Evening Star Newspaper, February 23, 1931, Page 22

WOM Individual Patterns for Slips ‘The new slips are different but not ::nl: dlmcalt to make. And unless you ve recently replenished you will no bt include slips on your iist of “Things to buy” or “Things to make” for your Spring wardrobe. Eve- ming slips ‘are long snd are usually made with a decided fiare, while fi'ua'" occasions are more Slips for general daytime wear are best made of silk crepe in flesh color, or & pale pastel tint to harmonise with @ dress, and may be tailored simply or finished at top and hem with lace. | Boft pale tones are also chesen for the Jonger evening slips, which may be of silk crepe, though some of the newest are made of supple taffeta or even of satin. These fabrics are often chosen for g:m' dresses of cotton net or or- gandie. ‘To make & new slip of a satisfactory Practical Mark BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. AN’'S PAGE, sort you will need no special &:Mem. Or rather you can make a pattern to suit your own figure without difficulty. It _should be made in four pieces, two side pleces, a front and a back. For an average figure the side pieces should be eight and a half inches at the top and 12 or more inches at the lower edge. The back piece ould be about 10 inches at the top and 15 inches at the lower edge and the front piece should be about 11 inches at the top and 16 or 17 inches at the lower edge. Cut pleces of an old sheet in these dimensions of the desired length of the slip. Baste them together and then take in the seams at the side so that the slip fits smoocthly but easily across *he bust and shapes in enough at the waist and hips to give a smooth, flat {oundat'on for the dress. By means of the four seams you may easily manage to get the fullness nceded at the lower edge withcut causing any bunchiness anvwhere. Lace an inch and a half wide may be arranged at the top and lower edge and narrow straps of the silk should be sewed securely over the shoulders. LITTLE BENNY BY LI E PAPE. Pop was smoking to himself in his private chair and ma was doing a old crosswerd puzzle over again to see if she had made any mistakes, and I sed, Hay ma, hay pop. the fe'lows are getting up a serprise party and each fellow has to bring something such as sugar or lem- mins or candy or cake or something, so the mother of the guy thats gettin’ ser- prised dont haff to pervide anything except plates and things. Thats a ideer that awt to be incour- aged, pop sed. I think so too, ma sed. When boys g0 to a party and bring their own pro- visions insted of having their eyes big- ger than their stummicks trying to see how much they can get for nuthing, it shows at leest tuat they are intristed in somebody eltses plezzure besides their cwn. Its a good spirrit and Ill be glad to have you do your share. What are you sippose to bring? she sed. Nuthing, I sed. Why not for goodness sakes? ma sed. and pop sed, Yes, how do you come to qualify for special favors? Well you see, Im the guy their giving the serprise party to for my berthday next munth, I sed. Well the ideer of all things, ma sed, and pop sed, Yee gods, do you think youll recover from the surprise? and ma sed, Thats what I was thinking. How can it be a serprise party when you know all about it alreddy? she sed. ‘Well gosh, they dident know if they could have it here or not, so they asked me to ask you and find out, 5o if you | say yes that will be enough of a ser- prise for me, I sed. Can they, ma, can they, pop? 1 sed. ~Pop and ma saying they would think it over. H Being better than saying No. ing of Napery A MONOGRAM OR INITIALS S8HOULD BE IN ONE CORNER. In many instances, today, tablecloths &re so elaborate in their ornamentation worked in cross stit letters described p: The old Enclich and whith that it pecomes a question whether or | come in couplets are excellent for filet | not to add to the decoration by initial- | or cross stitch. Couplets as given below ing them. Napkins are not so puzziing | can be had by inclosing 5 cents and a in this particular since they have self-addressed stamped envelope, with enough plain linen in them to letter. Their purpose requires this, if the nap- kins are practical. Readers request in- | formation about initiating their lace and | elaborately embroidered napery, and it | 18 in response to these inquiries that the | problem is considered today. blecloths entirely of lace are not initialed. There is no place for the let- ters. They would mar the beauty of the pattern. Tablecloths with small linen centers and very wide lace borders eaii be initialed or not, according to the | owner’s preference. An initial can be | on a small oval, square or diamond of | the same kind of lace, and be inset in one corner of the cloth, beneath which | the linen is cut away. Or an initial or | monogram can be beautifully em- broidered on the linen. | An interesting way to mark a lace or | embroidered table runner in refectory table style is to have one or more let- ters or a monogram (in lace or em- broidery as described above) and have | them positioned on the linen just above | the border at each end of the runner.| When marking i8 in one corner of a| cloth it is customary to have it posi- | tioned diagonally. | Never put a monogram or initial ex- | actly in the center of a tablecloth or runner. A centerpiece will hide it and eliminate the decorative value. Also | anything set on embroidéred letters with their raised stitchery will not be firm, but wabbly. For these reasons ®vold having the initialing come where | dishes w customarily stand. On a phm‘.«-uk cloth in which the beauty of having the embroide: where it would fall over the side of table has gone out. Position the marking where it will come on the surface of the table. Give due regard to the other matters of positioning as explained before. Napkins are initialed so that the let- ters come in the center of the square forming the outside corner fold. Em- broidered medallions are often left bare inside for initials to be worked therein. Where lace or embroidery is deep on napkins, marking is iticned above it and in one corner of linen. Satin stitch is the favorite one to use on all handsome napery. It should be raised by padding. Fo et chochet initias in Ank thresd be ibset, or the letters can be a request to Lydia Le Baron Walker, care of this paper. The couplets are: A-B, C-D, E-F, G-H, I-J, K-L, M-N, O-P, Q-V, R-S, T-U, W-X, Y-Z. (Copyright, 1931.) MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Btewed Figs, Cereal with Cream, Griddle Cakes. Maple Sirup, Coffee. LUNCHEON. Vegetable Plate, Corn Muffins, Maple ?rron Cakes, ea. DINNER. Meat Balls, Brown Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Creamed Carrots, Tomato Salad, Cottage Pudding, Lemon Sauce, Coffee, How To Protect Your Complexion Buut“nl sign protected skin....and you can be sure of protection when you use Plough’s Per- oxide (Vanishing) Cream, the ideal powder base! Yon can nourish your skin..can have smooth, youthful beauty by us- ing Plough’s Cold Cream. You can give your skin the deep ore-cleansing it needs for true auty with Plough’s Cleansing Cream. Bach of Plough's Peroxide, Cold ang Cleansing Creams Is econcmically priced at 25¢, 86 and Goc. BEAUTY CREAMS THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE Dair dimity prints. lawns, batiste, dotted swiss, cotton broadcloth, pique and gingham may be used for this cute little dress. Cut on simple straight lines without frills, it.is easily laundered. The lower part of the dress is neatly fitted to the yoke through pin tucks. The yoke and panel front incidentally can be in self-material if desired. Style No. 2992 is designed for the small active maids of 2, 4 and 6 years. Several dresses may be made with this pattern of various fabries and each one appear entirely different. The small expenditure will surprise you. And it is so simple to fashion. You will see one attractive style after another as you turn over the pages of our new Spring Fashion Book. Styles for children or the miss, the matron, the stout—and a serles of dressmaking artictes. It is & book that will save you money. For a pattern of this style, send 15 cents in stamps or coin directly to The Washington Star's New York Fashion Bureau, Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, New York. Be sure to fill in the size of the pat- tern. BSend stamps or coin (coin pre- ferred). Price of book 10 cents. Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. 1t is said that Napoleon knew his own mind so well that he figuratively con- sulted his mental index every time he had to figure out what to do. speare also talzed about his “tables Almost every one will tell you that he “knows” his “own mind.” ‘The chances are that all this talk about mental indices is nothing but a subtle form of self-conceit, and that isn't all. It may be a ruinous form of self-deceit. Perhaps there is some way to con- sult IhL; :{}:‘-cnlled index or card cata- logue of e mind. Suppose you are confronted with a baffing situation: 1—Does it make you nervous? If so0, you may say that you have ac- quired the habit of running away from situations in all directions at once. Or do you daydream? Daydreams are generally mere wishes. But wishes are often mental flights from reality. Your mental index in both cases gives the word, escape. 2—Does it make you stubborn? If S0, you may conclude that you have never learned the art of ylelding now and then to the forces you will ulti- mately have to reckon with. Or it may mean that you haven't outgrown the so-called age of omnipotence, which is easily recognized behavior of most 3-year-olds. The sign is conceit. 3—Or does it actually make you sick? Perhaps you have discovered that some headaches, backaches and attacks of indigestion pass away the very moment your hard problems are solved. Your mental index is a feeling of inferiority. There are other kinds of mental in- dices. of ceurse. The kind vou have depends on how you have lived. (Copyright, 1931 FOOD PROBLEMS BY SALLIE MONROE. Rice for Breakfast. Rice may be served for breakfast once in & while to good purpose. For one thing, serving it occasionally will make the family appetite for the usual sorts of breakfast cereal all the keener when you have them. It is good served beiled with cream. Some people like it with hot milk and a little grated nutmeg. It is also deli- cious served boiled with fried bacon, as the main course of breakfast. In that case, either serre some prrpar>d, uncocked cereal ba‘ore it and omit toast or bread, or e'se rerve it as cercal, with some crisp, hot buttered toast, as the main cour: Rice muffins are good, too. Use a regular white flour batter, but add a cupful of boiled rice and a half cupful less of flour. These muffins are deli- :I)loux Bacon is specially good with em. — z Date Pudding. Mix two tablespoonfuls of butter with one cupful of sugar and add three beaten eggs and half a cupful of milk. Sift one cupful of flour with one tea- spoonful of baking powder and one- fourth teaspoonful of salt and add to the liquid mixture. half cupfuls of pitted dates and one cupful of chopped nuts after coating nuts and dates with flour. Add one teaspoonful of vanilla. Bake in a shal- low greased pan in a very slow oven for about sixty minutes until set in the center. Cut in squares and serve with whipped cream. ATWOOD GR APFFRUIT For Breakfast Luncheon or Dinner is always Refreshing and in Good Taste — whether served to embellish a Banquet,oras a Breakfast Fruit, Salad or Dessert, Every Day at Home. LOOK FOR THE NAME Add cne and one- | | WASHING'TON, C DorothyDix] Il"lwere-rnry;odmothermdhadnmmymwb-w'memmcmh~ man Upon a m:b:eupk that vmulddmmrv1 - ‘mlelr future happiness and pros- ity, I should 'm patience. Ane 101 say: - y"My chlldrefi.vefl'lls is lueonym'! that will do more than love, it will do more than practicing all of the standard domestic virtues, it will do more than sny- thing else in the world to make your marriage a success, if you will only use it. It is a rabbit’s foot that will protect you against all the that are waiting to grab you as soon as the honeymoon is over, if you will only carry it. “Use it when you first begin to discover that you are united to just a plain, ordinary, faulty, human man or woman instead of being married to a 1if tin . Use it when each other's little ways commence to get on the nerves, and the cute little tricks and mannerisms that once enchanted you make you want to scream or swear. Use it most of all when the disillusioning knowledge begins to soak in on you that marriage is not & petting party, but a life sentence at hard labor. “Thus shall you be saved from the divorce court that yawns for the newly weds. For it is in the early years of marriage that so many young couples either stumble Into it, o else there begins that estrangement that can separate two per- sons who live under the same roof farther from each other than if continents intervened between them. “So begin by applying some patience to marriage itself. Don't get discour- aged and throw up your hands and quit because it isn't all that your fondest fancy painted it, or because it is not the glorious success that you thought it was going to be. If you took up law, or medicine, or architecture as a profession, you wouldn't be foolish enough to expect to win fame and fortune in a day. You would know that you had to spend years and years of study, mastering the tech- nique of your profession, and that it would take more years of practice before you acquired skill enough to turn out a really good job. STAR, D MONDAY, Advocates Constant Applications a Success o} Patience “If you went into business, you would expect to struggle along for years, building up your grocery trade, or your brokerage. You would know that you had to have the courage to carry on through hard times, and the grit to meet disappointments, and the wit to trlumph over your rivals, or else you would be sunk. The man who just holds on and fights on nearly always wrests victory out of defeat and makes a success of what he has set his hand to. “Believe me. children, if men and women would use half as much patience | in trying to make marriage a success as they do in trying to make a success of & business or a profession, there would be mighty little matrimonial bankruptcy. “As soon as a man finds out he has a wife who is a poor housekeeper, or ex- travagant, or who isn't interested in the things he is interested in, he cries out that marriage is a failure and he makes an assignment cn the spot of all of his hopes and dreams. “And let a woman discover that her husband is just an unsentimental soul who says it with beefsteaks instead of violets, and she packs her clothes and goes back to mother, and another home is broken up. “Yet it is no exaggeration to say that nine out of ten of these marriages that go on the rocks could be saved if either the husband or wife exercised a little patience. If they would only wait and give marriage a chance to work itself out. If they would only wait until they found out that what they often think is & cyclone is nothing but a tempest in a teapot. If they would only wait until the woman learned how to cook and keep a budget, or the man learned his lesson. “Some of the happlest middle-aged couples that I know were on the verge of a divorce a dozen times in the first year of their marriage, but somehow they kept on going until they found the Promised Land. “Purthermore, children, have patience with each other's faults. How could two persons of different heredity, brought up in a different environment, of dif- ferent sexes expect to have the same tastes and habits and ways of doing things? Impossible. Just reflect that your little peculiarities are just as irritating to your husband or wife as his or hers are to you, and ignore them instead of trying to correct them. Have patience with them and you will find that you soon cease to notice these faults and adapt yourself to them. “Don’t expect miracles to happen, and don’t expect that the marriage cere- mony will turn a gay, fun-loving girl into a stald, middle-aged wife who prefers a kitchen to a ball room. Don't delude yourself into belleving that just getting married will change a wild youth into a fireside companion who never wants to go out with the boys again. “It takes time to turn a bachelor into a husband, or a flapper into a wife, and you can’t hurry up the process by nagsing and complaining 1t is patience DO DIX. that does it.” (Copyright. 1931.) PES OF THE MOMENT Paris., nauy blie crepe da, chine dress with a Baked Savory Onions. Cut one and one-hclf po onions in thin slices and brown th'm in two tablespoonfuls of buiter. Add one and one-half quarts of meat stock | and simmer covered until the onions add salt and pepper, one teaspoonful of are very soft, or for about thirty onion juice, two tablespoonfuls of pars- minutes. In the bottom of an earthen- | ley, chopped fine, and half a table- ware baking dish place four slices of |spoonful of butter. Add half a cupful French bread. Pour over it half of the of mushrooms. If canned mushrooms soup and sprinkle generously with |are used, add them to the mixture and cheese. Add four more slices of French |leave over hot water for 10 minutes. If bread, a thin layer of cheese and the |fresh ones are used, wash them in cold rest of the soup. Sprinkle with a little | water, drain, then simmer for 10 min- more cheese. Dot with butter and add | utes in the cream sauce. Just before salt and pepper to taste. Leave in a | serving, add one pint of oysters which hot oven until the top is brown and | have been washed and drained. When crusty. Serve from the dish in which | the oysters curl, it is ready. Care should it was baked be taken not to scorch the sauce. Oysters with Mushrooms. Cook one tablespoonful of flour in haif a tablespoonful of butter and add to one cupful of hot milk. Boil until creamy, nds of protects longer o o+ because it absorbs away from the surface HE secret of Kotex superiority is really very simple. It absorbs times more than cotton and it L absorbs laterally, away from the —which is, to personal daintiness. And, as you know, it is so easily disposable that millions of women would not think of returning to old-fashioned methods of sanitary proection. KOTEX T8 the new Kotex Seaitacy Belt surface, leaving the dry and comforable. important. Because both sides are equally absorbent, there's no danger of pos- sible embarrassment by wrong ad- jusement. Wear it on either side with equal protection, equal comfort. Kotex is adjustable. You can re- move layers of filler as your needs change. It is treated to deodorize ective edges That's very FEBRUARY 23, 1931. SONNYSAYINGS BY PANNY Y. CORY. ‘Tommy ast me a riddle "iss mornin’, an’ it's a hard one you bet—"As I was goin’ to St. Ives I met a man wif seben wives; each wife had seben sacks, in each sack was seben cats, each cat had seben kits. Kits, cats, sacks an’ wives, how many was goin' to St. Ives?” If it was dest fibe—but I neber was good at sebens. My Neighbor Says: Always grease preserving pan well with butter when making orange marmalade. If this is dene you will have a very clear marmalade that is not likely to burn while cooking. Lace = curtains before being washed for the first time should be soaked for an hour or two In cold water to which 2 tablespoons of table salt have been added. ‘This removes dressing in cur- tains and makes them much easler to launder. Stains may be removed from a marble mantelpiece in the follow- ing way: Pirst of all, wash with soap and water, then wipe dry, apply & paste made of finely powdered bathbrick or carbonate of soda, and lemon juice. Rub this well into the discolored parts and rinse off in clean, cold water. To clean gas stove burners boil them in a strong solution of washing soda and water for about half an hour. This will remove all the grease. (Copyright, 1931.) Margaret's Ring. When Margaret came to work for us she was a pretty young thing, with a bright lock and an engagement ring. She told me with pride that the man was a lineman for the telephone com- pany, that he was making $60 a week, and that they would soon be married. § But in our fice there was & young man who had never done any real work in his life. He was handscme and | charming, the pet- ted son of a rich mother. He had been given a job to please his family, represented among the big customers. He had natural grace and was a per fectly kindly, pleasant person, and, &s he had never done anything else, be had plenty of time to be very attractive, indeed, to a little girl like Margaret. He was pleasant to everybody, and nat- urally he was A‘l’lrtlde morewp!;unnc to a pretty young girl. unused to his manners and his mfim person, the matter was very serious. She fell in love with him. She watched him 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. FEATURES, BEDTIME STORIE A castle may be bullt of stone, but tushl Some folk would rather have a_pile of Dbrush. —Peter Rabbit. Peter is quite right about that. He would have no use at all for a real castle, but give him a pile of brush, a good big pile, and he will feel as safe as ever an armored knight behind the stone walls of a real castle. So as he headed i -1 -lip for the big brush pile in the Green Forest, with Yowler the Bobcat so close that the white hairs of Peter's funny little tail almost tickled his nose, he felt sure; that under it he would be safe. But would he be able to get under | it in time?> That was the question. To | his big cousin, Jumper the Hare, watch- | ing from a safe distance, it didn't lock | as if he would. It didnt look so to| Blacky the Crow or to Mrs. Blacky. It| didn't look so to Yowler the Bobeat.| Never had he felt more sure of & din- | ner than he did now of a Rabbit din- | ner. Even if Peter did actually reach | the big brush pile first he would be| caught. So Yowler thought anyway. You see, Peter was heading straight for a fairly big opening, and Yowler knew that he could enter there quite as easily as Peter. If he didn't catch Peter before he entered he would catch him right afterward. “He's my Rabbit this time” thought | Yowler as he bounded after Peter. It _certainly looked very much as if Yowler was right. However, there was cne thing about Peter that he had for- gotten. This was Peter's habit of sud- denly and without warning doing the | unexpected. Badly frightened as he | was, and he never had been worse | frightened, Peter knew exactly what he was about. That big opening under the | brush was very tempting, but he knew that Yowler could enter there with scarcely less speed than he himself. So, just as he reached it, he did the thing that he is famous for doing—he dodged. Yes, sir, Peter dodged to one side. He had spied a little opening. Probably you or I wouldn't have seen it. But Peter did. He didn't know how far under the brush that opening might continue. He would have to take a chance on that. 8o, at the very edge of the big open: ing, Peter dodged to one side and a second later dived into the little open- den move on Peter’'s part, couldn't stop and turn so quickly. He was halfway in the big opening before he could stop. Then he backed out hastily and with the ugliest of ugly snarls, sprang for the little opening in which Peter had vanished. He thrust a paw in for its full length, the great cruel claws un- sheathed as he felt about, hoping to hook them into Peter and pull him out. ut Peter was beyond reach. That little opening hadn't continued far | with large eyes. She grew pale. And | the engagement ring disappeared. ‘Then one day, the young man quite casuslly left the office. He was about to marry a rich girl. And for the next 10 years he was gol that after 10 years he would be rather bald. It never occurred to him even to say good-by to Margaret. After he left the poor child would sit day after day helplessl; t her desk, her hands limply on keys. Such letters as she did were full of errors. ing. Yowler, unprepared for that sud- | g _to be very busy | as his wife’s escort. One would know | i By Thornton W. Burgess. under the brush, but Peter had aged to crawl under & stick squeege between two sticks there, climb over another beyond. he is very clever at places that look as-if they couldn't wriggled through. Now he was squs ting in a place just big enough him, and to get his 5 whi he listened to Yowler. They were = pleasant sounds to listen to. I s that they would have frightened or I halt to death had We been Peter’s place. But they didn't frigh Peter. He was over his fright no He was under the big brush pile, was as safe as if he were in the d Old Briar-patch, and he knew it. Yo You OTHER CROWS JOINED THEM. ler might crawl under in places, there were plenty of places where Yof ler couldn’t crawl and Peter could. Yowler was in a dreadful rage. snarled and growled and tore at pile of brush until at last he real how useless it was. Then he tried in at the big opening, hoping that could get at Peter from in there. hope was vain. Then he went ouf and crouched within jumping dist of the hole where Peter had enter He kept perfectly still save for twitching of his stub of & tail. He watching that hole just as Black Pus | the Cat watches a mouse hole. B | Blacky the Crow and Mrs. Blacky we | watching, too, and making a great no} atout it. Other Crows joined the] Had Peter had any doubt as to wi | Yowler was, he would have known frg | just listening t> those Crows. Yowler couldn't stand it long. loked up at Blacky and his friends snarled. Then he once more under the brush pile to get out sight. So there were Peter and enemy both under the big brush p PUFFY I was alarmed. I had seen cases like this before. I knew a girl who wrecked | I her whole life because she fell hope- | lessly in love with a man in the office | |who hardly knew she existed. But in | Margaret's case, we all tcok a great deal of trouble to make good-natured fun of the handsome young man, until he seemed unimportant to Margaret. And by great good fortune the lineman | was kind, and so the ring came back, | and Margaret bloomed again until she | left us in & shower of wi presents. She had learned what the other girl never found out—that good manners do not always make a good husband. (Copyright, 1981.) Girls having problems in conneetion with eir we "l" ‘write l: Miss Wood '. in o of this paper, for her personal advice. ‘They bid farewell to Old Nippon, do M} Puff and Bun; A baby blimp's about to leas catch it on the run. “You're always late,” says Puff “I tell you to_your 3 It 18 no wonder that the Tortolse that famous race.” GREAT MID-WINTER: OFFER Last Day WITH THE BRAND NEW Grand Prize SPECIAL ONLY 3950 ! 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