Evening Star Newspaper, July 20, 1930, Page 37

18 p———— THE SUNDAY STAR, - WASHINGTON, D. C, JULY 20, 1930—PART THREE. 11 Smartness Puts Emphasis on Comfort in Children’s Wealth mer Fashions BY MARY MARSHALL. tions URE white dotted swiss and white swiss with dots of blue or green, red or yellow. Dots arranged in regular all-over pattern or in perpendicular order giving the effect of stripes. White organdie, pastel-toned organdie and printed in neat flower designs, white voile, light blue voile, yellow voile, pink voile' or white voile ‘'worn over pink underslips, pastel-toned crepe de chine, or striped silk shirting, white linen or colored linen—heavy or very fine, plain toned dimity, or flower printed dimity, batiste plain or figured, printed percale, gingham, shantung, piq Never were there more materials choose from in selecting the little girl's Midsummer wardrobe, and never— in our opinion—have fashions for little girls and their brothers shown #uch an effective combination of smart- ness, becomingness and comfort. Every letter from Parls at this time of the year brings hints of what the French designers are planning for the | smartly | dressed boys and girls who will be seen | Autumn wardrobes of the six weeks from now walking and play- ing in the Bois de Boulogne, or along | the Champs Elysee. But with two months of Summer still before us and more than a month before the reopen- ing of schools, such information has little immediate appeal to the Ameri- | can mother, and still less to the little | boy or girl to whom vacation time still stretches ahead for miles and miles. * K Rk % T is, however, significant that the | French designers are planning no | radical changes in the styles for the | younger members of the family. Skirts | will remain very short in spite of the continued length of women's dresses, and waistlines will continue to be placed according to the age of the little girl | whose dress is under consideration. | For the very little girl the skirt hangs | straight from the shoulder, or from a wvery short yoke. For the girl of 7| 8, the slightly lower than normal ‘waistline js usually the best selection, ‘while for the girl who is nearing her teens, belts are placed as they are for women, at the line of the greatest slenderness, well above the hips. August is children’s month at lake- side and seashore. It is the time of or year when little bodies should become | smooth and brown and as nicely rounded as the bodies of young savages. ‘To make this possible, clothes for Au- gust are as abbreviated and light in weight as possible, Even if cannot arrange to have your children pass the month by the waterside, you can per- mit them to wear beach clothes at| home. The ocean or lake may be no| more than a hose playing in your back- | yard, and the beach may be only a| 2 by 4 sand box. In any event, beach | Clothes are in fashion during August, | and 50 long as the sun shines sun suits will be the order of the day. * X * % S & practical play costume for the child between 3 and 8 or 9 we sug- gest @ two-plece light-weight jersev costume, consisting of tmr'-n‘nld on by suspenders, or a low-backed top, and a cardigan jacket of the same material. Or, if you like, it may consist of the . shorts with a short-sleeved pull-on top that buttons over one should Sun suits of gingham or percale are easy to make at home and are more accept- able on very warm days, but the jersey “suit has the advantage that it needs no_ironing. . For immediate wear or for late Sum- mer and early Autumn we indorse clothes and accessories of the nautical sort. Navy blue and white with a touch of red is good. ‘The short straight jacket of navy blue serge or flannel is a smart and useful addition to the wardrobe of boy or girl of any age. It may be worn over white linen suit or dress and is mever smarter than when combined with white pique. Very practical for the blue flannel or serge, with suspender top, to be worn over short-sieeved shirt or middy blouse of white ilnen or cot- | ton. The touch of red may be added by way of a tie or lacing for the front | of the blouse or shirt. * %ok % ROTHER and sister suits are almost as usual in this country as they are abroad and the European custom of dressing all the children of the fam- ily in the same type of costume is gain- ing recruits among American mothers. It is, however, a plan that may be more of Materials Available for Sum- De- signers Are Planning No Radical Changes for Younger Mem- bers of Family.| Beach Garments for| Variety of Uses.| Cotton Voile Selec-| organdie | ® | weight wool, these dresses are made | with a front closing giving the effect of | Eleven-year-old girl 1wears a blue imity print with pleated white organ- die collar and cufis, trimmed with white crochet button: | made of volle or handkerchief linen dimity or organdie—light materials which are not yet considered appropri- ate for brother if he is past the age of or 3. Cotton voile is one of the most useful of materials to the woman who makes her little daughter’s clothes. It is ad- | mirably adapted to various sorts of sim- | ple _homemade trimmings—cross-stitch | embroidery of the colorful peasant sort of smocking, which was never more in |favor than at the present time. All- | white volle may be used in combination with a single pastel tone or with two or three brighter tones of red, blue or | yellow to give a truly peasant color | scheme. Dresses made of pastel-toned cotton voile with cross-stitch designs of | a darker shade of the same color have a decided smartness. Organdie has come into prominence | both for dresses and for trimming | dresses of other materials. It possesses | the crisp appearance that one finds m‘ attractive on a Midsummer’s afternoon. (Copyright, 1930.) Bows and Tucks, Effective Trimming| Bows, tucks and other soft dress- maker touches will be used for suits and dresses for Autumn. Applied bows | of Welf fabric are seen on many of the | woolen dresses for the coming season, and collars, bands and straps of white | pique are used to trim woolen dresses | appropriate for late Summer and early | Autumn. Buttons are coming to the fore. In one of the new dresses there is a Tow of them extending from the V neckline to the hem—10 of them In all with a matching button on each cuff. Another Autumn dress shows a deep V-shaped | yoke of the material, with a button and | buttonhole arrangement at the point | of the V just above the center of the | narrow belt. We are sure to see a revival of the | coat frock for Autumn. Of light-| a long. well fitting coat. Usually to carry | | out this effect there is a vestee to sug- | gest a dress or blouse beneath the coat. | A dress of soft blue light-weight wool- »n material is made with the buttoned | front opened nearly to within three or four inches of the waistline, giving an | attractive view of a white satin vestee | with a round neckline. A coat frock of cocoa brown covert ‘} is cut low enough in the front to show a | tucked inset vestee of eggshell satin | | finished with a Peter Pan collar. The | vestee is finished down the front with oo, {HLeT i 7-20 All Shades and Shapes)| Are Found — Most! Attractive for Break- | fast, Tea, Dinner and | Party Service—Does| Not Seem to Break. | (GLASSWARE s one of the smartest sorts of tableware in these days. It comes in all colors, from black to white, from palest tints of every color to the deepest tints. The lightest flush of pink, the deepest ruby, the palest lemon, the deepest amber. Blue that is | hardly more than a mist to blue that is | dark enough to be called royal blue. Black glass has certain charms all its | own. It does not combine very well V2N '.\%\ Clothes When 6.year-old daughter goes to church on a Summer's day she may o < wear printed voile dress, with cape collar trimmed with solid color. The pare 10l and bag are made of pink eyelet embroidery. The bag and parasol shown et the right are of natural linen appliqued with bright colored pique. e TR TP Doorstops From Bygo ne Days Are Accepted fl'n“ 10 g i, f ’il‘u 0, ”“5’ i () W\ 1) /P /u\'/‘ - IU i L1 as Modern Aids to Efficiency—Horses and Cats Guard Thresholds—Everybody Can Three-year-old child nearest 10 waves wears a green jersey bathing suit with suspender back and appliqued duck on the front. The 5-year-old girl sitting in the sand wears checked gingham overalls while 8-year-old girl with pail wears a white jersey two-piece beach costume consisting of blouse and shorts bound with red trimmed with an appliqued ship with a red sail. At right side of upper panel is boy's sun suit with matching sweater of royal blue yarn striped with color which is sold in sizes from 4 to 16. The brother and sister suits of pastel toned lisle mesh may be bought in s from 2 10 6. Nine-year-old big sister at the right wears a striped flannel ji with a sleeveless linen dress. The little boy with the tennis racket wears a tan sergine play suit while the girl's dress shown at the left is of blue and white polka dotted ptque, with white blouse trimmed with polka dotted collar and tie. There is a wrap-around skirt to go with this ensemble which is sold in sizes from 8 to 18. e 'Parents Who Demand Frequent Reports at| Home Have Dif- ficulty in Enforcing Their Orders—Pen- alty Which Is Impos- ed by Playmates. china decorated with pink or har- monious shades. Pale green likewise or pale blue may be combined with col- ored china. But even so the whole| course of the colored glass is so attrac-| . tive that it is too bad not to use it that | ] way. Salad sets include salad bowl, | plate for crackers and cheese, dish for | telling you that you must never worry dressing, plates. Dessert or tea or Your mother that way again.” bridge sets include water tumblers, cups | “Yes, sir.” BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON. | Gang Must Attract All Boys (are anything else but that. I shall have to punish you.” “All the boys went. I meant to come home, but—" “What happened? I'm willing to give you a hearing.” “Oh, nothing. But we kept wander- | ing on. Nobody had a watch, and .we | met a man who told us it was 1 o'clock. I knew I couldn't be back even if I started then until 2 or 3, and lunch was |over. Mother knew I was with the | crowd, and 1 didn’t think she'd worry. Besides——" “What?" “Well, I hate to have them think I'm s baby. They started to call me | ‘mother’s darling’ when I broke up the | ball game the other night because I OWARD, I hear that you were|had to go in, and—honest, I'm sorty; | gone all day, after my distinctly| I'm awful sorry. I didn’t think mother | would worry so much.” “Well—she did. And we can't have it again. You are beginning to think and saucers, plates, service plates for| “Howard, T don't understand you more of the crowd’s opinion and Dick i BY BETSY CALLISTER. | OORSTOPS are among the 1 simple, old-fashioned conven- | iences that are as useful in the | modern house as in the most old-fashioned, ‘nd it is now possible to buy doorstops that are ap- propriate for any scheme of interior decoration, from the most modernistic of cats and dogs to the quaintest of painted figures. For the house of early American propensities there is the painted | wooden doorstop shaped like the front of an old New England house, with its white-painted clapboards, red chimneys and green blinds. For the lover of horses there are faithful steeds of metal, with bridle | reins, by which they are attached to the doorknob of a doot to be held open, and for the dog lovers there are heavy metal terriers with collars, to which }.re attached leashes that are similarly |attached to a doorknob. The modern- | stic cats and dogs apparently need no such tethering. They stand or sit quite docilely wherever they are put. * KoK K RIGHTLY painted Punch and Judy are suitable for the house of old English or Italian suml:n, and in spite of Punch’s unp! t manners toward his wife, they their best B h glass and china of the various col- ors. But as one usually buys at least one course of any of these colored | glasses, the black may be used alone. For a salad or dessert, set it is excellent. | And it is also & good choice for after- | cake or other supply, and, if you wish, | lately. You used to be the most obedi- bowls to hold ice creams or fruits. There are little glass dishes for bon bons und"nt 5 W e nuts and other small accessories of the | sort. | For card parties, these glass sets may be chosen in several colors. A different color for each table. The linen must be chosen with care to harmonize with the dishes. ~Black glass is_striking on a table cloth of green. Pink looks “best on white. Green looks well on green or white, blue may be used on white or ecru. | Strangely—and fortunately—enough | this new table glass does not seem to break any more easily than china. It is fragile in appearance, but has a real resistance to such bumps and knocks as one inadvertently gives it. Another Plerson’s opinion t! you do of ours. |” “Don't punish him this time, John, said his mother. “I'm 2ll over it now.| But, Howard, it simply breaks my heart | to have you always thinking of what those other boys will think and never of me. What is the matter?” “I feel that way, too, son. Come, jaren’t we good to you?” Howard colored hotly. He didn't an- swer. He thought they knew. He'd spent the money he'd saved for a new fishing rod to buy his mother the \III} she wanted for her birthday. He'd| | caddied for his father almost every | | afternoon when the boys had coaxed him to go swimming instead. He| thought they knew he loved them and | | admired them and tried to please them | above every one else on earth; that is.| girl you can be. almost above everything else. But—— | ° Lingerie reflects the changing styles New Styles of Present Year Carry With Them New Mate- rials, Colors and Pieces LOOK to your lingerie wardrobe this Summer if you would be the stylish Combinations of| Find Something to Suit His Taste—Slam- ming of Bed Room Doors by Draughts of Air in Summer Easily Prevented. (when placed in propinquity. Punch | holds open the garden door of a charm- ing English cottage, while Judy stands guard at the door that leads the living room to the side veranda. Doorstops are especially useful, if not absolutely necessary, in bed rooms in warm weather, where draughts of air would cause doors to slam were they not held back by some substantial sort of weight. The business man may be satisfled to use the suburban telepl directory for this purpose, but the fas- tidious "housewife insists on having & | specially designed doorstop. *xo® T she cannot afford to buy them she can at least acquire a brick or two, from which she can make doorstops that are as authentic in any Golonial interior as any that she htbuy. You have doubtless seen these doorstops made from bricks in old-fashioned | houses, where they have survived these |many years. The bricks are usually | covered with a padding of some sort to prevent them from ma the doors and to serve as a silencer. They they are covered with any firm material. If you wish to make a doorstop of this sort, you will do well to cover the padded brick with chints of the sort used for the ha or upholstery in the room where doorstop makes its appearance. A (Copyright, 1930.) Lingerie Reflects Changes has a little handwork to give it a femi- nine touch. For your one-piece there are slips galore; princess lines are | the newest and, of course, you want the suntan back. A novel slip intro- duces a ruffied jabot and collar for the | top, which supplants the blouse when | worn with a jacket and skirt. | The most popular combination of underwear for hot Summer days is the slip and panties. These slips have brassiere tops, if you want them. Some- thing new in panties is the little shorts | set. made of fine French crepe, in white, | with a line of red and a line of blue | to decorate them. ‘This is a good set to wear with sports easily carried out in Spring and Au-|tiny satin-covered buttons and satin tumn than in Midsummer, because, with | loops and may be buttoned up to the the coming of very warm days, sister’s| Peter Pan collar or may be left un-| noon or evening refreshments. | point in its favor—it is not very expen- Pale pink glass may be used with sive. “You needn't frown because we talk | this year more than it has done since to you seriously. You are old enough the days when ruffied, starched petti- to ‘think. ~You're 13. Your mother| coats were displaced by slinky silk. | suits. It is tremendously chic and smart looking. Voile, in pastel colors and in dainty prints, is very good for afternoon and dress-up dresses are Home Screens They May Be Success- fully Used in Larger | Houses or Small| Apartments— Many | Opportunities for Ef- fective Placing in Rooms of All Sorts.! P the screens designed to beautify American homes could acquire voices, as have the screens of the “talk- ing movies,” they could give many a homemaker valuable hints on how to increase the attractiveness of her bed room or living room. Screens, tastefully arranged, can work wonders. There is a widespread impression that screens can be successfully utilized only in large rooms, when, s & matter of fact, they are perfectly at home even in the little one-room kitchenette apart- ment. Suppose the need arises for a parlor during the dinner hour. An artis- | tic screen, placed before the dinner | table, cuts it off from the rest of the room and enables the small space (o serve a double purpose without dim- culty. Screens have also been widely used to hide the door to the Puliman kitchen in | Of some doorway or room into which | the casual guest’s eye is not meant to tiny homes of this type. When meals are being prepared the screen is folded | up and laid to one side. ‘The bed rooms in larger many opportunities for the resourceful homemaker to make effective use of a screen. Placed in one corner, the screen may create a pleasant little nook, con- taining & chair and perhaps & lamp and small table, ideally adapted for reading, sewing and dozens of other purposes. Such an arrangement may add a touch of distinction to an otherwise handsome but_stereotyped room. There are almost as many types of , screens as there are uses for them. A popular type at present is made of ordi nary wall paper mounted on compo. board and treated with chemicals so that it is durable and washable. F¥he homes offer | ing rooms, especially those of children, buttoned to give & V neckline. Which Adorn gay colors of the wall paper design are not dimmed, and the entire screen is very light and can be moved with ease. More expensive screens are made of imitation leather, and are all hand- painted, some of them reflecting un- usual skill on the part of the artist. A new line of screens achleves novelty through the use of authentic reproduc- tions of old prints, a print being cen- tered near the top of each panel—the screen having three or four panels. One such creation features prints by ey, portraying the feminine fashions in vogue in Prance about 1842. Another shows a typical “American homestead™ at four seasons of the year, one on each panel, Still another employs reproduc- tions of maps of the New World, made when knowledge of this continent was very vague, one crude map of New Eng- land in this collection being dedicated to Capt. John Smith. As is the case nowadays with most | furniture, there are special designs for | the nursery. These screens, their sides | illustrating some of the famous nursery stories, are unfallingly popular with | children, and have many uses that a | busy mother soon discovers. | All in all, a “talking screen” of the home variety would have quite a story 10 _tell! Not only are screens becoming more and more attractive each season, bu! more varied uses are being found for them. . Not only are they of use in the tra- ditional situation of blocking the view wander, but in the more utilitarian posi- tion of keeping off draughts in sleep- welcome. A strictly modern | use for a decorative screcn is that of | concealing_ a radio instrument. And | the more luxurious women often placc them effectively behind their chaise longue to serve as an eflective back- ground while they take their ease. | "t 1 to the Japanese and the Chi- | nese that we must look for the most | complete development of the screen. In | their homes they are used as movable walk,, and can be shifted so as com- | pletely to alter the appearance of the | rooms in which they aj r. We are | they find a | beginning to realize only néw their con- vel ine-year-old sister wears White dotted swiss frocks for the 4-year-old twins are trimmet Vi white organdie printed in green and pink, with green kid slippers. with pastel pink ribbons and worn with pink slippers. | comes first, last and all the time. You | should report to her every hour or so. | Moreover, don't let me hear you say again, ‘Dick Pierson said this or Dick Pierson does that.’ " | “Oh, it isn't Dick!"” cried Howard |loyally. “Really, he keeps the crowd |in its right mind. They're all nice fel- lows, but I—I—" So Howard went on with his Sum- mer, and by Fall the title ‘mother’s darling’ that he hated so was set. Now, when Howard's father sald that the boy was old enough to think, he | might better have said, “We are old enough to think.” For really the weren't thinking at all. What mat- |tered to them was mother's nerves. | And mother’s nerves were partly due to the sudden frightening realization that her boy was discovering another world that did not include her. interests engage them. Other people, boys their own age especially. draw them with a power that is stronger even than the home pull. One of the strong- est factors in a boy's life is the gang urge. He wants to keep the respect of his cronies—such as it is—almost more cronies are of the right sort is the parents’ lookout. Country Riding I:OR country and resort riding one does not wear the conventional cloth or crash riding habit with its formal accessories chosen for the city | park. You may wear a shirt of bright- colored sateen or a cotton mesh lo shirt, and with this you may wear blue | denim_ trousers, if you like. In place |of the conventional stock or turned- | down collar you may wear a gayly col- | ored cotton scarf tied around your neck, and in place of the usual riding hat a light-weight beret. Rice Muffins. TWO and one-quarter cups flour, one cup milk, one egg, five teaspoons baking powder, three-quarters cup hot cooked rice, two tablespoons lard or butter, two tablespoons sugar and one- n salt. Add half teaspoor Mix all dry materials and sift. half the milk and the egg. Have ready the remaingder of the milk mixed with the rice beat thoroughly and add to the first mixture. Add butter. Bake in buttered muffin tins. All boys reach the age when other | than anything else on earth. That his| There are not only new styles in underwear. There are new materials, new colors, new combinations of pieces. First of all, examine your lingerie. What, no petticoats? Surely you are old-fashioned if you haven't at least | one little wrap-around or fitted petti- | coat to wear under your silk or ging- ham suit! | If you are in the market for petti- coats, take a look at some of the new | trouserette skirts, those new contrap- | tions that fit like petticoats, look like petticoats and yet are made with the lower six inches cut like flaring pajama | Y | trousers so that they take the place of both shorts and skirt. Worn with- a brassiere, you are fixed. A set of these | comes in “the new hydrangea colored | ninon, with alencon lace trim. The | brassiere is all lace. For your shantung sult you will need a separate short petticoat. A tailored wrap-around one in flesh-colored crepe these sets. And if you want you can have the new open-work cotton mesh | for both coolness and chie. | Puff-sleeved nighties are next new- est in cut to petticoats. Be x little quaint and have a figured voile, per- Raps a sweet white one with ' little pastel-colored flowers on_it. With ruffled net ruching for the finish of the neck, sleeves and even, length, you will look like a modern, little, old: | h;hloned girl when you get ready for | Last, but not least, if you cling to | teddies and won't part with them for any new lingerie, do glance at the princess ones, made in the new yellows, blues and greens that are taking the place of the ubiquitous pink for under- wear. Some of them have rich. lace yokes, with the bottoms edged likewise in lace. Some either button or snap shut under one arm or right up the back, like a little girl's frock. Cleverly made white pigue hat for bi'!b ému girl is trimmed with interlaced blus * riobon,