Evening Star Newspaper, December 31, 1930, Page 15

. Put Beauty Into Child’s Sewing BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Most mothers are relieved of the task teaching their little girls how to sew, in almost every school there are les- ns in sewing taught during some of the years the little folk are in attend- }nnce In olden days plain sewing was |not so taught. Each girl was expected to the rudiments, how to hold the needle, how to take the principal stitch- es, such as running, backstitching, over- casting, etc., even up to buttonhole stitchery. Then schools took up the fine art of embroidery and great pride was taken .in the samples of stitches put in decorative array and simple pat- terns on canvas. The canvas with the neat array of stitches were termed a sampler. These samplers are prized to- day as if they were needlework pictures. | Often they are in the original mahog- | any frames. It seems a pity that the practical type of sewing has entirely superseded this sampler variety. It would be such a | pleasure for a child to have the fancy | work of samplers in some form revived. with the beautiful colored yarns used to make the birds in trees, quaint houses, flowers all abloom, etc. And so, while it 1s not one of the actual neces- sities of sewing, it could remain one of the enjoyable features to be cultivated in the little girls by the mother. ‘There are many times when time ac- tually hangs heavy on the hands of little folk. In later years most of these upgrown children in the rush of activi- ties will look vack with a wistful long- ing to these very times when every mo- ment was not overcrowded. But now, while these moments exist, mothers can help while away the tedious moments by having an assortment of beautiful worsteds ready, with canvas and cross- stitch patterns printed in colors whose | very decorativeness will make the little - | fingers itch to set to work to transform i the canvas and colored yarns into the gay pictures. Instead of having the completed de- signs considered as samplers, as in old- en days, put a practical note into the use, to conform to the present-day urge. Have the picture, when well worked, made into a little tray to stand on the child’s or the mother's bureau. The glass will protect the stitchery and the | child will feel well pleased with her | youthful achievement. At another time, | and with a larger design, the finished | embroidery can be made into a tray | for the dining room or for the after- | noon tea table. If a ship or butterfly | design is wanted, send 5 cents in | stamps, with a self-addressed and | | stamped envelope, to this paper. Be sure to say which is wanted, as each design is 5 cents. Each should be | worked in any one color of yarn in silhouette on cross-stitch canvas. ‘The fascinating Mother Goose design, “The Dish Ran Away With the Spoon.” will appeal to lttle folk. If a child helps mother to embroider this design |stitches and is one that progresses on material for kitchen curtains, she | quickly. This design can be had by Will begin to take interest in making |sending 5 cents in stamps, with a self- the home attractive, which is the root | addressed and stamped envelope, with of home decoration. The outline stitch (a request to Lydia Le Baron Walker, in which the design is embroidered is | care of this paper. one of the simplest of all embroidery 12.~3) ~'30 THE CROSS-STITCH PATTERN AP- PEALS TO _ LITTLE GIRLS AS WELL AS ADULTS. (Corvright, 1930.) NOTED CATS AND CAT-LOVERS Gottfried Mind, the Swiss Painter, Who Preferred Cats to Humans, BY J. P. GLASS. HIS VISITORS FOUND HIM SITTING WITH HIS FAVORITE PUSSY ON HIS KNEE, WHILE HER KITTENS SCAMPERED OVER HIS SHOULDERS. On a visit to Bern, in Switzerland, |not Dl'l:nrl(md sat by his fire and cut Mme. Brun, elebra Prench | out cats from chestnuts. These had a il iz sale and heiped to provide his pets’ | | knowing how little he'd done in return painter, came upon & painting of & cat | L & that delighted her. “This is the work of a real artist” she said. “I should like to meet him.” She thus was introduced to Gottfried Mind, whom she later called “the Raphael of cats.” She paid him the greatest compliment from one artist to tures. Thereafter whenever she went to Bern she always acquired another. Gottfried Mind was an eccentric. His home fairly swarmed with cats. The most with him. He owned dozens of cats at one time. to buy them food. He liked to it them. Having plenty of models always on hand, he pictured them in every conceivable attitude, singly and in groups. He was, in fact, a painter of cat portraits. In his pictures they actu- ally lived again. His fame spread year by year. Even royalty came to buy from him. He might have associated with the most interesting and influential people in Bern. However, he did not care to do #0. He treated humans boorishly while ;fiubfl&nz the greatest tenderness for His few visitors, entering his studio, found him sitting with his favorite pussy on his knee, while her kittens scam- pered over his shoulders. His favorite was Mimette. If she picked his lap for a resting place, he would sit an hour rather than disturb her. On Winter evenings when he could MENU FOR A DAY. Breakfast: Baked Apples, Cereal with Cream, Bread el Honey Muffins, Coffee. Dicner: Tomato Bouillon, Roast Beef, Yorkshire Pudding Mashed Potatoes, Boiled Oniol Cream Sauce; Celery, Pear Sala Nut Fudge Roll, Coff<e. Supper: Shrimp Salad, Hot Rolis, Pickles, Apple Sauce Cake, Coco BREAD OMELET Pour 1 cup of scalded milk over 1 cup of bread crumbs and let stand until softened. Beat 6 eggs separately, then together, and add the soaked crumbs, 1 tablespoon of melted butter and pepper and salt to taste. Cook in two portions, turning when nearly done. NUT FUDGE ROLL Beat 2 eggs until light. Gradually beat in 1 cup sugar, then add 1 cup thin cream a'ter- nately with 12-3 cups flour mixed and sifted with 1-8 tea- spoon salt and 3 teaspoons bak- ing powder. Flavor with 1 tea- spoon vanilla. Beat until very I'ght, turn into an oblong pan lined with greased paper and bak> in a quick oven. Turn out on a sugared paper, trim off the edges, spread with fudge filling and roll. Fudge Pilling—Put 11-2 cups brown sugar in saucepan with 11-2 tablespoons butter, 5 table- spoons milk, 1 square of chocolate ted and 1-8 teaspoon salt. ] until a soft ball can be formed when tried in cold water, remove from the fire, add 1-2 cup chopped nut meats and beat until creamy. APPLE SAUCE CAKE One and one-half cups sugar, 1 egg well beaten, 1-2 cup short- ening, 11-2 cups warm un- sweet'ned apple sauce mixed with 1 teaspoon soda, 2 level teaspoons cinnanson, 1 teaspoon each cloves and allspice, 2 cups flour mixed with 1-2 ':'upoon ufllt Anld 21 tea- spoon bal wder, 1-2 ecup raisins. It t cooked in & tube pan in a slow oven. (Copyright, 1830.) | nouse was full of them. another—she bought one of his pic-|the first place the police came. | Por her he would defy the authorities. repuisive strays he saw in the the massacre. street were at once sure of a refuge! painter never forgave it. It took all his spare rioney | work to him for his opinion. Those In 1809 there was what was thought to be an epidemic of madness among the cats of Bern. The police set out to kill all of the animals. Mind was terribly upset. How could he save his pets? Every one in the city knew his It would be He bade good-by to all but Mimette. He hid her until danger was past. More than 800 cats lost their lives in To his dying day the Many budding artists brought their who happened to paint cats and did so poorly were in bad luck. He would have nothing to do with them, no mat- ter how talented they might be in other directions, (Copyright. 1 Says wily Mr. Fox: make a lecture tour And let me be your manager—we'd both make good, I'm sure.” “Prom whet I've heard” says Puffy, “you would benefit enough- What worries me is, there might be no money left for Puff.” | : SAlndWDreuing. i For fruit, vegetable or fish salads.— Three eggs or five egg yolks, one tea- spoonful salt, one-fourth teaspoonful dry mustard, one-fourth teaspoonful rika, one-fourth teaspoonful celery t, one-third cupful sugar, three fuls flour, one-half cupful cupful water and one and edients. ly and vinegar and water. Cook in double boller until thick and creamy. Stir (mugnuy‘ Add butter, beat. Oool and chill. “Why don't you Eggs on Liver. Cut into slices and steam until well done one pound of calves' liver and chop fine. or press through a colander Season with a teasnoonful of salt, half and moisten batter SUB ROSA BY VIRGINIA VANE. Parlor Sheik. Dear Miss Vane:: What would you do with & friend like this? I met him about two years ago and we have been seeing each other steadily since that time. I like him very much and he seems fond of me, but in all the time i we have known each other he has never lonce suggested taking me anywhere— not even to a movie. I like to have a good time. I dont mind a bit having him come to see me most of the time, but it seems to me he ought to want to entertain me once in a while—particularly when he tells me about taking other girls to various places. Do you think I have a right to ex- pect some befter treatment from him? I like him better than anyone else, but I am' tired of his attitude—M. E. T. Either the young man is thoughtless | and careless or he’s just plain selfish. There is no reason in the world why he shouldn’t have invited you to some sort of entertainment long before this. Good manners should have prompted him to do so long ago. It's customary for the young modern male to talk a good deal about the gold-digging propensities of the pres- ent-day girl. And very often this sort conversation makes a girl sensitive of | on the subject of invitations to dances, shows, etc. She is afraid that if she | shows herself too eager to go out, she’ll immediately be taken for a gold-digger and held in contempt by the man she | admires. ‘There's a vast difference between gold-digging and expecting the per- fectly normal amount of fun usually | offered by admirers. The average boy of good breeding wouldn’t dream of ac- cepting hospitality time after time throughout a whole two years without once offering in return an invitation of some sort. He'd feel uncomfortable for all he'd accepted from you and your family. ‘There can be no doubt about it that such a careless young man ought to have a severe jolt. It is frightfully difficult to broach a subject of this sort, but M. E. T. should gather her courage and make the fatal speech if she's ever going to be happy with her favorite admirer. He should realize that her home is not a club, and that she is not merely a_ cosy domestic little soul who supplies him with food and drink and\a restful, cheap evening. Perhaps theleaslest thing to do, M. would be to announce brightly th there is & show in town which you're dying to see. Or that you have a par- ticular yearning to go to a certain dance to which all the other girls have been invited. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. H | | | Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Your Writing Style. ‘The outstanding fact about any indi- vidual is his style. Style itself is a combination of habits. You have a style for everything, including table manners, salutations, handshakes, hand- writing. A persistent style has often been taken as an indication of char- acter, but that isn't always the truth. Many of our consistent styles are con- sistently superficial. No one style re- veals one’s character, temperament or personality. to be deciphered by a single activity. In studying handwriting you ~will make better headway if you first sc- count for the superficial and accidental factors. And what are they? If possi- ble, hunt up and study some samples of your handwrif when you were learning to write. You may be able to trace some of your persistent and super- ficial writing habits back to a favorite teacher. You will find that imitation and imitation alone was and still is & factor of some fmportance in your style of writing. Some people are consistently slow and deliberate, others consistently fast and careless, with all sorts of in-betweens and combinations. Graphologists call this time factor your dominant tempo. Your dominant tempo is natural. After you have explained the accidental fac- tors in handwriting, the chief of which is imitation, you are then ready to study the forms that onc's dominant tempo mcu‘clu in the use of the pen and pencil. ‘What is the chief factor in your writ- ing style? The same thing that gives individuality to everything else you do —your dominant tempo. g JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English. BY JOSEPH J. FRISCH. JUDGING FROM THE AMOUNT OF COSMETICS BEING SOLD, BUSINESS SEEMS TO BE. ALRIGHT ON THE A S M. y structions as “Judging o:ccosmeuu," “Judging by his actions,” M. M. D.—All right is ly written as two words, not al hvzmpx':ythz lan- guage we have although, almost, always. already, etc., but not alright. - B u India Ginger Toffee. This simple and delicious toffee is made by cooking two cupfuls of dark with the milk of one large eoeonut.mn the mixture boil for Do Secretaries Make Good Wives? b Considers Them oro IX; b 1deal COLLEGE professor advises young men to marry their secretaries. It seems to me that this is a tip which could be played to win. For certainly when A a man and his secretary tie up together they take marriage out of the gambling \ class and make it a sure thing. ‘They are spared the disillusion that wrecks the marriages of so many young couples who have only a drawing room acquaintance with each other, when each had on his or her company manners and clothes and was bent on making a good impression. For they have seen each other at close range and under the stress of headaches and bad colds and nerves and business worries and anxieties. They have each other's number to the last figure and the woman knows just exactly how big and broad or how little and narrow, how kind and generous or how hard and stingy, how understanding or how dense the man is ‘The man knows whether the girl has real brains or is a Dumb Dora; whether she has a heart and a soul, or is just a dressed-up doll; whether sha is the kind of woman who would stick by a man through thick and thin and fight | at his back until she dropped, or is one of the little female rats who always look out for themselves and leave a sinking ship before they even get their feet damp. 1t is often said that propinquity is the greatest matchmaker. That is true, but it is equally true that propinquity is the greatest destroyer of romance and if a man and his secretary who have worked together for two or three years still admire each other enough to want to get married, you maybe very sure that they measure up to each other's stand and that such a marriage will last. For they know what they are getting. ‘They will have none of the horrible surprises that await the man who thinks he is marrying a sweet little thing, so gentle and mild that butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth, and finds that after he has taken her home that she is a virago and a nagger, or the shock that befalls the girl who thinks that she is marrying h!l; {y pr:ncc and discovers that she has fallen into the clutches of a brute and a tyrant. In addition to knowing what they are getting when they marry, instead of buying a pig in a poke, as is the case in most marriages, there are other reasons why the mllfllfe of a man to his secretary should be a conspicuous success. One is that the lady is in the habit of taking dictation from him, hence she may not rebel at doing 50, 85 the average wife does. The first bitter awakening to the fact that marriage isn't going to be what he thought it was, that comes to tically every mar, is when the unwelcome truth is borne in on him that he 't going to be able to iay down the law to his wife and that as the head of the house he is a mere figurehead. 8o fancy how soothing it will be to & man’s vanity to have & wife who has been frained to look up to him as an oracle and accept him as her boss and to yes-yes him without questioning his decisions. BY LEE PAPE. I was bizzy up in my room and ma called upstairs, Benny, come down here, I wunt you to do something for me. Heck, a errand, Ithawt. And I called down, Well gosh ma, G, ma, do you meeg rite away? I sed. Im awful bizzy, I sed. O yes I sippose youre doing some- thing tremendissly important, well Ill give you just 5 minnits, ma sed. And after about 5 minnits she came 'up and looked in my room, Arent you through that important werk yet? My lands look at the rubbish. Dont tell me youre cleening out your closit by some impossible miracle? she sed. Im not exactly cleening it out, Im looking for something in it, I sed. ‘Wel goodness 1f you havent found it by this time it must be amung the lost causes, because theres nuthing left in the closit, ma sed. What on erth are you looking for? she sed. A fly swatter, I sed. I know Its around somewhere because I put it somewheres myself. Its that swatter I made out of long rubber bands tled to the end of a stick, I sed. But my lands I havent seen a fly for weeks, what on erth do you wunt a fly swatter for at this time of year? ma sed, and I sed, I dont wunt it at this time of year, I just thawt I better look for it so Id know where it was next Summer. Well then let me tell you that even if you did find it you wouldent know where it was next week, much less next Summer, ma sed. Now by the time you get everything neetly back in that ciosit it will be too late for you to do ;}ént I wunted you to do for me, she Feeling like a consolation even with- out me knowing what it was, NANCY PAGE Prune and Apple Stuffing in the Goose. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Page fly were having goose on New Year day. They had-had chick- en on Thanksgiving, turkey on Christ- mas and now they were waiting for the | 8oose for the last holiday dinner of the season. Nancy chose a goose which was young and fat. The fat was white and soft, the feet yellow, the breast was thick 'and firm and the windpipe broke easily | under pressure of her fingers. She | chose a guose which weighed about 11 pounds. This is the equivalent in meat to that found on an 8-pound turkey: After cleaning, singeing and drain- ing, she rubbed salt, pepper, ginger and a bit of garlic inside the bird. Then she stuffed it with prune and apple dressing. The goose roasted for four hours, having the heat at 500 degrees for the first half hour and at 350 degrees for the remainder of the time. She basted the goose with hot water in which she had put some orange juice. | Of course. after the first basting she | iifted the llquldé‘mm the pan, so fat was ccmbined with the water and juice. Another advantage of & man something to talk about and they will n other as are those husbands and wives where the man is interested in nothing | but his business and the woman is interested in nothing but %Bfi‘b"xfé’ and the kitchen and the department stores. Replenishing Lingerie Supplies BY MARY MARSHALL. Even if you haven't much time for tion at the left, half the front portion 1 sewing, now that Christmas is past and the holiday week is draw 40 8 close you may be able to make plans for re- Character is too complex | Plenishing yoursupply of dainty lingerie. | The other dimensions are as follows: A number of readers have asked for a sketch and diagram pattern for easily made new step-in shorts, and the one that we have selected is an admirable combination of simplicity and good style. ‘The diagram shows half the back por- DAILY DIET RECIPE SALTED NUTS. Almonds, peanuts, pecans, wal- Byazil nuts can be used. almonds by covering shelled nuts with bolling water for 20 minutes. Strain, press nuts between fingers and brown skin will slip off. Peanuts should be put on flat pan in the oven for a few minutes. The s become his secretary is that they will have | be such ghastly company for each and APPLE DRESSING- ROAST GOOSE She stewed one-quarter pound prunes and pitted them, cutting the flesh in small pieces. Then she peeled three sour apples and cut the apple pulp in small pieces. She combined these with one cupful cold boiled rice to which she had added one-half teaspoonful poultry seasoning, one-half teaspoonful salt and some pepper. She stuffed the cavity with and roasted the e. She might have used all prunes or all apples and she might have substi- tuted one cupful bread crumbs for the cooked rice. But she was well satisfled with the dressing she had chosen, and S0 were the other members of her family, FOOD PROBLEMS BY SALLY MONROE. Artichokes. Artichokes—the French sort—are a little unusual, and they always add tone to the meal where they are served. If you want to do something a little dif- ferent, therefore, serve artichokes. It is always interesting to me that anything so utterly simple and uncom- plicated in tdste should have gained the reputation artichokes have gained among epicures as great delicacies. For you know they have the reputation of being delicacies. Their taste is so subtle, so delicate, that epicures take great pleasure in them. It's just that, I suppose. It takes a rather cultivated taste to appreciate them to the full. One artichoke is allowed for each person to be served. Soak the arti- chokes for 10 minutes in cold water to which salt has been added—two table- spoonfuls of salt to two quarts of cold water. Then drain them, place them in a big kettle, side by side and close together, and cover with boiling water. Add a tablespoonful of salt to a kettle of water. Cook for about 30 minutes, until the stems are tender when you pierce them with a fork. French cooks usually add a clove of garlic while the artichokes are cooking. Some cocks add a tablespoonful of lemon juice, some add a little olive oil. When the artichokes are tender lift them carefully from the kettle, drain a minute and serve. They are served with some sort of sauce, which is laid beside them on the plate. They are eaten leaf by leaf, the point of the leaf being taken in the fingers, by which the fat end is dipped in the sauce, and then bitten off with the teeth. It seems a most primitive way of eating, but it is the correct way. D:nl;n mmn:i mflhnd;il:-i‘l sauce, may- onnaise, are all served artichokes. & school, & church, a hospital, & depot, | T think Hollandaise is best with hot and 50 on until I had a whole commu- | artichokes, although a rich drawn but- nity. Then 1 found pictures of the| ter is also good. same age people with their wraps on ABE MARTIN SAYS All these All is not gold that glitters an’' all to school, | red apples are not Jonat! Y and| Now that it is cool to stay in the good, makin’ it a felony the is one at the right, with side piece be- | tween. To make the back pattern, draw | a straight line 20 inches marked AC AB, 11 inches; CD, 2 inches; AE, 5% inches; EG, 12 inches; EF, 5 inches. Draw straight connecting lines between these points as shown in the diagram. ‘The dotted line below AB shows where the back should be turned in for a slot hem through which elastic tape is to be run. Draw the rmm for the front accord- to the following dimensions: A'C’, A'B’, 8 inches; C'D, 2 inches; 4 inches; E'G’, 9 inches; E'F, § Connect with straight lines as ‘To make pattern for the side, follow the diagram according to these dimen- sions: HI, 14 inches; JK, 24 inches; LM, 13 inches. Make 2 slightly curved line below JK as shown in the sketch. Cut two pleces like HIJK. Out front double with A’C’ on lengthwise fold of material and back double with AC on lengthwise fold. Cut an underfacing an inch wide when finished for the top of front. Join front and back af and B'C’. Set in the side pieces fulling the material slightly along HI. Connect front and back in narrow French seam at CD and C'D". MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Playing “Family.” From an old catalogue I cut out pic- tures of a lady, man, little boy and little girl, all dressed in every-day clothes. Then I cut out pictures of every room in our house, also a store, W ‘er PEATURES The Woman Who Makes Good BY HELEN WOODWARD. Who started her career as a frightened typist and who became one of the highest paid business women in America. 1 Loves Children. It isn’t possible for all the girls who love children to be teachers in the public schools. Many a girl who has a talent for training children cannot afford the special training. But if you are one of those girls there are other things ‘you can do. N Obviously there | is the child nurse, but to many girls that means being & servant and los- ing independence. It is amazingly stupld that such mggLEN WOODWARD. work as this, so important to children, should be con- sidered less dignified than being a clerk. However, there are exceptions even to this. Many a girl working her way through college spends her afternoons and week ends taking care of children without any loss of social standing. There are also jobs in playground work and in children’s camps. If none of these is open to you I suggest that you call on a good chil- dren’s specialist, & physician, and ask | his advice. Also ask the head nurse at } some hospital that has many children's | cases. Sometimes a preacher or pflull or rabbi can make a suggestion. | I know one girl who, unable to do any of these things, makes a lving MILADY B Ears and Earrings. In recent years ears have been com- {ing in for a larger share of attention {than they formerly enjoyed because many present-day coiffures allow at |least one of them to show. Their | beauty depends almost as much on their color as on their size and shape. Pale ears and red ears are equally un- attractive, but the former condition is easier to remedy. at l:ast etxernally by the use of a little rouge and pink face powder. All that can be done for red ears, however, is to powder them and conceal them as much as possible under the coiffure. Ears should not be neglected, even if they are usually kept out of sight. It i a good plan to rub the outer parts with cleansing cream or ofl, then wipe it off with a soft cloth instead of try- ing to clean them with a thick face cloth and soap. Dampen the soft cloth and give the ears a second wiping. ‘While applying the cream massage gently all around the roots of the ears, roll the edges of the ears and the lobes between the fingers. Avold irritating the delicate skin inside by picking at it with sharp instruments. Hairpins and other hard objects should not be pushed into the ears with the idea of cleansing them. The canal of the ear is self-cleansing since the skin grows rapidly and tends to push out the dead scales mixed with wax, as required. Sometimes the wax does accumulate too much, causing temporary deafness, in which case a physician should be con- sulted. Any suspicion of trouble in the ears should receive prompt medical at- tention. A daintily formed ear with shell-pink tints really needs no adornment. Ear- rings are fastened to such ears not to make them more beautiful, but to add a desired color note or to make milady's | face appear broader or more slender. Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Management of small children in their play situations demands tact and absolutely unbiased fairness. It is so | easy for mothers to put the burdens of unselfishness on all the older children in the family that they allow the younger ones to flourish unchecked as the grabbers. It is equally difficult for mothers to step outside of the situation and let the children settle their dis- putes among themselves. We have a leaflet on the subject of “How to Manage Children's Quarrels,” which offers suggestions the mother may fol- low. The usual self-addressed, stamped | envelope, inclosed with each request, will bring this leaflet to any reader. ‘The following letter is such a helpful one that it should encourage mothers to make use of some of these successful methods: Mrs. M. H. writes: “I have taught my four little daughters to make their own decisions, to be independent, to think and act for themselves, to tell the truth, to play fair and obey. I do not try to settle their ments. If I did I would never be sure who was in the wrong. Instead I have made a few simple rules, “Whoever owns a toy has the abso- lute “say so” about it, as to whether her sisters may have it. I have heard one gefuse to give up her and her sister would run to me. I would tell her pleasantly that she would have to ask the owner; the toy did not belong to me, and I couldn’t lend anything which was not mine. “More often than not the owner would decide to lend it, sometimes be- fore she was through playing with it. Children like to be generous if given the chance. “If the tqy belongs to the family all of them together having to share it, then the first one who starts playing with it may have it until she starts playing with something else. Even the baby, 2 years old, must play fair and follow these rules. “If they cannot agree without help and begin to quarrel I separate them. After a few minutes of playing alone they are glad to come back to their companions. The separation is punish- ment for the child who feels herself in the wrong, and for the child who is right the peace of playing alone is ap- preciated. At any rate I am not a nervous wreck trying to settle every problem for them. “We have found, too, that all of the The older ones like long ones and baby likes short ones, so their father and I take turns in telling them stories; one night I read or tell stories to the little one and he to the older ones and vice versa. Everything goes so smoothly now —but we wonder how soon they will begin to feel grown up and able to make all their own decisions—and we will be less necessary to them.” This last is for the modern parent the goal toward which she is straining. Undoubtedly when it does come few of us really enjoy it. Belnxnluelul to our children gives us a definite place we dislike relinquishing. So far you have met your problems so wisely I should keep on in the same way and expest future problems to evaporate or else be met and solved as they arise. ATWOOD GRAPEFRUIT children do not enjoy the same stories. | wil dressing dolls, and another who makes children’s clothes. They get a sort of Indirect satisfaction out of that. Of course, there is always the possi-’ bility of having children of your own. It is being done successfully by many & woman who works. I have a splendid stenographer who always worked bew tween bables. She had a husband who could support her, but who did not earn enough for a family, When a baby was & month old she took a half-time joby when the baby was weaned she took a full-time job. She was a splendid pher and a very happy wo= man, one of the happiest I know. Women who love children but who have none of their own make good heads of departments, where they are in charge of a number of girls. They make fine personnel managers in large organizations. They make good nurses in industrial establishments. In all these jobs their mother feeling makes them eager to take care of and to man- age the people under them, quite simply and unsentimentally to mother them. If you love children and cannot work with them, and if you have none of your own, you can still comfort your-, self. Women like you are apt to have devoted husbands, because they lavish on a man all the mother power within them. And men want above every- thing in a permanent relation to be mothered. irls having problems in connect thell work may write to) Misy Woodward: of this paper, for her personal (Copyright. 1930.) EAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. The blue of her eyes may be accented by her sapphire or turquoise earrings and necklace. Ruby eardrops and beads may repeat the rich color of her lips. Pearls, rhinestones and other precious or semi-precious gems may be used effectively in earrings. The shape of th2se ornaments should be thought of in relation to milady's facial contour. Long, slender eardrops tend to make a wide face seem slimmer. Large hoops in the ears are becoming to slender faces. Necks, too, must be considered. Very long earrings tend to make a short neck seem shorter, but the};s may be very becoming to long necks. Earrings are not now the heavy af- fairs they used to be, that stretched and sometimes tore the tender lobes, Fortunately the barbarous practice of plercing the ears has been abandoned and the modern earring does not need to be hooked through a hole in the flesh. It is light in weight, too, so that there is no danger of dragging the lobes down out of their normal posi~ tion. FEarrings nowadays may appear large and massive, but in reality be light in weight. THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE Slenderizing. ‘There are many helpful points sbout this black Canton crepe frock relieved with a touch of white that are decided- ly slimming. Note how the deep V of the bodice breaks its width. The curved seam narrows the hipline and the panel front skirt is length giving. The pin tucks are decorative. You'll like the effect of the elaborate sleeve detail. N And into the bargain—it i so sim- ple to copy it. Style No. 120 is designed for sizes 36, 38, 40. 42, 44 and 46 inches bust. Dark green wool crepe with eggshell, black velvet with ecru lace-and wine red crepe marocain with self-trim are charming suggestions. Size 36 requires 3% yards 8 ith yard 27-inch contrasting. pattern of this style, send 18 cents in stamps or coin directly to The Washington Star's New York Fashion Bureau, Fifth avenue and Twenty- ninth street, New York. We suggest that when you send for your pattern, you order a copy of our larpe Winter Fashion Magazine. It should be in every home for of course every woman wants to look her best without great expense, and this book points the way. Price of book, 10 cents, Dr. Royal S. 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