Evening Star Newspaper, April 28, 1929, Page 46

10 Type Considered SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, 10 f) ‘APRIL 28, 1929—-PART ' 3. THE BLUE AND WHITE DOTTED TUB FROCK FOR A GIRL OF TWELVE MATCHES THE FROC( OLD SISTER. BY MARY MARSHALL. F it is important to suit your own clothes to your type and personality, then it is doubly important to con- sider individuality and personality | in choosing dresses, coats, hats and | accessories for your young daughter. | ‘To some extent you may adapt your- | self to the requirements of your clothes. | If you yearn to wear very feminine | clothes but realize that they are not| precisely appropriate as you are, it is| not a difficult thing to wave or curl your hair or to soften the contours of vour face by the use of just the right sort of make-up so that these frillier, daintier things are becoming. But such artistry is usually impos- Your Baby | ter's type very carefully and from the | ’K WORN BY HER FIVE-YEAR- j . ::: T R THE BEIGE SWEATER SHOWN AT THE LEFT IS STRIPED WITH BRIGHT COLORS AND WORN WITH A BEIGE SKIRT. THE SUIT BE- SIDE IT IS OF NAVY BLUE AND WHITE WOOLEN MATERIAL, WORN WITH A WHITE SILK BLOUSE. RIGHT 1S OF GREEN CREPE DE CHINE, WORN WITH A LIGHTER CREPE DE CHINE SKIRT. THE ENS| A BLUE AND RED PRINTED SILK FROCK AND A COAT OF NAVY BLUE WOOL CREPE. THE BLOUSE SHOWN AT THE EMBLE BESIDE IT CONSISTS OF sible and always unbecoming to the very! young ‘girl. The girl whose hair is | naturally straight usually looks much | better with hair left straight. Her | mother wisely seeks a type of dressing that makes a virtue rather than a neces- | sity out of curl-less hair. Few little girls can be made to ap- | pear much less plump or less boyish, | any more flower-like or any less high | spirited than they are by nature. And the sensible mother studies her daugh- result of this study learns what.sort | of frocks and wraps and hats are most | appropriate to the type as it is, not as she would like to have it. * { (Copyright, 1929.) and Mine Dress Child in Becoming Suits| ‘When it comes to making small boys’ | suits of the sailor order you may be | puzzled by the eyelets for the little lac- | ings, and by the embroidery on the | siceves and col But you can ve this all done at rimming shop, and 5o give the suit a professional sort of finish, with little expense and no trou- ble to yourself. ‘When you are choosing the style for the small boy’s suit take into considera- tion his build and type. So much in the way of good looks can be produced by the right kind of suit, the becoming style. Some children look dumpy and unattractive in a smock, others look weird in a belted blouse, and so it goes all along the line. And never knowingly burcen a child, even if he is too young to notice it, with with a fair, a thousand dollars.” Jewelry? Why not follow in the footsteps of woman workers for an important hos- pital in London and make a collection of old gold and silver and pieces of | In the case of this hospital | Old Silver and Jewels From the chairman of the entertain- | ment committee of a city hospital has | come a letter asking me to suggest some novel scheme for raising money to pay for blankets, bedding, sheeis and other linen needed in the hospital. She assures me that the “community { won't stand for any more bridge par- ties, and that they have had so many, and that the other members of the committee have flatly refused to help Yet by next Autumn some- how or other the Ladies’ Aid must raise or perhaps she has already done so. Noblewomen all over England have sent valuable old jewelry that will find ready buyers among collectors of an- tique jewelry. Many of these women since the war have little actual money to contribute and they might hesitate to sell their heirlooms, while they would feel no sentimental misgivings in con- tributing them to the Queen’s Casket. Other women with no valuable pleces | of jewelry to bestow have searched through their possessions to find rings or earrings or brooches of no great | value of which they have grown tired, | Some gifts have come in the form of old settings from which the stones have been lost or taken for other settings, valuable only for the gold they contain. | gratitude as any of the other contri~ | buttons. It seems to me that in many Amert- can communities a collection of old gold and silver, if not actual jewelry, might prove successful. Most people have an old silver napkin ring or two knocking about a buffet drawer, or an odd piece of table silver that does not fill any immediate need. In jewel boxes or even button boxes most of us could find an odd silver or gold cuff link or a broken brooch or even an unset stone or two. And some people have pieces of antique jewelry for which they them- | selves have no admiration which they would be willing enough to give to some favorite charity if they were assured that the committee would receive a good price from a collector for it. Attlcboro (Mass.) jewelers found that by installing radios with individual Y.z, APPROPRIATE FOR SPORTSWE BY OLIVER ROBERTS BARTON. Tom Brown bought 50-cent cigars when his boy was born. He had waited until he was 35 to get married so he family “right.” “You can’t do justice to children these days unless you have money,” he de- could accumulate a fortune and keep his Selecting Dress and Coat for Young Girl { _' AR FOR THE GIRL OF TWELVE OR THIRTEEN ARE THE WHITE PIQUE SLEEVELESS FROCK AND THE RED AND WHITE PRINTED LINEN COAT WHICH MAY BE WORN WITH ANY WHITE LINEN FROCK. THE HAT 1S OF WHITE FELT WITH A RED BAND. Boys Who Become Great ““The university!” Tom stared. “Then you, haven't done so badly by him, have yoi less you, sir, I didn't do it. 'Twas himself! Him 2nd that mother of his. She's been great for getting them kids educated, Molly has. Honestly, sir, I don't think she's missed one of them parent-teachers’ meetings since they BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. * | clared. “I want my boys to be some- bodies—lawyers, business men, archi- tects, engineers, something of that sort.” The baby was named John and was promptly supplied with two trained the offerings are made to the Queen, and the collection is known as the Queen's Casket. The Queen personally | will present the casket to the hospital— |One poor Yorkshire workingwoman sent two or three old silver thimbles and some broken gold earrings, and her gift has been received with as much headphones their male chainmakers lost no time in talk, worked faster and “accepted night work without a mur- mur.” | an outlandish or unbecoming suit. The | other kind cost no more and they have | a good deal to do with his manners and feelings later on. started. And every penny the boys saved selling papers and cleaning pave- ments, when they were kids, and work- ing vacations, these last few years, she's put by in the bank. “Will )or some particular food was one sure = poe the whole household. is strong enough to D oeing naughty when | way of upsett naug] street because he has | And what chil dozen times.” she is| one of the outstanding tend- ren, and that is to do the thing that has proven to be most | upsetting to the mother. i Whatever in the child's daily life has | been set apart as a thing which must be done, whether or no, is the very thing which attracts him, as soon as he begins to feel that he is a person to be reckoned with. 1f & tremendous amount of stress has | been laid upon the daily nap, if Teddy’s mildest remonstrances against it are| looked upon with horror and his lapses | Tepeated to the father and all the rela- tives, small Teddy knows that refusal | 10 take & nap is a very, very serious | thing in his household. When Teddy | begins to grow up. when his inner urges to be an individual instead of a little | minding-toy, are coming to life, he hits | upon refusal to take a nap as the most powerful ally in showing mother just | who is boss. 1 it is eating, or not eating, or drink- ing his milk, or eating his spinach that has come to have importance to the child, he knows just how to send the whole family into the doldrums. 1 won't eat any spinach.” he says, and immediately the whole family ces 1 choosing the thing to which she has | | importan “No, | resist such a delicious sensation? Dozens of such illustrations could be listed. There are familiar ones in every household, and the mother especially is responsible for their appearance. She hasn’t given the child enough freedom so that he has no real necessity for | attached tremendous importance and | showing himself master of it and of the household because of it. Habits have to be established. Lapses | will occur. It behooves the mother to control her own emotions to such an extent that the child has no feeling that this temporary lapse is of any great ce. “Tpo bad you can’t eat| your dinner today, darling (or take | your nap), but better luck next time.” | This attitude is comforting. encouraging. mfieltlve of better control over the sit- | uation ‘at some later perjod. The child | BY BETSY CALLISTER. HERE was a time when most of us had more room for our jons than we have mow- That is to say, consid- ering wom-nkh(nd u'xlzhocalvx:ng , there are more of us = gr‘:::\l houses and apartments than there to be. u"e!‘dhu change has brought about & de- mand for smaller pieces of furniture. And the demand has been most tempt- jngly met in the matter of dressing tables. adays. gets down and plays happily, sure that | next day he' will feel more sleepy or be more hungry. There has been no | particular commotion over his failure | gist of any stationary table to meet these habitual situations and 30 he has no incentive to use them as | weapons over his parent to demonstrate that he is an individual. A mother must keep her fears to her- self. A child is intensely sensitive to | her emotional conduct. -If she impresses pou upon him determined that that spinach | him with the importance of his tem- will go down or they will know the | Faced with such oppo- | reason why. sition, the child has a whole bag of tricks he can pull. He can spit the spinach out, or he can vomit it up, or can shut his mouth like a clamp or he can _throw the spinach on the floor. He couldn’t or wouldn't do any of these 1hings if he hadn't been shown over and over again that failure to eat a meal porary lapses from good conduct, or good habits, she actually directs 'him toward misbehavior. He knows |how he can torment her. He knows in what way he can become | the dictator. Unless the mother is wise enough to give him ample opportunity | for individual conduct, “unbossed” by | her, he’ll use this knowledge to her | great discomfort. “Too Busy’”’ Women BY ALLENE SUMNER. The “whole crowd” is “down on” Nancy. sons. Foremost, it seems that Nancy's plea of “too busy” to do this and do that, far from earning the sympathy and co-operation of the crowd, as it once did. is now only the signal for rau- cous outburts. 1t all reminds me that, in any circle, we accept the “too busy” explanation of our friends for all their omissions of personal appearance and actiop just mbout so long. then a personal defense of our own pride crops out. - Most of us have plenty to do. After all, perhaps we're “busy.” too: perhaps it's just as hard for us to dash home from the office. get into our cop- per georgette, and hurry back down- town to the club for dinner with “the girls” as it is for Nancy. Perhaps it's just as hard for us to take the chair- manship of the modern drama commit- tee, “with all our other work.” as it is for Nancy, but we manage to do it, any- way Somehow. if there's one thing the human race won't tolerate oo long, it's the assumption of some one else that he or she is the only person in the world who is really living a throbbingly ab- sorbing abundant life. The “too busy theme gets worn pretty thin. As a matter of fact, old though the dea is, have you ever noticed that the really busy people are generally the ones who keep quietest about it? Have you ever noticed that the woman who won't take the committee chairmanship be- cause she's “too busy” is almost invari- ably the woman who tells her intimates that she's “bored to death"? Have you ever noticed that the peo- ple who fight most frantically to avoid responsibility are the ones 5o unaccus- | tomed to it that the very idea startles them? I know a woman judge who manages & 14-room house, including the super- vision of two bed-ridden parents and the orphaned children of a brother, who serves on numerous club commit writes and edits, makes her own for recreation. has a rock gar- den which she made herself, - TOURLAID . Nhish . . There seem to be various rea- | 1 herself, is writing a novel and, to boot. | is considered the best night court judge in the country. Aside from the “too busy” plea getting |one into a responsibilty-dodging frame of mind it seems to me that it is both professionally and personally ruinous. While it may sound crass to suggest that social contacts make the business bank account the fatter, this is such an | apparent truth that the whole modern | structure of business is based upon the value of “contacts.” 1 know one of these “too busy” young |ladies in business for herself, who works about an 18-hour day and never strays by fot nor tittle from her own | Job's precincts, who can’t understand why a rival young lady seems to have a | more suceessful business than herself. “She's never on the job,” comments the | puzzied one. “and she’s s flying to this soclal affair and tha! But “fiying to this social affair and that” explains the rival's success. Do You I)ine or Do You Only Eat? Do you breakfast, after you morning? Do you serve luncheon or just con- | trive to warm up some left-overs to satisfy the family appetite in the mid- |dle of the day? | Do you dine, or have dinner, or just eat a meal after the day's work is done? A woman remarked the other day | that her family “dined” only when | there was company; the rest of the breakfast, or do you have or do you just snatch a bite are up and dressed in the Ume they simply ate—and I 5unnni:‘ much. the same distinction could made in many homes. The test of really good table manners, 1 suppose, Is their adaptabllity the man or woman who has table ners of the very best sort, I suppose, eats a “hot dog ndwich on a pienic and drinks dreggy coffee from a tin cup with as good grace as he partakes of a formal eight-course dinner. But such innately fi table manners, 1 think, are a lit/lc rare and children | especially need the inspiration of meals y an > There are small dressing tables of every kind, but'among :.rl"l:“:l ttlr:t );nmo:t | rhaps, are e attractive, perhaps, oy “;:k | dressing boxes—powder boxes, they might =e called, just as the charming, | mevable little dressing tables used to be called powder tables in the days | when painted and pompadoured ladies {in the time of Louls XV used them. These modern little dressing tables, or make-up cases and boxes, are made ! in a1l manner of attractive ways. Some | of them are covered with colored prints | —French, for the most part, or fash- | fon prints from some such source as | Godey's Lady Book. i Some of them are covered with paper | designed in a most modern design. | Others are made of highly polished | and finely finished wood. | In'most of them, the cover is a mir- ror on the inside in which one may see {one's success at make-up. Then there | are compartments for hoiding all sorts f“' cosmetics, and the comb and brush. | The essentials for the toilet are all | stowed conveniently and compactly in | the box, which can then be carried | | hither and yon, to a convenient corner | or a satisfactory light, for use. (Copyright. 1929.) Tints and Shades ‘ Make Up Colors| Women usually have a keener sense | ‘of color than men, and it has been | | proved by statistics that color blindness | |15 more usual among men and boys | than among women and girls. | | 1 Many men who have a naturally per- fectly normal color perception use color | terms very vaguely. They speak of | blue violets, pink poppies—and couldn’t | tell you whether there was more or | less green in the tone of a turquoise | or a sapphire. This is simply because | they have never analyzed color to any | great extent. Unless their business calls | | for some use of colors they have far | less opportunity usually to develop their | color perception than women who from | the time of childhood consider the | color of their hats, dresses, ribbons and various adornments. An excellent way to develop your | appreciation of color is to analyze col- ors that come to your attention. Here | are two tones of rose that are obviously different. ~ Ask_yourself why it is that they differ. One is lighter, perhaps, and that means that the tone is more diluted. Yet even if there was not this dif- ference in intensity there would still be a difference between them. There may be more or less yellow in one, more or less violet in the other, Amer- ican beauty rose contains some violet— tea_ros> contains some yellow. ‘The terms tint, tone, color and shade re all used rather loosely by most of d | us. According to experts in color blend- ing, a shade is a deeper tone, while a tint is a lighter one. Thus cream i light tint of vellow, while mustard Is shade. Navy blue is a shade of blue, while baby blue is a tint. ‘To be sure. most persons do not fol- Inw these distinctions in ths use of | these two words, but in reccgnizing the distinction we can take an important | e Jormmig trgn)| HERE ARE SOM: UP CASI TRAVELING. POLHED ¥OODS. . o THE A'Hl'l\l,‘ll AND PORTABLE DRESSING TABLES, 3 THE, OTHERS ARE COVERED WITH PRINTED PAPER OR ARE MADE OF FINELY ONFE, YOU WILL S i - ke Portable Modern Toilet Cases VE POWOER BOVES, SO CALLED, A™D GTHER LOVELY MAKE- EE, IS LUATHER COVEE FOR nurses, a suite of rooms of his own and $10,000 in the bank to accumulate inter- est. At the same time John was born, Pat, the chauffeur, was likewise blest. He the narrow cross streets half a block from the garage. And into this blue but rather shabby heaven, young Patrick opened his eyes. When Tom gave Pat one of the 50-cent cigars he remarked jovially, “Well, Pat, I suppose you're going to make a first-class chauffeur out of that boy of yours.” Pat grinned. “No sir! I'm figurin’ on makin’ him nothin’. If he can't make himself, he can’t be made.. But I'll help him all I can, that's a fact now.” ‘Tom was very successful in business, and like most lucky people he got his other wishes, too, at least almost. He has three sons and great plans for each of them. Pat also continued to be consistent. Brown's chauffeur. The other day Tom took Pat to look over a new car he was buying for John for his birthday. “By ‘Where’s Paddy? “He's & senior in the university now, sir,” said Pat proudly. BY AMELIA LEAVITT HILL. A~ particularly attractive elbow cush- jon is made from half a yard of un- bleached muslin and an eighth of a yard each of green and white and of red and white checked gingham or per- cale. Cut a plece of the muslin 9x13 inches for the front of the cushion and an- other like it for the back. This will allow for & generous “turn in,” as the finished cushion should measure 8x12 inches. Now cut a strip of muslin 41 inches long and 3 inches wide to use as a side plece connecting front and back. Join the ends of this firmly together and baste it to the back piece all around, inserting between them a quarter-inch fold of either the green or the red checked material in such a way that when the work is done and is turned right side out, a very narrow line of piping will be visible. As a floral design will cover the front of your cushion, first of all baste upon the muslin front an irregularly shaped oval or oblong strip of the green-and- white checked material to represent the ground from which the garden is to spring. This should not be over an inch in width and should be appliqued upon the muslin foundation about an inch or a little more from the lower edge of the material, after the “turn in” has been counted. ‘Tulips or wild roses are particularly adapted to a cushion of this kind. Three are to be shown. For roses you will need five heart-shaped pieces of the red checked gingham to serve as petals, and for the tulips three pear- shaped ones. ‘They should measure 1'> inches long when finished and be wide in propor- tion. Begin with the middle flower in the exact center of the pillow at the dis- tance from the edge equal to that be- tween the opposite edge and the Pin a petal here, and group the others symmetrically about it, not sew- ing any until you have the correct ar- rangement. The other two blossoms should exactly resemble the first and should be at just the same distance from it on different sides, but a little lower down. ‘When everything is in place, applique each %mce to the foundation, connecting each blossom with the “ground” with a to the side piece just as you did the forgetting the piping, and He had eight children and was still Tom | the way. Pat, how are your boys? | “We always told them they would have to lock out for themselves, but they’'re that ambitious, sir, I ncver saw anything like it. Paddy works all Sum- mer and sometimes at nights, too. He's home from the college at two, and studies afternoons. He’s going to be a lawyer, and a good one, I guess. “And Terry, he's the same way—he's only 17, but if he isn’t going to be the world’s best engineer I miss my guess. Paul’s a builder. Molly gets mad when I say it's his father’s hod-carryin’ he gets his taste for buildin’ from. He's only 14, though. Maybe he’ll be own! a chain o’ stores yet. But say, sir, how's young John gettin’ along?” ‘Tom’s eyes had taken on a flat look as he answered, he's not as much interested in school as your boys, Pat. I've done too much for'my children. They can't do a thing | for themselves. They can't even study. “I ean see now that a boy has got more chance of making something of himself if someone doesn't make the road too soft for him.” Money will do a lot for children, but | it won't do everything. This true little | story may encourage parents who la- ment their lack of it because they can't | give their children “advantages.” |~ The question is—what are advan- tages? I leave it to you. Quaint Elbow Cushion sew the whole up on the machine for greater security. This is a_cushion that even a woman not particularly skilled with the needle can make. And when the pieces are carefully cut and as carefully joined gether, the pillow has a tailored ap- pearance that commends it to any room in the house. Of course, the covering used can be chosen to harmonize with the decorative scheme of any room. Dates Disagree | Some people are always distracted and distressed over numerous engage- | ments. Others take a full engagement | pad as a matter of course and are not | the least ruffied thereby. | “I don't know what I am going to do,” says Mrs. Smith, late Friday after- noon. “I have accepted a date for dinner with the Joneses tonight and the Browns have asked us there for dinner and now here comes Jane Robinson, my husband’s cousin, un- expectedly to spend Saturday and Sun- day with us. I don’t know which way to_turn.” Under the circumstances there is only one way to turn. The only thing for Mrs. Smith to do is to proceed to the Joneses’ for dinner, previously hav- ing explained to Mrs. Brown that owing to a previous engagement she is unable to accept Mrs. Brown's kind invitation, and also _having previously explained to Jane Robinson that the engagement already exists with the Joneses. Cousin Jane must be made to feel quite welcome. A dinner must be planned for her at home and if pos- sible some old friend invited in to have it with her. But it would be absurd to telephone to Mrs, the last to telephone Mrs. Brown to ask if Cousin Jane your social career much more easily conducted if you always look upon the first engagement as the most binding. Except in case of illness or some serious obstacle in the way of meeting your appointment you all to be present at a t nerrow band of the green material by | way of a stem. Then attach the front TS ce. rson who invites you. There is -omz:hlmz sacred in an invitation of a friend that should never be A