Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1930, Page 39

WOMAN'S PAGE. MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS, Toning Flabby Skin. Sooner or later practically every ‘woman discovers that her -hl'xv: seems to be lumuu firmness and_has flabby, lifel appearance. But ‘woman who realizes quite earl, that her skin will not retain eglected her facial muscles until she in her forties has a much mere serious problem in trying to remedy this condition than her sister who has begun preveriive treatments in her twenties. It is only natural that there should “e some shrinking of the subcutaneous flesh as the years mount up. Other frequent causes of this are illness or| too drastic dieting. Anything which | causes one to lose weight too quickly | is pretty sure to result in sagging, | flabby facial muscles and milady must take very definite steps to build them up_again. | First, of course, in any beauty pro- gram comes health. Purely local treat- | ments have little effect unless the gen- eral health is at least in fair condition. Right mental attitude also has much to do with it. The most strenuous | beauty treatments in the world will not | make sagging muscles and drooping ‘mouth take on an attractive appearance if one persists in dwelling on gloomy and discouraging thoughts. The mental attitude must be of the cheery kind, which just naturally makes the facial muscles, particularly those around the mouth, pull upward instead of droop- ing. After looking to the general health and mental attitude, the next step is special external treatments with creams, astringents, facial massage and patting. A daily facial treatment for the woman ‘whose facial muscles are beginning to sag should include a very gentle mas- sage along three lines: First, upward from under the angle of the jaw to the | temples; second, from the corner of the | mouth obliquely upward to a point above the ear below the hairline, and third, from the nostril up around the outer corner of the eye to the fore- head. After cleansing the face with cleans- ing cream, steam lightly with a warm AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. want to be in Heaven when Vir- towel and lightly apply a good tissue cream or skin food and then execute the massage along the lines suggested. After the treatment wipe off the excess cream and pat on an astringent or skin lotion and allow it to dry on the tkin. Then finish the make-up, uslnr a good powder and a touch of rouge if neces- sary.: If the treatment is given at night | the tissue cream may be massaged into the skin and left on overnight. Patting is very good for preventing sagging or improving the skin which is already in that condition. Face patters can be purchased and if one will satur- ate a plece of absorbent cotton in an astringent and then fasten this pad on the patter by means of a rubber band one has an_excellent beauty aid. Pat the face rather briskly along the same lines outlined for a massage, as this treatment is very effective. It wakes up lazy cells, stimulates the circulation and | is one of the very best aids toward | making flabby muscles firm. (Copyright, 1930.) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Me and Sid Hunt wanted to take a wawk, on’ Sids little brother Bert was there and we know he would of came along weather we wunted him or not, wich we dident, and I winked one eye at Sid, saying, Hay Sid, have the acro- bats been around yet? No I dont think so, I havent saw them, Sid sed, and I sed, Well then theyll be heer any minnit now, and Bert sed, What acrobats, wich acrobats? what do you mean? Why, the acrobats that are coming around to do tricks out in the street, dont you know anything? I sed, and Sid sed, Aw, whats a use of tawking to that kid, he never reeds the papers. Well G wizzickers, whats you tawking about, what acrobats? Bert sed, and 8id sed, Aw, dont expose your ignorants, and I sed, Well I tell you what, 8id, lets us 2 go around the corner and see if their there, and Bert can sit here and watch for them, and if we see them we'll yell to him, and if he sees them he can yell to us. G, all rite, thats fair enough, Sid sed. And me and him quick wawked away, and when we got around the corner we'| quick kepp on wawking, lafing like any- thing, Sid saying, O boy, we put one over on him that time, and me saying, | O boy, maybe we dident. And we dident come back for about a hour, and Bert was still sitting there, and he was bicwing up a big red bal- loon, Sid saying, Hay, where did you get that? and Bert saying, Thats nuth- ing, I got 5 of them. They wasent acro- bats at all, they was clowns in a big wagon with a steam organ in it, and they was avvertizing Squidge Joneses tawking - picture, and they threw out balloons and I got 5 of them, he sed. Well hay, give us one, Sid sed, and I sed, Sure, whats you so stingy about, hand out a cupple. Like fun, Bert sed. And the more we asked him the less he wouldent. Proving the more favors you do for some people the less they appriciate it. DAILY DIET RECIPE MOUSSELINE SAUCE. Hollandaise sauce, one cupful. ‘Whipping cream, one-quarter cupful. Serves four or six portions. cream stiff and gradually beat t! into Hollandaise sauce, Good on asparagus, caulifiower, cabbage, etc. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes much fuel in the form of fat. Much iron, lime, vitamins A and B present. Use- ful in diet to increase weight. Recipe can be eaten by adults of normal or under weight. Can be I SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. I better get out ob here—I dest hear my dear Muvver say: “Sonny don't act like hisself—I fink I better gib him & dose ob medicine.” LITTLE SISTER BY RUBY HOLLAND. “When a cow moos drandpa says it's honkin’ to be milked but I wonder how | a Bunny does when he wants to lay a colored Easter egg.” (Copyright, 1930.) SPRINGTIME BY D. O. PEATTIE. On a fine Spring morning, when I begin to turn the sod in my garden, to plant out my little rows of annuals, a drop of dew upon the under side of a leaf is more radiant than a diamond | chip; the uncoiling of an earthworm is as a saga; the tumult that one wren can make, fussing about in the rain gutter and caroling, is a symphony. Gardening in Spring is that perfect combination of the mind running wholly on its imaginative power at the same time that the body, so far from taking a mechanical exercise, is continually doing something different. Just as long fasting is said to induce trances and a bad digestion induces pessimism, so gar- dening induces health and quiet con- tentment. If my neighbors do not see anything in the way of a garden to justify my self-satisfaction in the exercise of gar- dening, I will hasten to-admit it. gardening love does not need to Justified. The enthusiasm of the office man for his back yard in a 50-foot lot and his 10 tomato vines is recognized, and it is be VENING | | But | WASHINGTON, D. C., DorothyDix| WHY the cult of youth that obsesses us all? Why do we spend millions of dollars a year on having our hair dyed, our wrinkles rubbed out, our faces lifted, and on synthetic roses and cream complexions? Why do we undergo the horrors of semi-starvetion in order to acquire boyish and girlish figures? Why is the one surefire compliment, that invariably hits the bull's-eye with every man and woman, to tell them how young they look, and to guess their age about 20 years under the real figure? It youth was invariably beautiful, it would be easy to understand why we are all so determined to keep young at any cost, no matter how old we are, but not every youth is a Valentino, nor every maiden a Dolores Costello. Far from it! Taking it by and large the average of good looks at 20 is no greater than it is at 45 or 65. FRIDAY., A STAR. Do We Really Want Youth? sages Curse From Age Indeed, age improves the personal appearance of many people and it is no uncommon thing to see a weedy, gawky, lanky, string-bean sort of boy develop into a man who is a real personage by the time he is 45. Nor is it unusual for an ugly duckling girl to turn into a glorious swan at middle age, and we all know people who blossom into beauty in their old age just because their flesh is worn away so that you can see the loveliness of their souls, that is like a light shining ! through an alabaster vase. e It is easily understood why middle age may be more beautiful than youth. ‘Youth has nothing but its physical perfection of form and color to stand on, and éf it lacks these it has nothing, but age has a thousand camouflages to hide its lefects. | It has acquired poise and grace and charm and intelligence to substitute for | beauty. It has learned how to dress and how to talk. Nobody ever notice: whether a man who is a spellbinder is short or tall, or fat or thin, or has a pul nose or a Grecian profile. Nobody ever notices whether the middle-aged woman who knows how to dress and who has fascination of manners is really beautiful, | or whether she just looks so. | Nor is youth the time of life when we are most attractive to our fellow creatures. It takes time to develop and ripen and sweeten a human being, and a boy and a girl compared to a mature man and woman are as a green peach to a ripe one. No matter what it may become later on, 20 is immature in its judg- ment, narrow in its view, limited in its experience. i e 258 Try to talk to any young boy and girl and the conversation peters out in a few minutes because they are self-centered and have nothing to talk about except themselves, and nothing worth listening to has ever happened to them. Thelr high moments have been & football game, or a new frock. Their tragedy, not being_able to have a sports car. But most middle-aged people are interesting, even if they only talk about themselves, because they have experienced so much, they have seen so many strange things happen in this inexplicable drama we call life. They have seen | birth and death and triumph and failure. They have wept and laughed, and | they have only to dip into the inexhaustible storehouse of their memories to drag | forth tales that hold us enthralled listeners. | 1f, then, youth has no magic that insures us beauty and fascination, why | do we cling to it so frantically? Why do we so dread age? Chiefly, I think, be- cause we labor under the superstition that we can no more escape the faults of old age than we can its gray hair and its stiff joints. We know that most old people are killjoys that every one dreads to have around, and we cannot bear to think of the time coming when our society will be avoided and we will be en- dured only as a matter of duty. Ry ‘The remedy for this lies in our own hands. We can take the curse off of | age by watching our step and refusing to fall into the vices of age. These | are, roughly speaking, being repeaters, having bad manners, being arbitrary and | tyrannical, being meddlesome and conceited. 1 There is no excuse, short of senility, why we should bore people to tears | by telling them over and over again the same stories and letting everything that | occurs remind us of something that happened to us 40 years ago. Nor is age any alibi for a man or a woman abandoning all of the amenities of civilization and | saying what one pleases, and being rude, though many old people think that it is. Another fault which we regard as inseparable from old age is the mania for sticking fingers in everybody else’s pies, and that is why the aged are persona non grata. They cannot see anybody doing anything, from giving a baby its bottle to flying an airplane, without telling how to do it. They run all about them mad with their ceaseless advice and suggestions and that is why everybody avoids them as they would the plague. ‘And, worst of all, is the supreme egotism of age which makes old people feel | that just because they have lived a certain number of years they have some superior, mysterious wisdom that makes them know better than anybody else about everything, and fitted to decide the destiny of the universe. Also that their way is the only way, no matter if it has always ended in disaster. Now, no matter how hard we t we cannot keep young, but we can make ourselves lovely and attractive in age and we would get far better results if we spent more time in trying to improve our old-age technique than in trying to keep our complexions and our w(:;ls(llna;.' 0> DOROTHY DIX. opyright. smile the same amid their snows, at| the transient creatures that have crawled across them.” Today, as millenniums ago, “The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea,"— while countless generations that once looked on them look on them no more. Soon our generation will be gone Others, now unborn, will live in our houses, use our furniture, read our books, own our mills, run our institu- A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN. Passing, Not Passing. “One generation passeth awa; another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever."—Ecc. 1:4. | fall | make-up makes a person's face hard. There is nothing more pathetic than the thought of how generations come and go, while the scenes on which they play their brief part remain the same. Mount Sinai lifts the same craggy outline against the gray dawn as when Moses and the children of Israel camped at its base. “The Alps, over which Hannibal stormed, over which the Goths poured down on the fertile plains of Lombardy, through whose passes medieval Em- perors led their forces, over whose sum- tions—All all the places we fill. Our life on earth is but a brief stay. We are but lodgers in an old house that has had generations of tenants, each of whom has moved out and passed on, while the house still stands. But is this all there is to be sald? If so, we might proclaim with the | cynieal philosopher of Ecclesiastes, “All is vanity!” But all is not vanity. Man was made for an infinitely larger life than his transitory existence on earth reveals. As the mystic apostle tells us PRIL 1930. 18, NANCY PAGE “Never Primp for Picture,” Says Mrs. Howe. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Betty Howe was graduating from high school and was in the full swing of pre- graduation affairs. Among other things | she had t6 have her picture taken. She | and her mother were talking about the photographer and laughing at the pic- ture of Mrs. Howe which showed her | when she graduated. | “I did a number of things I never | would do again. In the first place 1 had my picture taken with a hat on. There is nothing that dates your pic- ture and makes it look queerer than a hat. Clothes do not go out of style as quickly as hats, nor do they look so queer. Then I had my face set in a big smile. All these years my picture has been grinning away, showing my teeth and making 1me appear exuberantly happy. 1 would mever have a picture | taken with a large smile.” “In my day we did not use as much make-up as you do now, so I did not| into the mistake of powdering heavily, using rouge nor lip stick. Photographers tell us nowadays that They ask us not to have our hair freshly waved, erimped or marcelled. The ef- fect is too stiff and set. “Evening dress is popular, but to me it always looks too sophisticated and actressy, especially for a young girl. “Just compare these two pictures and you will see what I mean. And then look at my terrible picture and draw your own conclusions as to what you want for yourself.” Write to Nancy re of this paper. enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, if you are interested in showers for a birde- to-be. (Copyright, 1930.) PRt o i (R New ships built in Denmark last year registered a total of 170,000 tons dead weight. FEATURES; Historic Failures Bloodthirsty Marguerite de B at Assassination lois Wrecked Own Fortunes Trying to Destroy Ducal Family. BY J. P. GLASS. “ANGERED, HE LEAPED UP AND BEGAN KICKING HER.” Marguerite, only daughter of Olivier de Clisson, the stern old constable of Prance—call “the Butcher” because of his methods of war—always believed that the Duchy of Brittany belonged to her and her children. This led to a| serles of attempted assassinations which | show the heartless practices of the fifteenth century, in which women | participated as freely as did men. Marguerite married a son of Charles de Blois, Count de Penthievre, a claim- ant to Brittany, who had the support of the French King. But Jean de | Montfort held the duchy, supported | by the English King, and since the latter, at that time, was more powerful in France than the French King him- self, it seemed -unlikely that Mar- guerite’s claims ever could be made good. Ever since young womanhood Mar- | guerite had longed to dispossess the | Montforts. Since her own father al-| ways had been an enemy of the family | she thought some day she might | succeed. | At the very close of the fourteenth century Jean de Montfort died, leaving four young children. The oldest—also named Jean—was only 12 years old. “Now,” sald Marguerite to herself, “is the time to act.” She devised a plan for the assassina- tion of the four little Montforts. But she required the assistance of her father, old Olivier de Clisson, to carry the plan through. The constable, be- cause he was the foremost man in Prance, could easily obtain what she ‘wanted. She went to him and found him | resting on his couch. “For the sake of my fair children,” she told him, “the time has come to | act. While matters are unsettled, we | must seize the children of Jean de Montfort and put them to death privately, | Now de Clisson, although a violent | old character, had warred only against | men, and not children. He looked at Marguerite in astonishment. Her sug: gestions fitted so well with his o hatred of the Montforts he concluded that the devil had come in his daugh- ter's shape to tempt him. As he al- | ready had been repenting the cruelties of his younger days he was affrighted. He closed his eyes and piously crossed himself three or four times. { Opening his eyes, however, he found Marguerite still standing at the foot of his couch. Angered, he leaped up and | began kicking her. He kicked her all | the way downstairs, screaming, “Wicked woman, if you live longer, you will be the ruin of your children's honor and welfare.” | Just a pretty little scene from the Middle Ages. Marguerite was perma- nently lamed by her tumble downstairs. Her attempt at assassination had failed {gnominiously. But she tried again and again as the years went on, no doubt made the bitterer by her father's opposition. It came_ about that in the end she did as Olivier had predicted; she ruined her family instead of raising it to a higher estate. (Copyright, 1930.) The 9 o'clock curfew rings again in Galveston, Tex., in an attempt to curb juvenile delinguency. 2Jd no more carry a lipstick than a hair brush don’t have to,” explains the charme ing actress whose lovely lips fascinate countless film fans. “Before going on the lot or out for the evening, I simply ‘make up my lips with Kissproof. That's my assurance that they will look their best—and keep looking their best—all day or evening long.” . { s of Miss Loy in See the l\isxgmof lips “The Great Divide,” and remember that she is but one of the 5,000,000 women who have found that they can leave their l}ps(jcks at home if they use Kissproof. 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I want to see choir she can’t boss by wallin’ her an’ pattin’ the males in it.” (Copyright, 1930.) given occasionally to children over 6 if cayenne were omitted from the Hollandaise sauce. | as admirable as it appears pathetic to|mits Napoleon brought his men, through | “The world pa‘seth away, and the lust | those who merely have to wave a hand | whose bowels this generation has bur- | thereol t he that doeth the will of | at & gardener and his assistants. | rowed its tunnels, stand the same, and ' God = forever.” butter cream frosting! uicy pinmpple na the housewife’s name for granulated sugar EVERY HOSTESS CAKE is guaranteed fresh Hostess Cakes are rushed to your grocer by these quick-delivery Hostess Cake bakery trucks. If you ever buy a Hostess Cake which is not perfectly fresh and delicate, take it back to your grocer and he will cheerfully re- fund your money. 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