Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1929, Page 38

WOMA Frills and Flounces in New Clothes BY MARY All sorts of intricate manipulations of ‘material appear in the new clothes de- signed for Autumn wear—{rills, flounces, shirs, puckerings, godets, ripples. The important thing is that these devices HERINE A «u\ \ | THE SKETCH ABOVE AT THE RIGHT SHOWS THE NEW PLEATED PEP- LUM SEEN IN MANY OF THE NEW DRESSES. THE SKIRT BELOW SHOWS COMBINATION OF POINT- ED YOKE AND PLEATING, AND THE ONE ON THE LEFT A NEW TIERED ARRANGEMENT OF PLEATS. shall impart the desired note of femin- inity without actually giving the effect of fussiness. The word ‘“pretty” has been applied to the new clothes. Those who have seen hundreds of the impor- tant new dresses in Paris will assure you The Sidewalks BY THORNTON FISHER. By special requ:st,"we print another page from a “house organ.” Names obviously have been changed. * ok ok ok Mr. Short, our genial supérintendent, has returned to his duties after an en- Joyable vacation spent in the Adiron- dacks with Mrs. Short and two children. He reports a fine time had by all. * k% Miss May Mears and Miss Annie Flack have return- ed from a vacation spent at Atlantic City. Both girls have remained silent and have blushed when asked if they vamped the boys on the board- walk. * K K % Bert Grimm, our jovial time- clock “boss, toured through Indiana in his motor _cycle. Bert says the roads are excellent. He visited his mother and father while away. BOTH GIRLS HAVE. REMAINED SRENT: * ok ok X The business office is sorry to lose Fred Stern, who has been with us for five years. Fred is casting his fortunes with another company in the East. ‘While we will all miss his smiling face, he has our best wishes for success in his new field. Our loss is some one else’s gain. Good luck, Fred. e Mr. and Mrs. Johnson are the proud | parents of a little son, born last month. * Mrs. Johnson was Miss Adelaide Cassoway, who once worked in the file department. . . F Miss Vera Mills of the 'stenographic department has returned from a trip to Connecticut. She is wearing a dia- mond ring on her finger. Who is the lucky feliow, Vera? * x K % Mr. Buck, our genial president, spent | the Summer traveling abroad. Among the cities visited were London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Milan and Munich. Mr. Buck sa; “Europe may be all right, but give me the little old U. S. A. every time.” Welcome home, Mr. Buck. * oK oK X Every one, especially the older em- ployes, will remember Miss Nellie Lang, who at one time worked in the claim department. Miss Lang, now Mrs, Ber- MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Baked Apples. Wheat Cereal with Cream. Fish Croquette. Egg Sauce. Hot Corn Cake. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Clam Chowder. Pineapple Salad. Nut_Cookies. Tea. DINNER. Cream of Potato Soup. Broiled Swordfish. Tartare Sauce. French Fried Potatoes. Escalloped Corn. Beet, Salad. French Dressing. Cornstarch Pudding. Fruit Sauce. Coffee. FISH CROQUETTES. One pint cold boiled fish, free from skin and bone, minced fine with one pint hot mashed pota- toes, one tablespoonful of but- ter, one-half cup hot milk, one egg well beaten, pepper and salt and little chopped parsley; mix thoroughly and let cool: when cold make into balls, dip into beaten egg, roll in bread crumbs and fry in hot fat, or just roll them in flour when eggs are ex- pensive. Egg sauce—Add two hard-boiled eges cut in thin slices to white sauce. CLAM CHOWDER. Cut one-fourth pound clear fat pork in one-half-inch squares. Fry out slowly, strain, throw away scraps; then take two good sized onions cup up small and fry brown in pork fat without burning. Cut up three cups of potatoes and boil. Take one guart of opened clams, cut off black ends of clams (throw away); cut the balance of clam leaving only the soft part whole. When pota- toes are cooked add to clams, clam water and three-fourths cup hot water. Let boil a few min- utes (as cooking clams too lons makes them tough), then ad onion and fried-out fat pork and one quart of hot milk. Season with salt and pepper. Take com- mon crackers, butter them, and add to chowder. Serve at once. Add more onion if you chocse. CORNSTARCH PUDDING. Four level tablespoons of corn= \starch, four eggs, one quart of milk; sweeten and flavor to taste. Sauce: Beat one cugl sugar and one egg until very light, then add juice of one lemon and a little of m(edrellovl rind grated, if it is ed. N'S PAGE. THE EVENING SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY ¥, CORY. MARSHALL. that not for years have dresses been so flattering. Decidedly the tide has turned, and it has turned in the direction of greater | femininity, to use a term that has al- ready become rather trite, but that con- veys the new note better than anything else. More closely molded bodices, higher STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. waist lines, longer skirts, are no longer mere possibilities. They are actual facts which must be faced this Autumn and Winter by every woman who cares to follow fashion. That advantages are to be gained by this change in the current |of fashion no one who sees the new | clothes can gainsay. They are harder to wear because they are more intricate. but easer to wear because they are morc | | generally becoming. |” One thing that is apparent to the I new fashions is that there will be more | ;mnrked differentiation between the dif- ferent types of clothes than there has been for some time. Sports clothes will be worn just long enough to cover the | bend of the knee. Street clothes and | simple_daytime things will be 3 inches | below the knee, with longer dresses for | afternoon, and evening clothes that | swathe the ankles or actually trail on | the floor. | This week's circular gives pattern for | a child’s cloth or velvet hat made in six sections sewed together. If you would like & copy, please send a stamped, self- addressed_envelope to Mary Marshall, | care of this paper, and it will be for- { warded to you at once. | (Copyright, 1929.) | e | Tomato Catsup. 1t will shorten the process very much when making tomato catsup to pour the tomatoes, when thoroughly cooked, into a sieve and let them stand until | the water is all drained off. Throw the water away and rub the pulp | through the sieve. All that remains to be done is to season, bring to the boil- | ing point and bottle, This 15 much less | tedious than the old way of boiling the | water out and is also an economy o fuel. of Washington ) tram King, visited her old friends at | the office recently and. expressed delight at the new furniture which has been | installed. X xx | Katherine Day, the office vamp, has been seen recently riding with a strange young man. They were seen at Ridg- ley’s Beach. It looks as if there might be a vacancy shortly in the voucher department. How about it, Katherine? * ok % ‘The office friends will be glad to know that Joe Burney, the genial ship- ping clerk, is recovering from a severe | lliness. The boys in his department visited him the other day and sere- naded him. We hope to see Joe's smiling face and hear his jokes socn. * KX K x ‘The first_meeting of the newly or- | ganized gle® club will be held next Tuesday night in the front office. The director would like all those who can sing or play, or think they can—ha, ha—to report. Judging from the amount of whistling around the offices, we should be able to provide sufficient talent to have a sizable turnout. See | Mr. Curtis after 5 o'clock. | R i Next week Mr. Harris of the mailing | room will celebrate | his twenty - fifth | year with the com- | pany. All em-| ployes are request- | ed to meet in Mr. Buck’s office Wed- nesday, to be pres- | ent when Mr. (S| Harris receives his | gift of apprecia- | g tion. Note—All those who have | | not contributed to | the present will | please hand in| their assessment to | Mr. Beaver, the | treasurer of the | fund. | * ok k% | ‘We are all proud of the company's base ball team. Starting the season with poor luck, the boys have man- aged to reach third place in the city's commercial league. Ben Davis, the captain and manager, deserves great | credit for the success of the club. He says: “The illness of Jack Wilson, our old reliable pitcher, prevented us from winning the championship, but just watch us next year.” Good boy, Ben. * ok ok K Miss Nettie White, who has been in | the business office for 10 years, is leav- | ing with her brother and sister-in-law for California, where she will live in the future. We all wish Nettie the best of luck and hope she will not for- get her old friends in the company. SUB ROSA BY MIML Burning the Candle. The electric light couldn't shine un- | | less the current came in at one end | and out at the other. We burn the current at both ends and might do the same with the candle if we used such an old-fashioned method of lighting. It seems that some things work better when there are two kinds' of activity going on at the same time.. People go insane oftener from monotony than from excitement. In the small town and on the farm there used to be quite a lot of this mania from monotony, but the telephone and radio are saving us from the asylum. You burn your candle at both ends | when you indulge in work and play in | alternation, like those alternating cur- rents of electricity. Those who are en- g3ging in an excess of work can be saved by a judicious amount of play, while those who lead lives of leisure with its pleasurable diversions need a certain amount of good, hard work. It is a good thing to have the play- | ground with the school. It is wise when ; factory has recreation rooms and laygrounds for its employes. For work and play go hand in hand. One is forced activity, the other is a free mode of action on the part of body and brain, | But the present mode of burning the candle at the other end is not so good, since it consists largely in tickling the | nerves with various means of artificial pleasure. We see this chiefly in the movies, which provide the principal | means of diversion in these busy days. if people were leading quiet lives the way they used to do, the stimulation of the screen might do them good, but When they are up on the toes most of the time, it doesn't help to stand them on_their heads in a thriller of a show. Perhaps your great need is in avoca. tion to go along with your vocation. side line cdn help the main line as well as a switch regulates travel on a track. A show, a dance, a book may be of some value as a recreation, but it is better to have some solid interest to counterbalance the weight of work. You might find a side line by culti- vating just one author until you had made him your own. Then, like a womap I know, you cvan say “I know my Shakespeare.” You may prefer :’u‘:fc’l”:l‘ngb : llttl;.il' lighter and more , but s 'ou can specialize with your writers, y 5 Or a little art gallery of pictures and prints which represent what the best painters have done in the last 500 years would give satisfaction and conduce to culture. But the main thing is to have Sandle of fe iy burn brightl ot fhe e ma; at the other end. % 5 Come on home, baby—an’ ‘member t' be a 'ittle lady eben if Tommy ’'sists on habin’ his old A doll-fuss. (Copyright, 1929.) NANCY PAGE Should Girls Wear Middy Uniforms? BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. With Claire's outfit for boarding school started, Mrs. Lacey felt that she could now devote some time to her two younger daughters. They, thank good- ness, were still willing to dress in the cloths their mother chose. Her first selections for cool days in the late Sum- mer were sweaters and skirts. The skirts were of dark blue flannel. The pleats had been steamed in, so there was little need of continual pressing. The sweaters were of wool patterned in fine stripes of red and blue. With these they had berets of dark blue. The fine wool used in the sweaters, the simplicity of them. gave both the little girls an “air” that their more expensively dressed companions lacked. A group of mothers who would have daughters in high school in the Fall happened to meet. at the market one and middies an obligatory school dress? It would save so much rivalry among the girls. We can get middies in all colors, you know, so the girls would not need to look like a uniformed group.” “That all sounds reasonable, but I hap- pen to know something of the other side,” broke in another mother. “When I talked to the principal last year she said that some of the mothers had to make over clothes given to them by relatives. She said some of them could not afford to buy middies and skirts. Theri she sald other mothers objected to the amount of laundry. I give you her reasons for what they are worth.” “Let's go home and think it over and meet again later at my home,” was Mrs. Lacey's last word. Clothes are expensive. eage. sel let, ‘Write to Nancy care of this paper, inclosing a stampec dressed envelope asking for her lea; udgets Are Fun. ¥ = Caramel Pineapple Cake. Drain the juice from four slices of pineapple cut into pieces and arrange the fruit in a greased cake pan. Sprin- kle with three-fourths cupful of brown sugar, and over this pour a three-egg sponge cake batter. Bake for about 40 minutes in a moderate oven. Serve with whipped cream. Garnish with puffed raisins and slices of glazed pine- apple. g Many foreign visitors are attending the first Polish national exhibition be- gag held at Poynan, formerly known as osen. My Neighbor Says: ‘To preserve the dullness of dull mahogany, go over it occa- sionally with a cloth wrung out of vinegar and water, then polish with a soft duster. Ferns require light and air. ‘They grow best when placed near a window where they do not get direct sunlight. Whitened ceilings, which have become soiled, may be cleaned if first swept with a new broom, then with a broom covered with a white cloth. Sponges used in the bathroom may be kept soft and sweet if washed occasionally warm water to which a few drops of lemon juice have been added. “Big appetites easily satisfied!” Between meals, sandwiches made with Schindler’s supply quick body energy. Schindlers Peanut Butter ' “That fresh roasted flavor” o | self-control a myth and growth in grace a figment of a silly imagination. 3 L. | DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX How Can a Thrifty Husband Force His Wife to Provide for a Rainy Day?— Can Love Be Changed at Will? DEAR DOROTHY DIX—It is my opinion that wives should be interested as | much or even more than husbands in_ laying up something for the proverbial rainy day. It has been the ambition of my life to make provision for old age, for I wi at 1 a few years of comfort guaranteed in the period when I can earn no more. My wife is not averse to this, but the subject does not interest her. We are now both bordering on old age and although I have had a fair earning capacity during all of our married life, I have but a few thousand d lars saved up. My wife has been a good housekeeper, but a too liberal spender, considering our circumstances. She contends that we live but once, so why not have a good time. I give her half my salary every month and feel she could keep the house going on that, but she is continually drawing on me, often leaving nothing out of my salary at the end of the month, With her co-operation, we could live in comfort and save enough in the few working years left to me to keep us safe from dependence in our old age. ‘Without her co-operation, I can do nothing. What is the answer? VEXED HUSBAND. Answer—The only remedy for the situation is a drastic one. You can force your wife to live on her allowance, which seéms a liberal one, that you give her by cutting off her credit. This will save your money, but it will make your home such a place of torment that you might better risk having to spend your last days in the poorhouse than try it. ‘You are right in saying that a husband and wife must do team work if they get along in the world and save up any money. No man, no matter how thrifty he is nor how much he cuts down on his personal expenditures, can make any headway in nourishing a savings bank account if he has a wasteful and extrava- gant wife. For, as the old proverb truly says, “a woman can throw more out of t‘he hllck door with a teaspoon than a man can put in-at the front door with a shovel.” ‘There are no men in the world for whom I have more profound sympathy than I feel for those who are cursed with wives who are spenders. For no experi- ence can be more heart-breaking, none more discouraging, none more exasperat- ing than for a man to spend his life tolling without a thing to show for his labor but a pile of receipted bills, to see other men of no more ability than he has forging ahead, while he is tied down with the ball and chain of his wife's debts, to have his every hope and ambition blasted by his wife’s senseless extrava- gance. Every man knows that the door of opportunity only opens to a golden key and that if he even has a few thousand dollars saved up he can often pass through the portals that lead to fortune, but he cannot do this if his wife has spent eveything he made as they went along. Every man knows that he is slave, if he has no money in the bank, because no matter how he is treated he dare not leave his work if he has no money to live on for even a week. Every man knows that the most paralyzing fright in the world is the fear of the future and that he who has no money laid by that would see him through sick- ness or loss of position lives in a sort of panic that turns his blood to water and bones to chalk when he thinks of what would become of his wife or his children and himself if any catastrophe should befall him. ‘We talk about evil women, about women who are vamps, who are gold- diggers, but the worst of them cannot ruin a man’s life more completely than do these good, kindly, affectionate wives through whose fingers money slips away like water. Those wives who literally sell a husband's life blood for silk stock- ings and Paris hats and bridge prizes and cars. If these extravagant wives only had sense enough to look at the matter | straight, they would see that it was even more important for themselves that | the future should be safeguarded than it is for their husbands. For a man can practically always get something to do up to the very end of his life that will make him some sort of a living, but there is no other creature so forlorn and helpless as is the middle-aged woman whose husband dles and leaves her penni- less. She knows no way of making & dollar and she is too old to learn a new trade. She cannot compete with young girls. Nobody wants her around. No- body will even give her a show at anything but the most menial task and there is nothing left for her but to eat the bitter bread of dependence. If the extravagant wives could look an inch into the future they would clutch every dollar until the eagle on it squealed and they would back their hus- bands up in saving for that rainy day that comes to us all. DOROTHY DIX. * KK % EAR MISS DIX—In one of your recent articles you say: “Love is a gift of the gods. You cannot make that, no matter how hard you try.” I distinctly object to all statements maintaining the involuntary character of the emotion of love. Love is not a gift of the gods but the fruit of a sound personal character. { The argument that love cannot be controlled by the lover is only a libertine's argument, constantly used as an excuse for conjugal worthlessness. It is possible | and highly advisable and necessary to control not only the emotion of love but | every other emotion as well by action of the will. Otherwise morals are piffie, Answer—I agree with you that it is highly advisable and necessary to con- trol the emotion of love and every other emotion as well, but if you have found | and you should pass this great discovery on to a passion-ridden world. i of our tears will bring them back to us. Tell us how to put the memories that There is anxiety. And despair. And regret. | lives that we would like to put from us if we only knew how. all experience goes against you. Nobody knows why he loves or why some par- | ticular person is just “IT” with him. After we fail in love with some man or { woman we wrap him or her up in the mantle of our imaginations and endow him { or her with every virtue and charm. But, as a matter of fact. I doubt if any | man ever fell in love with a girl just because she was good or intelligent or do- | mestic or if any man ever fired a girl’s fancy because he was honest and honor- | able and a leader. (Copyright, 1920.) They’ve got it —and no mistake. A new .flavor'that delightsyourtaste; a new health prop- erty that promotes your Joy of Living. Something differ- ent from all other cereal foods. Rice Flakes e e THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1929. FEATUR Willie Willis Human Radiator, Although the evaporation of water from the surface is a real factor in the cooling of the body in very hot or humid weather, this is by no means the PERSONAL HEALTH BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. ES. SERVICE to the skin from the internal circula- tion, s Because clothing impairs the func- tion of this automatic heat control sys- tem it is & good practice for everybody out how to do it you have discovered more than any other human being knows | There is sorrow, for example. It is useless to grieve over our dead. Not all | | break our hearts out of our minds. Teach us how to forget by an act of the will. | So many things that sadden cur As for love being & matter of the will and subject to control, T am afraid | “Skinny didn’t show how to act polite at the party. I seen him lick his fingers instead of Wipin’ ‘em on his pants.” (Copyright, 1929.) Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. ‘Words often misused: Do not say, “The child favors his father.” Say “resembles his father.” Often mispronounced: Treasurer. Pronounce trezh-ur-er, three syllables. Often misspelled: Indict (to charge with an offense), indite (to compose, write). Synonyms: Just, fair, equitable, un- prejudiced, unbiased, impartial. ‘Word study: “Use a word three times and it 1s yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: Demonstrate; to point out; make evident; prove. “May I demonstrate my ability?” skin and the amount of warm blood sent | chief way in which the surplus body | !0 take advantage of every opportunity heat is disposed of. Ordinarily the total | 10 dispense with all clothing, be it hot amount of heat given off by the body is lost as follows: By radiation and conduction from the skin By evaporation By evaporation from lungs By warming of expired air. ‘Through other excretions.... From this table it is obvious that when a person sits at rest in a room where there is a moderate temperature and humidity he loses half as much heat through vaporization of moisture | from the lungs as he does through evaporation of sweat, visible or invisible. The proportion of heat dissipated through radiation is smaller when sur- rounding temperature is high, and nat- urally the amount of heat lost through sweating increases when the atmos- pheric temperature is high. ‘The function of the skin as a radiator is greatly influenced by the kind of clothing worn. Clothing of any kind tends to diminish heat loss by conduc- tion and radiation and to increase sweating at the same time. Some clothing interferes with the evaporation of moisture. Some clothing rather aids the evaporation of moisture. This de. pends on the material, the weave and the thickness of the clothing. ‘There 1s still another factor of tven more importance than clothing in con- troling heat loss. The sweat nerves and the vasomotor nerves of the skin have an automatic reflex control of the amount of sweat excreted through the uch flavor means FINE MATERIALS' SAY FAMOUS COOKS RITICAL cooks know that even their fine fruits and vegetables are made or marred by the salad dressing. That’s why they depend on the true flavor, the purity, and freshness of Hellmann’s. Blended after a famous old recipe, Hellmann’s Mayonnaise is made from fine eggs, delicate salad oil, pure vinegar, rare spices. Each of these in- gredients is carefully selected and tested for the deliciousness it will bring to the mayonnaise. And nothing else goes into it. Order a jar of Hellmann’s Mayonnaise from your grocer today. The popular family size is 15 pint—25¢. Other sizes, 8} ounce, pint, and quart jars. HELLMANN® BLUE RIBBON A e R LR "ol MAYONNAISE I ! A i i i s E SRR | or cold weather. This habit, I believe, |1s far more healthful than the cold morning tub, sponge or shower bath Not because I am constitution- ally opposed to the wet wash, but be- cause I think man is a mammal and {not a fish and that's why he finds a { cold air bath delightful or at least not unpleasant, whereas a_cold water dip is often real torture. Indeed, it is be- | cause the wet wash is so very formi- | dable that many cultivate this habit. They reason that the cold water treat- ment, like castor oil for Johnny’s ache, must be good because it is so unpleas- ant. Remember, we're discussing only the hygienic side of the question, not the esthetic side. However convenient | the wet wash method of removing grime or filth may be, nakedness or air bath- ing if you please, is a practice that is | hygienic and healthful for everybody. If we ever do achieve nakedness again, | or even something akin to it—as a com- mon custom, I mean, not just a fad or fashion—it will be a boon to the physi- cal welfare of the race. Experiment a | little along this line and see for yourself what possibilities there are in it? Have ou any kind of foot trouble? Go bare- footed awhile every day, out of doors particularly, and notice, first, how the" | neighbors stare and then fololw suit, and second. what benefits your feet and your general health derive from the practice Then try to conceive what it would be like if We could go back to | Adam and Eve in the matter of dress. (Copyright, 1929.) © 1029, P. Co., Inc. It Does Just What You Expect of It “The Autocrat of the Pantry” You don’t have to figure on variableness of any kind when you use Washington Flour. Every sack.is exactly alike in character and quality. Always made of precisely the same growth of wheat—maintaining the highest standard of It cannot disappoint—because it is specially adapted to kitchen facilities. Every sack is guaran- teed—to give complete satisfaction—or the pur- chase price will be re- funded. nutrition. 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