Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1930, Page 52

12 Sleeveless Blouses of Sheer Cotton LEFT: LAR STAMP THIS PASTEL T NTED SATIN AS A 1930 VERSION. Vestees of Satin or Crepe de Chine Display Groups of Pin Tucks and Rows of Tiny Pearl Buttons—Fabric Scarf Matches Either Suit or Blouse—Lingerie Touches for Dresses in Spr ing—Fresh Interest in Range of Fabrics, Cut and Length. BY HELEN DRYDEN. O many women prefer to wear the | sleeveless blouse or vestee has all | the importance of the suit blouse. Here again we find that cotton gandy, batiste, dotted Swiss, dimity and [ the other sheer cottons, with handker- | chief linen high lighted, are as smart as | chiffon. Batiste models in the soft tones of blue, green or peach carry frilled col- | lars and jabots, while a rather deep | dotted closely in white, has the close- | fitting club collar and narrow pleated 1rill outlining either edge of a buttoned display groups of pin tucks and rows of | tiny pearl buttons. 4 With suits we associate the fabric Spring make furs oppressive. The ver- | sion of the scarf for the coming Spring | 1s oblong in shape, from 64 to 72 inches \ ends will reach the bust line. It is a personal choice whether you match it | to your suit or to your blouse. With | same fabric. However, if the blouse is of a printed silk the scarf is more apt to | be of the same print. Plain crepes are the suit and plain wool scarfs are deco- | rated with motif of the patterned | fabric in the blouse or one-piece dress. | tip from Goupy and tying these scarfs in a soft bow right under the chin. - | I one’s Winter dresses with the lingerie hallmark of the Spring costumes. There are simply styled collars which can be matched to various types of cuffs. Cuffs Yyou can buy with a matching bow to | Pin at the point of the V neck or at one | cotton pique, lace, handkerchief linen | and batiste are used for these sets. And Wwhile eggshell or white is the first, These include light pink shades such as | Vionnet pink and azalea, light biues of ciel and baby tints, aquamarine and | Both blue greens and yellow greens | on the order of lime are in great de- | mand the resorts, while apple green | are appearing in the early Spring cos- tumes for town. Yellow appears in com- bination with blue and also with red as | all rich and intense in tone, shadin from wine tones with purple blend: through the brighter Chinese or lacquer | beige and lacquer red are favored com- binations. | * ok % % | and I can be well dressed for | every daytime occasion.” declared a woman who knows her fashions. It is | jacket suit as a dress that the | is used almost as freely as silk. Or- silk pique, shantung, crepe, georgette or | shade of blue, green or rose dimity, | tab. Vestees of satin or crepe de chine scarf, especially when the warm days of long, so that when it is knotted the woolen suits the scarf may be of the trimmed with touches of the tweed of | Young girls in the South are taking the T's such an easy matter to refresh | touches which fashion tells us will be a that tie are perhaps the newest. These | side near the shoulder. Both silk and | choice, pastel colors are the smartest. light yellow. | and a darker green with a bronze cast in the Basque colorings. The reds are | reds. Navy blue and red as well as ¢(IIVE me a suit and some blouses a broad statement in these days when | one of the first laws of good dressing | is to fit the costume to the occasion, | but certainly it is a good basis on which to budget the Spring wardrobe. A suit every woman just must have this season. and suits must have blouses. And it is by the blouse we can adapt the suit to the occasion. A typical <ports blouse will give the suit a casual, | outdoor look, whereas a blouse of a | formal character will dress up the suit | 0 that it can appropriately appear on | formal afternoon occasions. Although there is great variety in the style of blouses, there are two major groups, those that are tailored with all the precision given to a man’s shirt and those to which the details of work- manship and the so-called dressmaker’s touches give the softer, more feminine jook. With the sports suit the former 1= a foregone conclusion, but with the street suit the choice should be deter- mined by the personality of the wearer. If you are the true tailor type, by all means stick to the severe, trimly tai- lored sort, but don't attempt it if the 1rilly, softer blouse is more ming. It has a long time since we have worn cotton blouses with wool or silk suits. But this Spring we shall appear on_ the street in blouses of cotton as ‘well as siik pique, sudanette, handker- chief linen, batiste, organdy, dimity and cotton These fabrics also will them spun silk shirts of shantung and shirtings. With our street suits we shall also wear blouses of wool crepe and wool shantung. For formal occa- sions chiffons, georgettes, both plain and printed, printed silks and crepe satin are used. | * K X "THE shorts have it so far as length | is concerned with the one excep- | tion of the very long blouse for formal occasions. This is as long as the very short dresses of yesteryear and is a happy solution for the woman who feels she can’t wear a blouse. If the short blouse doesn't actually tuck in, it | in looks as if it did. Overblouses are made just long enough to cover the waistline and are generally finished with a narrow band, which ties or is fastened by a buckle. There is one Giving Children the Vote Turn in Affairs of| Smith Family Is| Brought About, When Younger| Members Are Put on Their Own Re-| sponsibility for| Future. BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON. ¢§YOUR father and I have de- cided—-" Mrs. Smith had a habit of putting this in a rather definite tone that made it sound as cool and im- personzl as the first line on a diploma. “Well—what is it this time?” Roger, jr., asked. “Yes, what is is, Mud?” asked Kay. “It sounds important.” “Rog—do you hear them?” Mrs. Smith appealed to her husband. “That's they way they talk to me now. I really believe ‘they have more respect for Judy.” Judy was the cat. “I was just thinking that,” remarked | their father heavily. “Say, look here, you two young smart alecs. If I hear any more pert remarks like that from | either of you I'l—I'll—well, you'll see what I'll do. “It's no use, Dad. Kay and I have one into conference and decided that he next time you and Mud announced that you ‘have both decided’ something for us we were going to have a say-so. ‘We're not kids any more.” “What are you talking about?” ‘Well, about every day or so either vyou or mother takes up some impor- tant family problem in private. Then you come out and say, ‘We have de- cided this or that.' We never have a say-so_about anything. I know you think I'm being impudent but I don't meen it that way. Kay understands, don't you, Kay' “Yes,” sald_his sister quietly. “I do understand. Roger’s right. He's nearly 18 and I'm 16 and really you and Dad boss us around as though we were in kindergarten. Why don’t you give us a vote?” “‘Vote?"” exclaimed two amazed voices together. “Just exactly. Roger and I are part of the home and family. Why don't you corsult us now and then and make us feel as though we belonged?” “Is this—is this original?” asked Roger, sr., almost timorously. It was the boy who answered. “No. We got the idea over at the Wrights.’ They have a round table and vote on everything, even Jerry and he’s only 11.” Roger, sr., pushfil back his chair and left the table. His wife followed. | At bedtime their son came slowly | into_the library. “I apologize,” he said | meekly. “I guess I got too smart. You | have done everything for Kay and me. | Kay feels bad, too.” | _“Come here,” said his mother, while | his father bent over and knocked his | pipe on a log. “Go and call Kay, Rog, won't you?” Kay came down in her pajamas. “Your father and I have decided——" mesh. eppear on the flield of sport and with she an evenly. Then she laughed suddenly. %I mean, from now on we're THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C. FEBRUARY 16, 1930—PART THRER, SHORT OVERBLOUSE OF BLUE AND WHITE CHECK CREPE DE CHINE, FITTED AT THE WAISTLINE. EGGSHELL SATIN AT THE NORMAL WAISTLINE WITH SURPLICE CLOSING OUTLINED WITH BUTTONS. RIGHT: BOLERO AND DRAPED COL- becoming model, the original of which is of cotton mesh, that extends over the top of the skirt about three inches and is tied at either side by ties of the fabric to mark the high waistline. To these tuck-ins and short over- blouses we must add, both for sports and for the street, the waistcoat blouse, double-breasted and well pocketed, and, of course, belted. It is either sleeve- less or made with short sleeves called polo sleeves. They are just cap sleeves finished with a deep hand-sewn hem or rows of stitching.. Both cotton and silk are chosen for these waistcoat blouses, usually in the light pastels, aquamarine, dusty pink and baby blue, as well as the popular eggshell and off white tints. A feature which is going to catch |your eye is the higher neckline, for | many of the blouses are brought close [to the throat and finished with a nar- now collar. A shallow V or rounded neckline is also smart. Many blouses display the becoming cowl necklines. Double lapels also give a softening look to the front of the blouse and the sur- plice closing makes them flattering to the fuller figures. Capes are adopted to give the broad-shoulder effect and the flare of the cape may be repeated the flare of the peplum. Tucked gilets or vestees with rows of tiny but- tons, boleros actual or simulated, and yokes outlined by hemstitching and fagotting are other favored trimmings. (Copyright, 1930.) | | going to have a board of directors in | the Smith family. I'm to have two votes to make a majority; each one of the others is to have one apiece. It's time we were thinking of you as entities in this household.” “Well, what's the question before the house?” inquired her son soberly. “Com- mence.” “Whether to have pancakes or pop- overs for breakfast,” she said seriously. | “I cast two votes for popovers.” i But the pancakes had it. | Seriously, it did mark a turn in the | affairs of the Smith family. And Mr. | and Mrs. Smith have lived to learn that | the boy and girl they had looked upon as reluctant, fretful children, were pure galld when put on their own responsi- bility. Lace Is Good fo; Woman Who Travels The woman who travels or who goes visiting frequently should choose her wardrobe with an eye to selecting ma- | terials that are not rumpled and wrin- kled by packing. It is an advantage to almost any woman to have one evening dress and one afternoon dress of the non-crushable sort for an occasional | week end away from home. | Georgette, as every one knows, looks fearfully wrinkled when it is first lifted from a trunk or traveling case, but if it is hung up for an hour or so In the air the wrinkles disappear and press- ing 1s entirely unnecessary. At present lace is much used for afternoon and evening gowns by the French dressmakers and is recommend- ed for country-house visits, because it bobs up so serenely after packing. ‘There are other advantages of lace. It is not affected by dampness and does not show spots, even the smallest of which will mar the perfection of a satin or silk crepe dress. Black lace is usually becoming and much of it is used. Blonde and other light neutral tones are decidedly smart for Spring, and in Paris fine lace of a soft dark green has been effectively used for afternoon and evening gowns. Gray lace, though not becoming to every one, has been used with very smart effect. Cream Soups. Boil one quart of milk, seasoning with one geaspoon of salt, one saltspoon white pepper. Thicken with two table- spoons flour and one of butter rubbed to a cream with a cup of boiling water, add thickening to boiling milk and boil two minutes. This is the foundation for many fish and vegetable cream soups. A pint of canned peas mashed, or spinach or asparagus can be used. Salmon (about one pound) is good. For cream of celery, boil one pint of cut celery till tender, add to boiling milk | and rub through the sieve before add- | |ing thickening. For potato soup use| six large or ten medium potatoes. | boiled and mashed fine, then stirred| into the milk and strained, a large tablespoon of chopped parsley lightly stirred in. For corn soup use milk without straining, adding a can of corn run through vegetable chopper; an even tablespoon of sugar and boil ten min- utea & X \ CENTER: LEFT: SUNBURST TUCKS SERVE AS WHICH MAY BE WORN AS A TU AND COLLAR IN THIS BLOUSE OF OVERBLOUSE OF RIMMING ON THE 1T AN, SHT BLACK AND WH RIPED THIS WHITE FLAT . STRIPES ARE REVERSED FOR THE GI I i 1 il REPE OVERBLOUSE ILK SHIRTING. Blouses Are Becoming MUcH could be written about the evolution of the blouse. The history of the automobile is no more child the “shirtwaists” that all ladies wore. within an inch of one’s life, with stiff collar and bow tie. spectacular. Well I remember as a Of linen, they were, starched How I longed for the day when I should be grown and could wear these affairs that were considered so chic. But, thank heaven, by the time I was grown they had passed by the wayside. And today how soft and feminine and becoming the blouses are. Clinging crepe and satin are the favorite materials, while for really warm weather, when it is preferable to have something washable, fine handker- chief linen and batiste are also used. Free of cut, they are easy, but not 100 loose or in any way “floppy” looking. This is the time of year one has to consider new blouses, for it is also the time to be thinking of suits, and we cannot think of one without the other. Housewife Makes Wise Resolutions If there are delicate children in her family the housewife resolves to make it her personal business during the next year to see that the food for the chil- dren is well cooked and kept as serup- ulously clean as possible. She resolves to put matter of diet ahead of matters of household decora- tio.. or thought of dress for the coming ear. It there is a tendency on the part of chlidren and adults w’drm lwn‘; from home in leisure hours the housewite re- solves to spend more time and money in providing home entertainment. She buys indoor games with the money she HELEN DRYDEN. had planned to spend on new equipment and reads directions for playing new games that all the members of her family can enjoy instead of directions for a new pudding. If she has come to the end of the year worn out and fagged, the housewife wisely resolves to plan her daily schedule so that there will be time for a nap every day, evert though the nap must needs be brief. If her eyes find no place to rest with satisfaction within the four walls of her house the housewife wisely resolves not to let the next year wane until she has developed some more definite and sat- isfactory scheme of decoration in her own house. If the housewife finds herself always behind financially, she resolves to make definite bu,t, for her expenses. “Dinner Is Served.” Many folks nowadays live in such small quarters that anything like a din- ner bell or a maid sent to the drawing room to say, “Dinner is served,” would | be quite superfluous. By the time din- ner has been put on the table the fact can no longer be kept a secret in the two-room-and-kitchenette apartment where there is but one table. The little six-room cottage, too, seldom has any doors between living room and dining toom and preparations for dinner cannot be kept secret. So the dinner bell | against which authorities on good man- | ners used to rail seems to have grown | more and more of a rarity. Even the boarding houses seem to be getting rid of them, and the custom is simply to “open the dining room" doors at a given hour for the various meals of the day. Boudins of Chicken. | Half pound cold chicken, quarter | pound of ham or tongue, one dessert- | spoon flour, half pint stock, parsley, | & liftle butter, salt, pepper, a pinch of sugar and two onions. Mince the cold chicken and mix with it the ham or | tongue. Break up the bones and make some stock with them, adding one onion and parsley: strain. Mince the second onion and put it in a small pan with a pat of butter, stirring until it becomes a light brown. Add the flour, the half pint of stock and simmer for a few minutes. Season to taste with salt, pepper and a pinch of sugar. Serve ——— i Match Scarf and Ha BY MARY MARSHALL. HERE is nothing really new or distinctly modern about the present-day interest in acces- sories. The small etcetera of dress under normal conditions always play a tremendously important part in fashions for men and women. Judging from the costumes of prim- itive people, we may infer that acces- sories were worn before actual clothing. And all through the history of costume we find great attention devoted to the seemingly non-essential small things of dress. ‘The reason why we are likely to look upon the present-day importance of ac- cessories as something strikingly new is because interest in these Was re- duced to a minimum during war days and the days directly following the war. The one-piece dress that called for no accessories in the way of belts, collars, cuffs or vestees was universally worn, Gloves were only worn as a matter of i protecticn against the cold. Muffs went out of fashion and separate fur collars went the same way. o E ANOTHER thing that makes the subject of accessories especially im- portant in this country at present is the { fact that American women have been | roused as never before to an apprecia- tion of the importance of choosing these small things with extreme care. | Women the country over have made | great progress in good taste in dress, amsl have learned that the expression | Teeth Are Not Necessarily Pre- served in Proportion to Degree of Furious and Indiscriminate Scrubbing That They Receive. BY CHARLOTTE C. WEST, M. D. 'HE manner in which the teeth lr!‘ brushed is important. Dentists for- | merly laid great stress on the up and | down movement of the brush. They no | longer do so, as this has a tendency to train the gums away from the crown,| exposing the neck of the tooth, which is not covered with enamel. A gentle, cir- | cular movement, going well into the| spaces between the teeth, has been found more sensible, supplemented al- | ways with the use of dental floss when | necessary to detach all food particles, | and rinsing well afterward. | What are the imperative factors to- ward maintaining the teeth and the mucous membranes of the mouth in a healthy state? Eating less carbohy- drates—starch and sugar—that the alka- linity of the secretions may be secured: consuming more hard and dry food that necessitates thorough chewing and so stimulates a copious flow of saliva. Hard food preserves the gums; dry food is the only kind that acts on the glands. =~ These particular salivary | glands—the parotids—fail utterly to contribute any saliva to the mouth un- less invited to do so by dry food, which accounts for the fact that persons who eat soft food and consume quantities of fluid are likely to have poor teeth, bad breath and, what is even worse, wretched digestion. The search for tartar solvents oc- cuples the minds of dental hygienists. The formation of this unpleasant secre- tion occurs more rapidly in some cases than in others. At first it is soft and easily removable with a rubber band or | dental floss. If the teeth are carefully gone over every day and the soft de- posit is removed, there is little danger of its accumulating and forming hard. scaly masses around the bases of the teeth. Milk alkalis used as a wash and allowed to remain on the teeth over- night are recommended. May Be Worn With Suits . BEIGE WOOL CREPE BLOUSE WITH SHIRRING ON COLLAR AND SLEEVES. CENTER: THE FRONT OF THIS EEVE BLOUSE OF BEIGE CHIFFON SHOWS DIAGONAL TREATMENT OF SCALLOPED TU RIGHT: BANDS Small Things of Dress, During Evolution of Fashion, Have Become Big Ones—Accesso- ries Must Be in Sets to Be Effective—Some Well Dressed Women Make Rule Either to ndbag or Choose Hand- bag of Leather to Match Shoes. of good taste depends to a considerable extent on the assembling of the various small things that go to make the whole. With good taste and a fairly wide | selection of gloves, scarfs, handbags, umbrellas, costume jewelry, shoes, stock- ings, etc., it is possible always to get the right “garpishes” for your costume, but the task is greatly simplified if you select some of these things in pre- arranged sets. This season there are many of these to be had, often at a very reasonable price. * % % FOR wear with the Spring suit there are scarf and handbag alliances of silk or woolen material. And some well dressed women are making the rule either to match the scarf and handbag or else to choose a handbag of leather to match the shoes. It is usually best not to mix one's leathers, unless by way of trimming— that is, if you wear reptile skin shoes the only sort of leather bag you should carry would be one of reptile skin. An alligator handbag really demands alliga- tor or alligator-trimmed shoes, and with a black leather bag one should choose black leather shoes. | _ To follow this still further, it is well not to introduce another sort of leather by way of the umbrella handle, belt or sports jewelry. One of the new accessory sets to wear with the dark-toned Spring suit consists of brown leather bag, shoes and braided | leather bracelet to match the strap on the bag. (Copyright, 1930.) Beauty and the Toothbrush Experts Decide That e active principle, pytalin, in saliva, And uid is necessary to cope with food particles which lodge between the teeth and which invite disaster if not re- moved. b A free flow of saliva washes the teeth clean of food particles. Even so apparently slight a matter as the bristles of a toothbrush is of su- preme importance in certain cases. Indeed, in some cases the teeth and gums are so delicate that a brush even of camel’s hair cannot be used. Some dentists even have special brushes made for individual people, feeling that the needs of each person are more widely different than is generally supposed. One originated a brush consisting simply of a tuft of bristles, with which he insists his patients clean each tooth separately. Thus it will be seen that the old idea that a toothbrush is a toothbrush and equally suitable to all sorts of people is disappearing, and that teeth are not necessarily preserved in proportion to the amount of furious and indiscrimi- nate scrubbing that is given them. (Copyright, 1930.) Accessor Since capes have a place everywherc in fashion’s sun, it is a satisfaction to know that you can add this fashion fea- ture to your frock by buying one & ready made. There is a becoming mod- el which is rather narrow in front and lengthens in the back to the elbow lina. Here again you may select it in the pastel hues as well as eggshell. More formal are lace berthas or capes made of Alencon and other real laces in the deep tones, New Waistcoat. A galliac waistcoat with a little bat to match was designed by one of the French dressmakers as complement to a tweed suit for motoring. The waistcoat is light weight and pliable, but warm enough to withstand wind and cold when driving in an open car, and 11 made so that it may be buttoned up tc the throat or worn with collar turned down to form revers, Mock Cherry Pie. Cover_the bottom of a pie plate with paste. Reserve enough for upper crust For filling use one cup of cranberries cut in halves, one-half cup ralsins seeded and cut in pieces, three-fourths cup of sugar, one tables) flour, lump Soap should never be used as a cleans- | on a hot dish. ing nsenl:m the teeth, as it kills the' of butter size of waln Bake minutes in moderate oven. Some l@ a little more sugar, ¥