Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1929, Page 11

WOMAN'’S PAGE. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Dress for Theater Performance BY MARY MARSHALL. To say that it is good form to wear evening dress for an evening perform- ance at the theater and that it is bad form to go in street dress is a statement that must be taken with several grains of salt. There are times when to dress in elaborate evening dress for the thea- ter would be just as much bad form as it would be to appear in a box at the opera in a two-piece suit and jumper. It is”never good form to make one- THIS VERY NEW-FASHION THEA-| ‘TER DRESS OF BROWN NET IS CUT HIGH AT THE BACK AND ‘HAS ELBOW SLEEVES WITH EL- BOW RUFFLES. self conspicuous or awkward, and to wear a low-cut evening gown when every other woman about one in a_ theater audience wore a moderately high-cut gown would be to make oneself con- spicuous. And to wear one of the new evening gowns with exaggeratedly long or bouffant skirts when one must needs as | palmistry, mental telephathy and the :s“\: is usually to make oneself awk- vard. ‘The theater dress shown in the sketch is distinctive enough even for an impo: tant performance, yet it would always be in good taste. To make the ensemble complete one would wear brown slippers, sheer brownish beige stockings, and a three-quarter-length wrap of some sort. If a hat is worn it should be a smal close-fitting hat that may be held con- veniently during the performance. ‘This week’s illustrated circular shows how to make a simple little purse with a strip of patent slide fasteners at the top. If you would like a copy of this, please send your stamped, self-addressed envelope to Mary Marshall, care of this paper, and it will be forwarded to you. It will help you to make a last-minute Christmas present that any woman would appreciate. Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Graphology. Graphology is, or has been, a sort of pseudo-science. Writing in this place a few months ago, I classed it among the popular psychological superstitions, such phrenology, tea-leaf psychology, like. I now turn to this question of reading character or personality from hand- writing with a little more sympathy. I still avow that it cannot qualify as a science; I will admit that it qualifies as something worthy of consideration by science. Handwriting in itself will not tell character, but when taken into con- sideration with other things helps com- plete the picture of personality. ‘There is no disputing the fact that gesturing is one of the many forms of language. When a person gestures, he talks with his hands, his feet, etc., just as surely as he does with his vocal a) paratus. It's a very timid person, in- deed, who does not gesture more or less. | It is well-nigh a universal practice. The specific forms found among individuals may be put down as individual habits. Writing is a form of language also well-nigh universal in its practice. A person is on the lowest scale of literacy if he doesn’t attempt to write, or at least to draw pictures. The individual differ- ences in handwriting are also to be classed as personal habits. On at least two counts, then, univer- sality of practice and personal habit, gesturing and handwriting go_togethe Just as the small-sized people gesture more than the large, so it appears that they also make more flourishes with the pen. They may write with a heavier pen, take more care with their p's and a’s, i's and t's, underscore words more frequently, etc. Or does it all work out that way? I do not know. I merely have a hunch that some one will come along some day and discover significant relations between one’s handwriting and his gen- eral personality traits, such as tendencies toward boldness, toward timidity, and 50 on. Graphology then will be regard- crowd into a narrow rank of theater The Sidewalks ed as one of the means for segregating personality traits. of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. ‘These days around any household where there are children too young to go_to school. Mother (spelling to husband, as child sits in pop-eyed bewilderment)—John, d-i-d y-0-u o-r-d-e-r t-h-a-t t-r-a-i-n? Husband — Y-e-s. H-a-s-n't i-t c-0-m-e? Mother—N-o0. * Husband — T-h-e-y p-r-o-m-i-s-e-d t-h-e-y W-o-u-l-d - s-e-n-d i-t -l-a-s-t| W-e-d-n-e-s-d-a-y. Mother—Y-o0-u h-a-d b-e-t-t-e-r—oh, well, you know what I mean. ‘The poor kid still sits with pop-eyed ‘wonderment. A English law procedure may operate ‘with more celerity than our own judicial system. In the possession of historical castles and famous ancient structures it surpasses our land, but there are still several fea- tures in which it does not compete. We visited a home the other evening, typical of the mod- ern American resi- dence. Equipped with every known electrical household device for the con- venience of the family, Jt repre- sented a significant fact—namely, that the American will try anything, if his purse permits, for the simplifying of labor and the comfort of the folks. Heating, for example, has been re- duced to a minimum amount of labor. A mechanical gadget regulates the heat, whether coal or oil. He no longer, if he does mot wish to do so, descends the cellar stalrs, shaking like a pair of dice in a box, to open up the drafts. ‘When he sleeps, unless he is just one of those naturally cold souls, he wears comparatively light garments and medium-weight blankets. On the other hand, the English resident wears more and heavier clothing to combat the cold of a British Winter. A succegsful young Eriton once in- THE POOR. <ID SITS POP-EVED. MENU FOR A DAY. Roast Beef, Brown Gravy. Delmonico Potatoes, Baked Squash. Banana Fritters, Lemon Sauce. Minced Pie. Chees. Coffee. BUPPER. Lobster a la Newburg. Clover Rolls. Preserved Pears. Ribbon Cake. Tea. BROWN SUGAR SIRUP. To two pounds of brown sugar add one cup of water, melt, boil carefully 7 or 8 minutes, or longer if desired very thick, skim or strain through flannel; flavor with extract of vanilla, two tea- spoons added when cold: use any other extracts or add whole ginger, rinds of lemons, orange, quince parings or fruit sirups. RICE SOUPS. Boil two and a half pounds of fresh beef and bone three hours, lift meat and skim broth well. Add to the broth one-half cup of rice, one grated carrot, one cup cabbage, one-half cup celery and one onion chopped fine, and cook until very tender. Make batter of one egg, one-half cup sweet milk and two tablespoons of flour; stir this slowly into the stock; season with salt and pepper, one bay lef and two sprigs of parsley. RIBBON CAKE. Three eggs, one-half cup of sugar, two-thirds teaspoon of soda, one and one-half teaspoons of cream of tartar, flour enough to make batter, one teaspoon of lemon extract. Bake in three layer tins, adding to the third one-quarter teaspoon of cloves, cinnamon, allspice and nutmeg. Put tiwree together with jelly or | It would dry out the furniture and, vited us to his newly acquired home in what might be compared with one of our own modern suburbs. He proudly escorted us through the house, pointing out its many attractions, and it pos- sessed not a few. It was that last word in construction of a home. Seeking in vain for a furnace, we finally inquired, “Where is your heating plant?” “Heating plant,” he repeated. “Why, haven't you noticed that we have a fire- place in every room? We wouldn't think of having a central heating plant. besides, it isn’t healthy. We simply put on more clothing.” * ok x % !;xke;_e's one picked up on the side- alks: “Judge, it's getting near Christmas and I hope you won't be too hard on me,” said the man before the bar. “You see, I was under the influence of liquor when I done it.” “Well,” said his honor, “you seem to have been under the influence of some- thing equally bad when you studied grammar. During the spare moments you are going to have you might in- dulge in the judicious study of the con- struction of simple sentences. Here's one to begin with—60 days.” * ko % Oh, shucks! It seems that a gentle- man of mediocre education acquired a fortune during the latter days of his business career. He wished to do some- thing for the com- munity, especially to aid those who were as handicap- ped as he had been '| when young. He therefore decided to I{ set up a library and ordered 100,000 vol- umes, each to be handsomely bound. “Very well, sir,” sald the bookseller. “I suggest that half of them be bound in russia and half in morocco. “No, they won't!” exclaimed the do- nor. “I'm for home protection and theyll all be bound right here in America.” w * X Kok A tailor in a small town had a sign painted over his door with a large apple on it. The townsfolks were puz- zled and asked the meanimg. The tailor, with a complacent smile, re- plied: “If it hadn't been for an apple where would the clothing busi- ness be today?” * K K K Once in a while somebody pulls a fast one. He was driving his car down a slippery street the other day and the vehicle began to skid and shimmy until complete control of it was gone. “Huh,” he grunted, as he tried to straighten out, “I never want to see Washington burn down, but I wouldn’t object teday w*se:mi 1&( laid in ashes.” “Order in the court,” said the judge. “The next person who interrupts these proceedings will be expelled from the court and ordered home.” “Let's yell,” said one of the pris- oners, who was being tried, to another. AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “Pa used to call'my attention to how After supper I was sitting on the liv- ing room floor thinking, and pop sed, ‘Why all the heavy brane werk, if Im not intsuding? Can somebody sue somebody just for calling them names? I sed. It has been known to happen, sed, and I sed, Well Leroy Shooster is going to_sue me for scandle. Not reely? pop sed, and I sed, Yes sir, and he can easy do it, too, because his father is a lawyer. Well, this sounds serious, pop sed. You must of called him some very fancy names, indeed, he sed, and I sed, ‘Wel] he called me some ferst, so I could sue him before he has time to sue me, ony what I called him was werse than ‘what he called me, and besides your not a lawyer. No, thats true and Id hardly like to begin studying law at my time of life Jjust for one case, pop sed. Although if I won it very brilliantly and my name got in the papers I mite get some other cases and make quite a name for myself. What were some of these names, or arent they fit for a boy to utter in frunt of his father? he sed. I called him a fish face onion and a empty bag of hot air, I sed, and pop sed, And you say thas werse than what he called you? and I sed, Yes sir, he ony called me asawed off hammered down squizzle and a buntch of sour prooens. ‘Well, of corse he mite pleed in a court of lJaw that anybody awt to be proud to be called a squizzle, and no dictionary could disprove his point, but on the other hand a buntch of sour prooens has all the earmarks of a nasty dig, so I think we have the makings of a success- ful counter suit, pop sed. By gollies Il stand back of you if he brings suit, even if é haff to study law at nite by mail, he sed. G, good, now just wait till the next time I see him, Ill tell what I reely think of him, I sed. NANCY PAGE Lois Put on Carefully Planned Diet. ~ . BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Lois was making regular trips to the doctor, who was watching her closely and with satisfaction. He wished that all his patients would be as careful to follow rules. Lois walked out of doors every day. She did her usual amount of housework, omitting all stretching acttvities. She did not wash windows nor clean out bookcases nor closet shelves. But the ordinary household tasks went on apace. She was sleeping well and eating much better than she had at first. She still took five or six small meals a day. She found that this was better than trying to get all the food at three meals. Before she was out of bed in the morn- ing, Roger brought her a cup of weak, hot coffee and two crackers. For break- fast she enjoyed a glass of orange juice. a slice of bacon, a small dish of cereal } with top milk, a slice of toast and weak coffee. About 11 o'clock she ate a cookie and drank a glass of milk. For lunch at half past 12 she had a cup of cream soup, a lettuce salad with mild French dressing, crackers, toasted whole wheat bread and custard. In the afternoon she stopped and rested and took a cup of cocoa. For dinner she had vegetable soup, steak or chop, mashed potatoes, carrots, whole wheat bread, tomato salad and apple tapioca. Before she went to bed she drank a cup of malted milk and ate a cracker. Lois sald she never had eaten so many times a day, but Roger consoled her by telling her that the amount of food eaten was not large. It you are interested in layettes write to Nancy Page. care of this paper, inclosing & stamped_sclf-addressed envelope, asking for her leafiet on Layettes. (Copyright, 1929.) A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN. God's Daily Supplies. “And they gathered it every morning, \e\'ery man according to his eating."— | EX. Xvi21. | We are all familiar with the story of how the Children of Israel were supplied | with manna during their journey | through the wilderness. The manna fell every day and it was gathered and consumed on the day it fell. “They lgalhe"d it every morning, every man according to his eating.” The story teaches an abiding lesson applicable to spiritual life. It illustrates God's method of supplying our spiritual needs. As the manna fell daily, and just so much as was needed daily, so God gives us strength from day to day, measured by the needs of the day. The day's supply is according to the day's need. “As thy days,. so shall thy strength be.” ‘The measure of God's supply is never insufficient. Why, then, are there so many famishing souls? Why so many weak and faint? It is a question of gathering and appropriating, not a question as to any lack of supply. Sup- pose an Israelite had sat in his tent and said, “I am not going out to gather.” Would he have had any manna in his vessel? The manna lay all around the | tent, but each man had to go out and | gather it. God makes no mistakes in | His measures. If our needs are not supplied it will be because we fail to gather. Why starve in the midst of abun- dance? Why let the water run through the open sluice instead of through our souls to drive the wheels of life? Why go halting and limpms‘ under our bure dens when we might have strength to bear them stoutly? Sufficient for all nur{ daily needs are God's daily supplies. Curried Mautton or Beef. ‘Wipe and cut half a pound of scraps of mutton or beef in small squares and chop half an onion and a small ?llece of apple fine. Fry the meat lightly in f an ounce of butter, lift onto a plate, fry the onion and apple for a few seconds, add one teaspoonful of curry powder and one dessertspoonful PARIS.—The thing that makes this coat remarkable is the use of stone marten on a brown-and-white tweed mixture. The fur is used as it would be on an afternoon coat. Model by Worth. RITA. DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX DEAR MISS DIX: I am engaged to a fine young man, but as soon as we told our mothers about the engagement they went on the warpath. They disapprove of our marrying because we are only 19 years old and because his mother needs his support more than I do. No other objection. They have won the war so far as we are concerned, as we have agreed to wait until we are older and better fixed financially before we marry. But in spite of this, my m r refuses to let the young man come to the house or phone me, and his mother does everything she can to prevent his seeing me. The result is, of course, that we have to meet secretly and lie about it. Do you think it right for our mothers to act this way? HEARTBROKEN PALS. Answer: Your mothers are acting like two old idiots, and it is a pity that somebody can’t put some sense in their heads so that they can realize what a wrong and silly thing they are doing. And bring some memory of their own youth back to their hearts so that they might recall how they felt when they were in love and make them have some sympathy with you. ! ‘What do they think they are trying to do, anyway? Separate you? Break off the engagement? Make you fall out of love with each other? Don’t they know that opposition is the surest way to fan love into a flame and to hurry up a wedding? They are right in thinking that you are too young at 19 to get mar- ried, particularly when you haven't any money to ma reasonable in agreeing to wait a year or two, Ty on. You have been but if they persist in their policy of trying to separate you entirely it doesn’t take any prophet to tell that some day you will walk around to the Marriage License Bureau and get married. And the idea of telling a young woman and a young man who are old enough (o hold down good jobs that they shall not see each other is perfectly ridiculous in this day and age. The heavy parent stuff of forbidding went out when girls earned their economic freedom. Now all that fathers and mothers can do with their self-supporting daughters is to reason with them. So, if your mothers have any intelligence whatever, they will withdraw all of their objections to your seeing each other at home decently, openly and roperly. It is hard enough on a young couple who are in love with each other have to wait until they can afford to marry, without having their families rub all the bloom off love's young d.ren‘m.‘ s DOROTHY DIX. JDEAR MISS DIX—T am a girl of 16. Nearly every day he spanks me about something and I admit Last night he found that I had played my father. that he generally has reason for it. My mother is dead and I live with hookey from school several times during the last week and he told me that he would punish me so severely that I would never forget it. I knew that he would stop at nothing and I do whatever you said about it. When he said that pleaded with him that he would HOPEFUL. Answer: I think a girl of 16 is too old to be spanked, but she is also.too old to need spanking. At that age a girl should have enough intelligence to be reasoned with, and to do things because they are the right and proper things to do, not because she is afraid of corporal punishment if she doesn't do them. 8o you see it is up to you, my dear child. If at 16 you have no judgment and no principles, T am afraid they cannot be spanked into you, and so your father might as well save himself and you the degradation of giving and receiv- ing a beating. Surely you are old enough to quit acting like a little child and to see that when you play hookey from school you are hurting no cne but your- self, because you are throwing away your opportunities to get an education. Perhaps the reason you are so unruly is because you have lacked a mother’s love and guidance, and so my suggestion to your father is that he send you off to some good boarding school, where you will have restraint and discipline and the influence of wise women. Certainly the fear of the whip isn't goi turn you into the kind of woman he wants you to be. SROTHY DIX. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1929.) Light and Decorative Effects BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. In the Winter months there is a gray- ness in the atmospheric color scheme that the homemaker has to offset in her decorative effects. There is also a glare that may come from a penetrat- ing whiteness of tone or dazzling sun- shine on snow. The methods of coun- teracting such an insistent white or yellow glare are sometimes peculiar. For instance, glass curtains of a yel- lowish hue will transmit through them a warm yellow light. They are desir- able when the light is white, either from gray days or a northern exposure of rooms. At the same time they soften the brightness of sunshine which of flour, mix all well together, add half a pint of water gradually and a pinch graceful an' slender other women was until I got to tellin’ him how handsome E)aln frosting, placing dark loaf etween the two light ones. T men looked without shiny bald & 1 of salt, bring to the boil, return the meat to the pan, and simmer slowly for one and one-half to two hours, Serve plain or with boiled rice.. - - transfused through them. Sometimes a blue-gray color is chosen for sheer. window curtains when the glare is from sunshine on snow, or from tropical sunlight. The color in itself is excellent, yet -the curteining is apt to ’ i f £ - . be unsuccessful, because a thin grayish textile is apt to look dusty when it hangs before a window glass. Ecru and golden tan tints are recommended for anel curtains because the yellowish &ne counteracts the dusty look even when dust does sift through crevices and settle in the curtaining. Ornaments and potteries can lend their aid in l’ed\lcln‘ll too &enetnnn grayness or a too glaring light falling through windows. ~Choose a highly- glazed, yellow-toned piece of tery to catch every bit of the yellow light that may filter through the window. There is | is always a goodly share of yellow light Y lacing rays in the atmosphere, and by the pottery by the window it will lure the light into the room and at the same time counlfintl&t the coldness of the out- side gray light. 1If the light should be too bright, re- D. C., SATURDAY, . DECEMBER 14, 1929. FEATUR Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. December 14, 1870.—Supt. of Schools Wilson has presented to the Board of Trustees an abstract of the reports of the various Washington schools for last month. It shows that the whole num- ber of pupils on the rolls November 30 was 6,734. ‘The number of cases of corporal pun- ishment in the schools during Novem- ber was 60, which was 53 cases less than were reported in October. These cases of corporal punishment were limited to 21 schools, leaving 99 schools that were successfully governed without a resort to corporal punishment. Supt. Wilson says school officials are making strenuous efforts break up tardiness and secure punctual- ity and regularity in attendance, and, as they are discountenancing corporal gunl.shment, they ought to have the|sage earty co-operation of the parents and guardians of the pupils, he thinks, in their efforts to improve the schools in these important respects. In the third district some parents have expressed an open preference that their children be whipped rather than dismissed from school. On teacher says parents seem to want their chil- dren punished in any way except in the way it happens to have been done. They seem to prefer whipping, but if the children are whipped by the teachers the same parents grumble about it. Some parents 'say they would rather have their children dismissed than whipped, but if that is done “they raise {heaven and earth” to get them back and declare that if the teachers will just take them back they may “whip them as much as they please.” Supt. Wilson says it is apparent from the reports submitted to him from va- rious schools throughout the city that the question of punishment of the pu- pils is one on which the parents and guardians are far from united in opin- ion. He hopes to be able to maintain discipline in the schools wita less and less resort to corporal punishment. ‘The citizens of Maine now in Wash- ington have organized a Maine State Association. At a meeting last night they chose the following officers: E. B. French, president; Willlam B. Small, vice president; Willlam B. Freeman, secretary; members of the executive committee, Chase Andrews, first dis- trict; Benjamin Freeman, second' dis- trict; Joseph Noble, third district; H. A. Snow, fourth district, and T. C. Smart, fifth district. THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE. It's One Piece. A smart one-plece dress that is de- cidedly new and different. It ‘chooses light-weight tweed in yellow and brown now so important in grown-up mode, ‘The lower part of front has plaitea insets with trimming straps just above the plaits of yellow woolen accentea by piping and buttons in brown shaae. The belt of the yellow woolen slips through the trimming straps, holding garment closely to the figure. The collar and tie repeat the same coloring. It's so attractive, yet so simple ana easily made. Design No. 871 comes in sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years, and only re- quires 1% yards of 40-inch material, with 33 yard of 36-inch contrasting, for the 8-year-old miss. Vivid red wool crepe self-trimmea, save for tie, which is of navy sl crepe, with polka dots, is smart. Navy blue wool crepe, with contrast- ing collar, belt, etc., of vivid red crepe, is practical school outfit. Brown covert cloth, with piping m capucine shade faille silk crepe, whicl | also appears in te, is sturdy and dis- tinctly unuswal. Tiny be'ge-and-brown-check woot challis, with plain beige challis con- trast, sportsweight linen in royal blue | with white linen, printed pique in rea (and white with plain white and plain wool jersey in bottle green, attractive and serviceable combinations. For a pattern of this style send 13 cents in stamps or coin directly to The ‘Washington Star's New York Fashion | Bureau, Fifth avenue and Twenty- ninth street, New York. We suggest that when you send for pattern you inclose 10 cents additional for a copy of our new Fall and Winter Fashion Magazine. DAILY DIET RECIPE CHEESE CAUSE, Butter, one tablespoon; flour, one and one-half tablespoons; milk, three-quarters cup; salt, one- quarter teaspoon; pepper, one- sixteenth teaspoon; paprika, one- quarter teaspoon; Worcestershire sauce, one teaspoon; Américan cheese, one-half pound. SERVES 4 OR 6 PORTIONS. Melt butter, add flour and mix well. Add milk slowly and cook in double boiler a few minutes. Season to taste and add the grated cheese. Lower flame and cook very slowly until cheese is entirely melted. Serve over toast sandwich of tomato and bacon, or even over a vegetable, etc. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes protein, a very little starch and fat. Much lime present as well as vitamins A and B. Can be eaten by adults of normal digestion who are of aver- age or under weight. duce the glare by placing a dull gray ornament or plece of pottery by the window. The lack-luster of the ware will quell the glare and the color itself will lure the subdued shades of gray to lurk about the window. ht is becoming such an important factor in decorative schemes and effects in the home that it is well for the home decorator to wrest all the beauty pos- sible from it to ald in making rooms attractive. Attention to light effects| costs nothing and well repays a home- maker’s study. ¥ (Copyright, 1020.) \ to | from your skin and h{ing Scotswoman, ES. MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. An 0ily Skin. Dear Miss Leeds—Will you please tell me how to remove cleansing cream and tissue cream from my face, as my skin is very olly? (2) Is cocoa butter a good skin food? Or does it grow hair? (3) I have dark brown hair, dark brown eyes and a medium skin. What are my colors? (4) I am 26 years old and 5 feet 31 inches tall. What is my cor- rect weight? MRS. D. Answer—After using your cleansing cream to remove the surface dust and make-up, wipe off the excess cream with a tissue square or absorbent cotton. Now moisten a clean pad of absorbent cotton in a mild astringent such a witch hazel, and remove all traces of grease wash with warm water and a mild soap. Rinse thor- oughly and dry. Apply your tissue cream with the tips of your fingers and mas- with an upward patting move- ment for several seconds. Remove the excess cream with a tissue square or absorbent cotton and moisten a second pad in your favorite special astringent and go over the entire face and neck evenly. This will firm and tone up the relaxed pores and counteract the oily condition of the skin. Apply your foun- dation cream and finish your make-up. Once or twice & week you may use the warm witch hazel facial pack for your type of skin. (2) Cocoa butter is a splendid massage cream and may be used on any part of the body to lubri- cate the massage movements, but it must be removed thoroughly after using it on the face if the skin is inclined to be oily. Remove it with your astringent lotion. It does not grow hair on the face or neck. (3) You may wear dark reds such as garnet, ruby, Burgundy and the new wine shades, dark and medium greens and blues, dull brick, rust, bronze-green, warm browns, pink tans, mustard, amber, yellow and peach. (4) 125 to 135 pounds for your age and height. LOIS LEEDS. Unruly Black Long Hair. Dear Miss Leeds—I see that you have helped so many people. Please help me. I have very thick black long hair, but it is very frizzy. I have purposely let it grow, thinking that would help me, but nothing does. Will you please suggest a treatment for me, as I am desperate? CHUBBY. Answer—Perhaps your hair is very dry and needs an oil salve or lotion reg- ularly. It is an asset to have naturally wavy hair, and with a little patience you | f will be able to make the most of it. Use the warm oil treatment before the shampoo. Divide the hair into strands and apply the warm oil to the hair and scalp. Leave on overnight, if possible, and wash it in the morning with a good liquid shampoo such as olive ofl, tar, or pure castile soap, shaved and melted into a liquid. Rinse thoroughly in sev- eral waters. Add one tablespoonful of vinegar to your last rinsing water. Be sure to brush your hair and massage your scalp for at least 10 minutes every day. Spray a little brilliantine on your hair or moisten the palms of your hands with the ofl and stroke your hair, then brush it thoroughly. Here is an oily lotion that you may use to make your hair more pliable: 4 drams castor oil, 4 drams ollve oil, 4 drams sunflower oll, 10 drops of lavender, 20 drops oil of bergamot. Shake well. Very little oil is needed at one time, too much will make the hair too oily. Have a finger NG/ roisTEN COTTON WITH ASTRINGENT wave put in your hair at regular ine tervals and before the wave loses its out- line, practice arranging it yourself with the comb and your fingers. LOIS LEEDS. Gaining Weight. Dear Miss Leeds—Please send me in- structions on how to gain weight, espe= cially in my legs, arm® and neck. (2) My skin is dry and wrinkles are form= ing thick and fast around my eyes, fore- head and cheeks. In the Wintertime my face is chapped, and most of the time it appears harsh and scaly. MRS. SARAH P. Answer—TI shall be very glad to mail you an answer to your questions if you will write me again and remember to send a self-addressed envelope. I could not mail you the material because you forgot to give me your address. One of the best ways to gain weight is to re- adjust your menus. Choose more nour= ishing foods, including milk and dairy products. Eat slowly and masticate your food thoroughly. Learn to relax before and after meals. Avoid a tense nervous worrying habit over trifles and try to be calm and poised. The dry, scaly skin wrinkles easily and this con= dition may be due to lack of sufficient fats, minerals and vitamins in your daily lood. Have a thorough physical examie nation to find out if you have any ine ternal disturbances, that may be keep=" ing you thin, nervous and irritable. Cleanse the dry skin with an‘oily cream or oil and avoid going out of doors right after washing your face. Protect it wit] a foundation cream, skin lotion and face powder. Ask for my leaflets on care of dry skin and how to gain weight when you write me again, please. LOIS LEEDS. (Copyright, 1929.) MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE MERRICE. Special Dispatch to The Star and the North American Newspaper Alliance. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., December 14— The most outstanding change in the flavor of Hollywood village toward the end of this year of grace, 1929, is the increase of practicality and the ambi- tious trend of the cinema great. Perhaps never in the entire history of this village—brief and colorful and dis- torted though that history has been— have the people who made this colony a show place for the entire world done less to warrant the tourist’s ticket or the sight-seeing busman’s ballyhoo. At the present time the two best placces for tourists to view players are the churches of Hollywood and the shops. A little Christmas buying is be- ing squeezed in along the holly-hung thoroughfare that is our main street. sionals there is an amazingly, large group attending the various churches of a Sunday morning. ‘The common-sense idea in Christmas presenting comes in with the stage. Lucile Gleason proudly announces that her Santa Claus from her husband is a six weeks' trip through Mexico. She tells of it with a sparkle in her eye which bodes for a zestful experience. Ann Harding takes something for the house, and isn’t ashamed to say so. Russell Gleason wants a check to put toward his Oxford University found. This youngster, who has just slipped into the village spotlight by capturing one of the best roles of the year, has one outstanding ambition—a post- graduate English course at Oxford. Last year Lupe Velez sported a dia- mond as big as a dime, that was sup- posed to be a gift “from me to me, with love.” And Clara’ Bow went native and presented herself with a dlamond anklet of some 40-odd pure white stones. Just ;Ilfltfle whimsy on the part of the “It” rl, Each year a medal is given in the vilage for the best gelatin effort of the 12 months passed. The 1928 prize, recently awarded, had of a necessity to go to a silent picture, so “Four Sons™ was a logical choice. We hardly realize that talkies have been a product only of 1929. This picture swung to fame a charm- Margaret Mann—a woman who had worked for years as an extra, supporting an invalid husband. With typical enthusiasm, the village went Mann-mad. Out of obscurity the white-haired woman became the jour- nalistic toast of the town. Interviewers hung on her heels. The professionals flattered her. She moved from the little humble home on a side street to a more pretentious apartment. And there was a contract. And just as; her star was about to rise “talkies” broke across the gelatin horizon. In the scramble which followed no-| body had time to think of Margaret Mann. She would come to the studio and say, “Doesn’t any one want to talk And out of this settlement of profes- | ful. contract lapsed—and the option was not renewed. The name Margaret Mann passed into that twilight which in the colony can fall as suddenly as twilight falls in the tropics. It has happened to thou- sands of youngsters. But it was a poignantly pitiful experience for a women in the 50s. Janet Gaynor and Charlie Farrell are to ht on teaming it. Weak though the mixture is turning out to be in talkies, the studio still has faith in the team which became a fetish in the days of silent pictures. Teams are another feature of cellu= loidia which will weaken with talk. Various lines call for various revela- tions of personality, for which some of us meaner ones are pathetically grate- The old-time silent story was no puzzle to the beholder. The average person of good mentality could write the ending after the first five minutes. Of course, there was always the ele- ment that resented the slightest hint of what was to come. They reminded me strongly of the old man who was reading the lives of the Presidents in 17 volumes in the public library. “I'm on my sixteenth volume,” he wheezed to a bystander. “I just finished it,” said the other old un. “Don’t tell me how it ends,” squealed the first. “I want to be surprised.” (Copyright, 1929. by North American News- paper Alliance.) SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. to me today?” Everybody was hunting | up some copy on talkle material. The' Kinds of Small Loans. If you apply for a small loan at any lending agency or office, always ask for a schedule of all S, ‘We stress this because the interest that is paid on the loan may be only one of several charges. ‘There are agencles or offices that charge bonuses, service charges, and the like. Their original charge of 6 per cent may swell to 18 per cent before one is through. In applying for a loan always ask if you will have the full and free use of the full amount of the loan. If you do not you may pay 6 per cent fon a $300 loan and only have the use of $150, let’s say, or, in other words, you are paying 12 per cent on the money that is actually yours to use. f course if there are other charges you pay much more than 13 per cent on_your money. One fact might as well be frankly and freely admitted: There is little op- portunity for the small borrower to get money on 6 per cent net terms. She is generally a r risk, and has little or no collateral or chattel to offer for security. Laws in various States vary, but in some States an interest charge of 21, per cent is legal on loans ranging from $300 to $100 or less—that is, 215 per cent per month. Women who pawn personal articles valued at $100 or less pay that rate in many States. What one pays is not so lese store winders is so beautiful ‘Thi they dest takes my bref away. Straight Talks to Women About Money BY MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN. provided it is the legal rate or less, as that one knows the real cost of the loan. Better to pay 2'. per cent per month and nothing more than to pay a good deal more because of concealed charges of various sorts. ‘There are times when a few hun- dred dollars will save a life, restore health or well being, deliver one from want or do other essential things. It is no time to worry about cost, provided the cost is known and is not ruinous. An example will suffice, and it will suggest other possibilities to many women. A woman in reduced circum- stances borrowed $200 to buy a flivver. That sounds almost insane, doesn't it? Investigation proved that she bought the flivver to call for and deliver wash- ing. Her foresight and good sense was soon justified in a thriving home laun- diy business, and her loan was out- standing for only three months. In- dependence and plenty cost her $15. In the case of the sma!l loan, ask what is the net cost, and then con- sider does the end justify the means. If both answers are satisfactory do not hesitate to borrow. Liver Patties. Boil one pound of liver until tender, rinse and chop fine. Add one cupful of bread or cracker crumbs, one egg and one cupful of hot water. Season with salt, Fpper and onlon salt. Mix well and form into flat cakes, dip in flour and fry until brown. 4