Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1929, Page 49

‘THESE BEACH PAJAMAS OF WHI GREEN TO MATCH THE JACKE HAT IS TRIMMED WITH RIBBON BY MARY MARSHALL. HERE is no age limit to sports clothes. Like bobbed hair, sports clothes ‘were once considered appropriate only to the younger woman, but | time has shown that the sports type of | day dress, like short hair, ma lgpropnnte to the woman of the girl of 16. To some extent the answer to the question whether or not to adopt the sports type of dress for general daytime wear should dépend on type. Still there. sre sports clothes that are becoming to almost any type. There are some women to whom sports things are'so eminently suitable that they ought to 'fi:sr them whenever the occasion per- mits. These generalizations, of course, have reference to the sort of sports frocks, wraps, hats and accessories that, for Jack of a better term. we call spectator sports things. And this season the line between these clothes and those that one wears for actual tennis, golf, riding, etc., is very eclearly drawn. be as s to ITE ARE TRIMMED WITH LIGHT T. THE LARGE STRAW BEACH IN TWO CONTRASTING SHAD! appropriately wear on the tennis court or golf course. clothes have become more higl specialized, simpler, more definitely made for the sport for which they were designed, and the other sort of sports clothes have become more generally wearable, more becoming, more feminine. In the spirit of this new definite line between active and semi-sportswea: are the new double purpose sports ene sembles which make it possible for the | tennis player to go straight from the tennis court to everyday activities with out actuslly changing her dress. One of these ensembles consists of sleeveless blouse and trunk of printed cotton material for the court, over which can quickly be sdded a white ue skirt and jacket. The flat-heeled shoes are also changed—pre. sumably in the locker room—for higher. | heeled sports shoes, since this season | the flat-heeled type of sports shoe is not considered appropriate save for active sports. Another rapid change may be made by adding a short, straight velvet You may wear spectator sports clothes almost anywhere in the daytime all through the warm weather for luncheon and even tea in town. There are sports ensembles of light colored or figured silk that one might ap- propriately wear to a Summer after- noon wedding or a garden party. But they are quite different in general plan and in detail from the things you may Jjacket to a low-backed sleeveless tennis dress of washable white satin. A straw | hat with a drooping brim is substi- tuted for the bandeau or eye shade worn on the court, short sports socks and sneakers are changed for higher- heeled oxfords. A ’'kerchief of dotted | silk is knotted round the neck, and the | erstwhile tennis costume is made suit- | able for street or motor wear. (Copyright, 1929.) Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. ‘The mother’s determination to breast- feed the small baby at uxLeon is an admirable one, and takes into account that baby deserves the best and that one cannot ignore statistics, which as- gert that four bottle-fed bables die the first year for every breast-fed one. It is dificult in this particular respect to ungre\'e upon nature. u | only an ounce of diluted milk to satisty baby, though slightly more than this can be offered and baby's own appetite |may dictate what he will take. The ‘frequem reason for the complementary | bottles the first three weeks lies in the | common situation which arises in all | households after the mother 18 up and about and attending to the baby and THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. Clothes Determines Suitability Storms end Farms. 'HE long series of storms, frosts and snows reported in various parts of the country is having a bad effect on the farming situstion, the Bureau of Agricultureal Economics indicates in a report. After a fairly promising start, conditions have been unfavorable. In fruit, & reduction of one-fourth to one-half below last year's crops seems likely, while in the case of most vege- tables, the ground has been too wet to | start planting on time. Only wheat seems to have found conditions good, the storing of vast quantities of moist- ure in the soil proving highly bene- Gettin BY BETSY CALLISTER. | E make all sorts of excuses | for not writing the letters we feel that we should write, | but we seldom mention th most _important res- son—that we don't know precisely how the letter ought to be written or that we haven't the right sort of letter paper. Every gir], I think, ought to have definite instruction in tI important matter of writing letters, not only busi- ness letters but social and personzl let- ters as well. If such training were ?Ifi | of the curriculum of all school, irstead | |of just & few, there would be far fewer | unaiswered letters to make excuses| | mbout. | Older women who feel that their let- ters leave much to be desired may eas- | |4ir enough set out to improve tne st; le {and form of their letters. The cholce | of stationery is tremendously impar- tant. You should change the tin. and etyle of your letter paper seldom, ané, | then only after serious thought. ' I Just because some friend has given| you a box of strawberry-colored paper with violet-lined envelopes is no reeson why you should use them, save possibly in writing letters to that particular friend. Besides, if you have a definite | gtyle of note paper which you habitu- allv use, no one will give you freak paper as a present. | Don't imagine that it is necessary to use expensive paper. It is possible to find reasonably priced stationery that conveys the best of taste and breeding: |also possible to find expensive paper | that is atrocious. | Colored lining appears in many of the new envelopes. Plaided white pa- | | per is made with envelopes lined in | mauve, pale green, blue or gray. | | There are many effective ways of |using one’s {nitials or monogram. A/ t between the firm conviction and |sometimes to the household duties as|wood cut of the initials is one of the! determination that baby must and will be breast fed and the ability to nurse a baby successfully from the standpoint of the baby there is often a deplorable chasm. The young mother may be only too willing to nurse the baby, but she can't shut her ears to his hungry wails, nor her eyes to the figures of the scale which refuse stubbornly to move upward. No one blames the mother faced with such a situation to decide | nurse the bady successfully for several en discovers that after | to wean the baby and let some magical formula end her misery and the baby's. Before this drastic step is taken there 15 a between step that may solve the difficulty—the complementary bottle. ‘These bottles of diluted cows’ milk are given v after a nursing, and make up the deficiencies of the breast feed- ing. There is not the slightest danger in giving both mother's milk and cows’ milk at the came time, for it is done constantly. We are answering this ar- gument before it is launched, knowing that it still o~casionally rears its head. The advantages of such feedings are twofold. The baby does not suffer from undernourishment, and, secondly, he gots the benefit of whatever supply of breast milk there is. Once the baby is sotisfied and begins to gain and slee well. the mother's anxiety is also al- Javed, and the combination of a happy baby and regular stimulations of i breast is often all that is necessary to 50 increase the supply of breast milk that baby no longer demands a bottle in order to be satisfied. As a proof that this really does hap- pen we are copying a letter which was sent to this department, and which says what most letters of this type continually assert: “The baby screamed day and night for the first month, and we were in de- spafr. and drank quarts of milk and nursed him regularly, hoping against hope. I was persuaded to try complementary hottle after each nursing. and the babhy began sleeping and gaining and was as good as gold. months old I was able to drop the bot- tles entirely, and now at 7 months I am still nursing him successfully.” ‘When the gain is very poor the first weeks it seems advisable to give a | complementary feeding after each jczular nursing reriod. One may need e I was 80 anxious to nurse him | By the time he was 4| |well. The supply of milk which has | been so lde?\ll'»e when in bed seems to | |leave her, If the baby can be helped | through these few weeks and its in- | adequate nourishment made up by bot- |tle, "the mother's increasing strength | and famillarity with this wee new indi- | vidual should end the necessity for | bottles, | Perhaps the mother has been able to | weeks and | some particular nursing period, usually the last one in the day, the baby whines and frets until the next period. 1If this | comes at the 2 or 6 o'clock p.m. nursing the mother may be warned that her full day of activity is having its effect on the supply of milk and that baby | would be happler if this scanty nursing were made more satisfying by the addi- | tion of a hottle. Just as much care must be expended upon these small feedings as if all of baby’s nutrition were dependent upon them. The milk should be grade obtainable and during the Sum- digestion, it is advisable to boil the milk for three minutes before measuring it and adding the water and sugar to it. | Bottles and nipples demand the same | attention for a 2-ounce feeding as an 8-ounce one. For upon the cleanli- ness of the milk, bottles and nipples | and the care we expend upon a formula | depend entirely the successfulness of complementary feedings. Garden Kit Makes It Easy To Weed To make the task of weeding the garden most attractive be sure and get one of the new kneeling cushions, cov- ered with woven raffia. A garden en- | thustast says that the first thing to do |15 to have the right kind of weeding | tools at hand. This should include | “an_old kitchen knife, a trowel, a garden fork an old table fork.” With the last-named instrument all the very small weeds should be re- moved. Many persons use their fingars for these Mn{ growths, but the old table fork make: of it and saves the finger nails, the best | mer months. and for greater ease of | s & more thorough job | Z newest and smartest things, Cut-out initials, too, are in good style. And/ sometimes a small picture is made in wood-cut style. Wote paper comes in sets, sometimes in several sizes, with correspondence | cards to match, too. Small sheets that just glir, unfolded, into their envelopes| | arc enother attractive detail of the new note paper. (Copyright, Light-Weight Materials Vary A wide variety of light-weight cotton | materials is used this n for both women's and children’s dresses, and | s, batistes and other cotton s are now the peers of silk crepes and chiffons y of these cotton materials are simply woven and depend for individu- ality on their degree of fineness and the way in which they are finished. | Cambric, longcloth, nainsook, muslin, batiste are of this class. | Muslin is a firmly woven eotton ma- terial, stronger and heavier than long- cloth. Longeloth m: be described as a light-weight musiin free from dressing —and therefore well adapted to hand sewing. | Nainsook is lighter than longcloth and more highly finished. It is some- times spoken of as a coarse batiste. Batiste differs from nainsook chiefly in its greater fineness. Cambric differ: m nainsook largely in being more <ly woven and is usually quite soft in finish, | Organdy is plainly woven cotton ma- torial, characterized by its fineness and coarse weave, which give it a crisp, transparent appearance. Cotton volle is usually plainly woven, is of fairly coars> weatc end soft. It is usually made from two-ply threads firmly twisted tton broadcloth differs from these rials in having a twill weave. singham may be of plain or fancy weave, and the better sorts are closely woven of firm, fairly fine threads. ephyr ginghams are especially light land fine and of silky softness. 1929) MAY 19 [E VERSATILE TENNIS E MBLE SHOWN AT THE LEFT CON. STS OF A SLEEVEL NTE! TO TENNI A BLOUSE OF PRINTED COTTON STITCHED NNIS TRUNKS, WHI MAY BE WORN WITH A WHITE PIQUE SKIRT AND JACKET OFF THE TENNIS COURT. THE WASHABLE WHITE SATIN TENNJS DRESS SHOWN AT THE RIGHT IS CUT IN A DEEP V AT THE BACK AND IS WORN OFF THE COURT WITH A PASTEL.COLORED VELVET JACKET, DOTTED SILK SCARF AND NATURAL-COLORED STRAW HAT, or Hat Materials Gain. ESPITE the apparent increase in the number of hatless youths seen on the streets these days, the demand for materials for men's hats and eaps is on the upgrade. The production dur- | ing 1927 of the various components of | nats and caps, such as fur, visors, sweathands and so on, reached a total of $23,339,341, an increase of 89 per | cent over 1925, the latest prior eensus | of the Department of Commerce. ! | Storekeepers of Havan: 1 to be discarding species of snakes are reported b of certain ‘mousers.” g the Right Sort of Paper (N7 I 15 Wearer | BLACK AND WHITE CHECKED GINGHAM AND GREEN CREPE DE CHINE TRIM THE WHITE CREPE DE CHINE SCARF SHOWN AT THE LEFT. IT IS WORN WITH A BAG OF BLACK AND WHITE CHECKED GINGHAM AND SUEDE SPORT GAUNTLET SLIT AT THE BACK. THE SCARF SHOWN BELOW SUITABLE FOR SEMI SPORTSWEAR IS MADE OF RED AND BEIGE STRIPED SILK, ‘WHICH IS ALSO USED FOR THE ACCOMPANYING BAG. Sports Costume Details The short sports socks. form for semi-sports wear. choice. Some tennis pl with white tw re. Ornaments in silver, gold n! pew, rather showing jade, op;’tllus stones. i owers are groun: trimmings. There are lovely new Sum- mer hats that are reminiscent of the Do you know the pedigrees of these usual vegetables? hite potatoes are native to Chile, Peru and Mexico, and were introduced to Europe in the six‘eenth century. Asparagus is native in many parts of Europe, and was prized as food by the eariy Romans. Beets were valued as food in Euro for 2,000 years. ouced in this countrs Cabbage in wild forms is found in many parts of Europe. It was probably first used as food by early Germans, Rome at an early date, cahbage, first grown in Italy. Carrots have been common all over Furope and Western Asia for 2,000 years. Onijons were probably first found in countries surrounding Mediterranean Bea. They were worshiped in Egyp and introduced by Druids into England. Parsnips have been cultivated in Eu- rope since the time of the Romans. Rhubarb is native of the country around the Volga River. | used in England in 1573, Sweet potatoes are native to trepieal America, and were introduced in Eu- 1cpe before white potatoes. There is comparatively no danger | from eating fish that is known to be | fresh, It is only stale fish or fish that | has been held in cold storage and then | thawed out that contains ptomaines |or other injurious substances. ~Make sure that your fish is fresh and then you may be sure that the food is whole- some, Even taking into consideration the remote possibility of poisoning from eating fish, there is probably no more hazard in eating fish than in any other foods—milk, meats, canned goods, over-ripe fruit. Most fish contains very little fat and hence it is usually permitted in re- ducing diets. Fish is not usually permitted to young children by specialists in child dietetics. One child specialist of note especially forbids cod. mackerel and halibut to children under 10. ‘When you buy or order fish allow a half pound for each person if you are serving_the fish as the mainstay of a meal. If you are s*rving it for a single course “.g.o'u mut half that lm;‘unb— s q per person. are going to have m«n\ah then llm ané fillet for each person for & course, HERE ARE SOME OF THE NEW. #EST THINGS IN NOTE PAPER. THE MOIRE PAPER AT THE UP- | PER LEFT SHOWS HOW SOME PAPERS COME IN THREE SIZES. With the seml-sports ensemble you | may wear jewelry—a ring, a bracelet or simple pull-on sort or possibly the a choker necklace, or even earrings | or two buttined t it must be distinctly cf the sperts | tiimming or ornamental cuffs. , eopper or other metallic tones ‘wome! are well chosen. and so are many of the | who combine high-heeled shoes with boldly designed ~ things | the semi-sports tvpe of dress, but the cornelian and other | tendency this season is to choose shaes d as hat pe They were early intro- but was in common use in Greece and Caulifiower is a cultivated form of All Selected With Care Every accessory of the all-around |gcod old days when a hat looked in- sports costume must be chosen With | complete if it didn't boast of flowers or 51“:’:1 :rm with definite reference to the | feathers of some sort. But the woman of sure taste in dress hats appropriate | knows that thess new, more arnate for active sports, are no longer in good [ are mot appropriate for sporta elothes, Sun-tan | even sports clothes of the semi or spec- stockings of silk or fine lisle are the beat | tator sort. ayers choose | with the more elaborate sort of after- white lisle stockings for court wear in | noon or garden party type of dress. Or order to keep the enscmble entirely|if she must wear s flower an her hat white, but white stockings have so far in the morning she wears it with a found no favor for general wear, even simple cotton frock of the picturesque She saves them to wear i rather than the sports Gloves of the sports re. .o:;t must be the one sort made flumx; | shoes ought tn be as carefully selected. To be sure, there will still be n | with straight heels of medium heighte— | of the oxford or simple strap variety, Fancy shoe buckles are certainly out of ! keeping. Vegetables’ Pedigrees | _ Turnips are native te !.uxon. and were cul Greeks from early times | . Celery is native to the marshes in many parts of Europe. Ccmmonly eaten | in this country l2ss than 100 years. | Lettuce is native to India or Cene | tral Asia, and was introduced to Enge land from Flanders in 1520. Radiches were native to India. They {are now valued in all parts of Europe and the United States. | Beans in some form or other have ‘wn cultivated and used for ever so long that it ™ impossible t> determine ilhl land of their origin. In China, Ine | dia, Northern- Africa and various sec~ | tions of Burope they have long been an | important food, and there is reason to | believe that a variety of beans was cul- | tivated by the Indians before the com- of the white man. most parts of vated by the [ t, | eas were cultivated and prized by the ancient Greeks and Romans The, | were introduced into England, an thence to this country from Holland 300 years ago. It was first| Peanuts are .of tropical American origin. There is some reason to believe |that s varisty of peanuts wers natives of Africa, thoueh they may have been | derived from the New World. Fish Must Be Fresh ;er:wmnumemumm course. | It s not dicult to fry fish if you 2 about it in the right way, and cer- inly to any one wha likes fish at all a crisp, well fried fish with tartare sauce is & delicious dish. Remember that you should have good, | clear fat and enough of it in a pan large_enough but not too . Have the fish well cleaned and thoroughly dry before beginning. If the flour looks pasty on the fish then you have not dried it suficlently. Having floured the | fish shake off ary euperfiuous flour. | Have an egg_well beaten on & plate | and dip the floured fish into it. Now have ready a plate in which is a mix- ture of fine, dry breadcrumbs, mixed | with = little salt and pepper. Take the fish fresh from the egg and dip into the bread crumbs. The fish should then be Zl.lc.d in the hot fat, preferably in & frying | basket. Fry to a golden brown and {drain on white paper before serving. Construction of the $300,000 theater ‘:g Colon, Panama, has just been