Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1929, Page 38

WOMA N’S PAGE " Need of Proper Corsets should have careful treatment to preserve their shape and their fresh- ness. They can soon lose their contour unless they reeeive due atiention. they come close to the body they require FOR CORRECT CONTOUR OF COR- SETS THEY SHOULD BE ROLLED TIGHTLY WHEN PUT AWAY. frequent airing to eliminate any odor of perspiration. The curves of the body leave creases across corsets. To minimize these roll corsets rather tightly, carefully smooth- ing out such ereases and stressing Corsetieres in Paris lengthwise lines. BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. As | Care for Corsets | advise their customers to do this always at_night, letting the corsets remain so | rolled until needed again. Corsets should be hung out of doors in the sunshine occasionally to give them the cleansing of air and sunshine. | This will keep them free from odor. Washing corsets is something that | an | culty. Corslets and corsets without | bones can be laundered like any walst. | Corsets with bones should be scrubbed | with a nail brush, or one of like kind. | Lay the corsets flat on the scrubbing ! board and rub with the brush, wet with | a solution of warm soap suds and just | |a few drops of household ammonia. | Move the corsets up and down in the tub water frequently, for this removes the loosened dirt. When clean, the cor- sets should be weli rinsed and dried out of doors. 1t should be remembered that rubber will soften and partially dissolve even | under heat as intense as boiling water. | Therefore never use anything more than | warm water for such corsets as have | | rubber in them. Lukewarm water is not harmful. | " Because of the effect of heat on rub- | ber do not iron the rubber cloth of cor- sets. All other portions should be care- Lay a picce of white cot- ts and iron them ang in A warm portions are | fully ironed | ton cloth over the cors | while still damp. Then | place until the rubber thorguehly dry. is a good idea to have corset bags | to keep corsets in, and so free from | | dust. Also it is wise to have more than | one pair of corsets, so that one can al- | wavs be ready to be used when the other | pair is being cleaned or whenever a per- | tectly fresh pair is wanted. (Copyright. 1929.) BRAIN TESTS This is & form of absurdity test, & type frequently used in intelligence quizzes. The object is to point out the correct reason why the following statement is absurd. Statement : a pound of feathers. to a jeweler and bought a pound of gold. “He then maintained that if the gold were placed on one side of a pair the scales would balance.” ‘This is absurd because (1) The balance probably would not hold the feathers. (2) Gold is heavier than feathers. (3) There would be a greater quan- tity of feathers than gold. (4) Gold and feathers are not weighed by the same system; hence their pounds differ. (5) Gold is not compressible, but feathers are. (6) Gold is more valuable than | feathers. (7) A pint of gold is heavier than a pint of feathers. (8) It would be impossible to obtain a pair of scales accurate enough for this weighing. Answer to the above test: Gold is weighed by troy weight; feathers by avoirdupols. The latter pound is heavier than the former. An- swer 4 is correct. Care of the Chin. A favorite old statement was to the effect that “a woman is as old as she looks.” Very young girls may appear 10 years older than they are in years, over periods when they take on too much weight and fill out under their chins. Young women who get run down so that their tissues become flabby mogh to cause sagging of the facial m will look many years older as the outline of the chin is altered through this sagging. The improvement comes quickly in such cases, as it is only a matter of getting rid of the extra weight in one case, or building up in the other. Older women do not recover their vouthful chin line so after they have allowed accumu- lations of fat or their skins have sag- ged from different causes. The better way is to ward off this disfigurement and keep the muscles firm and the skin taut. This is done through exercise, or massage, which is localized exercise, and care of the skin. ‘This same advice is equaily applicable to men, for when I come to think of it, more men have double chins than DAILY DIET RECIPE MARSHMALLOW CUSTARD. Raw eggs, two; sugar, two : milk, two cups; va- nilla, one-half teaspoon; marsh- mallows, six. SERVES SIX PORTIONS. Beat eggs slightly and add sug- ar, milk and vanilla. Combine thoroughly. Put a marshmallow in the bottom of each of six cus- tard eups and pour custard mix- ture over them. Place cups in a pan of hot water and bake in slow oven (335 degrees F,) for about 40 minutes or until a sil- ver knife Will come out clean. Place in icebox to get cold. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes much protein, a little sugar, much lime, iron and vitamins A and B. Can be eaten by children of 4 and over and by adults of average, over or under weight. BEAUTY CHATS BY EDNA KENT FORBES women. Perhaps they do not care as much as women do about this defect. Both women and men, no matter how cld they are, can improve their chin lines if they are wiliing to nfake the effort. The following exercise is easily taken and will help much: Throw back the head until it falls between the shoul- ders, and go through a series of chew- ing motions until the jaw is tired. Massage will help, too, and after either massage or exercise, tone the skin by dashing very cold water over it or rub with & small plece of ice. This is a tissues firm. Mrs. 1. E—One reason for a lquid diet is the rest to the digestive organs, and the whole system gets cleared through the extra liquids. You can get a great deal of nourishment this way without taxing the digestion, but it s best to conserve the energy over these dieting periods also. If you in- tend to diet this way for any length of time, you should be advised by your doctor. Miss A. R. L—You are about 15 5 feet 3 inches and 20 years of age. With Figs., Stewed Figs.~Having washed thor- oughly a pound of figs, cut them in small pieces and cover well with cold water, then cook until tender. Remove the figs and add to the water three- fourths pound of granulated sugar and cook for five minutes longer. Add the figs and when boiling remove from the fire and set away to get very cold. Pour into a glass dish when cold ang serve with sweetened whipped cream'poured over the top. - Fig Sandwiches. — Use thinly sliced bread for these, lightly spread with but- ter. Make a filling of half a cupful of stewed figs and half a cupful of nut meats choped fine. Rub into a paste with sweet cream whipped. Spread on the bread just before serving. Pig Brittie.—Melt one pound of white sugar in a granite saucepan, stir in half a pound of figs chopped fine, then pour into & pan, having the confection an inch deep. Cut in strips and serve. For complete satisfaction —Seal Brand Percolator Coffee. It'is specially roasted and ground for percolator use Seal Brand Tea is of the same bigh qualign y woman can do without any diffi- ! THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. SONNYSAYING! BY FANNY Y. CORY. | the st | him up! | yer don't eat spinitch. “A man went to a store and bought | Then he went | of scales and the feathers on the other, | precaution against flabbiness after you | have consumed the fat or made the | pounds overweight at 135 pounds, height | “Rowly, Powly, can’t ya eat spinitch? Oh, no, says Anfamy Wowly; an’ nen iite duck come an’ gobbled An’ at's what yer get if That Slip Over uit Boys One of Joan's distant cousins came to visit her just before Easter. He was a lad 6 years old who was still at the age where incessant movement seemed to be essential to his exidtence. He was never still, except when he was asleep, and even then he was not a model for repose. His mother had learned that such an active child needed most prac- tical clothes, so you see him here in a slip-over sweater of jersey in a diamond pattern. His socks match the sweater. He has on heavy English shorts, which are simple, plain trousers cut a little wider than the regular pants. Some of his shorts were made of serge, some of cheviot and others were of flannel. In a good heavy quality, flannel was most satisfactory, for the material washed so well, He and his sister had coats of heavy camel's hair.” They were made alike, strictly tallored. The only way to tell a girl's coat from a small boy's is by observing the side that laps over and buttons. The boy laps the left over right and the girl buttons the right over the left. The little girl has a beret of tan to match her coat. The boy scorns berets and gets a real cap. He is too careless to carry anything as fragile as a plant, so he lets his sister take the family greeting to the Page home. And, as you might axpect, the little girl gets it there safely. What should children’s clothes cost in a budset scheme? Write to Nancy Page, care of this paper. inclosing a stamped.’ self- addressed envelope, asking for her leaflet, udgets Are Fun. Hot Fudge Sauce for Ice Cream Mix one cup of sugar with three ta- blespoontuls of cocoa, a pinch of salt, one-half cupful of milk and two tea- spoonfuls of butter, Stir over a slow fire until the sugar is dissolved, then boil for eight minutes, stirring occa- | sionally. - Remove from the fire, add | one_teaspoonful of vanilla and cool slightly before serving. If the sauce has to stand a long while before using, it is best kept warm over a pan of hot . was an Amer- s Author_of ““The ‘The Gold Bui ““The Purloined “Fall of the House of Usher,” etc.) I never knew any one so keenly alive to a joke as the king was. He seemed to live only for joking. To tell a good story of the joke kind, and to tell it well, was the surest road to his favor. Thus it happened that his seven min- isters were all noted for thelr accom- plishments as jokers. They all took after the king, too, in being large, cor- | pulent, oilv men, as well as inimitable Jjokers, Indeed, practical jokes suited the king's taste far better than verbal ones. At the date of my story jesters had not altogether gone out of fashion at | court. Our king, as a matter of course, retained his “tool.” His fool, or pro- fessional jester, was not only a fool, however. His value was trebled in the eyes of the king by the fact of his being also a dwarf and a cripple. Dwarfs were as common at court in those days as fools, and many monarchs would | have found it difficult to get through | their days (days are rather longer at court than elsewhere) without both a jester to iaugh with and a dwarf to jaugh at. The dwarf-jester's name was Hop- Frog. I believe the name was not that given to him at baptism, but it was conferred upon him by general consent of the seven ministers on account of his inability to walk as other men do. In fact, Hop-Frog could only get along by a sort of interjectional gait—some- thing between a leap and a wiggle—a movement that afforded illimitable amusement. But although Hop-Frog. through the distortion of his legs, could move only with great pain and difficulty along a road or floor, the prodigious muscular power which nature seemed to have be- stowed upon his arms, by way of com- pensation for deficiency in the lower limbs, enabled- him to perform many feats of wonderful dexterity where trees or ropes were in question or any- thing else to climb. Hop-Frog and a young girl very little less dwarfish than himself (although of exquisite proportions and a marvelous dancer) had been carried off from their pective homes in adjoining and sent as presents to the y one of his ever-victorious gen- Under these circumstances a | close intimacy arose between the two little captives. They soon became sworn friends. Now Trippetta—that was the girl's name—was continually being made to work too hard, and Hop-Frog was al- ways being abused, even knocked about, by the king or some of his seven min- isters. Both these dwarfs, therefore, hated the king and his ministers very much. They often plotted to secure re- venge, but what could such deformed creatures hope to do against the king of the realm and his seven wise min- isters? Came one of the royal masquerades, which were extremely popular with the king. Every one but the king thought of some unusual costume to wear, some unique role to assume. But the king was .n despair of thinking of anything original, and his seven ministers were equally barren of an idea. So Hop-Frog and Trippetta were sent for, but when, not immediately thinking of an idea, they were abused, they be- came sullen. The king tried to make Hop-Frog drink wine against his will. ‘The king flung Tripetta aside and threw wine in her face. Suddenly Hop-Frog seemed to brighten up and said: “I cannot tell what was the associa- tion of idea, but just after your majesty had struck the girl and thrown the wine in her face, there came to my mind a capital diversion—one of my own coun- try frolics—often enacted among us at our masquerades, but here it will be new altogether. Unfortunately, how- ever, it requires a company of eight persons—" “Here we are!” cried the king, laugh- ing at his acute discovery of the coin- cidence; “eight to a fraction—I and my seven ministers. What is your idea?” “We call it,” replied the cripple, “the Eight Chained Orang-Outangs. The beauty of it is the fright it occasions among the women. I will equip you as orang-outangs. Leave that all to me. ‘The resemblance will be so striking that the company will take you for real beasts. The chains are for the purpose of increasing the confusion by their jangling. You are supposed to have es- caped en masse from your keepers.” It was decided to follow Hop-Frog's instructions. The king and his minis- ters were first encased in tight-fitting shirts and pants. They were then sat- urated with tar. The of the brutes was represented with flax, a thick coat- ing being put on the sticky tar. A long chain was procured. First, it was passed about the waist of the king and tied; then about another of the party and also tled; then about all succes- sively in the same manner. The grand salon for the masquerade usually had a high chandelier, hung from a hook on a large chain that could be lowered. Hop-Frog suggested to Trippetta, who had charge of the arrangements, that the chandeller be removed, since the droppings from the candles might spoil some of the cos- tumes. This was done. Lights were pro- vided along the walls instead. What would Easter be without Schneider’s Hot Cross Buns ? MAIN Easter SPECIAL! (Week of March 25 to 30, Inclusive) Schneider’s THE CHARLES SCHNEIDER BAKING CO. 413 Eye St. N.W. Place Orders well in advance with your Grocer or Delicatessen 9660 TUESDAY. MARCH 26, 1929. WORLD FAMOUS STORIES HOP-FROG BY EDGAR ALLEN POE ‘The eight orang-outangs, taking Hop- Frog's advice, waited patiently until midnight before making their appear- ance. No sooner had the clock ceased striking than they rushed, or rather rolled in, all together—for the impedi- ment of their chains caused most of the | party to fall, and all to stumble. The excitement among the masque- raders was prodigious and filled the | heart of the king with glee. As had been anticipated, there were not a few of the guests who supposed the fero- clous-looking creatures to be beasts of some kind in reality. Many of the women swooned from fright. Had not the king taken the precaution to ex- clude all weapons from the room, his party might soon have paid for their frolic with their blood. As it was, & general rush was made for the doors, but the king had had them locked as he entered, and he held the keys. ‘While the tumult was at its height the chain by which the chandelier ordi- narily hung might have been seen grad- ually to descend to within three feet of the floor. When the king and his seven friends, having reeled about the hall in all directions, finally came to the center, they unwarily came in con- tact with the hook of the chain. The dwarf, who had been following at their heels, now deftly hooked the chain into the chain that bound the eight beasts. Immediately some force from outside pulled up the chain until the feet of the eight were free of the floor and they hung ludicrously together. Every one now laughed at the pre- dicament of the monsters who had frightened them. Hop-Frog seized a torch, leaped upon the head of the King, climbed up the chain and leaned down, holding the torch over the faces of the eight disguised royal personages. “I'll find out who they are!” shrieked Hop-Frog. Suddenly the jester whistled. The chain was hauled up rapidly until the group hung not far below the roof. “I see who they are now!” cried the dwarf in a growling voice full of hatred. Sud- denly, pretending to look at the King's face more closely, his torch ignited the flaxen coat, which burst instantly into a sheet of vivid flame. In less than half a minute the whole eight orang-outangs were blazing flercely, amid the shrieks of the multitude, who gazed from below horror-stricken and without power to render them the slightest assistance, Flames forced the jester to climb higher, and he finally disappeared through the opening in the roof. He had accomplished his last jest—his ven- geance. He and Trippetta disappeared that night and were never seen again. SPRINGTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. In the days when a little good, old- fashioned botany was considered a part of a child's normal education every one knew the name of catkin. People did not then, so often as now, refer to “those little fuzzy things” on wil- lows and poplars, oaks and alders, hazels and birches, apparently uncer- tain whether the aforesaid little fuzzy things are flowers, fruits, freaks or caterpillars. To me the word “catkin’ 'is remark- ably descriptive. I like it much better than the technical name of “ament” for what is so like the softness of a very young kitten as the catkins that the hazel and the alder hang out now on hills, by brooks? A catkin might be defined as a droop- ing, slender spike of flowers, all of one sex, lacking “generally any sepals or tals, but none the less flowers, and often provided with inconspicuous little bracts at the base of each flower. But one could polish up such definitions for- ever, without bringing a clear picture to the mind, which is only one more proof that books about nature have their real use in checking up one’s ob- servations, supplyilng common and scientific names, teaching us ranges, and the like. There is but one way to obtain a “feeling” for the delightful, old, Anglo- Saxon name of catkin, and that is to g0 a-rambling these first pleasant days and watch for the alder and the hazel yourself. You may ask whether there is any reward in such a pilgrimage. What, when you find a catkin, is the worth of developing anything so vague as a “feeling” for it? I cannot answer this except in terms of my own feeling. I know only this, that whenever I come to the dangling golden tassels of the alder, in some thicket by a run, where the phoebe has to call, the chicadees hop silently, and last year's dead vine leaves twirl, crimson, in the | pale Spring sunshine, I stop for a min- ute to worship at the shrine of a flower | that few people ever stop to praise. e For a wedding at St. Richard’s Catholic Church, Chichester, England, special brown triangular tickets were printed, and only half of each ticket was sent to the guest concerned. The other half was retained by the clergy at the church, and the guests on their arrival had to present their tickets. “On his trip from the old coun- try, Laddie’s brother was held for flea inspection. Seems like every traveler has to have some checks.” Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. The Poetical. When Freud came along with his fa- mous theory of sublimation, poetry took on a new meaning. Poetry is not now regarded as & mark of genius neces- sarily, but as a signal of distress—a signal that the poet is trying to subl mate his distress. At least, that is the way Freud and his followers interpret it. When you sublimate anything, you change it from what it is into some- thing elsc—something better. You transform base metals into gold, prim- itive impulses into civilized propensities, grief into joy, worries into ambitions and hopes. When you wrote a poem you are taking a step in the direction of getting over your mental agitations. It's a re- lief from psychic repressions. Sophocles wrote his story of “Oedipus™ in order to cut himself away from his mother’s apron strings. Poe harped on death because he lived in continual fear of it. Bryant wrote his famous “Thana- topsis” to banish the same fear. Walt Whitman was bothered about the van- ity of his friends. So he dreamed of and wrote of pure democracy. And 50 it goes for a host of poets. 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