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WOoOM MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Wavy Hair. Dear Miss Leeds: Is wetting the hair with water each morning injurious to 1t? What can I use in place of water to keep my flufly hair down and in place? BETTY. Answer—Wetting the hair every morning with water is apt to make the hair too dry and in time harsh and brittle. Massage your scalp and brush your hair every night and morning. Steaming the hair once or twice a week will not harm it. Just wring out a towel in very hot water and wrap it around the head or hold your hair near the steam from the kettle of boiling water (but not close enough to scald your skin). When the hair is steamed or moistened with the vapor arrange your waves into place with your comb and fingers. This is, of course, for naturally wavy hair. A light, oily lotion or brilliantine may be used to keep the hair in place. Moisten the palms of your hands with the lotion and stroke your hair, then brush your hair thor- oughly for several minutes. A fine spray may be used to spray the bril- liantine on your hair, if you wish. Very little is needed, however, as too much oil will make the hair too greasy and it wili not stay in wave or curl. LOIS Weak Ankles. Dear Miss Leeds: I enjoy your col- umn and now I come to you with my beauty problem. Could you suggest a few exercises for strengthening weak ankles? SUNNY. Answer—One of the best exercises for strengthening the ankles is to stand on the tips of the toes and stretch upward until every muscle in the foot and ankle responds, counting up to 100, MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. ’! Ei0dlen grow tired'of their will during the long shut- have devised a new game for | bath may be followed by an oil rub and | massage. LO] AN’'S PAGE. it ible. You may not be able to do t] at first. It is not as easy as it sounds, but remember “practice makes perfect,” and a daily practicing of this simple exercise will accomplish wonders ,wlth weak ankles. In addition to this exercise try to walk on your tiptoes around the room, keeping your poise as long as possible. The rotary motion is also beneficial for ankles defective in strength. Sit erect and point the foot with an upward curve, describing a circle, not with the leg so much as with the foot, bringing all the muscles into play. Do this with the right foot, then with the left foot, alternately, in order to rest the muscles, but persist in this daily practice, no matter whether you feel like it or not. Another exercisc that you may take regularly is to rise on the toes, count five, lower the body until the heels almost touch the floor: repeat eight times, touching the floor with the heels only on the eighth count. Repeat the same exercise, but rise on the heels. A strong solution of salt water is a great strengthener of weak ankles. This may be used after the ex- ercise period. Bathe ankles in the sait solution, using one cup of salt or sea salt in two quarts of water. The salt 1S LEEDS. Mrs. H. L. O.—Yes, indeed, I do think that there is a lot of hope for you. I shall be pleased to mail you my beauty leaflets on the subject if you will write me again and inclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope for mailing. In the meantime, have a thorough physical ex- amination by your physician to find out how you stand on the health scale. ‘Then set about improving your defects in the right way. Ask for my leaflets on “How to Lose Weight,” “Throat and Neck” and “Color Schemes.” I have not the space to reprint the treatment and exercises again at this time. Thank you for your good wishes. LOIS LEEDS. Shiny Nose and Oily Skin. Dear Miss Leeds: Please suggest a simple method for treating an oily skin and a shiny nose. Please publish this answer tomorrow: I shall be watching your column for ft. MRS. D. J. Y. Answer—Excessive ofliness of the skin may be remedied by the use of suitable local treatments, mild astringent washes and by 2 reasonable attention given to diet, baths, exercise and fresh air. Raw and stewed fruits, vegetables and salads without rich, oily dressing should be taken in place of rich, fatty fried foods. A glass of orange juice or lemon water taken before breakfast will be helpful. Bathe the face in warm boric acid water at bedtime. Apply the following lotion two or three times a week: 2 ounces witch hazel, 2 drams powdered borax, 2 ounces cologne water, 1 dram tincture of benzoin, 2 ounces rosewater. Shake well before using. Apply with a clean piece of absorbent cotton and al- low it to dry on the skin. Your drug- gist will mix it for you. I am sorry that I cannot answer letters through my column the day after I receive them, as I have such a large correspond- ence from my readers and insufficient space at any one time. Each must be answered in turn in the column when- ever a self-addressed, stamped envelope for a personal reply is not inclosed. LOIS LEEDS. (Copyright, 1930.) Quickly Made Dessert. Sift together one cupful of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder ' and | half a teaspoonful of salt. Cut in| three tablespoonfuls of shortening, add enough milk to make a soft dough, and roll one-eighth inch thick. Cut in six- inch squares. Place a handful of raisins on the center of each square with one teaspoonful of sugar and one- fourth teaspoonful of butter. Wet the edges of the dough with cold water and fold over some seedless raisins, pressing the edges ther tightly. Brush with milk and roll in sugar and cinnamon which have been mixed together. Place one-fourth teaspoonful of butter on top of each cake and bake in a moderate oven for 15 minutes. Serve hot with | lemon sauce made as follows: | Mix two tablespoonfuls of flour with | one cupful of sugar, add one cupful of boiling water, cook, stirring constantly, then add two tablespoonfuls of lemon | THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE. Shirring Molds Hips. A picturesque mode in dipping side hem achieves graceful length in black silk crepe that is quite as popular with the debutantes as the dignified matron. It moulds at bodice and hips, indicat- ing waistline by shirring at either underarm seam and at center-front. The collarless neckline is finished with applied self-fabric band that merges into side flares at either side of the skirt. The front and back of the skirt is also cut circular. Style No. 157 comes in sizes 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust. In the 36-inch size 41, yards of 39-inch material is sufficient to make it. Midnight blue crepe de chine is very youthful choice, and especially lovely for early Spring. For formal afternoons select chiffon in black, dahlia, purple or plum shade. Fishnet in black or purple also is in- teresting. Gypsy red silk crepe, bottle green crepe marocain, Havana brown crepe silk, and independence blue wool crepe are fashionable combinations. 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 pattern you inclose 10 cents additional for copy of large Fashion Magazine, ‘White Soup Stock. Cut four pounds knuckle of veal or four pounds of fowl from the bone and into small pleces. If fowl is used, clean and disjoint it first. Soak in three quarts of cold water for one hour, then add one onion sliced, three stalks of celery chopped, one tablespoonful of salt, one-fourth teaspoonful of white pepper, and one bay leaf. Bring grad- ually fo the boiling point, skim, then simmer for four hours. Strain through a_double cheesecloth, cool, then remove juice and one-fourth cupful of buttes Use to enrich sou housewives who find the greatest convenience and satisfaction in using Self-Rising It’s a saving of both time and money—for there’s no baking powder to buy or bother with mixing—and the batch of biscuits is ready in a jiffy—delicious with their natural nutty flavor— rich in the nutrition of this special growth of wheat—which alone can make flour best adapted to your kitchen facilities—and mixed with the exactly correct proportion of the finest leavening phosphates—which build health and strength into bone. Dr. Wm. Gerry Morgan, president of the American Medical Society, says properly made hot biscuits are the healthiest bread. Flour are f tes: es can economically buy the 12.lb. and 24.lb. Both Plain and Self-risi ens—in from 2-1b. sacks up. Washington le by grocers and del You sizes—for ALL WASHINGTON FLOUR IS GOOD UNTIL USED. Wilkins-Rogers Milling Co. ‘Washington, D. C. Unhappy Wives of Famous Men TR TR R R Richard Wagner's Minna Never Had Wanted to Marry Him BY J. P. GLASS. “WELL, I HAVE PLENTY OF LETTERS TO SHOW WHICH ONE OF US WANTED TO MARRY. IT WAS NOT L.” When Ferdinand Praeger visited Richard and Minna Wagner at Zurich in 1856 the wife of the immortal com- poser said to him: “Now, honestly, is Richard such a great genius?” ‘Twelve years then had elapsed since wagner had produced “Rienzi”! Min- na's question shows how great was the mental gap between her and her husband. She had never appreciated his genius, although she had made every sacrifice for him that could be demanded of a devoted and dutiful wife. She could not understand that he was unable to compromise his art in the slightest. When he lamented his treatment by a public that did not understand him she said, “Well, Richard, why don't you write something for the gallery?” She had all the domestic virtues, but she could not give him the artistic sympathy he craved. This drove him to romantic friendships, which aroused the fury of Minna. But if Minna could not give Wagner | what he wished, neither could his ex- travagant fancies comfort her. They were mismated. The gulf between them grew wider and wider as the years progressed. She was nervous and despondent and she fell into the excessive use of opium. Her heart became incurably affected. It had been a kind heart during the MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Stewed Prunes. Hominy with Cream. Fish Cakes, Egg Sauce. Graham Gems. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Oyster Stew, Crackers. Chocolate Blancmange. Cookies. Tea. DINNER. Cream of Carrot Soup. Broiled Halibut, Hollandaise Sauce. Delmonico Potatoes. String Beans. Raw Cobbage SaWad, Fench Dressing. Cottage Pudding. Lemon Sauce. Coffee. GRAHAM GEMS. One cup of sour milk, one egg, two tablespoons sugar, little salt, one heaping teaspoon of soda, graham flour to make good batter. Have gem irons hot and well greased. They bake quickly. CHOCOLATE BLANCMANGE. Add one-half cup of minute tapioca, one-half cup of sugar and three-fourths teaspoon of salt to three cups of hot choco- late or cocoa and allow it to cool 15 minutes. Then remove from the stove, flavor with vanilla and pour into a glass dish. Serve cold with cream. COTTAGE PUDDING. One egg, one-fourth cup of butter, one cup of sugar, one cup of milk, two and one-fourth cups of flour, one-half teaspoon of salt, three rounding teaspoons of bak- ing powder. Mix and bake like a cake and serve with lemon sauce. Lemon Sauce—Beat together until foamy one egg and one cup of sugar mixed with a scant tea- spoon of flour. Add nearly a pint of boiling water and butter the size of a walnut. Let it come to a boil. Flavor with lemon. WASHING CLOTHES THIS WAY IS SOQEASY! AND DID YOU EVER SEE SUCH WHITENESS! long years of privation after the two married. Particularly in Paris she bore patiently with the bitterest poverty. He might have alleviated their distress by sacrificing his art. Minna could not understand why he did not do so. The strange thing is that Minna had resisted marrying Wagner and per- haps never had loved him. The pretty young actress succumbed more to the importunateness of a 23-year-old boy than to her own inclinations. Years later, when Wagner in the presence of friends, commented on the imprudence of marrying when young and poor, Minna retorted: “Well, I have plenty of letters to show which one of us wanted to marry. It was not I1.” dure her unhappiness. They had no children to hold her, and so she went her life with her own family. Both she and Wagner seem to have been left unhappy by the separation. But it was maintained. Minna died in 1866. One of her last acts was publicly to deny reports spread by enemies of Wagner that he had allowed her to starve while he lived in luxury. The composer’s second marriage with Cosima Bulow, daughter of Liszt, was a happy one. (Copyright, 1930.) . Lemon Cereal Pudding. One and one-half cups cooked wheat cereal, three-quarter cup sugar, one- quarter cup lemon juice, one tablespoon butter, one egg, well beaten. ‘This pudding should be made soon after breakfast if left-over cereal is used, for the cereal should be hot when mixed with the other ingredients. Mix all together well and mold in individual molds, rinse in cold water. Bake in a moderate oven for about 20 minutes and let stand until cool. Chill in the re- In 1861 Minna no longer could en- | back to Dresden to spend the rest of | OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRL When you hear a lecture about train- ing children, or when you read a book about child culture, you are likely to sigh and murmur, “If only my children could be trained like that! What is the matter with me and them?” There is nothing the matter. You| and the children are in the great group of the human family whose chief char- acteristic is being just & bit less than| perfect. Not one of us is a hundred percenter. The best trained child falls from grace the day the minister calls. The best mannered child asks the very wrong question of the august guest. Why not know that this is what is bound to come true and go on cheer- fully? uDy;)" Sammy take overtime to_dress? So does Susle down the sgrnts, Iz! yo:r Helen r in grammar o the dean’s ;’3.‘.’ Does Mary Louise bite her nails? So does her Sunday school teacher, You cannot imagine why a child of yours should be like a house afire, Neither can the doctor see why JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English. BY JOSEPH J. FRISCH. DORA, NISBA, AND | WERE USING DAD'S MACHINE, EACH OF US HAD HAD OUR TURN AT THE WHEEL WHEN THE ENGINE BECAME OVERHEATED. DORA, WHO HAS A DEFECT OF 7 JUDGMENT, THOUGHT SHE / COULD COOL 1T - BY STRIPPING THE GEARS Y, the leader closely enou ger we have to herd hi a few experiences he and manages to keep near enough to the beaten path to feel safe. always the hope that he will under wise guidance gather enough power to do a little exploring on his own after he has learned the laws of the road. ‘While we are anxious about the safety and the protection of the children, we must know that they will make mis- takes. We should pray for wisdom in adjusting these errors rather than for perfection for the children. If they along. After on wisdom pever strayed they would never know the truth about the regions that are ey Babies FRE Frea [ om0 P Fradd . Mary H—A pronoun must agree with its antecedent in person, number and gender: “Each of us had her turn at the wheel,” is the required form. Defect, both noun and verb, is pro- nounced de-FEKT, not DEE-fekt. It means the lack or absence of some- thing essential to completeness; a fault; blemish: flaw; imperfection: as, ill- breeding is not a single defect; it is the result of many. frigerator, and serve unmolded with a lemon sauce. inple m_cnroonl. One egg white, beaten stiff; one cup shaved maple sugar, one cup ground pecan meats, one-eighth teaspoon salt. Add the maple sugar gradually to the stifly beaten egg white and continue the beating. Add the salt and und nut meats. Drop in small spoonfuls on a buttered baking sheet and bake about 12 minutes in a moderate oven—350 degrees. Do not remove the macaroons from the pan until they have cooled somewhat or they will stick and break. I FOR SCORES OF "WHIPPED CREME” USES Here is the way to wonderful new and different whcirpcd creme effects in cake, dessert, salad, sauce and candy making. Special—*“Simplified Cand: Making” and Recipe Book sent FREE. Weke THE Hip-O-LITE COMPANY 205 Market S S8t. 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