Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1930, Page 16

WOMAN’S PAGE. ;I‘HE EVENING STAR, Time and Occasion for Jewelry BY MARY It has taken many years for women to learn that the selection of jewelry should depend on the time and the oc- casion and that the ring that would be appropriate for evening would be in decidedly bad taste on the golf course or in the business office. As a general thing diamonds, rubles, emeralds and other transparent stones are considered appropriate for evening or more formal afternoon occasions, while opaque stones BRACELET AND EARRINGS of SAP- PHIRES AND RHINESTONES. NECKLACE AND PENDANT OF BAGUETTE - CUT RHINESTONES. ORNAMENT IS A MATCHING RHINESTONE RING. such as carnelian, jade and chalcedony are suitable for daytime wear. Occasionally these opaque stones, when set with brilliants or when espe- | cially well adapted to the ensemble, may be chosen for evening—but there is no good excuse for choosing brilliant stones or their imitations for practical day- time wean Jewelry is worn lavishly nowadays, but thi# does not excuse one for appear- MARSHALL. of dull ld do not wear those of a exceptions, however, in the case of or- naments in which two or more metal tones are combined in the same piece. Another rule that is well to follow in the evening ig this: Wear bracelets with earrings and a ripg or two with a necklace. Never wear all four sorts of trinkets at the same time. This week's Help for the Home Dres: maker gives diagram pattern and direc- tions for making a cold-weather sports cap suitable for a child or young girl. It is very easy to make but decidedly effective. If you would like a copy please send a_stamped, self-addressed enve- | lope to Mary Marshall, care of this pa- per and it will be forwarded to you. (Copyright, 1930.) Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Seeing Color. Until the days of Charles Darwin | naturalists supposed that animals were | not able to see colors. When Darwin figured out that we all have an animal | ancestry, he opened the way for a lot | of theorizing, which has kept the nat- uralists busy ever since. . Two of the questions brought up were: 1. Why do flowers have colors? | 2. Why are some lower animals able to change their color to correspond with | that of their surroundings? | Night-blooming flowers | white. Day-blooming flowers are usually some other color. Various insects carry the pollen seeds from one flower to an- | other, thus causing fertilization. Putting these facts together, the nat- | uralists have long held that the flowers | know their business. They attract their favorite insects and trade them a taste |of honey for their pollination services. In order to do this, they grow a color that may be seen by the night-flying or | day-flying insects, as the case may be. ;li?c:-preser\‘nuon is the answer in rief. Rabbits that live in the North are brown in Summer and white in Winter. ‘The chameleon will change its color in a few minutes. The naturalists have concluded that it is an advantage for some animals to look like their sur- roundings. Self-preservation is the an- swer in brief. Bees have been put to the test. Set up several strips of paper representing different colors and different hues. Put honey near one of them. Bees will soon learn to go directly to that particular color or hue for food. This means that are usually ing like a Christmas tree with a miscel- laneous collection of ornaments. It is| well to follow the rule not to mix the | metals. That is if you wear jewels set in | platinum do not wear those set in gold | at the same time. If your ornaments are they can distinguish color. By this sim- ple method the bee has demonstrated that it not only sees color, but that it can make finer distinctions than some human beings can. (Copyright, 1930.) MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE HOLLYWOOD, Calif, January 18] (N.AN.A).—The Hollywood schism is at last complete. The mighty—meaning 1n this village those of the higher finan- cial ranks—have established their revolt against the autograph-hunting bour- geoisie who have in years past thronged the sidewalks and staircase of the main street cafe where the famous were prone to gather. Now, safely secluded in a club some | three doors away, maintained by the same restaurateur and supplied by the cuisine of the abandoned cafe, the cinema great order their lettuce hearts and lemons in peace. ‘That is, it is peaceful so far. The apple-green purlieus of the Embassy Club are cool and spacious; its par- quetry floor is shining in virginal splen- dor; its headwaiter has that intima air, that sort of “You and I against tl THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE. Spanish Influence. MERRICK. world,” that the headwaiter of an ex- clusive Hollywood club should have. The walls are chastely done in gold stenciling on the green. awning which shelters the celluloid gentry from the elements and curious humanity is green and orange stripes. There is just a smack of nouveau art in the orange paint about the street doors, but that is soon done away with in the restraint of the room itself. There is one great danger in this glorious seclusion—movie great were made by the masses. The peering and pushing and surging of gutter crowds established Mary Pickford, Norma ‘Talmadge, Constance Talmadge., Cor- rinne Griffith, Bebe Daniels, Gloria Swanson and others of the upper crust. They are beautiful idols of & beauty- hungry public. A great portion of that publics which made them had no way of measuring the extent of their art— or their lack of art. They had not been given an opportunity of forming a basis | of comparison. Today they are hearing different.and | better ~entertainment. It would be! | stupid to deny that already this publkc.“ quick to learn, as all American groups are, has sensed a difference between beauty of face and ability in perform- ! ance. The most foolhardy thing the movies can do is to isolate themselves 100 completely from the public which made them. And this I say with the fullest per- sonal sympathy for the distressing ef- fects of lack of privacy which they have endured in the past. It has been a torment goldenly rewarded, however. The ultimate irony would be a state of magnificent isolation and relaxation— and with a loss of demand from the sidewalk groups that have been the corner stone of movie art in the past. Ina Claire, lunching at the Embassy Club with a group of New Yorkers, in- cluding Arthur Hammerstein and Dor- othy Dalton, wears the navy blue which is the badge of smartness in Paris this season. Her frock—and ladies the world over will be interested to hear this—was midway between knee and ankle; was straight all around; was absolutely un- trimmed, save for tiny points of white bastiste flower, very flat, worked on the left shoulder. A small hat of navy blue felt, molded to the head, but with a 2!3-inch brim turned down all around, was worn, | Black broadtail topcoat, full length, and | silver fox fur. ‘The most interesting thing about Ina Claire at the present telling is the fact that she has maintained her Manhattan entity absolutely. The colorful gags of Hollywood's sartorial ways have not poliuted her chic. (Copyright, 1930. by North A o Paper Alllances o oan News- | LIGHT OF MY WAY BY JOHN R. GUNN, Disproportioned Emphasis. “Esau was & cunning hunter * Esau despised his birthright,"—Genesis, XXv.27-34. We generally think of Esau as a failure. That estimate of him is cor- rect, considering what he might have been and might have achleved. His birthright as his father's eldest son en- titled him 1o succeed his fathor as head A flecked tweed in Spanish red col- oring reflects further Spanish note in throw scarf neckline that uses plain woolen in blending tone. The scarf col- lar is cut in one with applied band at left side of dress that gives the figure charming height. A belt of the plain woolen raised waistline. The skirt achieves its flared fullness through circular godets inserted at front and back. It's a semi-sports type that expresses new chic femininity that Paris decrees £0_smart and important at moment. Style No. 119 is designed in sizes 16, ‘1’3. 20 years; 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches ust. It makes up most attractively in black canton crepe, worn so extensively for all-day occasions. Other interesting ideas for its devel- opment are bottle green faille silk crepe. h?u:k Justrous crepe satin, orange red flat silk crepe, jlc&ulrd silk crepe in burgundy tones, dahlia-purple faille silk crepe, plum shade in plain wool crepe and midnight blue flat silk crepe. For a pattern of this style send 15 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 ttern you inclose 10 cents additional }:rneowotwrmw n Maga- indicates fashionable youthful | of the family and manager of the fam- {ily estate. But he despised his birth- | right, and sold it to his brother Jacob for a mess of pottage. The business | of his father's estate did not_concern him so much as hunting and having a | good time. Sports were his main at- | traction, not business. | Esau’s trouble was a digproportioned | emphasis. He wasted too much time on sports. He put pleasure before business. His brother Jacob was a very plain, ordinary man, not nearly so gifted or | likeable as he'was. Yet Jacob far out- | stripped him. The reason was that | Jacob applied himself to business, while | Esau wasted himself ontrifles. We say Esau was foolish, and yet many of us are foolishly repeating his mistake. Equipped with brawn and brain and capable of doing something worth while, we occupy ourselves with things altogether unworthy of us. In the course we pursue there is the same sort of disproportion as if one should build a factory to manufacture air- planes and then manufacture nothing ut paper kites. .Not that we mean wrong, but we put the accent on the wrong things. No man has learned to live until he has learned how to properly dis- tribute himself, how fo rightly propor- tion his emphu’h. Do not waste your- self on trifles; When you give your best, let it be for the sake of the best. Make the most of what is most worthy. | bright gold at the same time. There are | Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. January 18, 1861.—All those political leaders in Washington who have been carrestly endeavoring to find a way to end the trouble of the times with- out destroying the Union of the States are deeply interested in the movement ich Virginia has inaugurated and which many believe will solve the prob- lem and remove the fear of hostilities. This plan is to induce both the seced- ing States and the general government to abstain from hostilities until the border slave-holding States can demand, in a fraternal spirit, of all the author- ities of all the rest of the States that they consider in a national convention the existing condition of the Union and remedy the evils by the adoption of the Crittenden proposition or whatever clse may prove satisfactory to those who simply want to secure, for all time to come within the Union, the institution of Southern slavery against unconstitu- tional encroachments on the part of the general government. The ‘news from the South, received within the last week, indicates: 1--That South Carolina is already tired of the position in which she now stands and is secking support in other Scuthern States, 2-—That there is still a chance that the popular vote in Georgia and Ala- bama may be against following South Carolina out of the Union. 3-—That Arkansas refuses to hold a convention on the subject until after Mr. Lincoln’s inauguration, March 4. That Tennessee has determined to refer to the people whatever her con- vention may do, which cannot be done until after March 4. 5-—That North Carolina is not likely to act precipitately. 6-—That Virginia has accorded to her people the right to pass judgment by popular vote upon any action taken by her convention, and is at the same time engaged in urging a plan under which the whole trouble may possibly be accommodated without destruction of the Union. 7—That Maryland Unionists are firm- 1y opposing the plans of Southern sym- pathizers to involve that State in the secession movement. 8—That Missouri has decided that whatever her convention may do shall be duly submitted to the people for ratification or rejection. Optimistic observers here hope that the plan of the Southern extremists, to draw the whole South out of the Union before March 4, will fail and that the delay will afford time to solve the try- ing problem. NANCY PAGE Clothes for the South Are Not Bulky BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Nancy's speclal friends, the Burn- hams, were going South for the Winter months. Agnes asked her over one aft- ernoon to show her the clothes she was planning to take. “My bathing suit looks like a joke, really. Remember the time when suits were of flannel, with ankle-length | bloomers and big, full skirts. No wonder | the girl of that day never did any swim- ming. But my stroke is the pride of his | life, Arthur says, and he wouldn't for the world have me wear anything that would cramp my style. So here you see what you see!” And she brought out a one-piece bathing suit in jersey. It was backless down to waist. A narrow strip at neck buttoned and held the front waist part in place. The color of the suit was turquoise blue. For dress-up occasions, Agnes had a number of Summer dresses in crepe de chine and in printed silk. Her pet one was made of eyelet embroidered batiste. It was in the pure white. It had a rippling bertha that extended over upper part of arms, giving the ef- fect of short cap sleeves. ) Her hat was a scoop brim affair, sim- ply trimmed with a band of grosgrain ribbon. The straw was a fine Leghorn, Nancy noticed that most of the clothes were of pure white, but that there was always a contrasting color. | ulges are out of place in one's That Seeas reducing. “Write to Nancy Bage. | care of this paper. inclosing a stamp ressed envelope, asking for her leaf- figure The Jewish festival of Chanukah, or | the Feast of Dedication, is kept in memory of the purification and rededi- cation ‘of the temple, when, in the year 164 B.C., the hosts of Judas Macca- baeus finally scattered the armies of | the Syrian king, Antlochus IV, that | had desecrated the temple by intro- ducing heathen ceremonies. JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in Etiquet. BY JOSEPH J. FRISCH. P SOME COOKS FRITTER THEIR TIME P«WAY) 1Y H. H., Boston, Mass.—Such soft foods as fritters, patties, croguettes, sweet. breads, French toast, soft bongless fish, etc., are usually (and properly, Accordin; to the rules of table etiquet) cut wit the fork, not the knife. PARIS.—The back panels of this rose velvet chiffon dress, designed by Chanel, drag 12 inches on the floor. ‘The front just clears the toes | The corsage is new, with its wide decollete, all around. RI DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX IDFEAR MISS DIX: A lot is written about married women getting slouchy atter marriage and neglecting their personal appearance, and they are always advised to keep themselves looking as attractive as possible. course, the spending of enough money to keep well dressed. Which do you think a man would prefer—a wife who spends money on her clothes and the beauty shops or one who goes shabby and saves the money that such things co;;" Answer—Both. T think the man would like to have his wife look pretty and | ARIE. attractive and well dressed and still put the money in the savings bank. But inasmuch as this cannot be done and you cannot make a dollar work overtime, the woman is wise who steers a medium course and plays both ends of the game. By which I mean that she is neither extravagant nor neglectful of her personal appearance, but saves judiciously and spends judiciously. Looking at it from the wife's point of view, it is a matterof business to her to keep her husband in love with her and thinking she is the only woman, and this she cannot do unless she keeps herself looking attractive. to a woman who is dowdy and frowsy, you can’t blame him if he wonders what | made him marry her. If he comes home And at such a moment a man is not going to sit down and think that his wife has saved him $29.39 by not having her hair shampooed or her fingers done or getting a new dress at the bargain sale. He is just going to be disgusted with her for the way ‘The country is full of deserted wives who went shabby and worked for saving his money. she looks. He isn't going to be grateful to her their fingers to the bone and stayed at home and got dull saving the money fo help their hushands get a start and who were forsaken after husband got rich. 8o, Marie, the best investment you can make of part of your money and in the running with husband. keep yourself dolled up ) is to DOROTHY DIX. * ok TDEAR DOROTHY DIX: Here I am 33, about as husky as a man can be, cer- tainiy decent living. with ordinary human intelligence and education, yet I can’t make n I am not lazv and do not drink. meet interesting people and see interesting things. 1 like to go to interesting places, Am fond of good music, clothes, dancing, swimming, horses, all kinds of sports, yet with my limited earning capacity am thrown with people Who are not congenial, consequently Iam as lonesome as & man can possibly be. What is the matter with me? GORDON. Answer—At a guess, T should say that the trouble with you is that you have no trade or profession and do not know how to do anything well enough to command & good salary. that sort of man never succeeds. You are jack-of-all trades and good at nothing, and 8it down and have it out with ycurself, man to man. Make a fair and honest survey of your abilities and then settle on some one definite thing and s>t about making yourself an expert in it. | schools in which you can improve your technique in any line, and when you have become an expert people will be glad to pay you good money for good work. DOROTHY DIX (Copyright, 1930.) Decorator and Owner of Hous BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER e 1-18 A DIGNIFIED AND SAFE DINING ROOM TREATMENT. ‘The function of an interior decorator is unique. He is not within it unless he learns the tastes of the person or persons for whom he is doing the work. This is just as true when he is given carte blanc to do a room or a whole house during the time when the owner is absent. Unless the decorative scheme coincides with the taste and character of the occupant, there is incongruity. Nothing is more destructive to a cozy homelike atmosphere than to have the persons occupying the home at vari- ance with their surroundings. It is important for this view of in- terior decoration to be thoroughly un- derstood by those who sccure the help of interfor decorators as well as by those who do the work. The owner should be an aid to the decorator. Often he is entirely disinterested after once placing the order with the decorator, expect money paid to give just the desired results without any effort on his part, or that of the homemaker herself. The decorator is then given a prob- lem impossible to solve to the entire satisfaction of the employer. He may understand his art perfectly, and know what would suit the rooms in relation to their e: ures, to their architec- tural limitations, to their period or thefr artistic combinations of periodic deco- ration, and how to fit such require- ments within a stipulated sum. But how can he know that the occupants will fit into the scheme unless he gets to know them somewhat? It is this possibility of inconsistency that makes the decorator’s function baffing. To those who would consult interior decorators, let it also be said that they should have faith in his or her abllity to know what is ct. It is a miser- able task to !l‘::fi;: to help a home« maker solve in ration schemes and all the time to have objections That means, of ‘There are night schools and trade | | in the center. Bake in a moderate oven. WASHINGTOX. D. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 198 LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. My cuzzen Artie was around at my house yestidday, and after supper ma sed, O goodness my tweed coat is still around at the tailers and I may wunt to wear it tomorrow morning and I wont have it. Sippose you boys go around to Mr. Kats and get my tweed icoat for me, she sed. And ask him why he dident send it, she sed. Mr. Kats being the taller that presses things for peeple, and ‘me and Artie enE around, and Mr, Kats sed he did- ent send it because he forgot. Being sippose to be a bum Teason whenever I use it for anything, and he folded up the coat and put it over my arm, say- ing, Now be careful, its nice and pressed. And about half way home I had a ideer, saying, Hay, lets both put the coat on at the same time and pertend to_be Siamese twins. Wich we did, each putting a sleeve in one arm and buttoning the coat around us, and it came all a ways down to our feet and ony our heds stuck out, feeling funny as anything and proberly looking even funnier, judging by the ybody pointed at us and laffed, and we went in the house and had a fearse time getting up the steps to the living room, and ma herd us pritty neer falliLg down and she came out to |the top of the stairs saying, Well my |lands upon my werd. now izzent that terrible, my newly pressed tweed coat. ' Now Willyum I just wunt you to come | and look at this, she sed. | ‘Wich pop did, starting to laff like | anything, and saying, Haha, thats a | screem, whats happened to your sents of humor? he sed. and ma sed, I know whats happened to my newly pressed tweed coat, thats enough for me. I sip- pose if it was your overcoat you'd still think is was funny, she sed. Most_assurantly I would, pop sed, and ma sed, All rite. Boys, take my coat off and both get into the overcoat with the velvet coller thats hanging up down there on a hanger just the way it came from the pressers, she sed, and pop sed, Nuthing of the kind, lay off for Peet sake. A joke's no good when its re- peeted and we've all had our fun now, he_sed. I _havent, but Ive called your little | bluff, anyway, you big bluffer, ma sed. And she unbuttoned her coat off of us and gave us each a smack. Being werth it. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. | | | Whoo-hoo! Baby! Drandpa gived me | a nickel to do my scrunchin’ in the | kitchen— (Copyright, 1830 AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “The danger o' pettin’ a man to get him in a good humor is that he gets in the habit o' poutin’ about nothin’ Just so's to get petted.” (Copyright, 1930.) Walnut Meringue Squares. Cook half a cupful of water and one and one-half cupfuls of sugar in a smooth kettle until the sirup spins a thread when dropped from the tip of a spoon. Remove immediately from the fire and add five marshmallows cut in small pieces. Pour gradually, while beat- ing constantly, into the beaten whites of ‘the eggs, then add two tablespoon- fuls' of shredded cocoanut and one- fourth teaspoonful of vanilla, and one cupful of English walnut meats chop- ped. Roll some rich ple or puff paste to one-eighth inch in thickness and cut into two and one-half inch squares. Ar- range on a baking tin and spread with the meringus mixture, piling it slightly DAILY DIET RECIPE BAKED RHUBARB. Rhubarb, six cups: sugar, two and one-half cups; grated lemon rind, two tablespoons; butter, two tablespoons. SERVES SIX PEOPLE. Cut off leaves of rhubarb, as they are poisonous. Trim root end. Cut in one-inch pieces with- out’ peeling. Place one layer of rhubarb in baking dish. Sprinkle with sugar and grated lemon rind and dot with butter. Repeat until the ingredients are used. Bake in a moderate oven until rhubarb is tender (about one-half or three- quarters of an hour). Individual ramekins or custard cups could be used for baking. DIET NOTE. Recipe contains lime, iron and vitamins A, B and C. Can be eaten by children over 8, by nor- mal adults of average or under weight. thrust forward. This is not the needed co-operation. It is for the owner and homemaker to confer with the decora- tor as an expert on whom they rely to_solve their problems. It is for the decorator to confer with the owner and homemaker, not alone to get their views on particular schemes, but to come to a better understanding of their natural preferences, their in- herent likes and dislikes, their prede- lictions as to colors and their natural bents. For instance, a library may mean & room set with bookcases for volumes used as backgrounds, or it may mean a room in which books are friends and companions. Each type of decora- tion can be attractive and beautiful, but they would be widely different. This i5 but one example of divergences that must be completely handled after knowing what is expected as the result of all the hard work the decorator must do. (Copyright, 1930.) FEATUR The Sidewalks ES. of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. A large manufacturing company gave a dinner to 50 guests the other night, for which it paid $200 a plate. The favors were gold wrist watches. It might be added that the $200 included expenses for the engagement of theatri- cal stars. Ten thousand dollars to entertain two score and ten people. 5 * K ok X A business man lifted the receiver from the phone hook. “I wish speak to Mr. Tinker,” he said, as a voice answered. “This 18 Mr Tinker's secre- tary,” was the re- “Just him that Mr. Harper wishes to speak to him on a personal matter.” “Yes, but will u tell me what it about?” “No, I would rather not. It is a matter which con- cerns the two of us. “Well, then, I am afraid he will golttalk to you, unless you let me know “All right, he need not,” sald Mr. Harper, just before banging the re- ceiver on the hook. “I simply wanted to give him an order to handle person- ally,” he sald. “However. I know sev- eral firms that will handle the matter as well.” And somebody else got the order. * e A famous after-dinner speaker said: “Where I used to receive from three to four invitations a week to speak, I do not get one a month. I was kept busy adding to my stock of stories to meet emergencies, but during the past few years I have ceased bothering about them. We fellows with somewhat of a reputation used to perform gratis, but the comedians of the stage have taken our place. Their fees run anywhere from $250 to the sky; depending upon the man’s reputation. Why, just the other night, an organization paid a female musical star $1,000 just for sing- ing three songs. She wasn't in the place more than half an hour. All we received was some chow and a place at the speakers’ table. Even after- din- ner entertaining has become highly commercialized.” * * * ok An inventor who has made a fortune visits Washington frequently. In dis- cussing his success, he said: “I have alway made it a point to work on sim- ple devices—the sort that will simplify our daily functions. The simpler the better.” Then he handed us an excerpt from Dr. Conwell's “Acres of Diamonds.” We are pleased to print it! “I spoke thus (referring to devis- | that is easier to handle. ing articles) to an audience in New Britain, Conn, and a lady four seats back went home and tried to take off her collar, and the collar button stuck in the buttonhole. She threw it out and said, ‘I am going to get up some- thing better than that to put on col- lars” Her husband said: ‘Afer what Conwell said tonight, you see there is need of an improved collar fastener There is & human need; there is a great fortune. Now, then, get up a collar button and get rich.' He made fun of her and, consequently, made fun of me, and that is one of the saddest things which come over me like a deep cloud of mid- night sometimes—although I have worked so hard for more than half a century, yet how little I have ever really done. “Notwithstanding the greatness and the handsomeness of your compliment tonight, I do not believe there is one in ten of you that is going to make a million dollars because you are here tonight; but it is not my fault, it is yours. I say that sincerely. What is the use of my talking if people never do what I advise them to do? “When her husband ridiculed her, she made up her mind ‘she will” Sha does not say anything about it, she does it. 1t was that New England woman who invented the snapbutton, which you can find anywhere now. It was first a col- lar button with a spring cap attached. Any of you who wear modern water- proofs know the button that simply pushes together, and when you unbut- ton it you simply pull it apart. - That is the button to which I refer, and which she invented. She afterward in- vented several other buttons, and then invented more, and then was taken into partnership with great factories. “Now that wom- An goes over the sea every Summer in her private steamship — yes, and takes her hu: band with her! If her husband were to die, she would have money enough left now to buy a foreign duke or count or some such title as that at the latest--quo~ SHE WOULD HAVE MONEY ENOUGH TO BUY A COUNT- my incident? It is thi I told her then, though I did not know her, what I now say to you, ‘Your wealth is too near to you. You are iooking right over it': and she had to look over it, because it was right under her chin.” Said the inventor: “I have kept this in mind during my entire career in the field of invention. I have found that there is more to be gained in supplying small things to the public than in try- )n{ to devise machines. The great mis- takes youngsters frequently make is in overlooking the simple devices.” MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Pimples Under the Skin. Dear Miss Leeds—(1) Could you tell me what causes hard and red lumps to appear on my forehead and the side of my nose? They do not come to a head, but are very hard and sore. (2) Is & commercial soap all right to use on & tender face? F. G. Answer—(1) The lumps under _the skin are a form of acne and are caused by a sluggish skin or improper diet. Be especially careful about your diet and also try to tone up the skin through bathing and massage. Exercise in the open air will also do wonders toward waking up a sluggish skin. At night give your face the following treatment: Cleanse thoroughly with cold cream. Wipe off the cream and wash the face with soap and warm water. Leave a thick lather on for a few minutes and then rinse well. Dash on some cold water, dry carefully and then pat in a skin tonic made of 1 ounce of rose water, 1 ounce of cologne water and 30 grains of sulphate of zinc. (2) The soap you mention is very good. However, if I were you I would try some pure milder soap for a time to see if it helps toward remedying the condition of your 3 LOIS LEEDS. How to Bleach Freckles. Dear Miss Leeds—I would appreciate it a great deal if you would help me solve the following problem: milk good for erasing freckles? If not, what is? Mine are dark and I hesi- tate to try any of the patent medicines. How about lemon juice? (2) My legs have been getting very stout. I massage them with my hands every night, but it doesn’t seem to help any. What can I do to make them thinner? (3) I have a number of tiny pimples under my skin. They are on my nose and cheeks. How can I re- move them? . N. K. Answer.—(1) Sour milk or butter- milk is often used as a bleach for freckles which are not of the stubborn variety. I suspect, however, ‘yours are rather stubborn, and the following bleach proves quite effective for these: MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKPAST. Oatmeal with Cream. Grapefruit. Broiled Sausages. Buckwheat Cakes, Maple Syrup. Coffee. DINNER., Clear Soup. Roast Chicken, Brown Gravy. Stuffed Celery. Cranberry Sauce. Mashed Potatoes. Baked Squash. ‘Tomato Salad, French Dressing. Orange Pudding. Coffee. SUPPER. Creamed Shrimps with Green Peppers. ‘Toasted Crackers. Gingered Pears, Chocolate Cake. ‘ea. BUCKWHEAT CAKES. Scald one scant cup of Indian meal with boiling water, using just enough to swell it. When cool add two and three-quarter cups of buckwheat and four cups of warm milk or , and beat until well mixed. Add two table- spoons of molasses, one teaspoon of salt and half a cake of com- pressed yeast, dissolved in one- quarter cup of lukewarm water. Beat hard for three minutes and let rise in a warm place over night. In the morning beat well again, let rise a second time, then stir in one teaspoon of soda dis- solved in a little warm water and bake on & hot griddle. Serve hot with maple sirup. ORANGE PUDDING. One cup cake crumbs, soaked in one cup of milk until very soft, then beat lightly with a fork: add one-quarter cup of sugar, grated rind and juice of one orange, speck of salt and one well beaten egg. Pour into custard cups, place in pan of hot water. Bake in erate oven until firm in the center. CREAMED SHRIMPS. Remove seeds and top from green pepper and parboll few minutes. Drain and cut in thin strips. Mix one rounding tea- spoon flour with little milk. Then add one cup milk and seasoninj of salt and pepper. Cook unt! thick, then add one can shrimps, broken up and strips of green T8, k two or three min- before serving. () 1Is| Four ounces lactic acid, two ounces elderflower water, three ounces cerin, a tiny pinch of borax. | proves too strong for your skin, dilute- | with more elderflowér water or rose | water. Yes, lemon juice may be used | as a bleach also. |~ (2) In order to reduce your legs you | will have to go through some relaxing, | shaking, stretching and kicking exere cises every day. Give about an equal time to each. It may take several months before you notice any decided: | improvement, but if you keep up this program every day a gradual improve- | ment will be sure to result. If you | wish definite information in renfll to the various exercises, please send | stamped, self-addressed envelope with a request for my leaflet on “How to Re: duce.” (3) Your problem is the same as that of P. G.'s, whose letter appears above, and I suggest that you follow the same treatment I have suggested for her. If the pimnles seem to come to & head under the skin, prick them open with a sterilized needle and press out the white matter inside. After this use an antiseptic wash such as boric acid solution. LOIS LEEDS. (Copyright, 1930.) MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Destructive Habits. One mother "fl“ The best of children at certain period: their lives have some destructive habits \which are very irksome to u:. parents. I try to point out all sorts of nature's beauties to my children—tht velvety texture of flowers, how - tifully they are constructed and how | impossible it is for our clumsy finger:’ to fit the pleces together correctly. | Also, I try to explain to them how much labor is-involved in the con. struction of a simple article of furnitury and take them with me on observatios tours through our local factories. (Copyright, 1930.) My Neighbor Says: The oven temperature must al- ways be uniform when baking cakes. Ope and closing the oven door changes the tempera- ture. Divide the time for baking cake into four periods: First quarter, cake mixture begins to rise; ond quarter, cake begins to brown; quar-- ter, finishes rising and continues browning; fourth quarter, finishes baking, shrinks from side of pan.’ China may easily be mended with white paint such' as artists use in ofl painting. Put it on as you would glue and allow it to stand three or four days before washing the china. A piece of gum camphor placed Rll.ge a plano .will Tuy moths