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WOM A N'S PAGE Making the Most of Sports Types BY MARY Sports clothes for sports only. That I8 the rule that some women have made for themselves in selecting their clothes and accessories for Spring and Summer, And in _some cases it is a very good Fule. There are some women who are BROWN SUEDE BERET CARRIES OUT THE BROWN AND ROSE BIEGE COLOR SCHEME OF THIS LIGHT-WEIGHT KNITTED SPORTS FROCK WHICH IS APPROPRIATE FOR TOWN WEAR, ing in sports clothes, just as there are some women who n look really smart e in the straight type of sports dress. If vou happen to be one of the women to whom sports things are especially becoming. don't alarm yourself over the present situation. To be sure the pendulum s swinging away from the vogue of the sports type of things for never preposses every and any occasion, but actually | there are just as many and just as at tractive suits, dresses, hats and acces- sories of the sports type from which MARSHALL. to choose. And if you happen to look well in them, and if you need to economize, then be sure to make the most of them. Sports suits of good quality knit wool material are less ex- pensive than dressmaker suits of finer woven aterial. A good quality sports hat may be bought for less than a more individual millinery product. The sketch shows an inexpensive sports dress chosen for street wear. | The smartness of the effect depends on the right choice of accessories—a | | simpte light-welght felt hat, washable | | pull-on gloves, plain silk scarf, fine duli- | surfaced lisle stockings and oxfords with straight heels of medium height. ! With a yard or so of dotted swiis {or muslin you may easily make over a | little girl's last Summer’s dress so that it will look entirely up-to-date. Thisq | week’s Help for the Home Dressmaker* shows how this can be done. If you would like a copy, please send your | stamped, self-addressed envelope to Mary Marshall, care of this paper, and it will be sent to you. ‘ (Copyright, 1930.) My Schnauzer pup is lying dead; some moron fed him poisoned bread, or, peradventure, beef; he'll never greet me | at the door, he’ll bark a welcome never more, and 1 am sick with grief. Our neighborhood is full of dogs; the gentle | pilgrim, as he jogs, may see them by the ton; they play around in cheerful style, they're friendly dogs, devoid of guile they gambol in _the sun. There are Great Danes and Poms and Chows, St. Bernards with their bulging brows. and Collles slick and fine; and there are Belgian Schipperkes, and other priceless dogs like these, some of a royal line. And every day or two men find some how-wow lying cold and blind, its | earthly journey o'er: the secret slayer | goes his round and in she morn dead dogs are found, and hearts are sick and sore, The cops are called and they look | wise and say they hope to paralyze the | poisoner betimes. the full resources of | their craft they'll bring to stop the ver's graft. and nail him for his crimes. But poisoners are seldom found, they work by methods under- | ground, they have no pals or friends: | they never speak of what they do but | in dark mystery pursue their diabolic | | ends. What sort of heart is in the | | breast of one who makes a midnight | quest for victims he may kill? Tt is | the bleak and frowsy lair of hate and | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1930. Modes Ao SUB ROSA e ™ML Pie Crust. When I was & youngster I thought it was & lot of fun to go into the kitchen and make pies. I did this after mother had made the real pie, and fashioned m little pie out of the scraps of dough and bits of filling left over after the big pie had been rounded out. That was all right for a kid, althovgh my little pie was a sorry mess after it was cooked up, and didn’t give any first aid to digestion, either. When we are young we have a right to play at cook- ing and living. Yes, and we are easily satisfled with scraps of life. But what I want to protest against is the way in which these scraps of in- digestibility are handed out to us in books and magazines, in shows and films. So many of these are tough, and they may make folks think tl morbid topics represent human life as it is actually lived by the average person. We get these pie scraps in sloppy little stories which appear in maga- zines with lurid covers. We could get a well rounded story, but we have the idea that the tough little bit of half- baked dough is more spiffy and up to date. Some of these writers may give us a slant on life that we can’t get from a standard. honest-to-goodness writer, but. if we get nothing but slants we'll be dizzy and not know whare we're a The same kind of pie baking on the side is to be seen in some of the shows put on the stage. Of course, we can't have “Hamlet” and “East Lynne” all the time, but there is room for good plays just the same. My ma didn't let my little pies cro'vd her big round ones out of the oven, and there’s no reason why the tough little show should take the place of the good big one. You know how it is with films, al- though you may no longer be punning on the difference between real life and real life. You know perfectly well that the gangster and cheap lover whose mugs are screened at the movies are not the real man a girl lists among her acquaintances. Our popular songs are about as well adapted to people who have ears for music as my pies were to people who know their apple and mince. The av- erage popular song is aimed at people with the lowest order of intelligence or those who are parlyzed above the ears. I couldn’t understand as a kid why grown folks didn’t relish my pesky little pies, but now I know. They wanted something real and filling, not a dyspeptic sinker. wise with the little pie books and pie envy and despair, its blood is green and | plays they're cooking up for us today? He is a Sadist who enjoys the orture that destroys a life serene and gay; he is a craven who would fear to carry on his vile career out in_ the | light of day WALT MASON. (Copyright. 1930.) chill | horrid t PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM Oh, Oh, Angi. Please give a list of foods and fruits one may eat who has giant hives— Mrs. C. C. P. Answer—You mean fruits and other foods. Pomegranates and fried scallops are generally allowed. Giant hives (an- gloneurotic_edema) may be caused by a peculiar individual sensitivity to some particular food substance, but it would be futile to guess which food is respon- sible, and so the only general dietetic advice I can offer is to go easy with all the eats for a day or two, and the fewer and simpler the items taken the better. A bread and milk dlet or & fruit juice diet s good. Food in Tin. I am grateful to you for many of SPRINGTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. No one who never went a-marshing really knows the Spring. There are just a few weeks in the year when the marshes of this part of the country are at once tolerable and interesting, for in Summer, though they are full of fascination, I for one am content to leave the marshes to the mosquitoes, the copperheads, and folk who like getting sunstroke, while a marsh in Autumn is & mournful affair, with dead brown stems of reeds and cat-tails going pensively to seed, and hunters banging away, to spread death among the ducks. Now, in early Spring, when the air is light and cool, and the sky is empty blue, and the ters are full with melted snow and rains, brim to margins of the meadows and the wood: and white violets bloom at the water's edge, and golden-club flowers are just out of reach, who that has breathed and smelled, and listened, and looked around a marsh, some other Spring, some other time, can resist the call? Some feel the call of rod and worm, and some limber their rifies, But I refer an old net and a boftle, for now B the ‘season o Al up my aquarium. Everywhere the shallow waters are full of the murky clouds of frogs’ eggs, and in some places tadpoles already begin to emerge. Over the water shoot the striders, and ditiscus beetles, shining black, encased in a silver air bubble, plough about like submarines, their purrose being, if possible, to torpedo a snail, or rather to take a juicy nip out of his soft body, if they are quick algae, t00, begin to appear magically, forming emerald sargassos wherein a_ thousand creatures too mi- nute for sight are fast marooned. A random bottleful of pond water, brought home to the microscope, will yield a dozen forms of life. And so, after a long day’s tramp about the marshes, one comes home, laden with loot that cost nothing, killed no bird, and will never be missed from the waters, and when at night one drops to sleep, the whole scene comes back to the inner eye—wide sky, wind rip- ling the waters, the fluttering of the g!-c bed's red-tipped wings, and the thousandfold motion of the folk that swim and creep in the tiny ocean. Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Pessimi Some of the world's greatest thinkers have concluded that no thinking person can avoid becoming a pessimist. And a few of these thinkers have succeeded retty well in proving their contentions Fofiul]yA Pessimistic persons are those who en- tertain a habitual distrust of the favor- able outcome of events. Real pessimists have always been thinkers. They carry their reasoning to the last analysis, and in so doing they see only facts, facts, facts. In the general shake-up of their observa- tions and ruminations they find just as many reasons to doubt as to trust in a favorable outcome for any situation. ‘They get the habit of assuming that nothis <hould be taken for nted; that everything has to be proved. They don’t believe anything. Life, as the average man or woma sees it, includes something in addition to facts and the logical analysis of facts. That's why the pessimists, valu- abie as they are at times, are generally ignored. We usually like those who bring news. We instinctively turn sway from those who live in the shadows. 8o the out-and-out pessimist really has no social atmosphere., He is forced to live alone with his thoughts. As he grows older he tends to turn away from the world of persons and things and take refuge in hi own ideas. He medi- tes, doubts, introspects, day- becomes an introvert—a recluse. the | BRADY, M. D. | your teachings, which have mot only| | benefited the health of my family in various ways but have given us much peace of mind besides. One little thing you have taught us is not to worry | about eating any food that is kept in the tin or can after opening the can, so lopg as the food is all right when the can is opened or will keep all right in any other container. —Until you showed us the light we had often discarded perfectly good food because it had been left ir. the opened tin an hour or two—J. C. H. Answer—Well. there are plenty of misinformed folk who would think you and me great fools for eating eanned ' | food that has stood in the can over| I night. As Mr. Barnum remarked, some | | people like to be humbugged, &and, by gum! they resent being enlightened, I find. Any kind of canned or preserved food is as wholesome to eat when it has been allowed to stand in the can after opening, as it would be if allowed to stand ‘the same length of time in any other container. The popular notion to the contrary is largely due, I think, to the practice of certain canning cdn-| cerns which formerly printed some such | suggestion on the label. They thought that would be a good alibi in case the spoiled stuff they marketed did cause any serious trouble. Canners who use only fresh and sound food do not re- quire an alibi of that sort. THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN | SERVICE | | Spring Suits. | Of course, youre going to have a suit this season. If not, you'll feel quite out of things, for undoubtedly | the jacket suit leads the daytime mode. As a smart variation, you'll find the ) need of many blouses. The one I'm showing is especially | nice. The snugly fitted hipline, with | applied trimming band at center-front, accentuates slimness. It's a dressy model in which you'll appear charmingly attractive when you remove your jacket. Flat silk crepe, canton crepe, crepe satin and crepe de chine will give ex- cellent service. Style No. 404 comes in sizes 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust. For a pattern of this style, send 15 Washi Bureau, Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, New York. ! We suggest that when you send for his ;;n(em you inclose 10 cents addi- tional for a copy of our new Spring Fashion Magazine, Fried Spring Chicken. Prepare the chicken, wash it and unjoint it. Then beat two eggs with one cupful of sweet milk mixed with salt and pepper. Put the chicken in the milk and eggs, roll the pieces in drv flour and fry in butter mixed with sweet lard. When done split some ba- nanas in halves, dip them in hot cake batter, and fry in deep lard until a light brown. ~Arrange - ‘bananas around the ‘then (Copyright, 1930.) SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. My Suny-school teacher say ‘“the week before Easter us must scrive to be good, an’ us should scrive ter make uvvers good, too"—I hardly knows where to begin 3 (Copyright. 1930.) LITTLE SISTER BY RUBY HOLLAND. “I dot a watch for my birthday, so I dave the big clock to the ol' clothes man as we won't need it any more now.” (Copyright. 1930.) ‘The Purves collection of Australian stamps, which was awarded the gold medal in 1928 at the International Philatelic Exhibition, at Melbourne, was bought recently by King George of Eng- land, who is an ardent collector, the reported price being $10.00¢ BETTER aRAN FLAKES S Pep for play. Vigor for work. Help yourself to health with . Kellogg’s Pep Bran Flakes. Just taste these better bram Sflakes. All the famous flavor of PEP. All the nutrition of whole wheat. And just enough bran added to be mildly laxa- tive. A matchless combina- tion with a matchless flavor. In the red-and-green pack- age. Madeby Kellogg in Battle Creek. ° FLAKES Why can't we be, Sees Marriage What Women Muke It What Makes Matrimony Miserable? \DorothyDix| WHAT are the greatest mistakes women make in marriage? First, marrying too young. This is the greatest mistake a woman can possibly make in marriage, because no young girl has the intelligence, the experience and the knowledge of men that would enable her to make a wise choice of a mate. She is just as incapable of picking out a husband who will make her happy as she is of picking out an investment in the stock market that will make her rich. Nor does any young girl know what kind of husband she is going to want when she is a grown-up woman. Her tastes are immature and in a state of flux. At 18 she craved chocolate creams and ice-cream sodas. At 28 her so- phisticated appetite demands caviar and French bonbons. It is the same way with husbands, and generally the man a girl picked out in her teens bores her to extinction by the time she is 30. Likewise the girl who marries when she is very young misses her play time and she spends the balance of her life regretting it. ‘The second mistake that women, make is in marrying when they are not really in love. So many women marry just to be a-marrying, or beca don’t want to be old maids, or because all the girls in their set have married, or because they are tired of office work. They have only lukewarm affection for the men they marry. This gives out under the inevitable strain of domestic life and they are miserable themselves and make their husbands still more miserable. The third mistake that women make is in marrying on the grab-bag princi- ple. No woman buys a new hat without shopping around for it and being sure | that she is getting her money’s worth and that it is her color and suits her lines and brings out her best points. But she will marry a man almost sight unseen, or because he looks good to her at a casual glance and without ever taking the trouble to find out about his antecedents, or his previous record, or whether ..e has a single taste or idea in common with her. Or she will marry him with the general idea in the back of her head that if she doesn't like him she will make him over when she gets him home. or dye him a new color, or something. It never seems to occur to her that this can't be done and that by the time a man has reached a marriageable age he is set | and fixed in his ways and habits. The fourth mistake that women make is in being more mother than wife. With the advent of the first baby in only too many families, the husband's nose is put permanently out of joint. Evervthing is for the children. All her time. all her thought, all her money are given to them. ‘The fifth mistake that women make is in thinking of marriage as a romance instead of a job. A girl goes into marriage believing it is going to be a lovey- dovey affair, a sort of perpetual petting party in which she will have nothing ic do but to doll herself up and look pretty and listen to her husband tell her how beautiful and wonderful she is. Hence, when she finds out that she has a life sentence at hard labor and is tied up with just an ordinary human man instead of a fairy prince, she weeps her eyes out in disappointment and only too oft'n throws up her hands and quits. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyrieht. 1930.) Fruit in Baskets. and baking around a half-pound baking Make some small pastry baskets by |Powder can. FPill the baskets with baking ple crusts over small inverted |strawberries or other fresh berries, muffin tins or ple pans, making handles | sprinkle with sugar and with by twisting two narrow strips of pastry ' whipped cream if desired. e et e e T RS TWO-TO-ONE TWO-TO-ONE TWO -TO-ONE TWO-TO-ONE e oo and with geod reason Cheese Souffie—now it’s no trick at all to make that always popular dish. Just put in one-half level teaspoonful of Rumford Baking Powder to each three eggs, according to the recipe in our new booklet ‘‘Several New Things Under the Sun.” Rumford, the pure all-phosphate baking powder, will make your soufflé light and fluffy—well puffed up and smooth. It adds food value too because of its calcium phosphate content, so important an item in the daily diet. There are 24 new uses for Rumford in our attractive little book, sent free to you upon receipt of your name and address. Buy a can of Rumford today. RUMFORD ALL- PHOSPHATE BakING POWDER THE TWO-TO-ONE LEAVENER Fashions of Today BY MARIE SHALMAR. Flowers. Artificial flowers have been brought back to our attention with the revival of more feminine fashions and those that are made of fabric—without any too great striving after verisimilitude— are the smartest, Pique flowers are worn with evening clothes as well as with daytime suits and dresses. The gardenia of white cotton p.que is the conventional orna- ment for the buttonhole of the tailored suit. Sikk plque is used for some of the most interesting of the new nose- | gays. Very smart is a boutonniere con- sisting of two white cotton pique gar- denitas with a stem and leaf of glossy black finish. On the new afternoon and evening | dresses a flower or two is often placed | at the front of the neckline—where | one might otherwise use & jeweled | brooch. NANCY PAGE Hats Are Feminine as Their Wearers. | Mrs, Lacey often took one or more of her three daughters with her when | she went on shopping expeditions. Even though she was buying something for herself and not for the girls, she felt that it was part of their education to shop with her, They heard her discuss styles, qualities, wearability with the sales people. Then, too, she wanted | them to be proud of their mother's appearance and feel that they had a hand in making her look attractive. Today they were looking for hats ‘The saleswoman stressed the femininity of the styles of today. She showed Mrs Lacey a lacy straw, while her daugh- ters ~giggled over 'the similarity in | names, and assured their mother that nothing could be more appropriate. The saleswoman said that nothing could be more smart The hat was worn so that the crown fitted tightly at the back of the neck. The short front brim gave the “off the face” effect which is still good this season. | ‘While Mrs. Lacey was examining a | dark blue taffeta hat with white em- broidered polka dots, the girls found hacoming hats of fashionable straws. se they | One was of ballibuntl with grossgrain band. This hat was worn well off the forchead, the effect being heightenea by the lifted front brim. It was in tan. | Another striking hat was of shiny black panama-lac. Both hats fitted closely to the neck in back and while » little hair was shown the effect was far from being untidy or windblown. Mrs. Lacey was glad her daughters had chosen hats of this type rather than | the perishable ones of light silk which are seen in such profusion at Easter time in many of the shops. ‘These hats might be worn at a tes. I | you are_thinkl Nanes' P write to inclosing a stamped, 'sel for her leaflet. "Tea . asking Time Dainties. (Copyright. 1930 FEATURES. Psychic Adventures of Noted .Men and Women Podmore and the Ghost BY J. P. of the Old Librarian. GLASS. bt 194 7 e f— TN S =4 & a7 “A FACE SUDDENLY PEEKED AROUND FROM ONE OF THE BOOKCASES.” Prank Podmore, a noted investigator | of psychic phenomena and a writer on | apparitions, thought transference and | other matters of the kind, himself had ) a strange experience. It came when he | took over his job of librarian at the X—— Library. The post had become vacant through the death of the former librarian, a certain Mr. @—. who had been in charge of the place over a very long period—so long, in fact, that he seemed to have become a very ‘itimate part of the institution. At the time he went to the library Podmore relates: *I had never seen| Mr. @—— nor any photograph or like- ness of him. 1 mey, of course, have heard the library assistants de- | scribe his appearance, though I have| no_recollection of this." | Busy in fitting himself into the work, | Podmore doubtless gave absolutely no thought to his predecessor. Certainly, it he ever thought of him, it was in the most impersonal way. He hadn't the slightest idea that he was to see what he believed to be the man's ghost. Four years passed before this took place. Then, on a March evening, he had an eerie adventure. | He had worked after hours. Absorbed, he did not notice the flight of time until it came to him suddenly htat if he didn't hurry he would miss the last train. It departed at 11:06. He glanced at his watch. It was then 10:55. | He gathered up some books and pre- pared to leave the librarian's room by a passage which communicated with the main room of the library. But as he stepped into the passage he saw, or thought that_he saw. a man's face at the other end of it. | “A thief has gotten in." he told him- self. He turned back to his room, put down the books, obtained a revolver | from the safe, and cautiously set out down the corridor again. There was 10 one in the corridor. He could not at first glance detect any one in the main room. However, this room was filled with bookcases, and an in- truder might be hiding behind one. He called out loudiy for the supposed thief @ show himself. Incidentally, he| hoped @ policeman might hear him and came to his aid. No policeman came. Instead a face suddenly peeked_around from one of the bookcases. less face, with deep, sunken eyes. Pod- more was immensely startled, because it seemed to have no body, or rather | it seemed as though its body might be in the bookcase, with only the head| sticking out. He advanced toward it determinedly. Now it seemed to him that an cld, high- shouldered man rotated out of the case. turned, and with his back to him walked shuffingly to an adjoining room Podmore did not at this time think of the old man as an apparition. He followed to the other room, but there Was no one in it ‘There was only one means of egress other than the door. It was a small window, 12 by 14 inches. This was closed and fastened. He opened it and looked out. He found it opened into a well. The bottom of this space, 10 feet skylight. Above the wall a distance of 20 feet to| the open sky. No one could have es-| It was a pallid, hair-| caped without a ladder. There was no ladder. Podmore was mystified. Had he been the victim of an illusion? Well, what- ever it was, it had made him miss his train. He hesitated to fancy that he had seen a ghost. But the next morning when he described his experience to & friend that individual said: “Why, that's old @—!" Not long afterward Podmore saw a photograph of the old librarian. It closely resembled the face of his nos- turnal visitor. He learned. too, that through an accident @—— had lost his hair and eyebrows, and that his walk was a peculiar shuffie. He began to believe that it might have been a ghost. (Copyright, 1930.) Chocolate Junket. Heat three cupfuls of milk to 100 degrees P testing the tempersfure to be sure that it is right. Melt two squares of chocolate in a saucepan, add to it six tablespoonfuls of sugar and half 2 cupfui of water, and cook until smooth, then cool and add to the warm milk, adding one-fourth teaspoonful of salt,’ half a teaspoonful of vanilla, and one’ junket tablet dissolved in one- fourth cupful of water. Turn the junket into a.dish or info molds and let stand in a warm place until set, then chill and serve. If sweet choco- late is used, less sugar will be needed. AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “This young doctor may know a lot o' new things, but I don't want no smart Alec shuttin’ me off when I'm deseribin’ symptoms. GRAV-HAI adds years to your age. Can be tinted any color quickly ROWNATONE and easily with popular GUARANTEED HARMLESS How To Make Havana Salad Peel and skin the orange. Cut sections half way down. Place stuffed dates between sections and serve on crisp lettuce. Dress generously with Gelfand'’s Mayonnaise. Some hostesses prefer to add a cupful of whipped cream to one cup of Gelfand’sMayonnaise, as a dressing for this salad ga party?..serve Havana salad A quick salad . . and a different one! Tartnessof orange . .sweetness of date .. partnered with the smooth, creamy goodness of Gelfand’s Mayonnaise. Your grocer has it. Order a jar today. GELFAND°S Mayonn:z:se * Thousand Island Dressing - Sandwich Spread Difil}ifiu!or: The Carpel Co., Inec., 2155 Queén’s Chapel Rd., Washington, D. G

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