Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1930, Page 22

Emphasis Placed on Scarf Styles BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. WOMAN'’S PAGE. ‘The well-dressed woman gives a great deal of thought to the accessories which accompany her wardrobe. The little details of the costume are significant, They include all articles not part of the necessities of the wardrobe such as scarfs, bags, purses, most neckwear, jewelry, fancy handkerchiefs, ribobns, laces, apart from those used in making the dress or garment, gloves, and the other thousand and one things that give finishing touches. Just now great emphasis is placed on the style and finish of scarfs. Many of the scarfs have bags to match and some have hat trimmings of the same sort also, thus supplying ensemble ac- cessories. . Fortunately, many of these articles' can be made at home, if a ‘woman so chooses. And what is grat- ifying is that they can be fashioned from various pieces of silk and ribbon now stored away. Great care must be exercised to have the color combina- tions pleasing, for on this more than else does the success of the article depend. One scarf can be made of a number of strips of silk not more than one and one-fourth inches wide. Five or six make the center with a border of dark silk about two inches wide. The ends of the scarf are straight, but are given an unusual a) ice by having a with the square cut diagonally across the center it will make the correct triangular sections. The back of the scarf can be of the bor- get;colnr or made recisely like the it.” Seams should be allowed, as fin- Another scarf is made of three shades ©f one color or of three harmoniously contrasting colors. The center is of one tone bordered with a second. In scarf again is found the novelty feature, for these colors are so that chis | Jor square of the tiird color or lightest tone is set across them like the transverse section of a bow or like & buckle. The sllk tapers at each side to form points ere. Another interesting arrangement is of two bias folds attached together for a few inches in the lengthwise center. One fold ties around neck, while the third down on either side in front. Such a neck arrangement is se- cured for triangular scarfs or “half squares” by sewing a bias strip to the bias e of the scarf. This strip, or tie, is the same length as the bias side of the scarf and is sewed for a few inches along the center edge or neck- line. When the tie is knotted about the wearer’s throat the triangular scarf falls shawl fashion across the shoulders, and down the back in graceful ripples. Such a tie portion can be put on an already owned half-square by macthing the color of the scarf, its border or one of the dominant colors. In this in- stance the tie could be straight, with endzginbduke:sflkmnfl:. for then the width of cient. The edges should be picoted and the tie could be hemstitched to half-square. Dmtlel-l Mop.‘_ ‘When your dustless mop has outlived its usefulness, cut the old material away, then to the frame sew discarded stock- ings. FPirst cut the stockings into 12- inch lengths, then at each end of these lengths cut a fringe 4 inches deep, leaving 4 inches in the middle uncut, through which to sew the pieces to the frame. Sew to the frame a sufficient number of these lengths, or fringed ieces, to make a mop of the desired ullness or weight. Oil the finished mop and set it aside in a covered con- tainer over night. You will find that gathering cust and brigHiening Sy g an e floor, and one which is easier to wash arranged they interlace, apparently, while a small © What a Night! | Go to sleep, you're dreaming! ‘That's nét just my way of twisting “eommon ~out of ~shape. It is| more OF | than the common expression, “Wi up, you're dreaming.” You see we all dream every minute we're asleep. If we recall our dreams when we awake that means we've slept lightly. If we are startled out of sleep by our dreams, that means we've barely crossed the threshold between con- sciousness and unconsciousness. If visions come to us, or if the spirits of absent friends, or anything like that, just as we are merging from sleep to wi ; or from -consciousness sleep, t means our subconsciousness has played us a trick, at least it seems that way to me. Out of the subconsciousness, where emotions,. inspirations, faneies, imagi- but many of the finest, greatest best ideas that inventors, painters, poets, architects, authors, enginecrs, shoemakers and scientists use in elaboration of -their finished products. So we need not complain if we happen to recall particularly vivid dreams or their weird contents. It is only when the. dream state be- comes a chrofic one that we may fair- ly complain, and even then it is gen- erally the dreamer’s own fault In good health, one recalls dreams only occasionally, and one is ‘startled out of sleep by a bad dream never. in 00 30 good health, one dreams so much and remembers so many details on awakening, that going to sleep comes to be rather dreadful to contem- plate, whereas it should be !h&ldve a live boy feels and manifests as he tackles a guarter section of pumpkin ie. The little old beddy, if it is right- ly equipped and arranged, out to call a cheery welcome to the owner when- ever his thoughts travel toward sleep. It ought to say “Come on, let that go till tomorrow—you'll find it easier to tackle then, you know.” I fear this may not apply to the sad sleeping accommodations many people are content to endure. It's funny how PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. and dry than the ordinary wool or cot- ton mop. nourished ‘I as heartlly commend a bledfl.me lunch or meal as an aid to good sleep. A good conscience from the hygienic point of view is the best assurance of sound, dreamless, refreshing sleep. all, most of us slecp as well as we deserve. (Coprright, 1930,) Word has been coming from Paris to | that printed materials would not be sp much used this Spring ‘as they were a year ago, and that the majority of the new dresses would gain distinction through clever and often intricate manipulation of the material rather than through fabric design. In the meantime such fascinating printed ma- terials are offered to us, and dresses have appeared for Southern weaimade of these printed materials with %fih the | smart effect that it will be exiremely hard for Paris to put over her edict in |. favor of fewer prints. Possibly. figured materials were used too’ much last season. There were certain rather jumbled designs that be- gan to look very tiresome before the folks who insist on having excellent riding accommodations for the few minutes or at most the hours they travel every day, yet languish through endless nights in beds that should have gone to the junk pile long since. The common causes of shallow sleep and disturbing dreams are (1) tobacco excess, (2) overeating, (3) indulgence in alcoholic beverages, (4) insufficient ventilation and overncatung of sleeping room, (5) neglect of daily open-air exercise, (6) too heavy bed coverings or sleeping fitments that the sleeper should be ashamed to be found alive in, to say nothing of death. To bad dreamers I heartily commend the familiar prescription: Six miles of oxygen daily on the hoof. To all except those already over- My Neighbor Says: ‘When cleaning out a fireplace, sprinkle tea leaves among the ashes. They will prevent the dust, from flying about. In new curtains, them in water to which a handful of salt has been added. ‘The salt draws out the lime and makes the washing eagler. Save all celery tops, and dry them and place in oven, turning them now and agein. Store the leaves in an airtight Use them for fia T wn 3 unn;: the sides to the middle and seaming together. Ia two blankets together, quilt v\t; white wool, and to finish make a cover of cheesecloth. They are ? my ®ood imitation of eider- seem very commonplace indeed. But the new designs are not jumbled—at least the best of them are not—and there is a freshness in the combinin In! colors that meets with approval of i ;'fm'mmm" for _im ularly, - mediate are the flowered taffetas, which lent themselves to use for eve- ning or the most picturesque sort of afternoon wear. : cDuffi President John Q. Adams, Henry Clay, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. February 3, 1859 —An exhibition of “photographs of the illustrious dead of An;‘e'rln" in the renowned Washington gallery of Brady is attracting local and national attention, says ’rnrfe Eve- ning Star today. Many. residents of this city and visitors from other cities are availing themselves of the oppor- tunity to see these striking likenesses. Included ‘in the collection are - like- nesses of the following distinguished American statesmen, orators, litterati and heros of past times, as listed in The Star: Comdr. Jones, Comdr. Mor- is, Gen. Worth, Gen. P. Smith, Levi Woodbury, Albert Gallatin, ex-Presi- dent Jackson, Silas Wright, Audubon, Dr. E. K. Kane, Chancellor Kent, George Mg e, Judge Story, ex- Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, ex- President Taylor, Joseph J. Evans, ex- President Polk, Hon. Willlam L. Marcy, Thomas H. Benton, J. Fenimore Cooj ah G ot e Gooper “Brady, in years past, seeking to perfect a collection of fine likenesses of every one who has been famous in the United States in his time,” says The Star, “has already, perhaps, a thousand such pictures, all capitally executed, of both males and females who have made their mark in the his- tory of their times—civil, military, naval and social. “A century hence, his pictures, col- {el’f:ier to fl’ll‘t end‘; will be estimated at ue value—but, perhaps, not until then. The list of m’;:e nl:med above does not comprise one-fiftieth part of the really interesting portraits to be seen at present in his Washington gal- lery, where one can at any moment look upon more speaking portraits of the men and women who have con- rtibuted most to the cause of American progress in the arts and sciences, in literature, industrial, political and so- cial economy, etc., etc., than exist any- where else on the face of the globe.” The play of “The School for Scan- dal,” Sheridan's great comedy, with Miss Jane M. Davenport as ‘Teazle, attracted an appreciative audience to the Washington Theater tonight. Miss Davenport has announced her benefit and last performance here on Saturday night—day after tomorrow—in the play translated by herself, entitled “The Mesalliance.” JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English. BY JOSYPH J. FRISCH. & N NISEA, WHO DOVE OFF A SIXTY-FOOT TOWER, SAID TO ME," IF YOU ARE NOT ACCLIMATED, THE FLORIDA SUN WILL GET YOU COMING AND GLOWING.” il R. K.—The verb dive has no such form as dove. The proper form is dived. I dived, you dived, he dived, they dived, Nisba dived, etc., are the correct forms. Acclimate is pronounced ak-KLY- met (Y as in FLY), not AK-kle-mate. It means to habituate to a new clim- ate; as, an acclimated parrot is very hardy. It is also used in a figurative sense: as, I have not been long enough at this table to become well acclimated. .- Tiny Baby Still Survives. A baby girl who weighed one pound six ounces at birth is stfll alive in a hospital at Wolverhampton, England. During the first fortnight of her exist- ence she lived on one spot of brandy administered every four hours. Later Smartness in Printed Materials BY MARY MARSHALL. she was fed by means of a fountain pen filled with milk. At six weeks she weighed two pounds eight ounces. nothing but the time it takes to apply. If you: would like & .copy of the cir- cular, please’ send your stamped, self- addressed envelope to Mary Marshall, care of this paper, and it will be for- warded to you. WINTERTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. "It has to be a cold Winter day to lure’- me inside the green houses of the Botanic' Garden' at ‘the foot of Capito] Hill. But about once a year I can stand a little hothouse botany, though as a general thing I do not care for it. When all-the world about is dun and bare and Spring is scarcely sketched in buds upan the elm twigs, it feels good to go and bask in the steamy, tropic warmth of the green- house, But for the cement sidewalks, and the little signs in Latin, and the | strips of gardener’s hose, I would fancy myself in the tropics once more. ‘The fantastic shapes of tropical tree trunks and the peculiar texture and gloss of tropical leaves, like green Jeather, convey even to the man who walks about casually in the Botanic Garden much the same im lon that @ tropical rain forest produces, without the mosquitory inconvenienges. Yet I will say this for the tropics, that tropical weather can be and often is, delicious—something that cannot be said of a greenhouse at any time, I often wonder what it is that at- tracts older men to greenhouses. It has an odd fascination for nurses and baby carriages. s Our Washington greenhouse is not just an ordinary botanical garden. It is official, It has an Iggl'npr tion from Congress, It started irregularly, under the tutelage of a botanist named Breckenridge. He was appointed to go around the world on a governmental scientific expedition. Upon his return he was in the possession of thousands of specimens of flowers and trees, vines and shrubs. The pressed specimens went to form the nucleus of the Smith- sonian plant collection, but the living plants had no official provision for many years, during which they grew back of the Patent Office. The creation of the Botanic Garden, where now they are housed, came dur- ing the years when the original plan for a Eystematic beautification of Washington was forgotten, and the Botanic Garden was planted down upon the site of more majestic schemes, Cocoanut-Almond Cake. Cream two and one-half cupfuls of wdered sugar. with onme cupful of itter, stir in the juice of one lemon and the grated rind of half a lemon and half a uufmnful of nutmeg, add one small cupful of milk, then the whites of seven eggs beaten stiff and four cupfuls of prepared flour alter- nately. Last of all, stir in one kage of shredded cocoanut slowly lmr.lf‘mly mor Bake in three layers. For the filling, blanch one d of almonds, cool and dry them. aside two dozen for the top of the cake, then te the rest and add them This week's Bll'm&ll’ shows how to round or gral 0 the filling Spread between °l‘.ym e cate, of the decol PARIS.—First days of Spring will to general popularity, I'm told. collar and pockets. Redfern suggests gray kid with exundeclx shawl RI see short fur jackets like this elevated MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE MERRICK. Special Dispatch to The Star. HOLLYWOOD, Calif,, February 3 (N.AN.A.)—One of the most interest- ing chapters in local film history is being finished on a Culver City lot these days. William Van Dyke, the tall, lean, determined director, who has brought a picture out of Africa follow- ing a 12-month stay in that sun-baked country, is shooting the few studio close-ups and retakes that must be done before the final cutting. And the process is being held up at the present time because Edwina Booth, the blonde extra girl chosen for the lead in the story when a star backed out because of the danger involved, is lying sick of a tropical fever which is a souvenir of the African jaunt. Animal pictures galore have been made, but seldom by studios with regular staffs. Explorers have done this, or big game hunters. Hollywood direc- tors have been prone to make pictures of the jungle on a studio lot with a few cartloads of sand in the fore- ground and a couple of linen palm trees stuck at jungle angles against a cloth backdrop of sky. A year ago 34 people went into the heart of Africa to make a story which had caught the world by the heart— “Trader Horn"—the whismical ram- blings of an old brain enjoying s flare- up of the flame of youth before the darkness of eternity claimed it. Most Expensive Venture. This venture was the most’ expensive | one that the studibs have ever made. John McCormack’s half-million-dollar fee for a picture—Lawrence Tibbett's new contract, dizzying as it is—the high altitude of the Marilyn Miller and Irene Bordoni pay checks—all. fade into in- nimmlunce beside the cost of this jun- gle epic. The man who made it is the chap who_finished the “White Shadows in the South Seas” when the director who took it out made & botch of it. Because of his success atsthis tropical assign- ment, wherein Monte Blue's acting ability and the story came second in in- terest to the. gorgeous shots of crystal clear water, melting vistas of tropic jungle and radiance of golden moon- light on moving waters, he was sent out into the African bush. Most interesting is his reaction to that year in the dark country. “I don't know how great my story is. I won't know until the final cutting 1s accom- plished, the last edition done on the thousands of feet which I have amassed here. But this I do know—1I have caught Africa in every mood. I have Lfcwflll Africa—beauty that few real- that country has. Stark barren- ness that makes your soul creep. Mel- low stretches of growth Iit bounding waters. It's Africa—every inch of it. Why, Cairo to the cape is nothing. We've gone from one corner of the country to the other. We've fine- combed the dark continent and there isn’t an inch of it that has interest or beauty that we haven't caught. “We've gone into places where the animals were tame. They'd never been hunted. Where lions sat about like great cats upafraid. I shot a picture of & leopard tearing at a kill I had placed within range of my cameras across a small lake one day. And all the while we were working there b lions, like tawny tabby cats, watches the proceedings from the nearby bush with much interest. Trio Clubbed Lion Off. “They made no attempt to come near my people. They never do unless driven by hunger. Why, we made one shot of Edwina Booth and a couple of men beating a lion off with a club, and no- bod7 in the world will believe it's real. Of course, at such times we have the aninials covered by expert marksmen. One aever runs unnecessary chances with human life.” Now that he is home in Hollywood with the 34 persons he took out with him all accounted for. Van Dyke has another fight to wage. It is the same battle that has characterized his entire picture career when he wanted to try something else. He went into Westerns. “Van Dyke's top-notch on a Western, but he can’t. direct anything else” was again the verdict when he wanted to progress. Came serial pictures, and they provided the director with an oppor- tunity for the change and progression which he craved. Once again he was kept in the rut of serial pictures, He had to wage a bitter fight to get out of those. ‘The chance failure of a big director gave this man his o&p:nunny to direct Ramon Novarro in “Pagan.” That rutted him in the distant location phase of %lcmre-mn g, and as good as :(; t his ticket into the heart of ca. Sees Primitive in Society. Now William Van Dyke wants to di- rect comedy-drama of modern society life, He finds far more exciting and marvelous things occurring about him in Hollywood a fresh kill But Van Dyke knows that once again they're probably Stadying steamer routes and tapping their pencils on maps of far places. The fight to remain in Hol- i e e It ‘may not be ‘his next picture, but some day this lean- jawed, grey-eyed man with the marks of determined conflict on his face will do the thing he wants to do. Mean- while we have his word for it—"I have Africa in those cans of celluloid—the black heart of her and the dark smil- ing cheek.” (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- paper Alliance.) THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE. Parties Are in Order. The model illustrated is the latest chfllee‘.of me‘lmlelchw Pll'].;‘enn!. conspicuously smart in e poln&d at front in m taffeta of quaint pattern in bois de rose tones. The full fluttering circular skirt is shaped through the hips, The nar- row ruffiing at hem makes it even more versatile as little wearer moves, ‘The neckline is open V at front and rounded at back, is finished with ruf- fing as are the of the kimone sleeves, to carry out old-fashioned idea that is now s0 entirely new in the mode. Style No. 191 comes in sizes 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. In the 8-year size, it 18 made with 1% yards of 39-inch material with one-half yard of 32-inch contrasting of plain taffeta for ruffies. The thrifty mother who is sewing now for early Spring for little daugh- ter, & pretty dimity in sprigged pat- tern is very effective for general wear, Light blue cotton pique, daffodil yel- low men*grtnud voile in orchid tones crepe de chine in vivid red d white tones are ever so smart and practical, 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 fntcrn. you enclose 10 cents additional for. of large Fashion Magazine. New Face Powder Now the Fashion “Wouldn't you, too, like a face - der that wil keep shin - on Smoof skin or cause that pasty, flaky look. It is surely & wonder{ul face powder,—Advertisement. C., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1930. LITTLE BENNY New peeple started to move into the corner house today, me and Puds Sim- there watching the mov- kins standing o Sl Saniag and one little one, me saying, G, I wonder if any fellows are going to live here, I wonder. G, I hope 5o, we havent had any new around here for a long while, sed. Ony I dont see any base ball bats or bysickels or anything going in, sed. h.l(-ybe their all in alreddy, I sed. Wich just then the moving men started to carry in a little bewro with little blue flowers painted all over i, me saying, Good nite another gerl. Being too many gerls in the block alreddy, and Puds sed, Thats a heck of a note, heck. G, look at that gol in, T sed. Meening & little violin case with a little violin proberly inside of it, Puds | saying, Good nite if a fellow plays on that we dont wunt him around here, o | rl, G wizzickers coming to? it mite as well be a whats the nayberh ‘Wich just then a bewty looking gerl with long black cerls came and looked out the frunt door and went back agen. Being even bewtier looking than Mary Watkins, and I sed, G, gosh, and Puds sed, Gosh G. O well, I gess theres enough fellows around here without having to get use to another one, I sed, and Puds sed, Sure, I gess we can stand one more Tl Meening especially that one, and just then we saw her standing in'the win- dow, me saying, Maybe she'll think we're bizzy bodies, maybe we better keep on going. Wich we did just as the 2 big mov- ing meh was putting a big ice box on the little moving mans back, them ask- ing him if it hert his neck and him saying no he ony felt it In his knees. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Mayonnaise jars make ideal milk bottles for the children to carry in their lunch boxes to school. Even my little kindergarten child can unscrew the m‘: The wide top makes a good drinking glass, thus eliminating the necessity for ca one. With the regular half pint bottle it was necessary to ask the teacher to open it as the children could not do it without splas] it all over them- selves. By inse: & piece of heavy waxed paper between the cover and the jar no milk ean be spilled. FEATURES. Psychic Ad ventures of Noted Men’ and Women Phillips, the Poet, and a Haunted House BY J. P. GLASS, “PHILLIPS' LITTLE DAUGHTER DECLARED SHE HAD SEEN A LITTLE OLD MAN CREEPING Few people will be found these days | to admit a belief in haunted houses, al- though records of ‘“hauntings” have been made by more than one per- son engaged in investigation of psy- chic occurrences. But how are we to treat the account of Stephen Phillips, the British poet and dramatist, of the house with the automatically turning door handles which he leased in Egham, near Windsor? ‘Was there a little old man who crept about the house at all hours of the night, mysteriously turning the knobs and as mysteriously disappearing? Phillips leased the place as a retreat where il-nel might p:.r‘l& lpu;a and gjuielt. As quickly as le, he mov n vm.hq his yvhole household, including several servants. He did not know that the house had the reputation of being haunted. No- body had warned him, though several persons who knew the story of the place might have done so. Perhaps he would have scoffed/at them had they told him. Not an hour of peace and quiet did he find. “No sooner had we been installed,” he says, “than the uncanniest noises conceivable beset us.” Knockings, rappings, Soft footfalls, loud footfalls, stealthy scurryings, sounds of some one being chased and caught and choked and the banging of doors were among the happenings which frightened the household. ‘Worst of all, doors would open and. close at night. as if operated by un- seen hands. The doorknobs would turn, although there was no one on hand to turn them. “I would be sitting quietly in my study, writing,” relates the poet, “when the door would open sound- lessly. That in itself is enough in the dead of night to 2 man with his imagi- nation aflame. “I would say to myself, as I held my breath and watched, ‘It is only a bit of a draught.’ But draughts do not turn door handles, and on my life the handle would turn as the door opened, and there was no hand visible.” It was not only Phillips who bore witness of these phenome: The serv- ABOUT THE HOUSE." ants had the same experiences. One by one they resigned their places and departed. They left so hurriedly that they did not even take their boxes with them. Phillips’ little daughter declared she had seen a little old man creeping about the house. However, what was visible to her—if she was to be be- lieved—was not visible to any one else. A search for the little old man was fruitless. Naturally, the poet threw up his lease. He took his household elsewhere in search of a prace and quiet he now needed more than ever. Once he was out of the place, he heard—for the first time—its story. Fifty years before an old farmer had strangled a child to death in the vicinity of the Egham house. The place had been reported “haunt- ed” ever since. Following Phillips’ ten- ancy, it remained “to let” without occu~ pants ever being secured. Phillips thought the matter ought to be cleared up. “As a man of reasonable intellect.” he said humorously, “I am open to ac~ cept any feasible explanation of our experiences.” Beef a la Mode. Get a pot roast in the shape of & thick steak. Put a plece of butter the slze of an egg in a very hot frying pen, put in the meat, and let it brown well on both sides. Cut up an onion fine and let it brown with the meat, but not burn. Turn the fire very low, season the meat well on both sides and cut in qquqarters two or three tomatoes over the meat. Slice a green pepper over it, first removing the seeds, and a little chopped parsley. Caver let simmer for several hours. - About half of an hour before it is done, add some partly cooked carrots cut length- wise, and some potatoes cut lengthwise. ‘When the meat is quite tender, remove it ta a hot platter and place the vege- tables around it. Add a little flour to the pan, let brown, then add a little water for the gravy. Mgrs. H. W. SiMmMONDS . married ten years, has hands lovely as a Bride’s this charming wife says Lux for dishes, too! " Dishwashing Leaves Your Hands Lovelier - with Lux‘- “My secret is Lux in the Dishpan,” “Y HAVE been married more than ten years, and have done all my own work, yet my hands look as nice as they did on my wedding day, thanks to Lux,” writes Mrs. Harold W. Simmonds. Modern young homemakers them- selves discovered this secret of keeping hands delicately white and smooth — femininely appealing. 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