Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1929, Page 28

Making Rugs for Summer Use BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. THE BRAIDED RUG IS AN OLD-TIME FAVORITE. If you want & new rug for your porch or for your Summer cottage now is the time to make it and have it ready when the warm days come and these places will be calling to you to enjoy them. There are many kinds of rugs that require but a short time to make and which can be used appropriately on porches and in Summer places. The differences may consist in varying crafts employed, or in varying mediums from | which ' the floor coverings are con- strueted. - Crocheting is a favorite craft. With. the heayy-medium used, the work progresses with great rapidity. Braid- ing s another ‘and jan old-time rug method. ¢ Knitting ‘¢éan 'be employed suecess- fully when _the worker takes into ton- sideration. the elasticity of the work and uses it to advantage. Hooked rug work is on the crest of a wave o/ popularity. Punch work rugs are ver? quickly worked and give an effect « similar to hooked work that the name hooked rug is given to the finifed prodyct. The tool is called a mechadical Tug hook, although there is no hook. Rags and jute are materials well suited to porch and Summer cottage floor coverings. When the rag bag sup- | plles the goods for rugcraft the cover- BEAUTY CHATS If you haven't a fine-grained skin there is probably something definitely wrong with you physically. In these days when cold creams are sold and used lavishly and when so much is writ- ten on the care of the skin, there is practically nobody whose skin is coarse grained because it is not kept properly clean. But no amount of cold cream or soap and water will keex the skin in | ¥o good condition when the Set is wrong or when the bedy does fot function normally. If you're not satisfied with your com- plexion, try this treatment for a few weeks and see what happens. First, give the skin a thorough rubbing with cleans- ing cream last thing at night, working it well into the pores. Then wring a cloth from soapy hot water and wipe off. As cleansing cream is cheap, you can yse a great deal of it. *f the skin is dry after this, use a bit wore creal if it is wrinkled, use a masiage cream. This thorough cleansing of the skin at night; with just ordinary eare during the day, is all that is needed to keep the complexion fine grained, so far as external measures go. If you see mo improvement or if the skin has red blotches beneath, then the trouble is interpal. In that case cut out as much heavy stuff as possible from your diet —haif as much meat, no pie, pudding or cake, .and substitute fresh cooked green vegetables, salads and desserts that in- R MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Diced Pineapple ‘Wheat Cereal with Cream Bcrambled Eggs Bran Muffins Coffes LUNCHEON, Cream of Chicken Soup Vegetable Salad Rolls * Crisp Strawberry Bavarian Cream Cootes Tea Two cups white flour, one teas spoon salt, one teaspoon sods, one cup brap, one cup molasses, two eggs (one will do), twe table- spoons or less melted shortening. Bake - in” moderate oven almost half hour. “ . FRUIT SAUCE. \ &u{m one-half cup butter wi' three-fourths cup sugar, then one beaten egg and cne-half cup ings cost nothing but the labor of making. ‘When crocheting a rug always take up both loops of a stitch in a preceding row, for this gives double strength to the work. Jute is excellent for porch rugeraft, corresponding well as a me- dium with the fiber or grass used in so many modern commercial porch rugs. It is not so well suited to knitting, since jute is somewhat wiry. Cloth strands are softer and more pliable. Braided rugs require no stitchery but for sewing the braid together. Round and eval shaped rugs are favorites. As each succeeding row of braid is larger | in circumference than the preceding | one,’it is essential that this be allowed for. ‘The rows of braid must be sewed sufficiently loose to allow for this, but not 80 loose that rows cup. The stiches themselves should be firm and snug. ‘The width of strands for crocheting may be three-quarters of an inch wide if the goods is as heavy as good grade outing flannel, or they may have to be 112 inches wide, or even 2 inches, when material is sheer. For braided rugs strands must be larger. Three inches is an approved size, but 2 inches may be sufficient. Hooked rug strands vary from 1 to 1 inch, according to weight of textiles used and fineness of work being put into the rug. (Copsrigtht, 1929, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) BY EDNA KENT FORBES clude fruit. The point is that meat is often hard to digest and that starch ferments in the stomach, causing acid and general trouble. If you see no im- provement after a few weeks of this, go to your doctor for a thorough physical overhauling. - My suggestion 4fi such a case is that u try wew and unusually thor- ough colonic frrigations given spe- elally trained nurses or doctors. A. M. S—It is not necessary to add borax to the cream formula if you are very careful in following directions in putting together all the dients. The borax will insure a successful emul- sion in case you are not experienced. For the formula you mentioned, add 30 grains of borax to rose water before heating it to the same temperature as that of the olls. Fil ‘ Gone . o « feeth regain sparkling whiteness Film discolors teeth and then destroys them. Dentists urge a special way to remove it. 2 DONT b disouraged I teeth are,not white and sparkling, chances in 10 that they are merely coated with a'dingy film. This is what, hias been found inthousands upon thousands of case “You can quickly see by trying the special dentifrice called Pepsodent that removes ordinary methods’ fail film where successfully. Filmis the great enemy of tegth and gums— m1s the grea fiofld’s dgq_hl o 1 A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN. % Anger and Ailments. * Text: “Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in fi"m- om of foolg.” Eee., 79, '° It is a scientifically establi that there is a close relation between the mind and the body.” Men of science tell us that mz’« our ‘bodily allments are traceable to ugly mental moods. But our own omrlinep and common observation tell us the same thing. We know from our ewn’ experi- ence-that our mental meods vitally af- fect digestion and eothev . functions of the . A similar gorrespondence between the. actions of the mind_and the body may readily be seen in others, if we ohserve them at all, £ Of all 'the moods of the soul, anger is one of the most fierce. And its ef- fects upon the body are terrific, It dis- turbs and upsets the whole nervous system to such an extent that long after a spell.of anger one suffers a feel- ing of real illness. There is scarcely anything that more quickly deranges the digestion. Anger, especially uncon- trolled anger, brings on headache and other ailments. If persisted in, it will brlflf on nervous protration.. One who is often angry and fails to, eontrol his anger is headed for a -physical break- lown. ; Many yield to anger upon the slight- est provocation, and make no effort at self-control. They are always mad about semething. No wonder they are always complaining about something being the matter with them. No won- der their doctor’s bills run high. But no doctor can cure their ailments un- less he can cure their anger habit. As long as they persist in this habit, there will be no end of their complaint about poor health. “Joyousness is nature’s garb of health,” said Lamartine. To preserve health, cultivate joyousness. But be- ware of anger. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. fact “Hankie” Mail-Man. One mother says: On ironing days all “hankies” and stockings, each marked plainly in in- delible ink with the name of the mem- ber of the family to whom it helongs, are placed in one basket. Anme and Patsy take turns delivering each “hankie-letter” or “stocki! tter” to the right drawer or “mail-box.” This game is lots of fun, they think. It saves my time, too. (Copyright, 1929.) Try These Dishes. Glazed Potatoes: Boil and peel some medium-sized white potatoes, roll them in the yolk of an egg, then brown in the oven and serve hat. Easy Dumplings: Sift together three times one cupful of flour, éne teaspoon- ful of baking powder and one-fourth teaspoonful of salt. Add sweet milk enough to moisten and’ heat the mix- ture until smooth. Peanut Salad Dressing: Mix thor- oughly one heaping teaspoonful of pre- pared mustard, one heaping teaspoonful of peanut butter and one heaping tea- spoonful or more of sugar. Add enough cream, either sweet or sour, to make th;_-ndmixture thin enough to pour over salad. Film hardens You have 9 called P easily Don't cages. to act The Sidewalks of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. A Washington producer of plays was m{m back-stage to us, &a other “For every pistol to be used by an actor,” said he, “another is held in readiness. I mean that we take no ;:lnncu on the “:npon m]ilnlu fire. some cases actor vided with two revolvers, in the M‘l‘l‘&, that something goes wrong. To be triply sure, another man behind the scenes holds & gun when the cue comes to fire. He watches the player carefully. It there is a dull click and no report the man off-stage does the firing. “We have learned to provide for every possible contingency, and even then ao;nemh\c bewcul?m“y 1.110” wrong. remember a famous pla with which I was associated a numz A to be executed by a firing squad of eight men. Every- thing was going along nicely until the moment af execution. When the order was < given to fire at the victim the first four soldiers raised their guns and pulled the trig- gers. . There was a sickening silence. Immediately the second four men rose rapidly and yanked on the trig- ger and again there was no report. The victim had to be killed so we had to club him in the head to accomplish his death. The me- chanical effects of a mystery play re- quired the strictest attention to the smallest details. A tiny bit of business may support an important part of the performance.” * ok ok ok Europe may set our fashions, but Americans are providing most of the musio these days for the folks across the sea. There is scarcely a restaurant or cafe on the other side in which most of our popular song and dance num- bers are not played. American per- formers, too, are popular with the Europeans. Several years ago we sat in a theater in Leicester square, London, devoted exclusively to music hall acts. It was a variety bill, or, as we call it, mere vaudeville. Among the skits was a team of black-face comedians from the States, All of their wisecracks and jokes were American-bred, but the English audiences laughed. It was not 5o much their line of patter as the manner in which they put it across. Until this time the team was compara- tively own. Eventually they re- turned to this country, where they be- came distinet hits. The reader would recognize thelr names immediately if we mentioned them. * ok k¥ Another actor used to play tough parts written by others. He, too, be- came idle and set himself with his faithful wife to the task of writing & show. Together the couple worked end- lessly on what they hoped would be a hit. This actor, too, cast himself for a stellar role, The play succeeded and we called on & man in his dressing room in a famous London theater who bel;‘uevod in fairy stories. He had taken the aston! country. THEY HADTO CLUB HiM- ingly successful run in this L ‘There is no profession more pre- carious than that of the stage. Six years ago two men had a comedy act. Also they had a song. A keen man- ager gave them a part in a musical comedy where they did their stuff and sang the song, which was hummed and played everywhere. They basked in the spotlight and received fabulous incomes for their services. It looked as though the golden stream would forever flow. ‘They didn’t realize tie gray days just ahead, and at least one of them was dead broke when the song started to become covered with cobwebs. They had entertained hundreds of thousands of persons, but where are they today? Nobody knows. * ok ok ok Once upon & time, not so long ago, an agreeable friend and actor played parts in comedies. He was always good into tartar. 'Gérms by the millions breed in it. They, with tartar, are the chief cause of pyorrhea. To remove film, use the special film-removing dentifrice ydent. It acts to curdle film and ve it in gentle safety. ta enamel. expect the same results from old- time dentifrices, See for once and 3ll how white and bright teeth really are. Get Pep~ sodent at any T LI free y supply to The Pepsodent Co, 1104 S, Wabash. Ave., Chicago. be mducuon to England after an | for & laugh, with the result thay he usually had a job, Then followed a long period of idleness, agents could not place him and his money was getting dangerously low. After devoting a lifetime to the pro- ““’onh.mut men WAS INSPIRED erty inspired him to write a play. ‘When he had com- pleted his task he found a producer wheo, agreed to put .| it on the boards. Then followed weeks of assiduous labor. Hope and despair fought for ascendancy while the plece was taking shape. .Success to the actor would mean a fortune. Failure—well, he didn’t dare think about it. ‘The player had written a part for himself in the production, and, as a matter of fact, had cast himself as star. Financially, he was just about sunk when the show opened. It praved to be a hit and the actor-playwright, over- night, became a rich man. Stimulated by his good fortune, he continued to write plays, and today wealth, health and happiness are his. But suppose his first show had flopped! Abe Martin _éays: I'm continually readin’ o' fellers who have made good in the city, but makin’ good in a little town is the real test. Today, when I relax an’ look back, I can’t help thinkin’ what a nice, clean show “The Black Crook” wuz. (Copyright, 1929.) Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Mrs. M. L. B, writes: “Since every- one is writing about their bables, 1 want to tell you what good results I have obtained through early training, by taking baby outdoors every day no matter what the weather, even durin this past Winter when it was very cold. “He is now 11 months old and has 10 teeth; has walked since he was 9% ning to talk plainly. He has a healthy, rosy com- plexion and weighs more than twenty- six pounds. “He was bottle fed and up to six months had four-hour feedings and no night feedings. I believe in letting the stomach rest at night. have been feeding him orange juice, cereal and soups since his sixth month, He now ?'elu whole milk. He loves to play out the sand and is always taken for an older child. He sleeps from 15 to 18 hours, and I credit this to the fresh air and sunshine that made him so strong and healthy. “My older child, eight years old, never had a cold. She .was also a bottle beby, so there is nothing to the idea that breast-fed babies are the healthiest. I feed them regularly, teach them to drink from a cup and give them plenty of water from the beginning.” Answer—Your results are just what ought to be expected from such a sensible and consistent routine. But .don’t make the mistake of making gen- eral statements on the strength of two examples. Comparing bottle and breast fed babies by the thousands (and not just two babies) gives us our figures that the breast milk is the safest food for babies, and that breast-fed babies are on the whole more intelligent, bet- ter nourished and develop in all ways more rapidly than the bottle-fed baby. We must not disparage breast feed- ing even though the results of bottle feeding in your two cases have been eminently satisfactory, Mrs. D. M. L., writes: “I made a nice soft pad for my eard table and have used it from the day of first weak-kneed bathing ordeal until now, when baby is one year old. Because the table is low it is comfortable to sit in front of it and it is wide enough to hold the basket and clothes.” To Mrs. W. O, B.: In order to pro- tect baby from digging out his eyes or seratching his face in those first weeks of indiscriminate hand-waving, we have to keep the small nails well trimmed. Sometimes they fluff off, but if they do not they should be trimmed closely with blunt scissors. Signs of Spn:ng. °| ° ° The hobo from his Winter lair comes forth with long and tangled hair, and needs a shave and bath; he leaves the city, grim and gray, and sets out for the fields of hay and for the rustic path. The fruit tree agent comes along and jars me with his dance and song and sells an apple tree; and when that tree begins to bear I find its apple is a pear, alas, and woe is me. The weather seers don’'t smile and sing, for April's an erratic_thing, it changes every hour; and when they call for weather fine, with skies that fairly gleam and shine, there's sure to be a shower. You hear the weather prophets wail, for all the signs and omens fail, this season of the year; you hear them trying to explain why they forecast a missing rain and know that Spring is here. The farmer plows the sunny slope, once more he entertains a hope for bumper crops of maize; then he will buy a stovepipe hat and feed on pies until he's fat, his mortgage he will raise. The Spring- time is & wondrous bet, it makes the husbandman forget the failures of the past; he does not brood on drouth and E:“ that seem to make his work a jest, does not stand aghast. The Fall will bring its sullen skies and he will look with weary eyes at cornfields stark and sere; but now he chortles as he tools his plow behind his sorrel mules and shows that Spring is here. ALT MASON. FEATURES. Psychic Adventures of Great Men and_ Women Katherine Bates, Authoress, and the Rejected Lover Who Haunted Her Room. BYJ P GLASS, “AH, BUT YOU WERE WRONG NOT TO MARRY ME.” Strange were the happenings that late week in May when Katherine Bates, the British authoress, went down to Cambridge to take lodgings at No. 35 Trumpington street. Her feilow lodger, Miss Wales, was away, and so Miss Bates spent the first night alone. Or did she? It turned out to be a terrible night. Repeatedly dreams came to her con- cerning a former lover. Once he had been closely linked into her existence, but now, for many years, she had not seen or heard of him. Tonight he kept reproaching her. First he said, “Ah, but you were wrong not to marry me,” and again, “You see, when you refused me, you side-tracked yourself for life.” She would awaken and then fall asleep again. But scarcely would her eyes close than the erstwhile lover re- appeared. Always he renewed his re- proaches. Once, while she was awake, she still felt his presence strongly. “Go away; leave me alone!” she ex- claimed. “I have none but kindly feel- ings for you, but you persist in tor- menting me, and you thus prove that I should have been unhappy had I mar- ried you. In the name of the Holy Trinity, I command you to leave me in peace.” Presently she fell into a fitful slum- | ber. But she was not free of her troublesome visitor. Twice more dur- ing the week he came back. Utterly upset, she described her experiences to Miss Wales, who had now returned. “The room seems haunted by that man,” she said. ‘This idea, which she had not hith- erto voiced, led to other speculation. “Should Peterhouse College be near- by?” she asked her friend. “I ask be- cause about 30 years ago this man was educated at a college of that name. “Why, yes,” replied Miss Wales. “It is close by.” Miss Bates wondered if her old lover ‘What now ensued is most interest- ingly told in Miss Bates’ own language, as used in her report to the English Society for Psychic Research. “I went to this chemist,” she relates, “on the pretext of buying some boric acid, and asked him if by any chance he had lived at 35 Trumpington street 30 years tgo. He answered in the af- firmative. I then asked him if he recollected lodging a student of Petere house of such and such a name. “The chemist replied that he remem- bered him and that the young man had inhabitated his lodgings for 18 months. He proved it by showing me a photo- graph of him, taken with a big dog called Leo. When I asked him what room the young man had occupied he said: ‘The large room over the kitchen, adjoining the small sitting room.” Now, 1 sleep in that wery room and use the some sitting room.” In her report to the English Soclety for Psychic Rescarch Miss Bates de- clared that before taking the lodgings in Trumpington strect she never had been in Cambridge. Neither had she known anything about her would-be husband’s quarters, for it was nct until after he had left Peterhouse College that she had more than a slight ac- quaintance with him. Apparently his nocturnal visits soon ceased. Interestingly, Miss Bates had no knowledge whether he was at the time dead or alive. (Copy: | ht, 1929.) By serving a day in jail Isaac Hughes | wiped out a debt of $4,000, money due | his wife for arrears in maintenance, at | Manchester, England. had perhaps lived in this same house | in his college days. of no other reason why he should haunt She could think | her room so much. To conduct a suc-| cessful inquiry after so long a period of time had elapsed seemed impossible, but she decided to do so. She went first to her landlady, who had had the lodgings for 17 years, she learned. Before then they had been in the hands of a couple who since had left town and died. Prior to that a certain Mr. Peck, now a chemist in the next street, had been the proprietor. Your husband is proud of you —but is he proud of your Coffee? T is quite possible for a husbhand to love his wife, be proud of ‘her beauty and poise and yet have a feeling of dread when the coffee is served. Perhaps he doesn’t seem to care for a second cup or even all of his first. WILKINS Coffee pleases 8 out of 10 men that try it. Try a pound of Wilkins now—do not mention the change to your husband— see the result! WILKINS COFFEE ’