Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1929, Page 43

WOMAN'S PAGE.’ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, WEDNESDAY, MAY' 15 1929." FEATURES., Invitations for, the Wedding BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. 1f there is one place where fastidious- ness and convention rule, it is in the manner of issuing invitations to a wed- 1 ‘There may be many prospective Sum- ding and the announcements which | follow it. Yet, without being at all THERE ARE SEVERAL DEPARTURES FROM THE USUAL STYLE OF WEDDING INVITATIONS IN VOGUE TODAY. bizarre, one who takes pride in such things wishes to be right up to the | several departures from the once rigid | | people, just as bridal dresses in tones | | minute in the matter of style in paper, engraving, etc. mer brides who are debating just what style to use and if they inquire into the matter they will find that there are form of white paper and black lettering throughout. Not that they are either radical or conspicuous changes. Even today the only case where lettering is not black !s in the use of a monogram, which matter will be discussed later. Absolutely white paper may be varied by having what is called “ivory,” either a light or deep cream. This, being somewhat new, is popular with some off of the white are popular. If, how- ever, enough distinction can be gained within the prescribed pure white form it indicates a conservativeness of choice in excellent taste upon such occasions. A feature, extremely dignified as well | as novel in wedding invitations and | announcements, is the monogrammed initials of the bride’s and groom’s last names at the head of the page. This may be in silver, and when it is it gives a very rich appearance to the sheet. Gold 1s used occasionally. Sometimes the initials are just embossed. A most unusual wedding invitation, yet one in the best of good taste, is upon a paneled paper, the left-hand panel being wider than the right. In this in the upper left-hand corner is the bride and groom's monogram. To | the right and slightly below is the en- graved invitation, centered in the panel, but not in the middle of the page, be- cause the paneling is one-sided. A severely simple monogram is in | keeping with this style of invitation the engraving appears to advantage in a rather plain lettering. “Shaded | antique Roman” is among those suitable | for such an arrangement, although | there are many others. A kind of let- | ter called “Spanish” presents one of the | | smartest looking announcements and has the virtue of being unusual as well as graceful in form. (Copyright, 1929.) My Neighbor Says: When painting stairs do not paint every stair. Paint every other one and when they are thoroughly dried paint the re- maining ones. Every housekeeper should know where the water in the house can be shut off. Ceilings may be ruined while you are waiting for & plumber to mend a leaking ipe. After using gaseline for clean- ing clothing add an equal amount of water to it and set aside. ‘When it settles the gasoline will rise to the top and may be drained off and used again. Mice do not like moth balls. ‘When packing away magazines preparatory to going away for the Summer scatter moth balls among papers and magazines and mice will not then go near them. WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO BY MEHRAN K. THOMSON. “I can't remember names.” How often you hear that. If you are one of those people who can't remember names, try associating the name with some pecu- liar trait gbout the person. If the name is Brawn associate brown 'with his brown eyes or some other fact of his general appearance. The more odd and unusual the thing you select the stronger will be the association and the more effective in recall, Sometimes when you can’t recall the name of a person, you say to yourself, *Let me think. Where did I meet this man?” And as soon as you think of the place or the peculiar circumstances 1nvorvfd you think of the name through the law of association. The more of these assoclations you have the quicker you will recall the name. . At times these associated circum- stances are more easily recalled than the name. Thinking intently about these circumstances helps to recall the ‘me for the following reason: In at- pting to recall a name we are try- “ng to drive & nervous impulse through the name center in the brain and it will not go, The more we try the less success we have. Then we think of an associated cir» pumstance, This means that we send an impulse through an associated cen- ter and hope that the impulse will go from there into the name center. If it will not go from one we try another and another, until finally we hit upon | one which does slip over into the name | center. The more associated centers we have, the greater the probability that from some one of them the im- pulse will slip over. These associated centers will turn the trick, because when learning the name a nervous impulse has passed between the two centers, thus diminishing the resistance between them and making the passage easier. The conditions just described have to do with names only partially learned, and, therefore, hard to recall. But it often happens that we are unable to recall names we know as well as our own, and, indeed, sometimes man may be temporarily unable to recall his own name, even though he is perfectly well and sober. In a case of this kind there is a mental blocking. Two names start two impulses going over the track that is necessary for the right name to travel in order to get to consciousness, with the result that neither is able to get the right of way. * (Copyright, 1929.) PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. ; Bananas for Bimbos. Dr. Ludo Meysenburg, New Orleans baby specialist, reports that he fed bananas to 90 babies ranging in age from 4 months to 2 years. They were all normal infants, though several of them had not gained satisfactorily and several had constipation. Two of the babies were unable to continue taking banana because it proved too laxative. gan to make satisfactory gains in weight after they received banana. Some of the bables were completely cured of their constipation, and many were greatly benefited. It is advisable that only thoroughly ripened banana be fed to infants. ‘When a banana is well ripened it has 2 rich golden yellow color and is flecked over with brown spots—not black marks from bruising, but brown spots make the banana more attractive. In ripening a considerable part of the starch of the banana is converted into sugar. Thus, the fresh banana, green or only slightly yellow, contains about 20 .per cent starch and only 2 or 3 per cent sugar. The same banana after thorough ripening will contain less than 1 per cent starch and nearly 20 per cent sugar. This conversion of starch into sugar gives the banana it fine flavor when thoroughly ripened. Cooking, of course, converts con- Fiderable starch in an unripe, even a green, banana inio sugar. But it is better to feed the children raw banana 4f any ripe banana today. Besides its high nutritive value—you ean buy more actual food in a banana than you can get for & nickel in ham. The principal question that's herni:’ #aised by the sinkin’ of the I'm Alone, ! with its 2,800 cases o' booze, is how deep is it where it went down, . (Copyright, 1920.) Many of them be- | | | | ' type. Jamb or steak—banana contains fair amounts of vitamins A, B and C. The onion is & famous “health” food, though it is not clear how it got its reputation. An onion gives a lot of flavor and contains considerable min- eral matter that is a desirable addition to the usual dietary, especially of urban dwellers. But I suspect the onion owes its popularity largely to advertising. You_ know, when one includes onion in the menu one invariably goes out and tells the world about it with every breath. It is not so with bananas. A banana will yield all the mineral food the choicest onlon can provide and be- sides the banana gives you a lot of calories. All that seems to be wrong with a lot of bimbos is they don't get a fair break in the way of victuals. There is entirely too much feeding by quaint specialists who knew too many things which were not so. The amateur mother-—of course she has learned nothing whatever about the business of raising babies in her school course —tries to feed the baby by some queer old rule, the baby gets the short end on this and that essential food ma- terial, and then there's trouble. A very common trouble is costiveness, purely due to insufficient solid food. The amateur mother instead of dealing in- telligently with this, keeps right on doling out the inadequate rators and begins to ply the poor kid wit" hysic, enemas or something, and 8o from bad to worse. Resist that impulse. Spa:c that bimbo the interference habit. Patron- ize Tony the banana man and watch the bimbo thrive. (Copyright. 1929.) l BRAIN TESTS This is a language test of recognized are given; and you are allowed two minutes to study them. Then try to read the sentences underneath. Bala means man: balai is the plural. Abola means boy. Jaro means good; jarog, better; jara- gon, best. % Erna means am, is or are. Boora means house. Ish means in; luth means with. There are no articles as “the"—the word is understood. To be translated in two mihutes, (1) Belai jaro erna. (2) Bala boora ish erna. (4) Balai jaro erna; abolai jarog, | erna. (5) Abola boora ish abola jaragon, erna. Answers. The ‘sentences read as follows: (1) (The) men are good. (2) The man is in the house. (3) The boys are in the house with the man. (4) (The) men are good; (the) boys are tter. (5) The boy in the house is rules, rules conceived by old-time baby | 8 The meanings of various words | (3) Abolai boora ish erna bula luth.| _proving. best boy. SUB ROSA BY MIML Black Swans. y swan we see is white in the habit of thinking [ that preference for blonds rules among birds of this sort. But a large flock of black swans has recently been imported from New Zealand to compare with the albino birds so famous for their long, curved necks. Every now and then we meet a black swan, which may be either male or female, swan or swain if that's what they are called. These dark birds are different from the rest of the flock. They are exceptions to the rule of bipeds whether these wear feathers like birds or are just human beings. Exceptional people are interesting. | Eccentric people are not. The ex- { ceptional person, if superior, is some- | thing to admire.’ His or her talents are | marks to shoot at, like the voice of the prima donna or the face of the | star actress. But if they are only ec- centric, they are so many pests. Black sheep in the flock have a poor reputation because they are bad, or are supposed to be. Black swans, such as we are speaking of, may be all right when it comes to conduct, but they annoy us by their oddities. Among these black swans are the cranks, or people who differ with the rest of us just for the sake of being disagreeable. Nothing suits them ex- cept themselves. They are ready to | criticize all others and they do it so thoroughly that they have no criticism left for themselves. These eccentric people may assume that they are living up to their ideals, which wouldn't be so bad if it were s and if they didn’t insist upon having other people live up to these same ideals, Ideals, like exceptional people, are of unquestionable value, but when a person strives to implant his favorite notions into our minds, we resent the interference. It is an art to be “different.” When a person is superior in beauty, manners or talents the difference is something to command admiration. But when one is different just for the sake of not being like others, he has botched the art. There is sufficlent individuality among birds of the same color to make it unnecessary to introduce black swans or yellow diamonds. NANCY PAGE Angel Food and Foam Are Pink and White. E LA GANKE. Lois had Nancy's recipe for angel food and found it most satisfactory. For the dessert course in her pink and white luncheon she baked a cake of the regulation size. After it was baked and cooled she pulled it apart with two sil- ver forks and had as many pleces as there were guests—eight. By using the two forks she kept the cake light. Had she cut it with a knife she would have crushed the feathery cake, making the pieces soggy along the cut edge. The pddly shaped pieces obtained by tearing | apart with forks are at their best when they are served with strawberry foam. This foamy sauce is made just a short time before serving. It is chilled, and at serving time a generous spoonful is put over each piece of cake. This is done after the cake is placed on the dessert plates for individual service. The sauce is made by taking an un- beaten egg white, one-half cup of fresh strawberry puree and four table- spoons sugar. Wash the berries by placing them in a colander and then hull them. Cut in pieces and -put through a ricer or seive. If the berries are very watery it will be best to dis- card the more liquid part of the puree. In that case, more berries may be need- ed. Put the mashed pulp, the egg white and sugar in a large bowl and beat with egg beater until the mixture is stiff enough to stand alone. A few drops of lemon juice may improve the flavor. It will take at least 15 minutes ‘beating to get _this sauce stiff, but the result is worth the effort. Naney's recipe for angel food is on her standard cake leafllet. Write to her. care this paper, inclosing & stamped, self-ad- dressed_envelope, asking for her leafiet on standard cakes Just $1 for Expello will AN hundreds of dollars’ worth of clothes ONE dollar for a can of Expella One minute to hang it at the top of the closet. And your expen- | sive furs, clothing, and woolens | will not need attention for | | months. Expello is the surest | and most convenient moth-killer | you ever used. A vapor in crystal form. Heavier than air, it pene- | trates down into farthest corners | —into_tiniest crevices. Perme- ates all fabrics. Kills the moth worms hiding in folds and pad- dings—for these and not the fly- ing moths do the damage. And remember, they're as destructive in winter as in summer. Expello is harmless to furs and fine fab- rics. No spraying—can't stain. Odor disappears at once. Also get ean with ten handy bags for use in cedar chests, trunks, ete. Only $1. The Expello Corporation, Dover, N. H. ! Get Expello at your drug | or Jr}\mltflruf store today SPRINGTIME | BY D. C. PEATTIE. I ‘The naturalist comes to look for the same general gualities in the same fam- illes of animals and plants; the cat fam- ily is carnivorous, fierce and graceful; the poppy family runs to bright colored flowers and juices, is fragile, ephemeral and elegant. 8o, if the quality of su- preme song is to be sought in some | family of our American birds, we would look for some member of the nightin- gale’s family—and we have it, in the thrushes. To my way of thinking the song of the thrush at this time of year is be- yond any doubt the most marvelous song that issues from the throats of our birds—and in some ways the her- mit thrush is even more _entrancing | than the nightingale. Where the | nightingale knows, or improvises, thou- | hands of melodies. no two birds singing alike, the thrush has but one song, re- | peated with slight variations in clarity, | rhythm and the like. But the actual | tone-production, to use a singer’s term, is | quite as fine, if not finer. To his mate 1 suppose, the little sizzling noise of pine-siskin sounds enchanting; to hu- man ears, however, the song of the hermit thrush 1§ the divinest melody in God’s green cathedral of the lacing boughs. His song possesses that serene, untroubled ecstacy of perfect faith that one hears in the music of Palestrina, or just occasionally in Han- del, when he forgot himself and his harmony-book and soared to nobility. Almost every one, in describing a thrush'’s song, will tell you he heard the hermit thrush. It is ten to one he really heard the woodthrush, a much ! commoner bird, whose song is not quite | | so beautiful, though even so it is almost | | heartbreakingly, insupportably lovely. | I think the name hermit thrush is so | poetic that it positively begs you to roll it on your tongue, and that is why PARIS.—At Paul Poiret’s there are various versions of the short sleeve. One dark blue polka dot foulard has puff sleeves finished with trimming bands of red and white, The skirt is quite long, with high, tight waist. WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO BY MEHREN K. THOMSON. The statement, “No one is really happy,” was recently attributed to Thomas Edison. The newspapers re- ported that the great wizard gave it as his opinion that happiness is pretty | much of a delusion. Like his (‘los!'; friend Henry Ford, Mr. Edison is a| disciple of hard work and plenty of it. Both men believe that whatever happi- ness one' may expect from life he will get. primarily from the amount and quality of his work and his contribu- tion to the welfare of men. It is a matter of common observation that the very people we think the hap- plest are anything but happy. “All is vanity,” is the common verdict of those who have lived most intensely and should, therefore, be well satisfied with life. If life is somewhat of a disappoint- ment to the greatest and best, what must it be to the rest of us? Disappointment implies _failure to come up to expectations. Perhaps the more successful mortals expect more and hence are not better off relatively the hermit thrush gets all the praise, the humbler woodthrush none. The hermit thrush is, indeed, a hermit in | the sense that he prefers deep, lonely | woods, but -he ic no misanthrope; it is | easy to make his acquaintance in early | dawn. At such s time, when other birds are settling down with sleepy chitter- ings, or hunting the elusive worm and gnat, the hermit thrush will take his unseen station in the leaves and lift his voce. It is in reality a very pow- erful voice; he can easily, if all else is still, make all the forest ring with his voice for half a mile around: he is sel- dom as near as you'think him. Then, then, indeed, the woods, the airs, the listening man, is touched with' the wings of heavenly glory, and if the thrush could be always heard there | would be in history no wars, and no | injustices. | RITA. appointment and ends in the defeat of death, the imperial spirit of man re- mains unconquered so long as a man maintains his integrity and knows he is putting up a fight. Such a man has at least the satisfaction of having lived. (Copyright, 1929.) MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Stewed Prun Oatmeal with Cream. Baked Sausages, Potato Cakes. Corn Muffins. Coffee. LUNCHEON. : Asparagus on Toast. Fruit Salad. Rolls. Sugar Cookies. DINNER. Asparagus Soup. Hamburg Steak, Brown Gravy. Candied Sweet Potatoes. Boiled Diced Carrots. Cabbage Salad, Fresh Dressing. Lemon Meringue Ple, Coffee. DOUGHNUTS. Beat two eggs thoroughly: add one cup sugar and beat with' egg- beater, add butter size of table- spoon, little nutmeg and salt. To one quart sifted flour add three teaspoons baking powder. Use one cup milk adding flour and milk alternately, as it makes a finer grain. Tea. FRUIT SALAD. Cut into dice one bunch celery and three bananas, add pulp of three seedless oranges, one cup broken English walnut meats and one cup Malaga grapes (seeded and cut in halves). Mix lightly together, moisten with mayon- naise made more delicate by ad- dition of whipped cream and serve in nest of heart leaves of lettuce. Twelve stalks of asparagus add one-half cup canned tips, two- | | thirds cup chicken stock, one sliced onion (very small), yolo of egg, one tablespoon heavy cream. Salt and pepper. Add onion to stalks, simmer 10 min- utes, rub asparagus. through sieve, add_cream, egg and sea- soning; reheat and serve. Boiled Sweetbreads, Soak one pound of sweetbreads in cold water for 20 minufes and_remove the pipes and membranes. Cook in boiling salt water for 20 minutes, or until tender, with one tablespoonful of vinegar or lemon juice, plunge into cold water to harden, cut or break into small pieces and serve in white sauce on toast, in patty shells, or in ramekins. | Willie Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “T ain’t had no air rifle since T tried to hit a grasshopper on a rosebush an’ didn’t see pava on the other side.” (Copyright, 1929.) 5 2 Unwritten Laws. : Some grim veiled prophet sets the day when straw hats are no crime, when we may put felt lids away in mothballs, for a time. I do not know that prophet’s name, nor where he may reside, nor whence his power and prestige came, that may not be denied. I sometimes sit up half the night be- neath my bayan tree, to wonder where he got the right to hand down his de- cree. I've had a lovely hat of straw, that any queen might wear; the smoothest thing you ever saw, a hat beyond compare. I've had it for six weeks or more, it cost me many rocks, | and it has made my spirit sore to keep ASPARAGUS SOUP. |1t in 8 box. The weather has invited men to flash their Spring array, to | wander down the sunlit glen in bonnets bright and gay. I do not like my old felt hat, I'd wear my hat of straw: but some uncharted autocrat has handed down his law. I had to wait through April heat and far along in May, be- fore I dared wear on the street the hat that's buillt of hay. Had I the nerve of William Tell or Charlotte Corday's grit, I'd wear the hat that sults me_ well, though it should make . no hit. But I'm a rabbit, like the rest, obeying fool decrees, because I fear he idler’s jest, the aleck's painful wheege, If I should wear my new straw hat ere the appointed day, the jokers, with their wits so fat, would josh me on my way. Some humorist would doubtless smash the hat upon my dome, and I would have to spend the cash to take another home. I sit beside my garden gate, and wonder, while I mourn, who is the guy who sets the date when straw May be combined with chicken, mush- TeCmS Or pess. hats may be worn? WALT MASON. (Copyright, 1929.) - Women at the Rate of 10,000 Every Day than the average man. Heaven is the best proof of the fact that life Browning once said, “A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for.” reach beyond our grasp, to bite off more than we can chew. much we have we want more. Alexander then known ‘world he is said to have wept because worlds to _conquer. we shall be disappointed with heaven if we carry our human spirit along. 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