray looking, very chapped and dirty, scrub them with hot water and scap and stiff brush and then rub them generously with olive oil or flesh build- ing cream. You could even let them soak in a shallow basin of warm olive oll, if you had the tize, though I think rubbing them with the oil or an oily cream do as well. That's all there is to keeping the elbows perfect. It's so simple and easy every one should be able to do it. Inquire: The yellow cast in parts of your white hair may be due to using the wrong kind of soaps for your shampoos. You should never use anything but a neutral soap such as the fine grades of Castile that are made from pure olive oil. Try one of these and watch the results. Some people like a little bit of laun- dry bluing added to the Iast rinse for white hair, but even this should not be nec:lssnry i the hair is shampooed cor- rectly. It is very important to keep the scalp in a healthy state after the hair has turned gray or white. The natural vi- cream or else a hand lotion, and then powder thickly. You can use this lotion ' T']lé Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copsright, 1920.) tality will then give the hair a sheen that may be beautiful. Gingham and pique and linens n(i Voile and batiste are | | PR AR It's rainin’ out an’ all Tommy an’' me kin do is wig-waggle ter each uvver. I ain’t seed nufin’ ob him since he busted the winder, (Copyright, 1020.) Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. Words often misused: Do not say, “Reverend Mr. Watts.” Say, “The Reverend Mr. Watts,” or, “The Reverend James L. Wetts." Often mispronounced: Discernment. Pronounce first syllable diz, not dis. thOl'!:n misspelled: Sediment; note Synonyms: Bury, sink, submerge. Word study: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. lay’s word: Tremulous; trem- bling; quivering. ‘“Her tremulous lips then answered.” WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office. immerse, plunge, When Prof Culdwell and his orches- tra were the big attraction at beautiful Glen-Sligo and Wildwood, near Takoma. Everyday Law Cases When May Verbal Promise to Pay the Debt of Another Be Valid? BY THE COUNSELOR. Harold Bates was a principal stock- holder in the Star Merchandise Cor- poration. ‘When the corporation ordered a bill of goods from the Henry Co. the order was rejected with the assertion that its credit_had been withdrawn. There- upon Bates called uggn the Henry Co. and gromued to personally re- sponsible for the payment of the order. Upon this promise the Henry Co. filled the order and billed Bates personally. When payment of the bill fell due Bates refused to pay, declaring that as his guarantee of the account was not in writing it was invalld as in contraven- tion of the statute of frauds. At the trial of the suit brought against Bates, counsel for the Henry Co. maintained that Bates' promise was an original and independent undertaking and as such was out of the operation of the statute. ‘The court upheld the contention of the Henry Co. and awarded judgment against Bates, stating: “If the leading object of a party promising to E.y the debt of another is to promote his own interest, and not to become guarantor, and the promise is made on sufficient consideration the rmmlu is an original undertaking, and t will be valid, though not in writing.” DAILY DIET RECIPE CREAM MACEDOINE. Chop celery, 2 cupfuls; chop) carrots, 1 cupful; po- tatoes, sliced, 1 cupful; shredded nbbnfe 2 cupfuls; minced onion, 1 cupful; salt, 1 teaspoonful; wa- ter, 6 cupfuls; milk, 2 cupfuls; butter, 2 tablespoonfuls; paprika, 1 teaspoonful. Across. 53. Giver. 1. Stimulate. 55. Opportunity. SERVES 6 PEOPLE. 5. Provisions, figurative. 58. Coward. Outer stalks of celery can be 10. Formal. 61. Long, slender weapon. used. Prepare vegetables and put 14, Head of a French abbey. 62. A European. them to cook in the salted boil 15. Eagle’s nest. 63. Firm, water until tender enough to be 16. Counsel: K 64. From the wind. mashed through a sieve. About 17. Dh bird. 65. Builder in stone. 1 hour's moderate cooking will do. 18. Cease action. 66, Centuries. Add milk to puree (about 4 cup- 19. General drift, 67. Cuts down. fuls puree), butter and heat thor- 20. Assessable. 68. Active. oughly. Sprinkle each portion 22. Gossip. 69. That not. with Kaprum at time of serving 3t Somoul osdition of aftairs SRaEiR o ed'mn. NOTE. 25. Perform. : 2. Organ stop. Re i J g cipe furnishes protein, fiber, 35, Absence ot ght. 3 Shretcton much lime, fron and viathis X B < an . Coul given cl ren 3324 %&vu‘om g' i’fl"“l““d:’ earth supporting guns. | | of 4 years if paprika were omit- 36, Landscape T or”t{u gj::- ted. Can be eaten by adults of 37. Harness. | 8. Bmall inland island. average, over or under weight. 39, Irregularity. | 9. From: prefix. i 41. Dash. 10. Assum L 42. Eskimo house. 11. Tear. p&, 44, Was 1l 12. Adored image. 46, Moral transgression. 113. Simple. 47, Pertaining to the Jewish book of |19, Chores. traditions. 21. A continent. 49. Achieved. 22. By-product of coal. 51. Note of the scale. 24. Song. 52. Later. 25. Extremity of & limb, ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE. }ZGA Greek letter. BZERCERSE] Yz OWT N = Dl TSI 7 INClA Bl gl | . Persian gold coin, Fish L es. . Gastropod mollusk. . Medicinal plant. . Coffin covering. . Discipline. . Tales of love and adventure. . Fragrant. . Measure of weight. . Active agency. . Female rabbit. . Situated near the back. Pain. Artificial color. Bivalve mollusk. Tuminous circle. Once more. . To puzzle. 9 Nauveur‘ndehh. 0. Cozy residence, . Close friend, QG &) . Parent. Delicious for CHOPSUEY and general table use An appetizer that makes all foods taste better. Quality made, pure, whale- somn. Try a bottle; you will like it. At your grocer's Oriental Show-You Co. Columbia City, Ind. Write for Free Recivs Book i | | | | long as you live at home. Liabilities 4 Lists Dorothysz‘ = Life. Failings. Take Advantage of Their Close Relation to Invade Each Other’s Privacy, Give Unsought Advice, Dampen Enthusiasms. WHAT are the chief family faults? One woman to whom I put this question answers emphatically: “Family curiosity. The eternal mily questionnaire. Being put through the everlasting family third degree about everything you do | or don't do. That is the thing that breaks up families and sends the different | | members scurrying to the four corners of the earth in search of some place | where they can have a little privacy of thought and action. Why we should all hate to be questioned so I don't know. But we do. | | T have never yet met an individual who did not resent having his or her private affairs pried into. It isn’t because we are trying to hide something. It is just that we feel that our secrets are our own secrets and when they are dragged out of us against our will it hurts like having a tooth pulled and leaves us just as sore in the mouth. Left to ourselves we would voluntarily tell the things that it makes us so furious to have wormed out of us. “But you haven't the ghost of a show of keeping anything to yourself as You can't get a letter without every member of the family turning it over and reading the postmark and wanting to know who it is | from "and what it is about and why he or she should be writing from that particular place, and mother feels hurt if you don't turn it over to her and let her read it herself, “You can't get a telephone call without the dear family listening in and asking who was speaking to you and what they said that made you say what you replied. You can't step out for a call or go to a party without being asked: ‘Where are you going? Why are you going? Who are you going with? Why are you going with that particular individual? How long are you going to stay? When will you be back? Whom do you expect to see?’ “And 80 on and on and on and on. Millions of questions that sting like gadflies and that irritate you until you are willing to do anything in the world to get away from them. “It is family curiosity, vulgar snooping that makes us break away from home and get among strangers who don't take enough interest in us to care what we do. “I THINK the chief family fault is giving unsought advice. No matter how great & success you may achieve in the outside world nor how highly strangers may value your judgment, your own family always regards you as a low-grade imbecile entirely incapable of deciding the simplest matter for yourself. s s e “Therefore, they feel that it is their sacred duty to regulate your entire life for you. They tell you just how you should manage your business, although they have failed in everything they ever tried themselves. When you are sick they prescribe for you, though they never saw even the outside of a medical book. They tell you how to manage your wife or husband and raise your children, though they have made messes of their own domestic affairs. “They try to settle your politics and pick out your friends for you and are generally Solomon on the spot so far as you are concerned. You rise up and lie down to the continual admonition: ‘Don't eat that, it is bad for your stomach.’ Or, ‘Do eat this, it 1s 80 good for you' And, ‘Don't sit up at night and read. ‘Don’t get your feet wet.’ ‘Don't get run over by an automobile,’ until it gets on your nerves so you are ready to scream. “Of course, you know that it is because your family loves that the; :‘hdo‘ez élq;‘l 'fi e(liutlhvalth their ‘;d\'loe, lhut. it mllies living lmonly:uour enemiea}t 3 called upon su] ou with gatuito 3t comfortable and pence(ul.po PR e B L “I think the chief family vice is wet-blanketing every enthusiasm. Leave it to your family to take the joy out of everythlm;s And’,‘ybelleve me, when !the Amalgamated Order of Domestic Cold-Water Throwers is done with & hope or plan or ambition it is a8 limp and pepless as a drowned rat, “Father is all on fire with his plans about a new departure he is make in his business. Mother puts on the extinguisher myp reminding hg of ltfl the blunders and mistakes he has ever made and by prophesying that he will 'l:g ;n :1?‘:; rnl;g.r ’,;‘1‘32'2559 Lsonilegf w;ttr‘(, Joy ovi; he':’ new dining room set. Father uf rovi her th antique and that she paid three “m“yw% mutg‘l for it. Ll “Johnny is on his tiptoes with ambition to be a doctor. The family snuff out the flame by telling glm that he has just mediocre ability and onlyymen o: mi‘fiz ysu‘f:“cfi:dit u\:o;le::: .crazy o‘w;‘er your nel:l cluwmmflk until the family nd convinces you tha bought any other make except the one ym}; did. TEIES S AR . e o0 “I OFTEN think that the reason the boys and girls who leave home and strike out for themselves succeed while the stay-at-home ones never amount to much is because the stay-at-home ones are kept in such a limp, shivering state by the family that they never have the courage to stiffen up and make an effort to do anything.” “I think the chief family fault is telling home truths,” said another woman. “Your own family are the only ones who ever feel called upon to tell you the things that you would rather die than hear. This may be good for our souls, but it isn't soothing to our vanity. “It is only your own family .that tells you that mur new hat is too young for you and that you look like a figure of fun dressing like a flapper at your age and that you have put on 20 pounds in weight or that you look as if you might be going into tuberculosis and that you ought to do something for your complexion, it is getting so sallow. It is only your family that interrupts your pet story to remark that they have heard it before and that invariably get you with their criticisms because they know so well your weak spots. For none of our blemishes are hidden from our family and they don't pretend that they are. On the contrary, they turn the spotlight on them.” It is because our families are too nosey and too naggy and because there is nothing as cruel as the candor of a near-relation thet mekes us love our families, even our parents, better when we get far enough away from them to get a perspective on their vmue{sé ke DOROTHY DIX. | opyrieht, | ‘The average man has never learned to ! concentrate. You can teach yourself to | do it. Try to think on a single subject for 60 seconds. When the minute is up, write down a list of your mental | wanderings. Try this a half-dozen times ' and then study the results. You will begin to' see where your time goes.| Something like 80 per cent of it is wast- Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Wasted Time. It's & good practice about once a week to take an hour off and look over your time expense-account. You will be sur- prised at your own extravagance. One of the first things you will prob- ably discover is that even the simplest activities take too much time, Old Dame Nature seems not to have paid too much attention to the expenditure of time when she started in to make man. That's why there are so many time- wasters in the world today. A lot of ed on these wanderings—trifies that bob up here and there from some seeming nowhere. There's a virtue in introspec- tion of this sort. | But this nowhere is within. It is you and your habits. You can make a somewhere out of this nowhere with a | little practice. There is no short-cut | to this, the best of all forms of educa- | tion. Once you find out how to con- | centrate, keep on concentrating. You will find that you are prepared to ac- | complish at least twice as much in half | the time you have actually been spend- | | strength and men and women imagine they are ac- compllsh!nf things by ruminating all day over a lot of detalls which, after all, take care of themselves as the situations to which they belong naturally unfold. Such occupations lead directly into day- dreaming and then, of course, into fan- cles about one's self-importance. The way to salvage time is to con- centrate. One way to concentrate is to keep away from those who insist on helping you spend your time. The amount of idle, useless talk that goes on in this world is appalling. ing on your daily tasks. (Copyrisht, —_— “THE MOST REMARKABLE | ROUGE I'VE EVER KNOWN...” {IT IS Zansibar Rouge. It will blead int ‘e to 'i.uf. nd.. 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(Time allowed, 1 minute.) -, (5) Write down in figures the num- ber thirteen thousand thirteen hundred and thirteen. (Time allowed, 1 minute.) (6) What is the smailest number that can be divided by four other numbers, excluding the number 1? (Time allowed, 1 minute.) 3 The time allowed in each case is thé maximum in which the answer should be made, Answers. (1) 909,999, (2) 864, (3) 72, (4) 3, 13, 34; (5) 14313, (6) 12. Around & garden was a fence of hazel- bushes, and beyond that were flelds and meadows, with cows and sheep; but in the center of the garden stood a rose- bush in full bloom. Under it lay a snail, who had a great deal in him, ac- cording to himself. “Wait till my time comes,” said he; “I shall do a great deal more than to yield roses, or to bear nuts, or to give milk as cows do.” “I expect a lot from you,” said the rosebush. “May I ask when it is to come forth?” “I shall take my time,” replied the snail. “You ¥e always in such a hurry with your worf® that curiosity about it is never excited.” ‘The following year the snail lay, almost in the same spot as formerly, in the sunshine under the rosebush, which was already in bud, and the buds began to expand into full-blown flowers, al- ways fresh, always new. And the snail crept half out, stretched forth its feelers, and then drew them in again. “Everything looks just the same as last year; there is no progress to be seen anywhere. The rosebush is covered with roses—it will never get beyond that.” ‘The Summer passed, the Autumn passed; the rosebush had yielded roses and buds up to the time that the snow fell. The weather became wet and tem- pestuous, the rosebush bowed down to- w::&, the ground; the snail crept into the earth. A new year commenced, the rosebush revived, and the snail came forth again. “You are now only an old stick of a rosebush,” said he; “you must expect to wither away soon. You have given the world all that was in you. Whether that were worth much or not, is a ques- tion I have not time to take into con- sideration, but this is certain, that you | | breast of a young and beautiful girl | and another was kissed by a child's soft have not done the least for your own im. provement, else something very differen might have been produced by you. Can you deny this? You will soon become only a bare stick. Do you understand what I say.” “You alarm me,” cried the rosebush. “I never thought of this.” “No, you have never troubled your- self with thinking much. But have you not occasionally reflected why you blossomed and in what way you blos- somed—how in one way and not in another?” “No,” answered the rosebush, “I blossomed in gladness, for I could not do otherwise. The sun was so warm, the air so refreshing, I drank of the clear dew and the heavy rain; I breath- ed—TI lived! There came up from the | WORLD FAMOUS , THE SNAIL AND THE ROSEBUSH. BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN. | | 41 STORIES strength from above. I experienced a degree of pleasure, always new, always great, and I was obliged to blossom. It was my life; I could not do other- wise.” “You have had & very easy life,” re- marked the snall. “To be sure, much has been granted to me,” said the rosebush, “but no more will be bestowed on me now. You have one of those meditative, deeply thinking minds, one so endowed that you will astonish the world.” “I have by no means any such de- sign,” said the snail. “The world is nothing to me. What have I to do with the world? I have enough to do with myself and enough in myself.” “But should we not in this earth all give our best assistance to others— contribute what we can? Yes! I have only been able to give roses; but you— you have got so much—what have you given‘ to the world? What will you give ito” ‘What have I given? What will I give? I spit upon it. It is for nothing! I have no interest in it. Pro- | duce your roses—you cannot do more than that—let the hazel bushes bear nuts, let the cows give milk! You have each of you your public. I have mine within myself. I am going into myself, and shall remain there. The world is nothing to me.” And so the snail withdrew into his house and closed it up. “What a sad pity it is!” exclaimed the rosebush. “I “canndt creep into shelter, however much I might wish it. I must always spring out, spring out into roses. The leaves fall off and they fly away on the wind. But I saw one of the roses laid in a psalm book be- longing to the mistress of the house; another of my roses was placed on the lips in an ecstacy of joy. I was so charmed at all this; it was a real hap- piness to me—one of the pleasant re- membrances of my life.” And the rosebush bloomed on in in- nocence while the snalil retired into his “llmy house—the world was nothing to him! Years flew by! The snail had returned to earth, the rosebush had returned to earth; also the dried rose leaf in the psalm book had disappeared, but new rosebushes bloomed in the garden and new snails were there: they crept into their houses, spitting—the world was nothing to them. Shall we read their history, too? It ground a strength to me, there came a ! would not be different. For years a luxury of the few Now Libby’s DeLuxe California Peaches can be offered to all Washington long a luxury of the few! Now these famous peaches can be offered at a price within the reach of all! 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