Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1930, Page 26

. WOMAN’S PAGE.' Careful Selection of Blouses BY MARY New fashions bring with them new problems and new responsibilities to the woman who wants to be well dressed. And the revival of the separate wash blouse will make it necessary for you to allow a larger outlay for fine laundry FULLNESS OF FRILL THAT ADORNS BLOUSE 1S PRODUCED BY| GROUPS OF SMALL TUCKS—A PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENT FOR BLOUSE THAT IS TO BE FRE- QUENTLY WASHED AND IRONED. work or to devote more time to the | tle art of washing and ironing at | me. Certainly no woman should | deny “herself the luxury of wearing | freshly laundered blouses with her Spring suit just because of this added responsibility, Lingerie blouses should be chosen with care, especially if you intend to wash and iron them yourself. You should bear in mind that fine cottons and linens withstand repeated wash- ings better than chiffon or georgette and that fine pleats come out in the MARSHALL, without the services of a professional pleater. Yet fashion looks with favor on frills and flounces and the new Jjacket suits demand some sort of jabot or 1rill at the front. There are blouses with ruffied or finely pleated frills that are bound to be popular this Spring because they are easy to iron and are | as frilly and feminine as fine pleats. + The sketch shows a blouse from one of the important French dressmakers that has already gained quite a follow- ing in this country and can easily be coflm by the clever:home dressmaker, either in silk, batiste or fine handker- chief linen. Artificial flowers have come back into favor along with the interest in all sorts of feminine dress accessories. This week’s circular shows how to make at- | tractivea flowers from narrow ribbon | with just a little sealing wax to_make the ends of the flower centers. If you | would like a copy of this illustrated circular please send a _stamped, self- addressed envelope to Mary Marshall, care of this paper, and it will be for- warded to you. (Copyright, 1930.) My Neighbor Says: Never cook liver in hot water. Always put it into cold water to soak out all blood and impurities. Pouring hot water on it shrinks it and toughens it. A simple Russian dressing is made by adding 2 tablespoonfuls . of chile sauce and 2 tablespoon- fuls of finely chopped green pep- Per to 1 cup of mayonnaise. Pink drinks often appeal to the finicky child. These may be made by adding raspberry juice or by dissolving a taspoonful of currant jelly in a glass of water and straining it through cheese cloth. The unbeaten white of egg cut into the pink drink gives additional nourishment. When preparing cereals it is well to remember that too much grain and too little water makes & lumpy mass. Too much water makes a thin watery gruel. Proper measurements and long cooking give you a creamy cereal. cereal. and cannot be put back again MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE Special Dispatch to The Star f HOLLYWOOD, Calif., February 24| (N.AN.A.).—It would be easier by far| to find out who killed cockrobin than to | discover the story of Prince Youcca ‘Troubetskoy’s romances. A few weeks ago his engagement to Catherine Dale Owen, one of the most beautiful blonds of the screen colony, ‘was rumored persistently. The two ap- peared everywhere together. And al- though the actress denied an engage- ment when the stories were printed, she did not cease her public appearances with the prince. Yesterday Ethel Sykes, “Floradora” girl of one of the current pictures in production, announced her engagement to Troubetskoy. Hollywood is a bit that way. Recent gelatin weddings have been treated to some details not in the pm-} gram. The bride sets the stage with satin | and tulle and orange blossoms and bridesmaids—all the paraphernalia of culminated romance. And the ex-wife throws in a few summonses, dramatic scenes at church doors, hysterics and various other items which may be ex- cellent drama but are not the stuff that conventional ceremonies are made of. Ex-wives, stealing the spotlight bridal ceremonies, stage scenes church doors. When Ethiyn Claire mar- | ried Ernest Westmore, ex-wife Veota | ‘Westmore put a punch into the cere- mony not planned by the bride. Some 500 of Hollywood's professional colony were witnesses to the dramatic | episode of Baby Muriel lisping, “Papa, why don’t you pay mamma, so I can 80 back to school?” The bride stood by in satin and orange blossoms. The cere- mony and subsequent supper were liv- ened by a fist fight between the bride- groom and a photographer and by pro- cess servers persistently endeavoring to gain entrance to the festivities,to hand the bridegroom a bit of folded paper. ‘The church drama took place not a block from the open-air market where the ex-wife is employed. And the honeymoon will be further livened by the alimony suit which is scheduled for next week. 5 MERRICK. man versions made in Hollywood. But Samuel Goldwyn (nee Goldfisch) is far too clever a producer to retain a star with the Banky type salary unless she can register tellingly in English. (Copyright, 1930.) WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. S. Patent Office. When Hanlan and Courtney staged their big $6,000 race on the Potomec. One of the ‘biggest sporting events in THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, FEBRUARY SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. Now, Baby, take yer fum out ob yer mouf an’ say Bi~ A. (Copyright, 1930.) LITTLE SISTER BY RUBY HOLLAND. “I tolt Willie to quit shootin’ the gun, an’ he said he wuz only shootin’ in the air. That was dest the troubles, I wuz 'fraid he'd shoot Dod.” (Copyright, 1930.) WINTERTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. It will considerably raise the spirits of the nature lover to think that, though we may be reduced to chicadees and juncoes for birds, and poinsettias and paper flowers for plant life, the birds are on their way here from British Guiana. They will get to us next Spring, whenever that is, despite every delay. There really Are hummingbirds, throb- bing on Summer air, somewhere. The luscious oriole and the scarlet indigo, the flycatchers and the ruby-crowned kinglets—all the tropic host, gorgeous of plumage, enchanting of voice, viva- cious of habit—they are there, making ready for return, making ready to brave the treacheries, the defeats, of our early Spring. A good friend of this little column accuses me, in friendly vein, of loving Winter less than Spring. There is nothing to do but plead guilty, yet need I excuse myself? How I love Winter ‘when it comes! The bracing air; those murky sunsets; those pure-driven, first white snows. But Winter is a guest that always stays beyond its welcome, and I am not reproaching it for merely being cold and slushy. I miss the birds. I long for flowers. I want the hum- ming chorus of the night-insects in Summer grasses outside my window. ‘To those who like a junco better than an oriole, I have, I fear, nothing to say. I met a Scotchman in Mentone once who liked the climate of Scotland better than that of the Riviera and there are people who prefer to dwell where all they see of the sky is a smoky patch between giant apartment buildings. New Englanders like, or’they feel obliged to | pretend they like, a rocky meadow With one sad juniper and three gray bay- the United States at the time. ‘Smocks in Home Needlework BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Grant Withers and Loretta Young more than Mamma Young'’s objec- tions to deal with in their elopement. The little matter of alimony and child support became a feature of their ‘honeymoon also. Romances follow one another rapidly in this colony. Married, divorced and remarried in the limit time may have its advantages, but it has its disadvan- tages also. Mexico is handy for di- vorces, and Reno and Arizona for quick- time ceremonies. But the American courts are grinding out justice, it would seem, in standardized time, as followed by the remainder of our States. They Just will not “go Hollywood.” Vilma Banky, housewife, will prob- ably be this actress’ status on the com- ing census books. The Budapest beauty has declared her intention of living for | Rod La Rocque alone when her contract expires, next April. Inability to assimilate the American tongue in a manner calculated to make her a talkie asset is the real reason for this attack of domesticity. Vilma Banky would always be an asset for foreign films, and would doubtless have splendid opportunity for playing in Ger- MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Baked apples, Farina with cream, bolled bacon, crumb bran muffins, coffee. LUNCHEON. Prankfurters, potato salad, rye bread, preserved cherries, almond cookies, tea. S DINNER. Cream of onion soup, baked beef loaf, gown gravy, French fried potatoes, diced carrots, let- tuce, Thousand Island dressing, Brown Betty coffee. CRUMB BRAN MUFFINS. Mix together 2 cups bran, % cup bread flour, 1 cup fine dried bread crumbs, % cup sugar, 1 teaspoonful salt and 4 teaspoon- fuls baking powder. Beat 1 egg until light and add 2 cups milk. Combine the two mixtures, turn into greased muffin pans and bake about 25 minutes. ALMOND COOKIES. Cream % cup butter with 14 cup sugar, add 1 cup blanched and chopped almonds, 1 teaspoon- ful cinnamon, the beaten yolks of 3 eggs, 1 teaspoonful of vanilla and 1% cups flour mixed with 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder. Chtll, roll, cut into rounds, brush with white of egg, sprinkle with granulated sugar and bake in a quick oven. BROWN BETTY. The “smock” as a kind of glorified apron or overdress is an article of the homemaker's wardrobe that seems to have come to stay. Whether it boasts actual smocking, as some do, or mere- ly borrows the name from the way it is cut, its making is within the easy capabilities of the home needlewoman, or the growing-up daughter who is learning to sew. ;:r the latter, it xsn:.n aspec:allg One cup bread crumbs, 2 cu [ garment to try the untraine chopped gwln. % cup lullr.pf needle on, as it is not demanding as to teaspoonful cinnamon, 2 table- fit. A pretty pattern can be worked spoonfuls butter, Butter a deep in 'colors ‘on -collar apd: pocket. A pudding dish and alternate the kitchen smock can bear such appropri- above ingredients in the dish | |ate motifs as oranges, a bowl of fruit, with the crumbs on top. Cover with colorful grapes, etc. closely and steam 45 minutes in a Materials advised for such use, and moderate oven. Uncover and brown. Serve warm with sugar and cream. e e, Bl a -brilliant-shades.” It:1s cotton _crepe. especially we tractive. soft” inexpensive to purchase are sateen and | is berry bushes better than our tulip tree. Why Have Long Skirts Returned to Fashion? \DorothyDix| === Hem Line Women Know That, in His Heart, Every Man’s Ideal Woman Is Long-Haired and Long-Skirted. IT is not surprising that the intelligentsia, as well as dressmakers, should be trying to interpret the recent radical change in fashions for women and that the hem line should have‘become as burning a question as the d proposition. There are various schools of thought on this subject. A learned writer hails the long skirt as a return to the idealistic days of gallant gentlemen ahd grand ladies in sweeping draperies, and prophesies that it will end the democracy of women that now exists, in which you cannot tell a millionairess and a sales- girl apart by their clothes. isarmament Others hold that the introduction of the long ekirt was put across by manu- facturers and dress designers to force women to buy more cloth and scrap their wardrobes and get a new outfit. Some contend that it is an esthetic movement and that an outraged public could no longer endure the spectacle of the “Nude Coming Down Stairs” with knobby knees or spindly shanks or piano-leg ankles, and so rang the curtain down on the eye-blasting sight, while still others believe that the elongated skirt means nothing but that woman is running true to form and is merely expressing her love of change and her lncessart.crgvlzxx for something new and different. A CURIOUS feature of this discussion is that men, who usually look upon the vagaries of women's fashions as they do upon the inscrutable workings of Providence, as something which a man may like or not like, but with which he does not presume to meddle, are taking an active part in the argument, pro and con, and outside of those who stand to profit by the change, they are almost unanimously against it. Indeed, so ardently do they espouse the cause of the short skirt that several business men’s clubs have passed resolutions on the subject, declaring that no long-skirted stenographer, no matter what her batting average at a typewriter, need apply for a job with them. Nor is this hard to understand when one re- members the hampering dust-sweepers that women wore in other years and which required the unhindered use of one hand to manage. At that time, however, the compact and the custom of & woman making up her face in public had not been invented, 5o a woman was left with one hand to attend to the ordinary affairs of life, but now with one hand occupled with a lipstick and the other holding up her skirts she would be practically use- less, as employers foresee. Another reason that men are advocates of the short skirt is because they constitutionally dislike innovations and, having become hardened, so to speak, to women’s legs and gotten so they don’t notice them, they resent having female limbs being called to their attention again by being put in the peep-show class once more. . And sill another reason why men are strong for the short skirt is because it can be treated much more brusquely than a train can. It does not demand the grand manner of men. It does not have to have an arm to lean on. It does not have to be assisted over a gutter. ‘The girl in a knee-length skirt is a little brother who can look after herself and pay her own part of a Dutch treat and put her own tire on a car, but & woman in a long skirt is a clinging vine whom every man must take care of, and so, naturally, men sigh as they think of having to brace up and be sturdy oaks again and props for p:r&ilws. . I’r MAY be asked, then, since women primarily dress to please men and men are loud in their advocacy of the short skirt, why women should lengthen their skirts by even a hand’s breadth? The answer is that much study of men has made women clairvoyant and that women know what men want in women better than men know it themselves. Men may think that they prefer the mannish woman. but women know that this is not true and that in his heart every man's ideal woman is long-haired and long-skirted. ‘The shingle-haired, short-skirted creature that you had to take two looks at, and often more, before you could determine its sex, was a sort of after- war experiment in femininity. She had her place in that brutal day in which there was no place for sentiment or the soft things of life; when romance had been trampled under foot and sentiment torn to tatters; when men hag no inclination toward lovemaking and, in effect, wooed their mates as their cave- man ancestors did—with a club. ‘Women woke up and perceived that all of this imitation-man business was getting them nowhere and that if they wanted men to regard them as women | and treat them as women they would have to go back to being women and look- ing like women. And the first move has been to dress the part, In this they do but follow the example of Mother Eve, who knew more than any psychologist has ever found out about women and on whose technique no,_daughter has ever improved. Her first move upon acquiring wisdom was to make her a skirt, and without doubt it had an uneven hemline. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright. 1930.) AGE OF CRIME Great men nowadays are reading books that treat of crime and gore, of the murder proceeding to the death room’s little door. Nowadays the great detective is a personage sublime; are we mentally defective, that we read the tales of crime? In his study sits the parson reading of some gifted light. When a murderer was waiting for the doomsman, fierce and fell, good 3ir Walter went a-skating to behold him in his cell. And Macaulay had a pas< sion for broadsides of his day, where was told, in grisly fashion, how some sinner passed away; of the crowds that came a-ganging, executions dire to see, all details of every hanging and the gloomy gallows tree. Charlie Lamb, ‘whose pen was handy, though he had a lisping tongue, never tired of Mary Blandy and the crime for which she swung. Old Sam Johnson, grave and crook who is strong on murder, arson, till at last he's brought to book. In his office sits the banker, reading of some gangsters bold, who are always prone to hanker for unearned, illicit gold. Every one is reading fiction that is based on shedding blood, on the hangman’s Jurisdiction, and the trapdoor’s ghastly thud. Good men cry, “Oh, donner- wetter, why have people sunk so low?" But were things so vastly better in the days of long ago? Walter Scott was found of reading of the dark deeds of the night, and a murdered person | if bleeding filled him with a strange de- LA R & THE DESIGN PICTURED CAN BE TRACED FOR USE ON SMOCKS AND LINENS. not essential that the applique be done with the same goods, but it is neces- sary to know before going to the trouble of applying it that it will not run in washing. Blacks should be well tested, either in goods or embroidery threads. Reds also are shades to be suspicious of without the water test. Artists are those who lay first claim to smocks, but many other callings have rejoiced in the garment which af- fords protection and free movement of the arms. Smocks for garden use are frequent, smocks -for kitchen use al- most . general, smocks. for. all. sorts of office tasks are getting more and more popular and smocks for the nursery when mother attends to the needs of a tiny tot are useful and attractive. It because of the first use, that of the artist, that a kind of glamour still adheres. to_the wearing of a smock. * (Copyright. 1930.) stately, often talked on things sublime, but it still intrigued him greatly to dis- cuss the latest crime. Crime has had its fascination ever since the days of Cain; men of low and lofty station share an appetite that's vain. WALT MASON. (Oopyright, 1930.) When 15-year-old Frederick Smith, an office boy, represented his law firm in an undefended case and was given the verdict, he loudly asked, “And costs, you please?” to which the judge smiled and agreed. v 24, 1930. Telephone Etiquette Is Subject All Its Own., BY FLORENCE LA GANKE, ‘The girls who bel to Nancy's G. T, or Good Taste Club, were meet- ing at her home. They asked Nancy about telephone calls. “May we ever call up a boy, Mrs. Page? Suppose we like him ever so much and he sald he would call us and didn't? Couldn't we call him just to show we haven't for- gotten him? We would call another girl, why not a boy?” “I know, girls, it seems odd not to do it and something of a hardship, too, but it isn't done. Boys are queer creatures. They do not like a girl who seems too anxious to get them. They want to do the pursuing themselves. I don't believe I would call a boy, and I certainly would not carry on a conversation with any one girl or boy who starts with ‘Guess who this 15?2’ or ‘I bet you don't know who I am." You wouldn't talk to any one who said that to you face to face. Why should you do it over the telephone? I would say, ‘I am sorry, but I do not care to talk to a stranger, and then I would hang up. Rude people need to be taught a lesson, you see” The girls thought this was “pretty strict, but in _their hearts they could see the sense of it. As they sat there Nancy -looked around at the girls. She was impressed with the attitude they took. There was one girl with her chin in her hands, her elbows supported on her spread knees. Because the girls had asked her to criticize them she asked this girl to stay just as she was while the rest studied her to see “what was wrong in the picture.” You should have seen the rest straighten up, pull in outstretched legs and untangle twisted feet and legs. | After all, they were nice children, Nancy | concluded, and becoming more con- solous of G. T. every time she saw em. Soon these girls will be interested in showers. Write to Nancy Page, care of this paper, inclosing a stamped. self-addressed envelope, asking for her leafiet on “Show- er: (Copyright, 1930.) boig - 1 wad i Rice With Pineapple. = ‘Toss together lightly one cupful of cooked rice, one cupful of crushed or grated -pineapple, and one cupful of stifly whipped cream. Heap into indi- vidual dessert glasses. Garnish each with a maraschino cherry. Orange mar- malade may be used in place of the pineapple, using one-third cupful only, as it is more concentrated in flavor. Fruit Cup. Mix together two cupfuls each of orange and grapefruit pulp and the Juice from the fruit, half a cupful of grated pineapple drained from its juice, two tablespoonfuls-of lemon juice and three tablespoonfuls of sugar. Serve very cold in glasses, the portions gar- nished with a marachino cherry and a sprig of mint. FEATURES.’ Famous Cinderellas—Good and Bad BY J. P. HE ASKED. An ignorant Livonian servant girl who could neither read nor write, and who never learned, rose to be Empress of Russia. But this was no virtuous Cinderella, no shy and supplicating creature. Catherine, wife of Peter the Great, bursts upon history as a hearty, robust creature, whose lusty appetites were those of a vigorous man. At the start of the Swedish war, in, 1702, Peter the Great sent Gen. Sheremetief to occupy Livonia and lay siege to Marlenburg. After a few weeks the g: n was no longer able to resist and commander decided to_blow himself up with the fortress. He warned some of the inhabitants of his intention, so that they might escape. Among these was the Lutheran pastor, the Provost Gluck, who promptly fled with his wife, his child- ren, his maid-of-all-work, and a Slavonic Bible, which he used as a passport when he reached the Russian lines. He offered to serve as inter- preter. Gen Sheremetief agreed and under- took to forward him and his family to Moscow. But the servant girl, whose real name will never be known, wds not sent with them, She was young and handsome. Life had not been calculated to soften her. Her serf parents had died when she was a mere child, Pastor Gluck had taken her in charge, but she was not more to him and his family than a plece of tseful furniture. To her dying day she could write nothing but her name. The pastor kept students and other lodgers. By the time she was 17 the girl's irregularities so embarrassed her master that he decided to marry her to a Swedish soldier. This fellow dis- appeared after the capture of Marien- burg. After Catherine became empress she sent him a pes . Catherine’s new career began as the mistress of a non-commissioned officer. Gen. Sheremetief next took her, but soon cast her off. Later we find her occupying a menial position in the home of Menshikof, Peter the Great's man Friday, although her services went be- yond mere housekeeping. The story that Peter first met Catherine while visiting Menshikof. The Czar was astonished by the clean- liness of his favorite’s domicile and of Menshikof himself. “How do you contrive to have your house so well kept? Where do you ob- Menshikof’s only answer was to open & door and point. His finger led Peter's gaze to a handsome girl, in a spotless apron, scrubbing at the window es. The greatest passion of Peter's life was efficiency. Moreover, he never had cared for high-born women. It was quite natural that he should take a fancy to Catherine, and that she should be transferred from Menshikof's keep- ing to his. He had been married in his youth to Eudoxia Lapouhin, daughter of a Erominent Boyard. But he long since ad banished her to a convent. Some years later, in 1711, he married Catherine. She had completely won him by the firmness of her character, her good temper, her bravery and her ability to calm him in his fits of nervous irritation. But more than this, she had of & good general. She went with Peter everywhere. She could !le:}) in the open and on hard | ground, necessary, and ride long tain such fresh, dainty linen?"” he asked."| acute political insight and the instincts word, Catherine’s Fine Laundry Work First Caught Heart of Peter the Great. GLASS. “HOW DO YOU CONTRIVE TO HAVE YOUR HOUSE SO WELL KEPT?"” Jjourneys on horseback. She never tired and she never grew cross, She survived Peter and reigned alone for 16 months. But now she indu in the wildest dissipations. She in 1827, in her forty-seventh year. (Copyright, 1930.) Household Methods BY BETSY CALLISTER. Parchment Lamp Shades. When we talk about parchment lamp shades we usually mean parch- ment-paper lamp shades. For most of the so-called parchment shades are really of paper. There is no effort to deceive on the part of those who sell these shades, either decorated, or ready to decorate. They are frankly labeled parchment paper—but parchment is shorter, and therefore the misnomer is often used. Real parchment is expensive, It is, of course, sometimes used for lamp shades. where expense is not a matter of consideration. And vellum, which is also a dressed skin that can be used to write on, is found only in very ex- Ppensive books. Goatskin seems to be usually chme‘: for drumheads, X%unomethmz tough needed—a good, gh old goat being, therefore, the best sort to choose for his skin if & drum is in question. For the finer sorts of parchment kidskins are chosen, the younger the kid, the softer, thinner and finer the parchment. Vellum is sometimes made, in its finest qualities, from asses’ skins. Vel- lum is dressed in such a way that it has a beautifully glossy finish. It is accordingly expensive. JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English. BY JOSEPH J. FRISCH. BELLE, WHO 1S CONSIDERED THE CUTEST GIRL IN TOWN, SAID, "IT MUST BE TERRIBLE TO BE DUMMY IN BRIDGE, BECAUSE A DLUMMY, YOU KNOW, 1S A PERSON WHO CANNOT TALK" H. B. W.—Although condemned by some authorities, the word cute seems to be firmly established in our lan- guage. You may feel safe from general criticism in referring to a cute girl, cute kitten, etc. This reminds me of the Englishman who said, “I think cute is a nasty " His American companion re- “I don't think nasty is a cute r prompt reply to questidn: - close seif-addressed stamped 6':'515: 28 Serve Your Guests the Best USE ’ WhiteHouse Coffee = v Finer Flavor for over 40 years! %efi,t\esseIl N Children will fret, often for no apparent. reason. But there’s al- ways-one sure,way to comfort a restless, “fretful child. Castorial Harmless as the recipe on the wrapper; mild and. bland as it tastes, - But its gentle action g soothes a youngster more surely understand. A coated tongue calls than® some powerful medicine' " for a few drops to ward off consti- that is meant for the stronger gation; so does any suggestion of systems of adults. ad breath. Whenever children That's the beauty of this special . don’t eat well, don’t rest well, of, children’s remedy! 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