Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1929, Page 53

' firills and Lessons BY MARY MARSIALL. UTTING your daughter on dress allowance is something like giving her ‘a latch key, and you probably take both steps re- luctantly. If she has a latch key. then you don’t have to sit up to let her in or arrange to have a maid sit up for her, but you may lie in bed restlessly watc! the hands on your radium dial, ing. when you will hear her come in. If you put her on a definite dress al- Jowance, you don’t have to grow pre- maturely gray and wrinkled trying to select things that she will be willing to wear and that: you approve; you don’t have to juggle with figures to see how you can buy g really presentable Spring coat and suit and frocks and hats and still have enough left for the numerous little aécessories that are necessary to her own happiness and at- tractive appearance. But you may add & wrinkle or two and a few white hairs wondering how in her vast inexperience she can solve these problems herseif. ‘There are girls who really don’t want to have a dress allowan Not that they are not entirely convinced their taste is better than their mother's or that they doubt for a minute their ability to pick and choose and run down bargains, but they shrewdly reason that in the end there will be more spent for them if mother holds the purse. But any way you look at it, any girl with ordinary good sense ought to be trusted with a dress allowance, at least as soon as she is trusted with a latch key. And most girls, I find, rise to the responsibility amazingly well and show good judgment and taste in their selec- tions. The girl of 18 or 20 is usually much more deeply and intelligently in- terested in clothes than her mother. Shopping neither bores her nor fatigues her, and when she goes forth to buy & new frock or a hat she is riding on the top of the waves. It is all a glorious adventure for her whether she has $15 or $100 to spend for the frocks, $3 or $50 for the hat. Many girls of 18 or 20 have a dress allowance whether their parents will or no, because they have finished school and have contrised to get jobs. Girls Who work usually dress better than girls who stay at home, not necessarily be- cause they have more to spend, but because they have the spending of it ih their own hands. The sketches this week show the wise selections of a young girl who has this Spring been trusted for the first time with the spending of her own dress money. She bought a less expensive suit, wisely choosing navy blue, taking care to have enough in hand to pay for an extra blouse and a sleeveless sweater which might be worn with the suit by way of change or with a separate skt She chose two simple sports froc 2 A KNITTED SLEEVELESS SWEA COLORED DESIGN AND A NATU! __BLOUS / TO BE WORN WITH THE SUIT OR WITH SEPARATE SKIRTS ARE TER OF BEIGE, WITH BRIGHT- RAL-COLORED CREPE DE CHINE WITH RED ON_THE POCKET AND BELT. jone a sleeveless model of white pigue and one of jersey for cooler days. The sports coat of ombre tweed with brown- {ish tan is a conservative model that | will surely be in as good style in the Autumn as it is at present. | _Her new evening gown is of pastel 'blue chiffon, and because she was spending her own money she chose a model with a detachable bertha, which makes the frock appropriate for occa- sional afternoon wear as well. The eve- ning wrap is of light-weight brocaded | silk that will go with the new frock or with others that she may later acquire. | She chose a pair of satin sandals that | would do for evening or formal after- |noon, a blue taffeta petal fan, two new | chokers, a pair of organdie flowers to |give a new touch to an oid frock, and | a chiffon handkerchief with her name applied at one corner, | Anne did not choose all her new things in one color range, which would | have been the advice of her mother, | who is champion of the principle that a | woman should choose her own best color range and then stick to it. A (Copyright, 1929.) Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. No one, least of all a mother, needs :v be told that the baby is a ceaseless ynamo of activity. If left to his own devices and unguided by wiser minds such activity is bound to lead him into what his mother terms “mischief.” Be- cause every object in his surroundings is of intense interest to him, because he sees adults using it, he, too, demands to pick it up, look at it, sometimes drop it. all in his purposeful desire to know all about it. The mother who is called upon to keep her eyes on this bundle of activity finds her patience easily exhausted. At this point almost anything he does will be called naughty. “He just won't leave the ice box alol when he in the kitchen with me.” she wails. “If I turn | my back he has the doors open and is pulling dishes out on the floor.” “He is just a terror,” says another. “Always turning on the stove.” And the in- | evitable query. “What shall I do with | him?” | The answer to all such problems lies | not in punishment for the particular | offense. but a redirection of the child's demonstrated interest in doors and ob- jects inside of closed places and coeks that turn off and on-by giving him play- things upon which he can expand this natural interest. Given these toys he can be impressed coustantly with the fact that these are for baby. The big ice box and the gas stove are for mother. g;w “plays” with those, baby plays with | Mothers have such a hopeless feeling that such education is wasted effort. In | seems easler to them (for several rea- sons) to smack the baby's hands. even | though they find that this doesn't do | the trick. Why they are so pessimistic of the fact that it is possible for baby to learn one thing as easily as another is an eternal mystery. They are not surprised that baby can repeat his nursery rhymes after countless repetitions, that he WIDE BRIMS ON FEW HATS ‘The difference between a Winter hat | trimmed Rats with hesitation because and a Summer hat used to be that one was of felt and the other was of straw. In place of felt there was sometimes velvet, cloth or heavy silk, and in place of straw, silk braid, ribbon, lace or some gauzy material might be used to cover the foundation frame. Women who rushed the season wore straw hats in February and velvet hats in August. By Easter most women either scrapped their Winter's supply of hats or put them hopefully away to be turned to account the following season. Now the difference. in .warm-weather and cold-weather hats is more one of shape than of material. To be sure, one naturally wears. s warmer hat in Winter and a lighter hat in Summer— but there is no hard and fast rule ‘concerning materials. Brimless hats and hats that to’some extent show the evebrows have been the rule.through the Winter and early Autumn. Women liked them because they did not inter- fere with the fur collar of the wrap. With sunnier days the deep fur collar disappears and the’ hat that shows the eyebrows also leaves the eyes rather un- pleasantly to the glare of the sun. 3 So a few weeks. ago while almost every woman in Paris still wore a hat that left the eyes and perhaps the eyebrows el , “the modistes were busy making ‘hats. with brims for those optimistic mx:m;%' "I;& felt usuri ;.‘l;:l Spring wi quota of - st?lne when_those ‘brimess hats would be trving. The}’:: t.:—-”n:r very re:er‘uuy wide-brimmied “‘:':fi"flmmmmh.‘w“ rims three or f L 5 - me‘g l"remhnh-"i have 1o linings. With the closely fitted, pre- cisely shaped hat --ummtf. difficult to manage at best, And even with the mg: 1iful handling may detract from B of the hat. = And are always wi ch couturiers, it eoueh. 1o eliminate non-essential. ther Aifficulty with the hat lining uAtg:c :r{th "‘ueu hat nutm :‘;m:)‘mm lz’n‘:;nrzmu'l Thets I:tt‘lgmanxeu er'nu ‘are with-a facing of narrow ribbon lflsg%nmtmhhluflnm 4rom foundation. One mentions the revival of flower- | that is mother's bottle of French ger- { mother, and it is only incidentally that | stroy_the home in order to satisfy his |learns to pull off his stockings, un- button his coat, recognize the animals in his picture book, go up and down stairs | and on and on. ability to learn that some things are for | him and some for the adults. But they | must know how to make this learning | draped that there is no suggestion of | | easler by subslituting an activity that baby will take pleasure in pursuing. No | use stopping the baby and then giving | him nothing to replace the fine, satis- | factory action of which he has been deprived. | Any kind of learning comes hard. It/ demands constant reiteration of the | same facts day after day. In spite of | | this there are days when the baby aets | as if he had never before heard you tell him that he is not to play with | the gas jets, but with his own small | stove. The mother is satisfied to repeat | times: “That is a eat, the baby twice that he isn't to touch | the gas stove, the third time he touches | it he immediately becomes a “bad” child | who won't mind his mother. Rather | laughable, isn't it? ‘The small baby must have outlets for his energy and materials upon which to vent his curiosity. If none is provided he uses what he finds at hand, whetbas fume or daddy’s razor. He isut bad or mischevious, because he uses none of | these things in order to torment the | he discovers such mctivities cause her to be “perturbed.” It would be interesting if we could note the confusion in the mind of a child, for what we demand of him must | seem so impossible if he is to live at all. “Don’t go near the stairs,” we say, when his muscles are itching to climb. “Don’t touch the picture,” we shriek at him, when he tries to pull a high one into his line of vision. Poor baby, he is trying to live and learn and all he }lenlm.s is that we consider him a perfect p. This ie his world. He must live in it and make use of it. Yet seemingly the most desirable course he can ;filow is to sit in the center of a room, away from everything. and look pleasant. Then mother says approvingly, and he does want his mother’s approval, “What a good baby!" Because we cannot allow baby to de- ceaseless desire for activity we must provide him with toys that replace them. His muscles are demanding ac- tion. His mind likewise, It remains for the wise parent to stimulate both to complete and healthy satisfaction. there ar@ women who still feel that the logical @imming for a Summer hat is flowers and that the best place to put an awffcial flower is on the crown or brim of a hat. Primitive women every- where decked their heads with garlands of bright flowers, just as South Sea Island girls do today, and we all have something of an urge to do likewise. One of the wider-brimmed straw hats for resort wear shows no trimming save a single rose attached by the stem to the base of the crown, with the rose resting on the brim. ’ ild’s Taste With Care Develop Ch Get the child in the habit of eating vegetables by rotating the vegetables he does hke. Never serve one liked vegetablé to the exclusion of others, as this will sometimes create a distaste for that one vegetable which is hard to overcome. ‘While you are on the liked vegetables, | oceasionally have the vegetable that is disliked. Do not, force the child to eat it, but urge him to try it.- If you hap- pen to give it to him some time when he is favorably disposed toward it— some time when he is hungry and the vegetable is especially flavorsome—you mgmuubllsh a lasting fondness for it. remember that there are cer- tain vegetables for which certain per- sons have what really amounts to a constitutional antipathy. The flavors are very strong, and you rself i 7 ymu" that if you dis- i like parsnips or turnips .R‘woula or , for be very much like O Gencral Keep. s chid iom acqus n general. a cl acquir- ing an inordinate fondness for meat. It is an easy thing to let a child get in the meat-cating habit. = Often a child’s turning from vegetables and milk dates from the time meat is introduced | shall be something worth notichg. [Little Felt Hats " Are Still Popular “The little, light-weight colored felt hats that have been popular for so long continue to be ‘popular. Apparently nothing that the milliners have to offer will finally "usurp. the position of, the small, light-weight felt hat. Some women choose a type of small felt hat that best suits their ‘features—a par- ticular sort of slash or drapery or ar- | have a number of shapes of precisely | the same sort done in_ various colors | and shades to go with frocks and en- | sembles of various colors. For Summer there will be many simple little straw hats trimmed with | folded or crushed bands of figured silk. Sometimes these will match the figure | of the frock with which they are worn; | sometimes they will be worn with plain | frocks. Many of the newer felt hats show ear tabs applied; that is to say, cut ‘out separately from matching felt and then sewed on, perhaps under a felt or rib- | bon band around the crown. These ear tabs reach almost to the shoulder, sometimes. They are petal shaped and flat, or fan shaped and softly pleated. There are some Interesting turbans. but they are softly draped about the season’s hats is that they give flatter- ing shadow to the features. Narrow and interesting brims throw half Yet they doubt his | lights cver the eyes and cheeks that | are altogether alluring. And turbans and berets, though brimiess, are so harshness in their lines about the face. Rice in Stock. Put a tablespoon of butter into a stewpan: when it is hot, add a table- spoon minced onion and when- this is slightly, colored stir in two-thirds of a teacup of washed rice uncooked. Stir quickly over & brisk fire tntif :the ice assumes a slight tinge bf yellow; add three teacups of good stock: season pepper and salt; allow to simmer 1y until the: rice is well ‘cooke: 0 a rhymes over and over, to say a dozen | tablespoons of grated cheese: ‘stir well, | them in all colors, in all heights. but if she tells | and serve as a vegetable with.or with- | spend more money on them, some of out & brown gravy as preferred. | rangement of pleats in the felt—and | face. A distinguishing mark of the | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Found in Handling First Dress Allowance = D 4 3 . o ‘ ‘ v APRIL 1, ST SN A 1920_PART 3. g | TAN OMBRE TWEED IS USED FOR THE PRACTICAL SPORTS CO/ CENTER IS A PIQUE SPORTS FROCK WORN OVER TRUNKS OF THE SAME MATERIAL. AND AT TH. RIGHT A GREEN _AND_WHITE_CHECKED JERSEY SPORTS FROCK FOR COOLER DAYS. AT SHOWN AT THE LEFT. IN THE 'Candlelight Has | Charm All Its Own |rest. There are all sorts of metal ca Candles have come to have a unique dlesticks. from those that are reprodu place in our modern houses. We don’t need them for light, but | many of us forégo other lights on the table at dinner and use, instead, candles They are a necessity of the past that we h made a luxury of the present. | of | We use them for their decorative value | are reproductions of the candlesticks lass. fhere are candlesticks that |our libraries dnd bedrooms.. We bu w: u | | creatures of the sea. The fish sometim ! than we do on electric lights. mouths are upraised, holding the cai ancient Buropean civilizations. There | |are all sorts of porcelain and pollkryibltb? candlesticks, and as many more kinds | their heads—snakes poised to strike and | are | done in reddish bronze in our drawing rooms and boudoirs, in | shaped like fish, seahorses or other little are lashing the air with their tails, which hold the candles, sometimes their And of course one thing we like about 1dxex there. These are all graceful little | candles s the candlestick in which they | beinge. lwm'mnrs made in glass, some n-| " There are colored glass flowers for c- | holding candles. And what could be | tions or originals of old New England | prettier than white candles held in the | Colonial brass candlesticks to those that | heart of roses cn a rose-decorated of | spring table? And birds And snakes, with candles held on or greenish | bronze, quite snakelike in color? o fpir In England and Wales last year the n- | birth rate was 16.7 per 1,000 people. BY BETSY CALLISTER. HE first thing we notice about a friend’s house after the general impression of its size and style, setting and surroundings.is the door. ~And the present-day architect makes sure that this door There was a time, of course, when doors were considered very important in houses of this country. Our old colonial houses of distinction bear wit- ness to that. And in modern .colonial houses, too, we have preserved the beauty and interest that attached to the early doorways. s But then there came.a long- period when domestic architecture seemed to be bullt on the theory that a door was {but an entrance to the house. It was usually unattractive, even forbidding, and though it actually gave entrance to the house it seemed to give grudging entrance. * And now we are back to interesting doorways. They are made, of course, in character with the house. And if the house itself has no particular archi- tectural period, at least the door is given a coat of paint or some acces- sories that make it noticeable. Blue or green doors on old brownstone-front houses are often most attractive. ‘There are all sorts of things one may |buy in the shops to help on this good | work of emphasizing the coziness and welcome of the doorway. Lanterns and latches, hinges and mud-scrapers, letter | boxes and name plates—all help. And all may be bought in varieties that make it possible to find something for any sort of house. (Copyright, 1929.) ke i A Old Quilts Are - Better Than New If you have in r possession any old quilts now is t.h’:ufime to get them out and make the most of them. Often they are used as reads and some- times they are folded and laid on the foot of the bed—only if they are old and fragile, woe betide the thoughtless guest who ventures to use one as an actual coverlet. If you have no old quilts or not so many as you would like to possess why not join the ranks of up-to-date quilt makers. It is most entertaining work and decidedly worth while since nowa- days nicely made quilts are high priced even if they are of recent vintage. The stores now are showing all sorts of charming cotton prints of old-time design that will make your patches look as quaint as you like. If you are fortunate enough to possess any hand- some form where they will be seen to advantage cut them up and use them for- piecing—using printed linen with them if the sheets are linen. Or use quilt. Note Pape;' Looks 'Like Rainbow choose, or with all sorts of bril- fiantly fintad_ iining; mofmmloxuornou‘mr o L or the tone of the letter you are writ- e ch more . flavor sesses. 50 R other things he will take it to the ex- clusion of them. h into the diet.h W ¢ Dt oo e can get mea - -y flavor than the | a strictly Only remember that the letter of ¥ %irichly business sort should be write ten on white, gray or possible light tan papess woven sheets and want to put them in | the linen uncut for the back of the | [ .’M‘uy il & !i i THE DOORWAY, SOMETIMES MADE INTERESTING BY THE ARC TINCTION BY AHE ADDITION OF ATTRACTIVE LANTERNS, L ACCESSORIES, Neighbors Know Us by Our Doors. T s Y | HITEET, CAN ALSO BE GIVEN DIS. ATCHES, KNOCKERS AND OTHER ‘with candles held on their | IS WORN WITH LACE AND CHIFFON BERTHA FOR AFTERNOON AND WITHOUT THE BERTHA FOR EVENING. RIGHT, A TAFFETA PETAL FAN. LET WITH A RED CRYSTAL HE BELOW AT THE ABOVE IT A CRYSTAL BRACE- ART PENDANT. BELOW AT THE LEFT, A SATIN SANDAL TO WEAR AFTERNOON OR EVENING, WITH SUNBURN MESH STOCKINGS APPROPRIATE FOR EITHER TIME. A CUT CRYSTAL CHOKER WITH YELLOW CENTERS IS SHOWN ABOVE AT THE LEFT AND ANOTHER CHOKER OF RUBY- COLORED CRYSTALS AND GOLD BEADS. THE SHOULDER FLOW. ERS ABOVE AT THE RIGHT AR E OF PINK AND WHITE ORGAN. DIE AND THE WHITE CHIFFON HANDKERCHIEF HAS THE NAME OF THE WEARER APPLIQUED IN COLOR AT ONE CORNER. Big Houses and Little Work is is @ story of a small family that in a small house and then moved | fount that there air sized room for the eir, and a small spare the second floor. On the living room, a dining to do double service as dining room) and inclosed rear porch tor room. bit small to have & benches, two chairs, nal bookcases, one 5- w of the heir’s into a house with rooms and a pantry. They room in place of the = —one beautifully they called a den. The kitchen was big but convenient. And there was cupboard space enough so that every- thing could have a place that was easily accessible. There were front stairs and back stairs and the bedrooms were large and roomy. Did that housewife have more work? No, indeed. She had less. For when & | place is all cluttered up as her other | library was it is almost impossible to keep it looking spack and span. One | has to move practically everything in | the room to give the sweeper a chance. But in the new, large house there was room to breathe. There was also room | to sweep. And room to keep things put AWAY. ‘The cooking things had plenty of space to spread out. The books were uncrowded and none of the furniture looked too big for its space. “Policing up” in the morning came to be a part OPI simple routine, and the house had always a well dressed, well kept appear- ance. G Small homes and apartments are all right until you have accumuated too much “stuff.” They are also all right if you haven't many books, papers, magasines or collections. But they are the bane of the existence of the family that likes to spread out and keep its treasures tidily. Now, on the other hand, too large a house is a nuisance. You don't want to have to wash woodwcrk in rooms that are seldom used. Have only so large a house as you actually use, no more. After all, & home is meant to be lived in, not merely furnished. Treating Boy Like a Man BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON. “Mother, I'm going out to Silver Creek to skate today.” “Very well, Bert. Have you carfare?” Ten-year-old Bertram dug down in| his pockets and produced some nickels and dimes. “I guess I'll need another quarter. Better make it half a dollar, mud. I'll need lunch money, and if anything goes wrong and I can't get back for supper I'll have to have a little extra money for t00.” “Go and take what you need out of my purse. What car are you going on?" He glanced at the clock on the din-| ing room mantel and hurriedly swal- lowed his last bite of toast. “I guess I can make the 9:15. Don't worry about the cold. I'll put on an extra sweater. If it gets too cold, I'll g0 on over to Lester's and see the new pups. It's only a mile the other side of m’c lake and the trolley goes right past.” Bertram's aunt, who had appeared to | be lost in the morning paper, emerged round-eyed and evidently disturbed the moment the boy had gone. 3 Sterling! What on earth are you doing? Aliowing a 10-year-old boy to go alone to a place like Silver Creek, 10 miles away from home, in the dead of Winter without even teliing him when to come home! You treat Bert as though he were a man.” “You have your way, Fannie, and 1 have mis answered Bertram's mother calmly. “Frank and I treat Bertram like a man, because the more we treat him as one the manlier he becomes. “I know many mothers think we s;e him too much liberty, but his father and I have noticed that he can think and act more quickly in an emergency than almost any of his friends of the same age who are seldom out of their parents’ sight. “He'll come home safe and sound be- fore 6 o'clock—you'll see. If he doesn't, we won't worry. If he isn't in by 8 or |9, of course, then we'll investigate.” Her sister looked dubious, but she answered: “I suppose we do baby Frederick too much. But I never, never could bring myself to give him so much liberty as you give Bert.” | _Bertram’s mother shook her head. “You may be right and we may be wrong,” she said. “Who can tell”> It is just another question of judgment.” Winning By a Nose This word—compact—contains beauty aids that have been passed ulwg"l:z word of mouth. as the French down their most precious recipes from tion {o i generation. 'ei‘l":‘l cold day. Peep into the mirror of your nn,yu :ul;ityfnm "n:e, moa: prominent of your face, you view Alr{'~ nose, pops into 1Is it red? It it is and you suffer from red nose continually, three things need attention- circulation, diet. Your nose should be cleaned as reu- In fact, the mechanism of your nose, with its moistened membrane and num- berless hairs, purposely placed as a screen to shield the lungs and throat from dust and germs, makes cleansing impetative. And remember this—those hairs never be out. If they extend unbeautif beyond the nos- trils, clip them lly with scissors. To cleanse the nose snuff up a cup of cool water, into which has been dis- selved & quarter teaspoon of salt. Do this twice a day. This will prevent colds and irritations, one of the most nt causes of red noee. If, however, irritation has already set in, put a few drops of into each rostril before you go to and apply a thick coating of cold cream. which has first been warmed, to the offending feature. 1If the pores at the roots of your nose In the morning wash water and use a mild before going out into In no case use ice | particularly if it is of tiny red veins, from your diet, forego very hot drinks, and, of course, avoid the consumption of all intoxicants.