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WOMAN'’S PAGE, How to Make Clothespin Bag ) BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. THE BAG CAN BE PUSHED ALONG THE LINE AND ALWAYS BE HANDY. A good clothespin container fulfills two requirements. It must be so made that the pins can be taken out and put into it easily, and it must have some means of remaining conveniently with- in reach. The clothespin bag, direc- tions for the making of which are given today, meets both requirements most satisfactorily. The openings are suffi- ciently large and numerous for the to be handy from four sides and there is a hook by which the bag can be hung on the clothesline and be shifted along to any needed place. The materials required are a square of stout textile and a hook, sometimes called a_hammock hook. This has a square plate with four screw holes in it. The size of the square is variable, ac- cording to the size of the bag required. Twenty-seven to thirty inch goods makes an average bag. A square of the material is sufficient. Denim and stout cretonne are the favorite fabrics for these bags. A wash- able textile is needed and one in which materials are equally suitable. Goods as lightwelght as ginghams are not sufficiently firm and durable, To make a bag, hem the two sides with raw edges, making the turnings very narrow. Sew the tip of each cor- ner to the plate of the hook, taking stitches through the screw holes. There is one screw hole for each corner of the square, Openings to the bag are ample and the container is big enough to hold & large numbep of clothespins. It takes but a few moments to make a bag. It may be interesting to note that cretonne clothespin bl? of this sort bring as much as $1.25 in some gift shops. The woman who wants to send some articles to a fair and has but little time in which to do the work can make several of these bags in an aft- ernoon or evening. If in each bag there is a supply of 30 to 50 clothespins. there should be plenty of ready buyers, especially if the price is made as at- tractive as the bag is handy and good THE EVEN Leroy Shoosters sister had a baby, be- ing a gerl baby insted of a boy one like my sister Gladdis had, and I was sit- ting on my frunt steps and Leroy came up saying, Well, I gess you sint the ony unkle in the werld. You thawt you was grate, dident you? Well Im just as much of a unkle as what you are, he sed. The heck you are, I sed, and he sed, Yes, the heck I am, why aint I? Because you ony think you are, T sed. Your sister ony had a gerl, dident she? I sed. ‘Well what of #t? Leroy sed, and I sed, What of it? That makes you a ant in- sted of a unkle, thats what of it, I sed. A ant, thats what you are, & ant, I sed. Aw go on, that shows how much you know about joggriffy, youre crazy in the hed like & fish, Leroy sed, and I sed, And so are you, ony more So. Youve ony got & neece insted of a nef- few like I have, so of corse that makes you & ant insted of a unkle like I am, I sed. Well my father is a lawyer and I gess he awt to know what makes you & unkle and what dont, and for 2 pins I got a good mind to make him sue you for public_insults, Leroy sed. And whats more I bet a thousand dollers my neece will grow up to be the bewtlest looking gerl around here, and your neffew will look like a munkey with a toothake, he sed, and I sed, Well then your wrong agin because my neffew is going to be a swell looking guy with big mussels and your neece is going to be a skinny cross eyed broomstick with falts teeth and glasses, and if you wunt a fite, just come on around in the alley, you to- mato face ant. All rite, come on around, you 10 for a cent imitation unkle, Leroy sed. Wich we mite of did, ony just then some of the other felows came up wunt- ing to get up a game of cops and rob- bers, and we both seemed releeved to change the subjeck. Household Methods BY BETSY CALLISTER. Some young girls amuse themselves these days in making lists of their “hates.” Of course there is usually a bit of & pose in the way a young girl enumerates her “hates,” and these lists are probably seldom written in perfect seliousness ‘The busy housewife may also make her list of “hates,” but she would prob- ably choose the soft word “dislikes. She might honestly put down. “agents who call you from work in the busiest time of the day.” Most women do dis- like them heartily, even though they end by buying of their wares. ‘The mother with several young chil- dren usually finds the hour between 5 and 6 so trying as to be included in this list, the hour when children are tired and hungry, when little ones must be got ready for bed and when the evening meal must be prepared. Now, honestly, what do you dislike most? It would really do you good to make an enumeration. If you discover what things ahnoy and try you most, then you may be able to do something to help matters out. Sometimes, you know, we go on and on from year to year putting up with conditions that are peculiarly trying, particularly fa- colors are fast. Burlap, machine-made #homespun,” monk’s cloth and similar BEAUTY CHATS Reducing Lotions. I receive a great many inquiries Bbout lotions that can be used to re- duce. I very rarely talk about them, because I've never made up my mind Bs to their real value. I will tell you sbout them today, but I refuse to rec- ommend them one way or the other. They can’t possibly do you any harm; they perhaps do some good. In any case they are of no value if you are overweight, for this requires another treatment. These lotions are for local bise_only. You can buy all sorts of reducing fotions and reducing creams. A good many of them consist of what nurses gall Tubbing alcohol (that is, the alco- pol used in hospitals to rub patients pither to prevent bedsores or to pre- ¥ent colds after a bath) and dissolved NANCY PAGE Easter Eggs Have Another Appearance. . BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. ‘The day after Easter found Nancy Wwith a half dozen or so hard-cooked pggs left over from the children’s egg- hunting game. She them in a gish she concocted from leftovers in Bhe refrigerator. Had she not had the hard-cooked pggs on hand she would have pre- ared some by letting the eggs simmer n near boiling water for 40 minutes. his method of cooking gives a more digestible egg than the one cooked in rapidly-boiling water, After eggs are pooked they are shelled. In the jcebox was some cooked spin- Bch left over from the Easter Sunday Binner of ham and spinach. There was some cheese, American or York Btate. Nancy made a cream sauce using one gupful of milk, two tablespoonfuls each pf butter and flour. To this she added pne-half cupful cheese cut in small pieces. She put a layer of cooked spinach In bottom of casserole, added sliced, hard-cooked egg, half the cream sauce and a sprinkling of pepper. Then the second layer of spinach, eggs and sauce was put in. Over the top Nancy put a few small ESCALLOPED JPINACH and EGG fubes of cheese and some freshly-crum- bled bread which she sauted lightly in_butter. The casserole was set in medium oven and mixture cooked until bubbling and crumbs were browned. Even Peter, who sniffed at leftovers, assed back his plate for a second Eelpmg. t of sandwich go well with 38 ki ™ Naney thinks so. Write' to ‘Page, care of this paper. inclosing mbed seif-addressed enveiope. 8cking Teaier on sandwiches. (Coprright, 1980 looking. (Copyright, 1930.) BY EDNA KENT FORBES. camphor. You can buy the camphor in little oblong cakes at any drug store. Put one of these into a pint of this al- cohol, let it stand, with occasional shaking until it's dissolved, and then rub it all over any part of the skin which you wish to reduce, fat shoul- ders, fat abdomen, hips, ankles or arms. 1 never advise it for the face, one rea- son being that it is Vel’i’ dryin:. ‘You simply rub it on and let it dry and forget it. Reducing creams are different, as they need a certain amount of massage, but they always have their directions with them. At one time there were many of these things on sale that were 50 norotiously useless that the Govern- ment finally stepped in and stopped their sale. However, you need not worry about any of them being harm- ful now, but whether they will do you any good is another matter. I know & dozen women Wwho swear by these things. If I were you I'd try out the camphor and alcohol lotion first, shaving the camphor in order to make it dissolve, then giving it 24 hours before you make any attempt to use it, Daily Reader—Blues and browns will suit you best, and of darker and also brighter shades than those of your eyes and hair. Henna is always the color that its name implies, and when you purchase it in other colors, these have been add- ed to the henna. The natural curl will return to your hair if you continuue to train it while you care for your scalp 80 it recovers from the severe treatment it received. Massage your scalp every day, as that helps the circulation, which will improve the whole condition. If you give your hair a henna shampoo it will make your light brown hair a slightly bright tint, which will give it much more color than it has, and it will not dry the hair out as the bleaches did. SPRINGTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. ‘To some people all wild flowers are weeds; at least some city folks so think of them, though every country child is as famillar with the different faces and the different ways of common plants as with the faces and ways of people, It is an odd little conceit of mine that some wild flowers are wilder than others. I cannot justify what is purely a feeling, yet any one who ever went flower picking in Spring (and he misses one of the first 10 joys of the happy life if he doesn't) will agree with me that to find the trillium in bloom is to chance on something wild and strange, though 1t is, after all, only & little wood nlow" nd not especially uncommon at that, Perhaps I can best press my point by opposites, The pasture daisy is & wild flower; at least nobody asks it to grow, and the farm asks that it shall not do s0. But there is certainly nothing very wild about it; you never see a common daisy growing in a deep forest, or stirred by the breeze and spray of a waterfall, or standing tip-toe to listen to the hermit thrush. But wherever the loam is dark and fragrant, wherever the warblers dart through the green, startled foliage, the strange wild flower of the trilllum lifts its face. Three rhombic petals, fleshy to the touch, maroon in color, odorous with an aroma found in the pawpaw flower; a close-set calyx of three green sepals, three rhombic green leaves—and that is all there is to the plant whose perfect symmetry is so satisfying. Hereabouts we do not have the paint- ed trilllum, the great white trilllum, nor that species which country boys in- elegantly call Stinking Willle. We have only the little red species that bears the name of Wake Robin, and John Bur- roughs loved it so that he named book of nature essays after it. Of all the common English names of plants I have always thought Wake Robin the most poetic. ekl Parsley Pancakes. Beat six raw eggs until they are very light, then add one quart of sweet milk, a pint of white flour, one bunch of chopped parsiey, half a cupful of sugar, and a teaspoonful of salt. Make the batter very thin, rub & pan with bacon, and fry the pancakes on both sides until brown. tiguing, that might, if we made a su- preme effort, be remedied. (Copyright, 1930.) THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE. Frock for Small Folk. ‘This original Paris dress used French blue patterned crepe as sketched, with tiny vivid red polka dots. The Peter Pan collar, made detachable, is of white plque. The cuff bands of long sleeves used vivid red plain crepe. e scarf necktie combined the blue and red tones in stripes. The belt worn at the normal walstline is red leather. Style No. 413 comes in sizes 4, 6, 8 and 10 years, It is very effective and very practi- cal for class room. It makes an excel- lent travel dress. ‘Tan pique is smart with brown leather belt and tie with tan pique collar and cuffs dotted in brown. Green sports-weight linen with yel- low trim and belt is fetching. Cotton broadcloth, gingham, jersey, shantung and printed dimity appro- priate, For a pattern of this style send 15 cents in stamps or coin directly to The Washington Sta New York Fashion Bureau, Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, New York. We suggest that when you send for this Yl".em you inclose 10 cents addi- tional for a copy of our new Spring Fashion Magazine, New Achievement in Face Powder e skin of youth lies in every box of new wonderful MELLO-GLO Face | | Powder,” says lovely Mary Mulhern, | beautiful actress. The purest pow- | | der made—its color is passed by the | | U. 8. Government. No pastiness, | flakiness or irritation. A new French process makes it spread more | smoothly and prevents large pores. | No more MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Must Appear Natural. The first requisite for any girl or woman who wishes to make the most of her beauty is to know her own individual type. The delicately colored pink-and-white blonde may admire her more_ vivid, dark-haired sister and so may foolishly try to imitate her beauty. The result is often comic. Rouge suited to the vivacious brunette is quite sure to lend nothing but a hectic flush to the blond. Lipstick that is becoming to the former type will look like a splash of paint on the lips which nature in- tended to have a more delicate tint. Many readers have written recently asking if it is true that the suntan shades of face powder are no longer in style. They are just as much in vogue as ever for the dark skins to which they are suited. For the girl or woman whose skin is naturally of the creamy, shell-pink or peaches-and- cream type, the darker shades of sun- tan are not becoming or modish. On the other hand, there was never a beauty fad that better brought out the loveliness of a skin which has in itself much of the tan hue than the suntan make-up. For this type of skin, as well 4s for the average complexion after it has taken on the tan given by the health-giving Summer sun, there is nothing better than suntan face powder. Of course, any rouge that may be used must blend with it, but often rouge is not necessary. In every step of milady’s beauty pro- gram she should be guided by the prin- ciple that beauty must be natural. The use of face powder and rouge is not merely to cover up facial blemishes, but to bring out every bit of natural beauty. ‘The clever woman, after making a care- ful study of her own individual type, will see to it that the good points are accentuated and those not so attractive subdued. Rouge has wonderful possibilities in this regard. After first studying her skin so that she will choose a shade which harmonizes with her coloring, milady should study the correct appli- cation. The manner of applying this aid to beauty can make the too-broad face as well as the too-thin face appear a perfect oval. For instance, if the cheekbones are too prominent the rouge should be applied a little below them, thus drawing attention away from this feature. On the other hand, if the face is too thin, placing the rouge rather high on the cheeks and then shading it back toward the ears will give a more rounded appearance. The principle to keep in mind when applying rouge is that coloring makes a feature more prominent, and naturally milady will want to bring out the feature which is perfect and subdue the one which is already too prominent. Many & young lady has discovered the valuable secret that the dimple in her chin or her cheek is accentuated if she applies just the faintest touch of rouge to it. Of course, she does not apply enough to make the rouge itself noticeable—just sufficient to make the most of her bewitching dimples. So in the quest for loveliness the principle to keep in mind is to strive to keep your Sle -and Like a Baby If you “haven’t slept well in years,” take a glass of Welch's just before retiring. It will help you sleep like a baby and wake up feeling like a million dollars, It’s just the pure juice of luscious Concord grapes and wonderfully good for you! Try itas a breakfast fruit...six libe eral portions to the pint...more if diluted, and many prefer it so. Most temptingly delicious breakfast fruit juicein America, atless than5ca glass. Welch’s CRAPE JUICE beauty natural. Select a suitable powder base, the merest trace of rouge suited to your individual coloring, the right shade of face powder, a touch of lip- stick applied skillfully and an eyebrow darkener, if necessary. The correct use of make-up is an art that has helped many girls and women, but, like other useful things, it must not be overdone. Too much rouge and powder will ag- gravate complexion blemishes, though covering them temporarily; but used in moderation and with skill, very few s‘x&“ and women can ignore such beauty alds. DAILY DIET RECIPE MICHIGAN CARROTS. New carrots, six; lemon, one- half; boiling water, one cupful; granulated sugar, one tablespoon- ful; brown sugar, tWo teaspoon- fuls; salt, one teaspoonful; butter, two tablespoontuls. SERVES 4 OR 5 PORTIONS. Scrape tender carrots, Cut them in long thin strips, Melt butter in saucepan and put in the carrots and cook for two minutes. Add bolling water and brown su- gar and salt and cook until ten- der. When done add lemon cut in strips, straight through rind and pulp, and cook for 10 min- utes. Let water almost cook away, shaking the pan to prevent burn- ing. Just before removing from fire add granulated sugar and slightly glaze the vegetable. Serve MOTHERS One mother says: ‘When little Grace was convalescing from a rather severe iliness I tried so hard to get her to take the nourishing foods which the doctor had assured me were necessary for her quick and com- fortable recovery. But coaxing her to eat the dishes I had prepared had lit- tle or no effect, so I tried a different method. I got out my daintiest china, with odd pleces rarely used. The little Japanese cup with three tiny feet is just right for a soft-boiled egg. The mayonnaise bowl is a new receptacle for her cereal, the colored tumbler with a glass sipper for her milk, and numer- ous other little devices have all played & part in the new scheme. ‘These ainty dishes, fllled with tempting food and carried to Grace on & snowy tray with two or three pansies in a tooth-pick holder, so attracted Grace that she was eager to eat all that I had and novel dessert SWEETEN a bowl of Rice Krispies with honey, to taste. Fold in some whipped cream. Then serve. It's a most delicious dessert. You'll like Rice Krispies for breakfast, lunch or sup- per. They're so crisp they actually crackle in milk or cream. A wonderful cereal for children. Oven-fresh at your grocer’s. Made by Kellogg in Battle Creek. Kelleygs RICE KRISPIES NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, MONDAY, 'APRIL 21, 1930.° SUB ROSA BY MIML The Romantic Sex. Rudy Vallee and Darragh Alridge have recently engaged in a discussion as to which is the “romantic sex.” Each accuses the other and that ~evens matters up. Then both of them look romantic and write with the flavor of romance. Now, which is correct—the man who says woman is romantic or the woman who pins the rose of romance on man? It doesn’t take these experts to show us that both sexes are of romantic inclinations. But it does require a little éxperting of our own to distin- guish between the kinds of romance which each sex possesses and portrays The sexes may look alike today, but there is a heart-difference which doesn’t appear upon the sleeve. Romance seems to indicate a sort of wandering. This doesn't mean that the man of romance, like the knight errant of old, hitches up or cranks up and fares forth to great distance. But the wandering tendency is there just the same; if not in ground covered | by the feet, certainly in the range| commanded by the heart. Man'’s romancing is of the broad and loud variety. He is the wandering min- strel, tuneful troubadour or vagabond lover. Woman'’s romancing is more local and remains within the sacred precincts of her heart. Man's love may be so buoyant as to require a brass band. ‘Woman's love is more likely to be in tones she alone can hear. It would be a mistake to attribute romance to one sex alone. For the romantic in one heart calls out to the romantic in another. If a man has romance in his voice, woman must have as much of it in her ear or Cupid's cross-word puzzle. A girl's_romances are usually toy balloons which she can haul in when the wind begins to blow. They are gay but tender dreams which are easily broken. You can't expect her to float & Zeppelin, -She will feel romance un- consciously where & man will think about it and try to work it out like a cross-word pugzel. If you are going in for the romance business, the best thing to do is to let it affect your personality so that you'll cultivate charm as well as complexion. It's better to romance about yourself than about some man. Then you can be the object of his dream instead of sweetly brooding over him, In these drab days we're all so ter- ribly sophisticated that a certain amount of re-romancing would do us a lot of good. We mustn't lose our original sense of wonder or be so smart that we'll forget how to dream. ‘We need poetry In our young lives, even if it has to be the shopped-up prose they call “free verse.” (Copyright, 1930.) JOLLY POLLY A Leseon in English BY JOSEPH J. FRISCH. THE CONSENSUS OF OPINION 1S THAT AIRPLANES AND DIRIGIBLES ARE THE SAFEST THINGS ON EARTH . Uil J. R. B.—Consensus (kon-sen-sus) means the collective unanimous opinion of a number of persons, agreement in opinion. Therefore, in the strictest sense, “of opinion” after “consensus” is incorrect. “Consensus of _opinion,” however, has the sanction of common usage. In fact, “consensus” by itself is rarely heard. Dirigible is pronounced dir-1j-e-bl, not de-ridge-e-bl. (Copyright, 1930.) Prices realized on Swift & Company sales of carcass beef in Washington, C. for week ending Saturday. April 19, 1930, shipments sold out. ranged from 15.50 cen 0 cents per pound und averaked 19.59 oun nent cents b Adve FEATUR Remarkable Old ES. Folks of History Fontenelle, Refusing to Quarrel, Lived Approximate Century. BY J.P. “HAD I LOOKED AT YOU."PHE RETORTED, GLASS. “I SHOULD NOT HAVE 'ASSED ON.” “All quarrels displease me,” once said Fontenelle, the French poet, dramatist, philosopher and miscellaneous writer Perhaps it was because he avoided dis- sensions of all sorts, pursuing a calm, equable course, that he fell only a month short of a century of life. " He is said never to have laughed or wzpt. He had two mottoes—"Everything possible” and “Everybody is right.” Fontenelle was famous in his own times chiefly because he wrote of ab- struse subjects in a clear and simple way, an ability which enabled him to popular science. However, he also was high)y admired for his witty con- versation, with the result that he was constantlé invited out to dine. It is difficult to understand how a habitual diner-out could survive for a century, but Fontenelle succeeded. Apropos of his role of perpetual guest, we must recall the jest of Piron, the dramatist, on meeting the funeral of Fontenelle in 1757. Piron said: “This is the first time M. de Fontenelle is not leaving his house to dine out.” Fontenelle’s mind continued keenly active to the very last. Two remarks Of all the salons of Paris he fre- quented, he liked best that of Hel- vetius, the financler, like himself a philosopher. Helvetius took as his wife Mile. de Ligneville, who, by the way, was many years later a close friend of Benjamin_Franklin. At the wedding banguet, Fontenelle profusely compli is | mented the bride and then absent- mindedly passed before her into the dining room. “How,” asked Mme. Helvetius, “am I to value your compliments—you pass on without looking at me?” ‘The philosopher was not to be caught. “Had I looked at you,” he retorted, “I should not have passed on.” In his dying agony Fontenelle pre- served his philosophic composure. “You suffer!” exclaimed his physician. “No,” replied the old man, “I only find it difficult to exist Voltaire said a beautiful thing to Fonteneile. He told him: “You know how to make things agreeable which other philosophers can hardly make in- telligible. Nature owed such & man to France, who can instruct the scholar while giving the ignorant a taste of o(thls old age show his never-failing wit., science.” (Copyright. 1930.) PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM The Ptomain Poisoning Myth. Sixty persons fell ill a few hours after a dinner given by a lodge. Twelve were gravely ill. The first news report said physicians agreed it was some kind of food poisoning, but disagreed as to its exact nature. “Some regarded it as a plain_case of ptomain poisoning, others characterized it as toxic poison- ing resulting from bacterial growth” and one doctor even suspected arsenical poisoning. Just what is ptomain poisoning, and toxic poisoning resulting from bac- terial growth? First, let me take ptomain poisoning —some of the medical brethren would gladly have me do that. There is no such thing as ptomain poisoning. The doctor who suggests such an explana- tion for a sudden illness or outbreak of that nature should be stripped of | his_chevrons. Ptomains are products of advanced decomposition of protein (nitrogenous) matter, animal or vegetable. The word ptomain was coined by an Italian toxi- cologist in 1870, from the Greek word ptoma, meaning corpse. Perhaps that is one reason why this term conveys & ghastly meaning to the public. Most ptomains are inert or mot injurious enough to warrant any anxiety even if one should dine on them. The only S | poisonous ptomains chemists have dis- covered are formed after putrefaction is advanced a_week or more, and even guests at a church supper would find | some excuse for not partaking of food so_far gone. Ptomains are produced by the putre- factive decomposition of any kind of animal or vegetable matter by what- ever bacteria happen to be present, usually bacteria quite harmless to man. I hope it is quite clear that “ptomain | poisoning” simply does not happen. “Toxic poisoning resulting from bac- terjal growth” is better sense. Toxins | aré products not of decomposition or putrefaction, but of the metabolism (life and growth) of bacteria that cause | disease in man. For instance, diphtheria | toxin, tetanus (lockjaw) toxin, botulinus toxin, Toxins are exceedingly poison- ous, but happily medical science pro-| vides perfect antidotes for most of the | known_toxins. | No hint of the character of the ill- ness of the 60 people was given in the news dispatch, but it might well be BRADY, M. D. may properly call “toxinal (not toxic) poisoning resulting from bacterial growth.” Botulinus toxin is produced by the growth of the botulinus bacillus, which produces its toxin or poison in the food before the food is eaten, and often without affecting the taste, appearance or odor of the food enough to excite suspicion. . (Copyright, 1930.) AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “Ever’ woman has seasons o' humility when she looks at her husband an’ feels mmtqkrul for him even if he is like (Copyright. 1930, -HAIR No waiting. No disappointments. Just brush or comb in. ROWNATON O HARMLESS botuli: which ctually what we s Mardi-gras Salad Arrange on crisp lettuce leaves sections of grapefruit, peeled and skinned, and alternate wit unpeeled sections of red apple. Garnish with water cress and serve with Gelfand’s Mayonnaise this novel salad tonight Rich contrast in color. Piquant con- trast in taste . . . sweet apple, tart grapefruit, plus velvet-smooth Gelfand’s Mayonnaise! Order it fresh today. Your grocer has it. GELFAND’S Mayonnaise - Thousand Tsland Dressing - Sandwich Spread Distributor: The Carpel Co., Inc. 2155 Queen’s Chapel Rd., Waskiggton, D. C.