Evening Star Newspaper, February 20, 1930, Page 40

‘WOMAN’S PAGE, THE EVENING STAR, WASHI NGTON, Shirtwaist Dress Wins Its Way BY MARY MARSHALL, One of the for one, would never has chosen this fashion of the past for revival. The very word shirt- @HEPINK CREPE DE CHINE “SHIRT- ‘WAIST” DRESS IS FINISHED WITH waist is one that has been banished from the vocabulary of the fashion re- | tucked under the waistband of the skirt | fortable collar. the sort of that was once called a But here it is—the shirtwaist of 1930; and there is no longer any doubt of its acceptance. The shirtwaist dress has already .on its way to favor at the ‘Winter resorts and in its new version it is a decidedly wearable and agreeable sort of costume. It resemblcs its pro- totype in its front closing with buttons and buttonholes—also in its arrange- ments at the waistline, where it is But it departs from the original in the | fact that it does not blouse outrage- ously at the front and in the more com- To be sure, one hears predictions of the return of the high collar, but it is hard to believe that women will ever indorse the sort of collars that women endured in the Iast decade of the last | and most sat'sfactory method that I porter, who has long since learned to Eeubstitute the words blouse or bodice for MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE Gpecial Dispatch to The Star. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., February 20 (N.AANA)—If every husband sued every wife whose name is found on a dressing room door or scrawled on a billiard room wall or a chimneypiece, ‘what a havoc there would be in movie- land! ‘When Capt. Wallace Ayer sues his wife, Mae Ayer, for divorce because her name is carved on the dressing room door of Lew Cody, he betrays his ignorance of village ways. Autograph scrawling is the best thing Hollywood does. Inside grand pianos youwll find fountain pens have been at work demolishing the pristine gilt sur- faces with the signatures of the famous and infamous. Marie Prevost has an entire room given over to autographs, and should all the husbands and wives use that one| as a reason, why—well, the World War | ‘wouldn't be in it. Calvin Coolidge, visiting the Oscar Hammerstein set morning, sent a ripple through studio circles. Uniforms were hitched a bit tighter at the waist line and La Segal trilled a bit_higher and sweeter. This venture in movie music presen- tation is one of the most ambitious of the new regime. The former President was fascinated by the technical tion of the processes involved—dubbing, and 5o on. About him milled yellow-faced ladies | with bustling taffeta dresses and blond- ined curls. Overhead bloomed thou- sands of linen blossoms, and among them the high-powered lamps of the set threw down an intolerable heat. But, Calvin Coolidge remained cool and chatted casually. A handsome young black-eyed woman entered the set. ‘“Localities” do not| zeem to know her. Yet she was singing | the lead in “Rio Rita” when I heard it | in New York three years ago. Ethilyn| ‘Terry came out to movieland to become | a talkie star, and for some strange rea- | £on wasn't nabbed up. | Now she is making tests in Holly- | wood for the lead in the forthcoming | Hammerstein operetta in New York. If the tests are satisfactory, the lady will be shipped back to Manhattan for re-| hearsals. This is a new procedure. But cast- | as-cast-can seems to be the order of| the day in this village. A new landscape gardener who is doing quite well in these parts tells me he built up his clientele patching up the gardens of actors’ and authors’ homes to keep them from the inevitable lawsuit. Conversations go something like this: “Now, I am moving out of this house in a fortnight. and I don't want to be sued about this garden—see? So 1 thought if you could patch it up, make it look as if it had been cared for scrup- ulously all year around, I'd make it worth your while. You see, my line of -« r)l;k keeps me 50 busy I can’t be both- cred.” ‘The wily gardener has patched them Wp, but he has also seen to it that he @t first licks at the next garden in- | eve; beauty; comeliness; grace; loveli- century. When fashion decrees longer skirts we ‘are confronted with the problem of lengthening last season's dresses that are still in good condition. The easiest have come across is described in this | week's illustrated circular. If you would like a copy please send your stamped, self-addressed envelope fo Mary Marshall, care of The Star, and it will be forwarded to you. (Copyright, 1930.) DAILY DIET RECIPE CABBAGE AU GRATIN. Shredded cabbage, four cups. Shredded onion, one-half cup. Salt, onc-half teaspoonful. Butfer, one teaspoonful. Bread crumbs, two tablespoon- fuls Grated American cheese, two tablespoonfuls. SERVES 5 OR 6 PORTIONS. Cook cabbage and onion quick- ly in cup of water. When tender drain well if water is not all ab- sorbed. Put vegetables in baking dish. Dot with butter. Sprinkle with mixture of bread crumbs and cheese. Bake in hot oven about 12 minutes until crumbs are brown. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes much fiber, some lime, jron, vitamins A and B. Can be given to children 6 years and over. Can be eaten by normal adults of average, over or under weight. MERRICK. volved. He is now ome of the busiest men in the village. A quaint little figure, that looked as if it steppec out of a black walnut frame of the nineties. walked into a village party the other night. Straight, dark hair, dropping in a sudden bang to the long, dark eyes; white satin dress. falling to the floor, and long garnet earringe, necklace, heavy garnet brace- lets, brought back the flavor of days past. Helen Grace Carlisle, author of the most talked of modern tragedy, “Mother’s Cry,” looks like a little girl plln‘ygn( lady in her grandmother's clothes, hdAlnd ;novlz }i‘t?l‘:!fl;‘l,s (,)fl-en look like les playing n their grand- children’s clothes. i “'f‘here is a nice balance to life, after all! (Cepyright, 1930, i by North American News- per Alliance.) JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English BY JOSEPH J. FRISCH. DORA, WHOSE PULCHRITUDE 1S - PURELY PHVYSICAL, WHOLLY EMPLOYS HERSELF IN PLEASURE. SHE THINKS A DRY DOCK _J| IS A DOCTOR WHO DOESN'T DRINK H. T.—Adverbs, like adjectives, should be placed near the words they modify. “Dora employs herself wholly in pleas- ure” is the correct form. Pulchritude (PUL-kre-tude, first u as in up, second u as in fuse) means that | quality of appearance which pleases the | ness; moral beauty; as, the older sister ' has more than her share of pulchri- tude; what the younger sister is want- ing in beauty of body is more than made up in the pulchritude of her soul. any quickly, casily, Baowufo’ NE GUARANTEED HARMLESS e . SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY ¥. CORY Muvver, don’t y' fink it would be a| good idear not to dirty so many dishes? | ‘When me an’ daddy goes campin’, we eats out ob the skillick. (Copyright, 1930.) LITTLE SISTER BY RUBY HOLLAND “Muvver said it .would have been a big relief for me to visit grandma if she hadn't forgotten I wuzn't home and looked for me ebrywheres 'fore she | ‘membered.” (Copyright, 1930.) SILVER TONGUES There is no man who talks so well, or has such weighty things to tell, that listeners will not grow sore if he should talk an hour or more. In 20 minutes one can say enough.to hold us for a day, and we regard him with a frown who talks until his works run down. When Daniel Webster and his kind dispensed the jewels of the mind, and, talking at the break of dawn, still talked until the day was gone, they held the audience spellbound, and drew men’s plaudits round on round. Then men had noth- ing else to do but listen for a day or two when some great orator uj and filtered language through his beard. There was no rush in those old days, all leisurely men went their ways, and any sort_of thing would do 1o pass away an hour or two. Then sermons ran their long drawn course until the - tors were too hoarse to utter but squawks in guidance of their pious flocks. Then after-dinner speakers rose and g‘lfiemhw vicious blows ;’;:,“ they el swoon or trance, departing in an ambulance. But times have changed and now the man who'd follow up that old-time plan would find his hearers cross and sore, and they would write him down a bore. In 20 minutes man can shed whatever goods are in his head, and if he keeps on heaving words, he’ll turn his hearers’ blood to curds. If Daniel Webster stood up now, and brushed his white and marble brow, and started-in to make a s h that would until late twilight reach, for 20 minutes we would give attention to the words that live, and then we'd fidget in our chairs, and reach for dead cats una- wares. ‘WALT MASON. | cheese. The happy homes are those that have an adequate financial foundation | and a menu that includes plenty of beefsteak. (Copyright, 1930.) D. C, THURSDAY, F DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Can Love Bridge Gulf of Poverty?—Why Hus-! band Should Take Turn at Minding Baby. Dm MISS DIX—I am a young man, 20 years old, a funior in college. My parents are well educated, thrifty and very ambitious for me, their only son. I have fallen in love with a girl who is beautiful, sweet and good, but she | belongs to a very uneducated and shiftless family and has had little education herself, as she had to go to work when she was very young and clerks in a 10- cent store. My family objects to my marrying this girl. My mother thinks that | because she is illiterate and doesn't care about reading or studying we could never be happy together, but I know better and I want to quit school and marry her. I believe that when two people love as we do those little differences do not matter. I think that we consider the material side of matrimony too much and that love is all that counts. What do you think? THOMAS L. Answer—When an educated, cultivated man thinks he is in love with an | ignorant, illiterate woman he mistakes his feelings. What he thinks is love is infatuation. It is a physical appeal that she makes to him and that is all, for beyond that they have nothing in common. Real love is founded on a community of interests. It js the feeling that two people have for each other who speak the same language, who have the same in- terests and desires, who can enter into each other’s thoughts, who can be real cflx;ngnmnn‘s. ‘The physical element is a par. of real love, but it is subordinated to the soul. Infatuatior is the shortest lived of all emotions, but real love is deathless, You say that love is all that matters in marriage, but, alas, our ability to love depends to a large extent upon material things! It is very hard, for in- stance, for love to outlive abject poverty. A young couple may be ever so much in love with each other, but if they marry without some adequate support their romance seldom survives the offeal of squalid surroundings and poor food and shabby clothes and doing without all the comforts of life to which they have been accustomed. Even the most sentimental do not feel like billing and cooing when they do not know where the next meal is coming from, and when they are dodging creditors and are torn with anxiety about the future. Nobody wants to kiss when hungry. Nobody feels like indulging in poetical rhapsodies when overworked and harried by debt, and when cold and miserable. It takes ease and comfort and a full stomach to make us think about the state of our hearts. And so you will find that the love in the garret myth has small place in real life and that those misguided couples who have undertaken to live on bread and cheese and kisses have deleted the kisses and are quarreling over the bread and Now take your own case. You are sure it is folly to consider that you and EBRUARY 20, 1930. NANCY PAGE Cherries on Cake for Washington’s Birthday. 8Y FLORENCE LA GANKE. The P.-T. A. of the nursery school which Joan attended was giving a party on Washington’s birthday. They were making a festive occasion of it and serving tea and cake. Nancy was asked to bring a cake. She baked onc which made Joan clap her hands in pleasure. “My, but I'm glad I belong to you, Aunt Nancy,| | same appeal—free- ‘cause you make such pretty things.” And any tiredness that Nancy may have felt vanished at this spontaneous appreciation from her little niece. “Poor little thing,” thought Nancy, “away from -her mother all these years, and t mother not getting any better at all. I need to do what I can for the child.” Which is what she had done for the last three years. ‘The cake recipe she used was a simple one for a white cake. The icing was the ever popular boiled icing It was the decoration which was dif- ferent. Nancy took whole candied cherries. These were not the ones put up in Maraschino juice, since these fruits the girl come of different classes and vou think that it will make no difference in your love because you are educated and she is ignorant. It may not now in the days of courtship, when she is young and pretty and all that you talk about is how much you love each other. But how is it going to be when she has lost her good looks and when you have grown tired of asking her how much she loves you and if she is utterly surely sure that she never loved before and will never love again and would die if anything should happen to you? Nothing else kills love so quickly and so surely as boredom. How, then, are you going to keep in love with a woman who is ignorant and illiterate, who never reads & book, who has no interest whatsoever in anything outside of her kitchen and her nursery and the gossip she hears over the back fence? What are you going to talk about during the 30 or 40 years when you are shut in with each other for companionship? You can't talk over with her the books that you read because they are sealed volumes to her. You can't discuss world problems with her because she never heard of the League of Nations or the war in China. You can't even con- fide your hopes and plans and ambitions to her because she wouldn't know enough to comprehend them. And shame also kills love. Will you still be romantically in love with a wife who murders the King’s English and makes mistakes in grammar and pronuncia- tion, whose opinions show up her ignorance and whom you are ashamed to pre- | sent to your friends? And how about her shiftless, ne'er-do-well family who will also be your family if you marry her, who will be your children's grandparents and aunts and uncles? Will you enjoy having them about your house? Will they make for the happiness of your marriage? DOROTHY DIX. DEA'H. MISS DIX—We have a baby 3 years old and it is the cause of perpetual argument between myself and my husband. He is crazy about the child, yet he won't take care of him. Says he is no nursemaid. He works in an office from 8 to 5. I work in the home from 5 to 8, and then some, and I think that it is just as much his business to mind the baby when he is at home as it is mine. What do you think? Answer—TI think your husband is missing a lot of fun in not minding tho baby an hour or so each evening, because there is no other companion so fasci- nating as a 3-year-old. They say cuter things than any grown-up can think of g | and there is nothing more absorbingly interesting than watching their little minds unfold and getting their first viewpoint on life. Besides that, if your husband teok care of the taby, he would get a chance to get acquainted with him and establish a friendship that would be a joy to him as long as he lives. And that is something that has to be done now or never. Of course, every father thinks that he is going to pal up with his son and looks forward to their being companions when the boy is grown, but the trouble is that you can’t get to be friends with your children when they are grown. You have to do it while they are still in the cradle and while they hang on to your fingers and while you can fool them into thinking that father is the greatest man in the world and the fountain of all wisdom. Perhaps, though, the fault is partialiy yours. Maybe you are one of the mothers who, when the fathers take the children out, give them a thousand directions and never really trust them. Maybe you say don't let Junior sit on the grass and don’t let Junior get his feet wet and don't give Junior any candy, etc. You can't blame a man for not wanting to mind the baby when mother is bossing the job. Anyway, dump the baby on husband and go and leave him. He will like it after he gets used to it. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1930.) WAJHINGTON RIRTLIDAY,Q CAKE would have been too juicy and would h;ve spoiled the appearance of the ng She took three cherries and arranged them as shown in the illustration. Two leaves of the greenest citron she could find were laid at the tip of the bunch. The stems were made of chocolate ieing. To make this she melted a small amount of baking chocolate over hot water. Then she gdded enough con- fectioner’s sugar ‘to make the melted chocolate stiff enough to spread. She used a small paint brush which she dipped into the chocolate and then designed the stems on the icing. (Copyright, 1930.) Casserole of Lima Beans. Soak one cupful of dried lima beans overnight and then rboil them in water with a little baking soda added. Drain off the water and turn the beans into a casserole. Add one-fourth cupful of ham or bacon fat, two cupfuls of milk, two teaspoonfuls of salt and one- fourth teaspoonful of pepper. Cover the dish and bake in a moderate oven until the beans-are soft. Serve hot from the casserole. Sauer Kraut With Spare Ribs. Put one quart of sauerkraut and two pounds of spareribs into a kettle and add one tea: nful of salt and three cupfuls of water. Allow to simmer slowly for two or three hours. If addi- tional water is necessary, add it from time to time. Just before removing from the heat allow the water to boil down so that what remains may be served with the hot sauerkraut. { 5 delicious .;xi = 2 FEATUKRES. A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. WELL down front in the House of Representatives these days there aits a small, bespectacled, athletic young man who follows with great care the proceedings of that body. Whenever opportunity presents itself he is on his feet addressing either the Speaker or request- ing that some gen- tleman yield. And his words, shaped to fit the ' situation, always carry the dom for the Phil- ippine Islands. Camilo Osias golfer, tennis star, one - time captain and quarterback of a foot ball team in Hlinois, and now Resident Commis- sioner from the Philippines to_tne United States Con- gress, overlooks no chance to further the cause of independence for his native country. Since he is convinced that the ques- tion will come to the House for deci- sion before the Seventy-first Congress adjourns, he is ever vigilant. Recently Osias spoke at length in the House in behalf of the Philippine cause For more than 30 minutes he talked astonishing members of that body with his knowledge of parliamentary proce- dure. his ability to hold his own in debate and his grasp of conditions in the Philippines. Born in the little town of Balaon, in the Province of La Union, Osias came early to this country to complete his | of many text books, and has al education. In a normal school in Ili- nois he soon distinguished himself both as a student and athlete. We went out for foot ball, won the position of quar- terback, and later captained the varsity squad, playing tennis meanwhile. He also won first place in an inter- state oratorical contest while there. Upon being graduated he went to the University of Chicago for two Summers, thence to Columbia University, where he was graduated with a degree of bachelor of education. Further study in New York at the Teachers’ College and he returned to the Philippines to teach school. After several years of work in educa- | When Babies CRY Babies will cry, often for no apparent reason. You may not know what's wrong, but you can always give Castoria. This soon has your little one comforted; if not, you should call a doctor. Don't experiment with medicines intended for the stronger systems of adults! Most of those little upsets are soon soothed away by a little of this pleasant-tasting, gentle-acting children’s remedy that children like: It may be the stomach, or may be the little bowels. Or in the case of older children, a sluggish, con- stipated condition. Castoria is still i tion, he went into politics. Credited with the largest majority ever obtained by a Filipino elective official, he took T Servion. e was sei. o, Weshing | was_sen - ton as Resident Commissioner last March, elected for a four-year term. Osias’ hobby is to observe and study good manners and right conduct. At present he is writing a. his spare moments on this subject. He is llfilrl‘l:r ten a biography and history of the h(;::l-mrtyr of the Philippines, Dr. Jose Rizal. He is an excellent golfer—a member of the hole-in-one club—but has very little opportunity to play. ‘The name dandelion is pure French; artichoke is from an Arabic word meaning “earth thorn”; rhubarb is Latin; bean, Anglo-Saxon, and potato is really “balaf Spanish word. 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I use it for fine cakes, waffles, biscuits, muffins, pancakes, etc. “Not long ago I purchased some ‘special’ cake flour and used baking powder. My family asked why the cake wasn’t as good as usual. “I wish I could tell every housewife of the sim- plicity and success of baking with Self-Rising Washington Flour. “I also use Plain Washington Flour ‘When I make bread.” Mrs. Partello’s experience will be your experi- ence—and her preference will be yours, if you try SELF-RISING WASHINGTON FLOUR just once. It isn’t just that it is the “best of its kind”"— but the BEST KIND—with which there is none to compare. EZIAVEZ 22 Ill — Taste Log Cabin’s glorious, snow-morning flavor on a steam- ‘ng stack of griddle cakes—or hot waffles—or on roast ham—or in any number of delicious desserts —or on a dozen other mates for maple flavor. Tap atin of Log Cabin, and make a maple taste-test today. And hurry—you’re missing something doubly sweet and good! 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