Evening Star Newspaper, July 21, 1929, Page 43

‘Vivid Hues Are Often Preferred in Costumes for Beach Wear A ONE-PIECE SWIMMING SUIT J5 WORN UNDER THE SLEEVE- LESS _SILK CREPE BATHIN FROCK, WITH A COAT OF PRINTED SILK MATELASSE. BY MARY MARSHALL. MERICAN women who could af- ford a long holiday—and who perhaps owned or rented a house, cottage or bungalow at some favorite spot far from town—used to be faced with the prob- lem of deciding whether this home from home should be at the mountains or at lake or seaside. A growing number of women don't decide it at all any more. The only thing thcy have to de- cide is whether they shall spend the last weeks of June and July in the mountains or hills and August and part of September at the shore, or whether they will start the season off with lake- side and surf bathing and arrange to have the more stimulating mountain climate later in the season. One advantage of choosing to spend August at the store is that in choosing your beach wardrobe you don't have to try to find out what is likely to be worn, you simply have to inquire what is being worn by the best best dressed women and then fall in line with the established mode. * Lakeside and seashore fashions are growing more and more Interesting. ‘The broad stretches of the beach offer an admirable place for carrying out one's ideas In smartness. The strong clear light of a cloudless day gives an ideal atmosphere for clear, strong, vivid colors, just as the softer light of a hazy day shows to perfection the charms of asiel tones. Women with a keen love for color and a sense of discrimination about the way they use it look forward to the weeks they spend at the shore with especial interest, There is a type of two-piece bathing | who costume that has been much favored in this country as well 8s abroad at smart watering places this Summer. It has been made with distinction by Lucien Lelong as well as other impor- tant French dressmakers, who have come to realize that in the wardrobe of well dressed women nowadays the bathing costume provides as good an opportunity for the display of a de- signer’s skill s an evening gown or atreet ensemble. This costume has been described as consisting of a foundation garment similar to a child’s romper with a skirt sewn on a little below the normal waist line. Both knickers and skirt are quite short. To wear with this is a collar- less coat that comes just to the knees. ‘The coat is worn over the shorter gar- ment when one wants to walk about the beach or lounge on the shore and looks to all intents and purposes like a conservative sort of street coat. Sometimes several colors are com- bined in the romper-skirt portion, with coat in solid color. Women of the older generation used to be content if they could be all dressed to perfection on occasions, but they didn't care how they looked between times. The idea with younger THE GIRL SHOWN IN THE BEACH CHAIR WEARS FULL, SHOR T PAJAMAS OF PRINTED SILK WITH A LOOSE WRAP IN SOLID COLOR. THE GIRL STANDING BEHIND HER WEARS BELGIAN BLUE LINEN BEACH PAJAMAS WITH RED AND WHITE POLKA DOT BLOUSE, WHILE THE GIRL DRYING HER HAIR WEARS STRIPED SILK PAJAMAS AND SASH OVER SWIMMING TIGHTS. SEATED ON S FOR A SUN BATH. THEY ARE WORN OVER SWIMMING TIGHTS, AND THE GIRL HOLDING A S, £ RIGHT D ATADieR o SEMBLE WORN BY THE FIGURE AT THE EXTREME LEFT CONSISTS OF A SLEEVELESS LIGHT BLUE AT THE RIGHT WEARS A DRESS OF PRIN > SPORTS DRESS WITH THREE-QUARTE! PARASOL SHANTUN FROCK SHOWN NEXT TO THE SlfNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JULY 21, 1929—PART 3. THIS IS OF STRIPED S| A GIRL WEARING RED AND WH ITE CHECKED GINGHAM ROMPE TED BATISTE WITH A JERSEY CAP. THE E! S COAT T O MATCH AND A BL K PIQUE IN BROWN AND WHITE. DR S N E AND BROWN SCARF. THE HAT IS BLUE WITH A BLUE AND BROWN RIBBON. women nowadays is to look attractive all_the time. ‘This, at least, is the opinion of an observing young girl of 18, who is firmly convinced that the girls now- adays take a much more segsible at- titude toward dress generally than did their mothers. Perhaps she rather exaggerates the difference, but there really is a ten- dency—don't you think?—to maintain 8 high standard of appearance all the time nowadays and not to be con- tent with merely looking smart and attractive on occasions. It was Anatole France, I think, who sald that it was more than a man should expect of a woman to look charming all the time. Hz should be content if now and then she seem- ed really beautiful. But the average man—brothers, husbands, fathers and flances—is not so reasonable as the great Franch writer. And most of them. the younger generation has found, rather prefer the sort of girl lways looks attractive and suit- to the girl who on oc- casions looks divine and the rest of the time slouches around in an out. of-date dress and hair in curl papers. Fashions and habits in hair-dressing clearly indicate the tendency among up-to-date women to look well all the time—and not just on occasions; and one of the things that make short hair remain in favor with many wom- en in spite of repeated shifts in the other direction is that short hair is so much easier to keep in presentable condition than long hafr. Perhaps there is an underlying dif- ference in attitude toward life in gen- eral in this ¢hanged or changing titude toward dress. Young women a generation ago rather expected that there would be uneventful days and long stupid hours-—to be got through somehow—in anticipation of specially planned good times. Good times now- adays come up in a much more im- promptu manner, and the young wom- an with a thoroughly up-to-date out. look on life tries to make every day's existence, at home, in school or col- lege, in the office or classroom, inter- esting and important enough to de- mand an attractive appearance. (Copyright. 1929.) Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Linked with every season are the seemingly inescapable features charac- teristic of it. If we rush to the seashore 1o keep cool we find ourselves and the children suffering from sunburn, due to our short-lived memory that one can be sunburned even if the sun hides under a cloud and the air is cool. If we go to picnics to escape the monotony of hot meals, we bring back a choice collection of mosquito bites with which to furnish activity for the next few days. A seemingly harmless week end in the country, with a change of food and water and an accompaniment of mental exhilaration may, for those susceptible, result in a crop of hideous and itching hives that terrify us into the conclusion that we have acquired some awful disease. Prickly heat (which for some un- known reason usually shows up on cool days) is a common ailnent of small children whose moth-rs can’t be con- vinced that they don’t need wool in order to protect them from Summer complaint or the disorders of teething. Obviously, one’s troubles are merely changed in type when one goes vaca- tioning. Accepting them as a Summer load, perhaps we may find ways in which the poor victim may be relieved. The presence of ampie sunlight is one of Summer’s assets until we try to get our entire Summer's supply in one day. A five-minute sun bath for the bnlgl or fifteen minutes for the adult in bathing suit, is quite enough for the first day, and the exposure should be so gradual thereafter that the skin is never red- dened and burned, but slowly darkened. ‘The browned skin has its own peculiar protection from the sun’s rays so that one may then gambol about without any danger of being burned. Oiling the skin first will lessen its tendency to burn, as most of the devotees to the brown skin have discovered. If an injudicious sun bath results in burning, this burn should be treated ex- actly as any other, the skin liberally covered with oll or lard, or cold cream or one of the medicated salves advised for burns. The extensive burn is a serious matter, whether suffered from the sun or any other producer of heat. Every wanderer in the woodland- or by sylvan lakes had best arm himself with a =ue of spirits of ammonia, or a bottle of diluted household ammonia and a bit of cotton for application when a warning sting proclaims the presence of mosquitos. Later the bite may be anointed with some salve to prevent itching, and menthol salves or carbolated vaseline are both effective for this purpose. Hlves':o Tesemble mosquito bites that one is often tempted to believe that he has been the victim of a bite. In 15 minutes, without previous warning, one may find a leg or arm covered with these large, red, hard lumps, with whit- ish tops. And how they do itch! If one looks back over the previous day's menu one may discover an indulgence in strawberries or shell fish, or pork chops, though none of these familiar villains may be at fault, and merely a general change in the dietary may be responsible. ‘Unless one is thoroughly familiar with the wheal, it is safer to let the doctor take a look at it and make the diagnosis certain. . If hives it is, a dose or two of milk of magnesia, or several doses of baking soda (one teaspoon in a cup of water) will cause them to disappear as hastily and mysteriously as they arrived. Plastering them with wet soda or rub- bing them frequently with alcohol will relieve the intense itching. Prickly heat is a certain indication that the child is dressed too warmly. ‘The areas favored by the rash (which feels prickly to the hand) are por- tions of the body which are kept warm- est—the forehead or back of neck under the hair, arm pits, under the knees and the back and stomach and chest. The reddened skin can be washed frequently with soda water, which can be allowed to dry on. Btarch makes a soothing powder for the rash and the quickest relief will come from removal of some of the superfluous clothing or the use of a lighter weight. All wool is taboo when the child has prickly heat, for its irritation merely aggravates the rash. White and Black Favored in Paris An American abroad comments on the different impression to be received from a smart evening assemblage in France and in England. In England the impression is one of pastel tones—with a predominance of soft blues at the present time. In France the impres- sion is one of mm-etmnrlege f"“}":{‘;‘, s significant number of :le‘l'lm women in black, & number in all white, and just at present enough all-green evening gowns to make this eo‘::lmdc::l‘:n& it young American makes is that among ‘Americans in Paris it is always easy to classify them either as_belonging the English type or the French, as far are always cert ericans m mcr‘lzzk‘yo(drmwmwulyhmn to | fixtur high House Book Is A Pleasant Record If you have a house you should have a house book. The fad began in England, where for many years the owners of some of the fine old houses kept these books as records of the events that took place. The house book should have record of all large or important parties held In your house, and, if you like, the signatures of guests of homor and of house guests—though those who enter- tain a great deal have a separate book for the signatures of all who pass a night under their roof. Photographs are used in some house books to record the happenings of the house. A snapshot of the front of the house after an unusually picturesque other way. Slipper Dyed Like Frock French shoemakers blazed the trail for the rest of the world in dyeing fabric shoes to match the gowns with which they were to be worn. Before that in order to have slippers of indi- vidual coloring it was necessary to go through the long and troublesome pro- cedure of having them made to order from the dress material, which was not always suitable for shoes. It was a de- cided step forward to dye the shoes after they had been made—but for some time it was still too expensive a propo- sition to be of much interest to the average woman. Now it is possible almost everywhere to have shoes dyed to order—not only at the expensive shoe shops, but at the shops that cater to the woman on & close-fitting dress allowance as well. It is possible now to get specially dyed snowstorm would give better record of |shoes in figured effest. The material the storm than would be possible in any | used is sometimes silk and cotton bro- cade, taking advantage of the fact that these two types of thread take the color in a somewhat different manner. Sometimes the brocade pattern is de- veloped in dull and lustrous effect, which shows up even after the slippers have been dyed. Then there are brocades with the pattern worked out in silver threads which are not affected at all by the dyeing process. At some of the shops it is possible to have white crepe silk slippers with binding of gold or silver kidskin dyed to order. Evidently the kid is as unsus- ceptible to the dye as the silver threads. Sometimes there are futuristic patches of metal-dyed kidskin on the quarter rmd vamp of the slipper that is to be yed. =9 ‘The number of Bibles issued last year by the Bible Society reached the amaz- ing figure of 11,399.540—nearly 1,500,- 000 more than the previous year. There’s a Way to Clean Anything If you have a pair of gray suede shoes that have become solled, a little per- manganate of potash dissolved in wa- ter and applied to the shoes will turn them a beautiful shade of brown, mak- ing them look like new. When difficulty is experienced in cleaning a milk bottle into which a cloth cannot pass, add & handful of sand to the water and shake well. Rinse with clean water and place the bottle neck downward to dry. One teaspoon of salt to a pint of water makes an excellent strengthen- ing and antiseptic gargle. If you are tired, you will find that salt your bath is a good tonic, and if your feet are tired, soak them in salt and .water. There is nothing like a bicycle pump for removing dust from nooks and crannies where it may lurk in spite of dustcloth and brush. Old stockings make the best floor polishers you can have. BY BETSY COLLISTER. NE of the surprising things about the modernistic type of furniture is that, though the various chairs, table, divans and so forth give the appear- ance of good size and substantiality, their effect in the small city apartment is to make the rooms seem larger than they would appear furnished in the usual hit-or-miss fashion. This at least applies to the better sort of mod- ernistic furniture, which is extremely simple in outline and design. In fact, one of the aims in mind with many modern furniture designers has been to make things that would give this effect of spaciousness—and in the decorations used as a background for this type of furniture the same effort has been made to eliminate trivial details and confu- sion so that the effect of space and size ‘would be produced. In fact, these modernistic pieces of furniture are not particularly large. The actual floor space taken is not great and they are often so designed that one plece will take the place of two, or two pleces serve for or four—as is the case with divans with ends that give space to books and other accessories of the living room. It is not, however, necessary to fur- nish your rooms in modernistic man- ner to produce this effect of spacious- ness. The most important things to avoid in small rooms are overcrowding and complicated background. And don’t, just because the room is small, use obviously small farniture, which will make those who enter the room look and feel out of proportion. Choose chairs, tables, stands, etc., that occupy no more floor space than possible but that stiil have the effect of roominess when used. Avold the large type of upholstered chairs and divans that look as if they were intended for club lounges and hotel lobbies. Don’t crowd the room with additional tables and chairs just because you have them. ~ A folding card table or two and some folding chairs that may be stowed away in a closet or passage are useful. If the ceiling of your room is rather low then there should be no contrast between ceiling and side wall decora- tion. If the ceiling is too high for the size of the room then a band of some sort may be placed 18 inches or so from the ceiling and the space above this band may be given the same tone as the ceiling while the walls below are a slightly darker tone of the same color. The small room should aways have a fairly light, inconspicuous wall paper. A dark or striking paper or wall tone has a way of advancing taward you. Patterned wall papers are always to be avoided in small rooms. In the small room a triangular cab- inet may be placed in one corner to advantagé. Rather low furniture has the effect of giving an effect of spaciousness and, now that low chairs and divans are in favor anyway, you should select tables, chairs, divans, etc., that are not at all high. Round tables are better chosen .than those with angles. If your ceiling is low then be sure to have the window drapery quite sim- ple. In the living room the overdrapery should extend right down to the floor. Much can be done through the ar- rangement of light to make your room appear spacious. Center chandeliers are devasta in a small room. Best effects are obf mu;sye against the shades of a flat sort o in the room. The lamps to be used for reading and to give an intimate sort of light should, however, be placed quite manner seems to come as second nature. low. Mirrors obviously Increase the size of Flat-Tones Walls Are Tlie Griswrold Spacious g T T L T T (LTINS (I ¢ ( (AT El @0 ‘1.umul\\fl||“m HERE IS A GROUP OF INTERESTING FURNITURE CHOSEN AND ARRANGED TO GIVE AN IMPRESSION OF SIZE TO A SMALL ROOM. a small room. Don't overdo the matter by making your room look like a mil- liner’s showroom. A mirror in a sim- ple frame is the best thing to use over the mantelpiece. Often a simple, fairly long mirror placed on the wall directly op] much to a) pearance of the room and gives & desir~ able first impression of roominess, e from the cramped ite the entrance door does 11 'HE SUN BATHER THERE PRINTED COTTON OVER- S WITH A COAT TO MATCH. THE SLEEVELESS SPORTS Delicious S;l;lci—~ For Your Lunch Six large open peaches, raw or canned; one-half cup cream cheese, one-~ half cup mayonnaise dressing, one-half cup celery cut in thin strips about one inch long, one-quarter cup of shred- ded green pepper, lettuce leaves, two tablespoons cream. Pare and cut peaches in halves. Place peaches on a bed of the chop- ped celery and pepper. Mash cheese and combine with mayonnaise and two tablespoons of cream. Put mixture into a pastry bag and fill the hollows of peaches, leaving a rose on top, or fill carefully with a spoon. Serve with mayonnaise. BY MISSIS PHYLLIS. Hot days are here. Dog days are coming. Six o'clock and time for the | man of the house to come home. You know how hot he is going to be, but what are you going to do about it? What can a woman do to make her husband feel cool and comfortable and unutterably happy as soon as he steps into his own house? Well, there are several things. you run to meet your husband, don’t carry that hot, kitcheny, worried look that you simply can’t help don- ning at times. Wash your hands in cool water and bathe and powder your face before he comes. You may not realize the difference it will make to nim to see a nose free from per- spiration and feel a hand that isn't feverish or moist. ‘Then wear cool-looking clothes. Wear white if you have it and white shoes and stockings. But whether it is white or green or pink, let it be 1 lookin, cool 8. Then about the children, supposing that th&;ter:l’e !u:‘hA Evenhfl 1tpmellu some e: work, get them freshl dressed and washed for dinner. I{ will make you and your husband both feel better and it will make the chil- dren more comfortable and thus better behaved. Now about food. Of course, your husband is hungry. But he is also hot and tired. That means that he isn't in condition to enjoy the dinner you have ready. So on hot days don't serve dinner immediately. Have ready .t b;:nc&c; g]{mlkee' hl:énonndm Or any other ur famil i ticularly likes. i i And always have a little something to eat with the drink. Nothing much. You don't want to spoil his dinner, remember. Have some plain crackers. Or some cheese tidbits. Or a few thin slices of bread, buttered. Or some small, uniced cakes. Or some plain cookies, not too sweet. Six O’Clock on a Hot Day drunk a bit, he will feel so refreshed that he will probably want to take time to get ready for dinner—chafige into cooler, fresh clothes. So you are going to have plenty of time to get dinner. Have it as least an hour after this little tea party so he will have his appetite back. And what for dinner? Well, nothing heavy like a roast. Nothing that re- quires long cooking, like a stew. You don't want to heat your housc all up by having the oven or the burners going all day. If the members of vour family are good salad eaters you are fortunate because there is nothing that so hits the spot on a hot day as & good, cold salad. Fish salads have plenty of body and may well be the main course—tuna fish, salmon or lefi-over fish such as white fish, halibut or fillets of haddock or sole. These all combine with celery, peas, pickles and olives to make a reg= ular dinner. A vegetable salad, - using tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers, Taw Carrois, cabbage and radishes, is fine at this time of year. Fruit salads are good now, but may not be quite filling enough to satisfy the family for the main dish. Chicken and sweetbreads are uncommonly good, of course, in main dish salads. But if your family is one of those that have to be urged to eat salad, have cold meat and creamed potatoss, perhaps. Or have potato chips heated quickly in the oven. Or some sort of meat that can be quickly broiled— chops or steak. For dessert have something cool but filling, especially if you have encouraged light eating in the be; ing of the meal. A fresh fruit pie with ice cream will ‘bring a smile to the most tired of the faces. Fresh fruit cobblers ave just the thing now when there are so many fruits and berries on the market. Fresh fruit shortcakes are also in order. Homemade ics cream or sherbet with a generous slice of homemade cake i By the time he has eaten a bit and BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON It's high time that “self-expression” be_disting ed from “license.” There distinct difference, as’ we know, between liberty and license. There is the same difference between self-expresson and license in child training. Liberty in government means free- dom under law—moral, social and poltical law. License knows no law and does not respect the rights of otners. The same code is applicable to our junior generation. Self-expression is freedom, but freedom under law—home law—which represents the three ethical ones of his elders. Any liberty that in- fringes on laws, or disturbs the rights of others, outside or inside the is license. And license has no The most rabid certain pair of parents toward a pair of little girls recently with increasing interest. These parents are backed up by an equally complacent grandmother. No one outside the family so far has had the necessary nerve to point out to them the folly of their child training methods. And the parents are going serenely on ruining the children. “Spoil- ing” 1s too mild a word. They talk quite happily about self- expression. children are going to grow up without any inhibitions or any complexes whatsoever! They may g0 -withersoever the spirit leads them, and do whatsoever they may wish, and some day they will be full of self-con- fidence and sweetness and health. No nerves, no terrible fear complex, no— well, “no nothing”! Never a word about “must” or “mustn’t,” never a hint about obedience, not a mention of the rights of other people. Never a word about duty. Already the two children are so self- confident and uninhibited and unpro- hibited, that every one who comes in contact with them declares that they're the world’s worst nuisances. One day their mother gave a party. Ano,dx what an enjoyable affair it was— nof Both children were t and held their precious wrist ite but persisten e of which adorned pearl chains, a d?en the small neck of the eight-year-old, and tried to keep their tempers and tongues under control at the same time. welcome enough on a hot evening. Tolerance With Child young athletic college girl cornered her and managed to relieve her of her bor- rowed ornaments. The child raged at the top of her voice until another guest guieted her by offering her necklace for inspection. ‘The mother looked benignly on and smiled as though it were a good joke. But every woman there could have smacked that child with pleasure. ‘When psychologists talk of self-ex- préssion in child training, kind friends, belfeve me this isn't it. Three Tempting Summer Pies Currant Pie—Pick over and wash about one pint of currants. Put on the stove with a little water, not quite enough to cover. Stew until very clear, then add a heaping cup of sugar and cook until it thickens like stewed cra: berries. Let cool, add teaspoou of va- nilla. Bake in a crust with strips ef crusts across like checker board. Peach Pie—Prepare a crust that is really a sort of biscult crust by cutting half a cup of butter or other shortening into one and one-half cups of flour sifted with two teaspoons of baking powder, a pinch of salt and a quarter of a cup of sugar. Then add as little milk as possible to make a soft dough. Roll out in a sheet and with it line a deep pie pan. Fill with sliced peaches, sweeten well and cover with sweet or sour cream. Cover with an upper crust and bake in a moderate oven. Plum Pie—To make a delicious plum ple, cook rich ple crust in a deep pie. plate. Cover it with a piece of waxed paper, filled with beans; until it is brown. Then fill it with whole plums, from which the pits have been removed. Lay them closely together. Sprinkle them with sugar and bake until the fruit is tender, Make & little sirup with equal parts of sugar and water in which three or four ripe plums are boiled rapidly. Strain this sirup over the pie just before serving it. Mirror ‘Opposite Door Gives Space If you want to make a small ltving rmm.uwrdlnl.n(rom:-lloaknlnten le, arrange & mirror—ea tall one, possil on the wall just opposite the entrance door. The first impression of a room i8 the lasting one, and this mirror, placed where it length- ens the vista as one enters the room, child ducked and squirmed and finaly shouted with rue£ when one successfully hides the fact that the wall may be no more than 8 or 10 feet away,