Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1929, Page 37

Clothes That Are More Feminine BY MARY MARSHALL. ‘The problem that the designers set before them recently was to make clothes for women that would meet the fmwing demand for increased feminin- ty—without being any less comfortable Or less wearable than the less graclous THIS LITTLE GIRL'S DRESS OF ‘WHITE HANDKERCHIEF LINEN HAS FACING AND EDGING AT ARMS AND NECK OF CONTRAST- ING COLORED LINEN. ENDS OF ‘THE LINEN FORM A TIE AT THE FRONT OF THE COLLAR, elothes that we had been wearing. And in the frocks and wraps and hats that have been accepted for Spring we can see that they have solved their prob- lem with real success. Graceful curves can be suggested without a return to tightly laced corsets or boned bodices. Skirts may be somewhat longer and fuller without being burdensome. A few frills may be added without giv- ing the effect of fussiness. And so women generally have been persuaded that they lose nothing that they had gained in wearing the new BEAUTY CHATS Trifling Defects. Perhaps it is just a phase of extreme youth, something all of us passed through at some time, to be bothered and overly an: defect. No doubt most of these slough off and some remain but are forgotten. Most of these apparent defects are not noticed any one but the one who i for them. They cannot be deiects at all then because most people look lovely for others to enjoy. or other blemish en- skin, setting off its , just as the old time : long ago. The lovely skin that will freckle seems to come in deal of worry to its owner, | ¥® found that freckles de- beauty of the person has them? No one but the girl , _Oceasionally, it is a boy, I have found that worry over of the nose is mostly'a mas- worry, Girls usually confine their worry, tenseness, ill-temper, The way to avold these is cultivate repose of manner, not to yourself to become tense, frown droop the corners of the mouth. Of eourse, circulation and muscles must be Velveeta ¢lothes that are more feminine. And even the very little girls have been pro- vided with dresses that are entirely girlish and zez as comfortable and prac- tical as the clothes worn by their brothers, Little girls’ dresses show no disposi- tion to grow longer nar is there any Apg‘reclable change in the place of walst lines because most little girl dresses now, as last season, are made hanging straight from the shoulder or with a shallow yoke, White voile with colored embroidered dots, white lawn with colored organdie ipings, an linen used with printed inen, printed striped pique, pastel or- gandies with occasional colored em- | broidered floral designs, ginghams of a wide variety—these materials are all in- cluded in the new dresses for very little girls. Sometimes the most effective frocks for children are those that are most easily made. This week's diagram pat- tern shows how fo make a charming sleeveless frock from cotton or thin silk. If you will send me your stamped, self-addressed envelope I will gladly send it to you with directions for mak- ing and sketch of the finished frock. (Copyright, 1929.) Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS, Nature of Religion. Many people wonder about religion, whence it came, what it's made of. The following questions have often been proposed: If the race were to start all over again, would men come to have & religion? And if they did evolve a re- ligion, would it be substantiaily whas it is tod: Th are, of course, hypothetical questions. But they are good questions and worthy of serious consideration. They indicate something very signifi- cant: Human beings would like to know, if possible, what the real essence of religion is. ‘There is no reason to' doubt that re- ligion of a sort very much as it is today would be evolved, if the race were again to come into existence and to make it- self at home with its surroundings. Upon second thought it may occur to you -that these questions are not, after all, so very hypothetical. They have been answered dozens of times, for doz- ens of races have sprung up in various isolated sections of the earth. And they all developed a religion. And all these diverse religions are similar in one re- spect. Every one of them possesses an element of magic. They may differ in ever s0 many other respects, but they always make a great deal of use of su- pernatural powers and forces. ‘Taboos, such as black cats and mlfi- cal numbers, are remnants of prel toric religion, now made over in thou- about every small | §! sands of ways into modern forms. (Copyright, 1929.) BY EDNA KENT FORBES kept in best condition through proper exercise and good health. If you were as zealous in searching for defects in others as in yourself, you might find many; but you see past these into their races, and that is what counts most in yourself, and most of those who see you continually would be surprised if told you had this or that defect, even the tilt to your nose that offends. you so much. X. Y. Z—Your shampoo is all right, as you cannot use any better soap a good grade of castile. ing once a week instead of weeks as you are scription sounds 1t £oeies tight and well through Gay. nd pick . o y, an up W hair and llytrikhn scalp muscles, If some hairs come out, it is well they should, as they are dead and should be removed from the scalp to give new hairs a chance to come in. Itching and even soreness result from the times, of new hairs tryi through the hair follicle, increase the trouble by may cure it, so it is worth the . ‘The world’s largest magnet, a 120-ton monster that weighs more than a loco- motive, has recently been completed and will act as an ald in important re- searches, 2o e represents a new NANCY PAGE Health May Be Taught In Plays and Pageants BY FLORENCE LA GANKE, Pam Lacey came home from school with eyes snapping and excitement written all over her little self. “What ido you think, Mother? We are going | to have a health play in school, and teacher chose me to be the ounfiuahc said I would make a pretty one use I was the very picture of health—the kind that comes from right food and plenty of sleep.” “Do you know why they are having & health play, Pam?” “Yes. You see, May day is supposed to be child health day, and Hoover, you know, the President, wrote something years ago about children having the right to be well and happy.” Teacher had sent home with each child who was to take part in the play a sample of crepe paper for the costume and a rough drawing of what the costume was to look like. Pam was the orange, with a balloon- ing orange skirt and cap, deep green bodice and trailing vines of orange blos- soms and leaves. The beet, which was of a deer red, was padded over shaped pleces of cardboard. The skirt was of fluttering green leaves, The cap was a miniature beet. Little girls in white with gauzy wings represented the milk fairies. A mosf healthful vegetable was the tall and lanky string bean. Added height was given by the tall slender hat with a wired bean tendril at the top. ‘The children gave a short play show- ing how they—the vegetables and fruits—contributed to the heaith of children. dphling Wi SR Sare, Tou mey s i’ il write Nancy Pase. care of th Inclosing & "stamped. seif-addressed paper, her leaflet on child care. envelope, asking for (Copyr! Tamb With Cabbage and Rice. Separate one head of cabbage leaves and put them into boiling water for sbout two minutes to make soft enough to roll. Do not boil. Mix three cupfuls of cooked chopped lamb with one eup- ful of rice. Season with salt and pepper and moisten with water to mtake soft enough to mold. Put some of the waste cabbage leaves in the hottom of the kettle and place cabbage rolls on top of each other. Cover with boiling water small plate % | single line of it is hold | solemnized with pomp and Sublime Hours in American History America’s “Greatest Hour” on July 2, 1776, and How John Adams Came to Be Called “the Atlas of Independence.” BY J. P. GLASS. CONGRESS M On the evening of July 4, 1776, the delegates to the Continental Congress, meeting in Independence Hall, Phila- delphia, signed the Declaration of In- dependence. The solemnity which had marked the debates preceding adoption had passed. The signers could relax and even joke. When Col. Benjamin Harrison of Vir- ginia declared that Congress must hang together in_defense of the immortal document, Benjamin Franklin wittily rejolned: “Yes, we must all hang together, or we shall hang separately.” Fat, ponderous Col. Harrison looked down on lean. little Elbridge Gerry and chuckled. “Gerry,” he sald, “when the hang- ing comes, I shall have the advantage; you'll kick in the air half an hour after it is all over with me.” Agreement had not been attained without a tremendous struggle. Prior to and following Tuesday, June 11, when Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston had been named a committee to draft the Decla- ration, the conservatives had fought the idea of complete severance from Eng- land. The first meeting of the committee resulted in the choice of Thomas Jeffer- son to write the Declaration. The doc- ument was to be ready for the opening of Congress on July 1. All events had by then announced the arrival of the time for decisive ac- tion. Quickly Congress went into committee of the whole to consider the resolution introduced by Richard Henry Lee on June 8, moving that the col- onles were, and of right ought to be, free and independent, and that their allegiance to the British crown ought to be dissolved. There was & brief pause. Then John Adams stood up. Burning with con- viction, he burst into a great speech which was one of history’s most mem- orable feats of oratory, although not a preserved, since it was not reported. His flood of irre- sistible argument, causing Jefferson to call him the “Colossus of Debate,” and Stockton to style him “The Atlas of Independence,” made adverse action impossible, although the conservatives, led by John Dickinson of Pennsyl- vania, continued their arguments to the end. The next day, July 2, 12 colonies voted for the resolution. On July 3 the Declaration of Independence was read. Op the evening of July 4 agree- ment was Teaghed. July 3 John Adams wrote two letters to his good wife, Abigail. “Yesterday (July 2),” he said in one. “the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America, and a greater perhaps never was nor will be decided among men” In the other: “The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. It ought to be commemorated as the day of de- liverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be shows, games, sports, bells, bonfires and flluminations.” Posterity chose to celebrate July 4, the date of the agreement upon the o (YES, WE MUST ALL HANG TOGETHER WE | Declaration. However, the question of independence was settled some 48 hours before. ‘The greatest hour in our his- tory was struck on July 2. There is an itneresting foot note in connection with the writing of the Declaration. In 1776 a young Phila- delphia bricklayer named Graaf started housekeeping with his new bride in a three-story _brick house on Market street near Eighth street. They thrift- ily rented out the second floor, contain- ing a parlor and bedroom. _Their lodger was Thomas Jefferson. It was under their roof that he wrote the Declaration of Independence. Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. At regular intervals someone writes me: “What do you think about butter- milk? Can I give it to my older child as well as the baby?” Or, “Is butter- milk as good as sweet milk for children? My son likes it better and will drink all I give him.” Buttermilk made from churned sour milk is entirely fat free, and for those children who find fat in any form frri- tating, it is a more successful food than skimmed milk, which cannot always be entirely freed of fat. It is just as good as the milk it is made from, which only means that if the milk was good, clean milk and churned as soon as soured, the resultant buttermilk would be excel- lent; and if the milk were old and dirty, no amount of churning would make it fit for the small child to drink. Unless you do your own churning, or know the churner and his product, it is safer to make buttermilk at home by the use of some of the well known agents for turning sweet milk jinto sour, such as Bulgarian baciilus tablets or an aci- dophilus culture. With these, one may buy the best grade of milk, use whole milk (if the child has no difficulty with the cream content), and “set” the milk as one would bread, in a covered pan on the back of a warm stove or in a warm place and let it incubate for 12 hours or longer. Then the cream is skimmed off, if a fat-free mixture is better for the child, the whole beaten smooth with an egg beater, and for the small baby the sugar and water necessary for the for- mula added to it. The child of 9 months or so may have it just as it is. Lactic acid milk, which is just another form of buttermilk, is made with whole or skimmed milk and lactic acid added to it drop by drop, or mixed first with water and sugar and then this mixture added to the milk. Mothers who have reared their babies successfully on this type of formula do not need to be told how good it is. The others may feel safer with a buttermilk with the con- tents of which they are more familiar than with the lactic acid mlilk. For the child who is recavering from an attack of diarrhea, the soured milks are marvelous. For the child who has eczema because of an intclerance for solution to a fat- chronic vomiter, and has difficulty with sweet milk formulas, these thicker milks should be given a trial because of their thickness and their ease of digestion. rade, with | free ~ Here’s ANY men are peculiar in that they will fail to enjoy a meal and yet be unable to tell what is wrong. This is due, to a great extent, to the coffee that is served. They would no- tice very poor coffee of course, so the trouble does not lie there. culty lies in “pretty good coffee.” Many women have changed to Wil- kins Coffee because it is richer and more mellow. This i§ due to aging MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Polishing Is Play. One mother says ‘When children pine for something to do on a shiny day, I let them help clean silver or brass that needs polishing. | First, cover the kitchen floor with news- papers and put a thick pad of them on the kitchen table; then cover the chil- dren with capaclous aprons and lay out a few simple pieces of silverware for them to work upon. Children love to work with thick cream polishes that can be daubed on; and when dry, soft cloths bring a shine | to the surface, their delight is even greater. The whole affair is great fun for a rainy day—and a big help to this busy mother, who teaches her children to help as well as to play! (Copyright, 1929.) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Pop was taking terns sneezing and blowing, and ma sed, Nowizzent that perfeckly awful, youve gone and got | another cold, now arent you ashamed of yourself? No, but thanks for your sweet wom- anly simpathy, pop sed, and ma sed, I don't wunt any thanks and its not simpathy. You got that cold from pure unadulterated carelessness and Im al- | ways telling you to be careful. I bet anything I can lay my finger on the very spot you cawt it. You went around | to the bowling alley last nite and just slipped on your coat but no vest, I told | you vestless weather hadent arrived yet | but you persisted, and now look at the result, she sed. Wich just then pop sneezed a fearse sneeze, saying, Lissen to it, too. I dont bleeve that had a thing to do with it, he sed, and ma sed, Well if it dident I know what did. Last nite a perfeck gale started to blow through the bed- room and I woke up and called to you | to ciose a window or a door or some- thing, but you calmly slept on as though there wasent a human voice within miles, and thats just how you cawt that cold, she sed. Then why dident you catch one just like it, you were sporting in the same breezes, pop sed, and ma sed, I dont know, it would take a germ specialist to tell that, and anyway if you dident catch it last nite I can tell you exackly where you did catch it to a T. And I can tell you where I cawt it from A to Z, pop sed. I know the his- tery of this cold and if you wunt to know whose carelessness brawt it on, it was yours, he sed, and ma sed, How, ! name it? and pop sed, Theres a hole | in my trousers ket that you've been {Mn me empty promises to sew up or about 2 weeks, in other werds 2 weeks of ulating drafts have been blowing that hole they have ted in this eole Such a silly senseless ideer, you awt to be & writer, ma sed. Wich he awt. a Way to Please Your Husband The diffi- BEFORE roasting. Also because they have found it to be consistently the freshest BLEND obtainable. It is well worth while to give Wilking Novices Can Learn Much In Buying Fresh Foods BY JESSIE A. KNOX. While those who are old at the house- keeping game welcome gladly the wealth of foodstuffs available in our markets today, many of that large army of new housekeepers are confused and bewildered when confronted with @ dozen of more varieties of vegetables, fruits, etc., and are at a loss as to how to select or to buy them wisely, For this group the following hints may prove helpful: Vegetables.—Fresh leafy vegetables | should have a bright, crisp look. Let-| tuce should feel solid, and the outside | leaves should not be wilted and dry. Green beans should break with a snap, and should be free from brown spots. ‘The pods of fresh peas should be green and crisp. Avold yellow ones and pods | that look dry or that show signs of | mold. Flabby cucumbers are a poor buy. Overripe tomatoes or ones that are sof or shriveled will be lacking in flavor | and expensive, no matter what the cost. | Carrots, beets and potatoes should have a smooth appearance, and not be withered. Carrots and beets are best bought with the tops on. Overlarge | vegetables are not always the best; in fact, medium size ones usually have the | most flavor. | Fruits—The same rules apply in! buying most fruits. Look out for bruised spots, or those brown specks that indi- | cate decay, as such fruit will spoil | quickly. In buying berries, select those | which are firm, but ripe. Avoid baskets that look damp, as the fruit on the bot- | tom is likely 0 be too ripe or mashed. | Oranges, grapefruit and lemons should | have close-grained skins and should feel | heavy for their size, 1 In buying both canned fruits and vegetables, it is always best to purchase only reliable brands. If you are not sure which these are, study the adver- tisements in your magazines and news- papers. Meats.—Meat should have a fresh, moist look and a bright color. Very dark, dry looking meat is seldom fresh. Tender meat is fine grained and the flesh is well mixed with little streaks | of fat and has no hard gristly tissue. Tough meats are coarse grained, are usually lean and have much connective tissue which looks like gristle. Tough meats, however, can be cooked so that they become tender and very palatable. If you are buying chopped beef, be sure Chefsand housewives that it is freshly %mmd as you buy it Buy vegetable by the pound when possible, as you generally ¢ bette value than by measure. Unless yor have good storage space, it is best t buy fresh greens as you need them, for they wilt and lose their flavor if held over from day to day. st:sh vege- tables, such as potatoes, onlons snd carrots may be bought in larger quan- tities, enough for a week at a time. Buy butter, milk and other dairv products of the very best quality yo. can afford, and keep them covered anc in a thoroughly cold place when you get them home. (Copyright, 1920.) Ca;amel. Custard. Put one cup of granulated sugar in & small, heavy frying pan or a deep ery slow fire until the sugar is melted and a golden brown in color. Add very gradually one-half cup of bolling water. Be careful in doing this, as melted sugar is so hot that it will sputter vio- ently as the water is added. It will 1so harden in lumps. Continue stir- ring and cooking until the suger melts and you have & smooth caramel sirup. Beat four eggs until light, add one quart of scalded milk, one-half tea- spoon of salt, four tablespoons of sugar and one-eighth teaspoon of nutmeg. Butter a deep baking dish and spread caramel sirup over the bottom and sides. Pour in the custard, stand the dish in a pan of hot water and bake in @ very moderate oven (325 degrees) about 50 minutes or until the custard is firm. Remove from the oven, cool and then chill before serving. Turn out carefully. The caramel will make & sauce on the bottom. Finely-chopped almonds may be sprinkled over the custard just before serving. “Conveniently Located on 14th Street” 1529 14th St. NW. Dec. 3320 use it daily in count- less ways...in salads, sandwiches and cocktails...and hot dishes, too, for the piece de resistance. White Star Tuna is a firm, tender, deep sea fish that delights the palate and satisfies that inner being. Healthful.., high in iodine and phosphorous, the goitere resisting elements. Its quality has made it the preferred brand for more than 16 years. Packed in the spotless kitchens of the world’s largest CREAM tuna canner. TUNA Mix one large tablespaonful of butter and one tablespoonful of flour with one cup of milk. When cooked, add one small can of White Star Brand Tuna, season to the taste & serve on toast. idea in cheese making ‘We extract from the pure whole milk more Vitamins, Lactose (milk sugar), Calcium and other milk minerals in greater quantities than ever was possible by old methods, and these we add in making Velveeta, The result is purely a milk product that looks like cheese, tastes like cheese but which because of its enhanced food value should be called a super-cheese, . Use Velveeta wherever you would use any cheese, It spreads like butter or will slice when chillrd. It melts, dissolves and blends so readily with other foods that for cooking purposes there is no comparison. It is as digestible as milk itself. Try a package of Velveeta—it will become a staple on your table, Your dealer has it. a trial. It pleases 8 out of 10 men who taste it. WILKINS COFFEE Made by the Makers of “Philadelphia” Cream Cheese