Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1931, Page 26

Crochet Laca | Handmade thread lace made with a ferochet needle never goes out of favor tn France, where industrious house- wives use their spare minutes mak- ing elaborate decorations for bed- spreads, window curtains, table cov- ers, lamp shades and pillow tops. ‘They even make elaborately cro- cheted covers for piano stools and piano tops, valances for mantelpieces, waste paper baskets and footstools, which ‘would look overornate and old-fash- foned to most Americans. Interest in crochet lace never wanes in Prance and now the French dress- makers have revived it as a dress trim- ming. It is even used to trim some of the new linen hats for resort wear. for Trimmings MARSHALL. regular_double crochet stitch. g0 down to the loop on the original chain. Now take two plain chain stitches, | make a second spoke into the loop, take | two chain stitches, etc., until you have | the five spokes as shown in the sketch. through the third stitch on your origi- | nal chain to close your semicircle, Turn and crochet around the semicircle, tak- ing picot stitches between each two spokes. Take three chain stitches and | begin again on your second scallop or | semicircle, attaching the first picot | preceding scallop. When you have | made as much lace as you wish in one piece, go along the base of the entire length of lace with a series of single stitches. NANCY PAGE Lois Has Sick Baby Through Own C BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. elessness, Roger had been working too hard and worrying too much over a possible |ioss of position. Consequently he was ready to “catch” almost anything When one of his office mates developed |a bad cold, Roger caught it and finally went to bed with influenza. Lois had the care of both Roger and baby Ann. She tried to follow the doc- But that was not easy. Soon she was lying awake half the night, and before long she found herself in the grip of insomnia. She took a slecping potion without asking the doctor. But she never re- peated it, for Ann, whom she was still | nursing, felt the effects of the drug and slept or lay in a doze for almost 20 hours, ‘When she told the doctor what she | had done he read her a lecture on the | care & nursing mother must take. “When you worry, it upsets you and | your digestion gets out of order. That, in turn, affects your milk and then the baby feels the results. A nursing mother must_remember usually reflected in her nursing child “When a mother gets tired out.physi- | | cally, whether it be from work or play, | she makes her baby suffer. Today’s sketch shows how a simple sort of crocheted lace may be used to trim a.tunic for Spring or Summer. It 1s one of the easier sort of border de- signs familiar to the French crochet worker. “Roger is not dangerously ill, but you and Ann soon will be if you don't get hold of yourself. The nurse is doing all that can be done. You need to get ex- | ercise. get out of doors. get away from your haunting worry. And when you do that your little daughter will get back sual sunny self. Now mind what " And Lois promised to pay heed New Use for Sponge. You will find that an old rubber sponge is excellent for cleaning the porcelain in the bath room. It retains the scouring powder well, produces a good amount of friction and does not become stringy as a cloth does. It is easily rinsed and is a pleasure to handle. This | makes the fifst of the five spokes that | Take one chain stitch and a second | of each scallop to the last picot of the | | tor’s orders to refrain from worrying. | that her condition is | If you have had any experience with lace crocheting you can see from the small sketches how this is done. You begin with a chain of eight. Then take | @ stitch back in the fifth stitch in the chain, then take three more chain! stitches, turn and put the thread over the needle twice, then take a stitch through the loop made in the initial chain, pull the thread through, take a stitch through that loop and one thread on the needle, put the thread over the | needle and through the second loop on the needle and then put the thread over the neellle and pull through the last loop on the necedle. This is the My Neighbor Says: Finger-mark stains on doors and cupboards vanish as though by enchantment when lightly with a piece of flannel dipped in kerosene oil. In order to take away the disagreeable odor of the oil rub the door down with a clean flannel wrung out in hot water. Moisten the pastry bag with cold water before adding cake or frosting mixture and the bag will be more easily cleaned and there will be less waste of the product. ‘To remove ink from linen dip the article in milk and let it soak for about two hours; then take out and wash with soap while the milk still remains on the spot. If newly baked currant bread is wrapped in a damp cloth for a | | few days it will not crumbie when it is cut, and it will not be dry. Sandpapering baby’s shoes be- fore they are worn prevents slip- ping and saves many a fall. (Copyright, 1931.) “I've stacked your luggage by bunk,” says Bunny with a bow. | “On top I put the trunk that I thought you would need right now Since it contains your dinner jacket and your flying suits.” your asks, “the parachutes?” FEMININE BEAUTY MUST BEGIN WITH THE FIGURE E basis of true feminine beauty isa gracefully proportioned figure. Until this has been acquired, no other detail of a beautiful appearance can be effective. Modern fashions do not permit you to conceal or disguise the imperfections of your figure. They must be corrected — with the help of a foundation garment which meets your individual needs. Hence, the popularity of CHARis . .. This unique foundation garment enables the average woman to acquire a gracefully proportioned figure. Its adjustable de- sign provides correction wherever and as much as is needed . . . without compres- sion —without stiffness — without weight. Once you have worn CHARIS no other foundation garment will satisfy you. It will give you a new outlook on the pos- sibilities of your own figure —a new conception of the meaning of comfort. You can examine CHARIs and learn ex- actly how it will help you, in the privacy of your home. Just write or phone the address below and a representative will be sent to visit you. Charis is priced from $6.95 up, The garment illustrated costs $9.50 Hear DOROTHY CHASE in « new Charis Program * over WMAL, Thursday, 11:00 A.M. CHANRLS OF WASHINGTON 1319 F Street N.W. Room 502 Phone: National 7931-32 TfiE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D.- C, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 2 5. 3 1931. LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. This morning ma gave me a letter for {me to mail on my way to skool, and after supper tonite she sed, Benny, did you mail my letter this morning? Mam? G wizz, I dont think so I sed. And I reetched in my coat pockit and pulled it out slitely bent in places, and ma sed, Now izzent that aggervating, thats a very important letter. and even if it wasent, it mite of been, so the prin- cipal is the same.” What do you think | | of a boy like that, Willyum? she sed. Well G wizzickers I forgot, I sed. | Of all the possible excuses, thats the | werst, pop sed. People with their wits i about them dont forget things. Theres nuthing more important and indispen- sible to success in life than a memory that remembers. 1 can tell you rite now that if voure going to continue | wawking around life a dope forgetting things insted of remembering them, the | habit will grow on you till youre nuth- ing but a useless forgetting machine and your future will be a blank just like your memory, and when you grow up and should be supporting yourself 11l still be supporting you and your wife and possibly your grandchildern, all be- cause I trained myself to remember de- tails and you trained yourself to forget them. Now give me that letter. Ive got to go out anyway to get some clgars and TIl drop it in the box, he sed. And he went out.and came back again | and started to smoke and think in his | private chair, and ma went out of the room a minnit to get something, and pop sed, Yee gods | Whats a matter. pop? T sed, and he sed, Take this letter and run down,to | the corner and mail it. And he took the letter out of his coat | | pockit, me saying. G, its the same letter. | You show evidents of a remarkable | gift of observation, which may perhaps | partly make up for your lack of mem- { ory, pop sed. Now get a move on, and | | don't make a fuss about it. pop sed { Proberly meening not to mention that | part of it to ma | Wich I dident | 'BEDTI\IE STORIES ‘ Big Sleeping Neighbor. Respect your neighbors an | Avoiding thus unpleasant d_their rights, fig Peter Rabbit Peter is very much inclined to respect the rights of his neighbors. Perhaps it is because he is naturally timid and is no fighter at all. Timid folks seldom are good fighters. Anyway, they avoid | fights when they can Now that he was safely under the Lig brush pile in the Green Forest it seemed | Peter to be the. wisest thing to stay right there for a day or two if neces- | sary. He didn't know just where Yow- ler the Bobcat was. but he suspected that he was hanging around, hoping that Peter would come out. That Yow- ler was in hiding where he could not be seen, Peter felt sure, because Blackey the Crow and his friends had stopped cawing and flown away. At least he | supposed*they had flown away, because he had heard their voices once or twice in the distance, after which all was still. Had Yowler been in sight they wouldn't have gone, For a long, long time Peter remained squatting in one place. He was in no hurry to go anywhere and he necded | a thorough rest. Indeed. he took a nap there. It was night when he awoke. | This didn’t make any difference. Peter | likes night quite as well if not better than daylight. For a long time he listened, those long ears of his standing straight up to catch every little sound. Hearing nothing suspicious and his nose bringing him no suspicious scent, Peter began to move about. often having to squeeze between sticks that he could neither crowl under nor climb over So at last he came to a little sort of room from which led the big open- ing Yowler the Bobcat had used. This little room was just about big enough for one the size of Yowler to lie down in comfortably, and Peter’s nose told him that this was just what Yowler had | been doing. “He isn't here now anyway,” thought Peter. “Probably he is out hunting. He likes to do his hunting at night. Well I'm thankful he isn't here. I've seen enough of Yowler to last me the rest of my life. I don’t like him and I don't | like the smell of him.” With this Peter started on to con- | | tinue his explorations of the big brush | | pile. It happened that he had not been in that part of the Green Forest before for more than a year, and in that time | e R TWO-TO-ONE LEAVENER TWO-TO-ONE LEAVENER AODES OF THE MOMENT s . PariS. __ B gown. of Back Afore» o755 printe :.n, rose and green. N /"i] /&:a)sry.‘; a thf' ol band Gd o ncrustad into Hhe circular ‘/‘gs\ / Shirt forms a small side train g3 g & and Nimbleheels the Jumping Mouse and some others, Buster usually sleeps all Winter. He was in that strange sleep called hibernation Peter's first | impulse was to get away from there at once, but somehow he couldn’t. It gave him a thrill to feel that he could sit of brush had grown very much | there so close to this great big fellow indeed. You see, it had started with a | who, when awake, was the one person fallen tree, one that had been blown in all the Green Forest with whom none over. Then Farmer Brown and Farmer | of those living there dared to become Brown's Boy, who had been thinning familiar. Yet here was he. timid Peter out the Green Forest around there be- | Rabbit, sitting right beside him. Do cause the trees were growing too close | you wonder that he was thrilled? together for their own good, had thrown . the small branches eut from the trees . they had taken down onto and around School Sandwich. the fallen tree until what had been a| An easily and quickly made sweet | sandwich is one made with graham | crackers spread with fudge while the | fudge is soft and warm. Spread on one | eracker and cover quickly with another | before the fudge hardens. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Grapefruit. Cereal with Cream. Pancakes. Maple Sirup. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Cream of Tomato*Soup. Toasted Cheese Crackers. Pickles. Cottage Pudding. Lemon Sauce. Tea. DINNER. Baked Stuffed Pork Chops. Creamed Potatoes. Apple Rings. Spiced Beets. Lettuce Salad. Russian. Dressing. Macaroon Custard. Coffee. PANCAKES. One cupful sugar, one cupful sweet shilk, one large or two small eggs, one teaspoonful cream of tartar, one-half teaspoonful soda. Add a little nutmeg and salt. Beat well. Add flour to make a stiff batter. Drop with a spoon into boiling fat. Serve with maple sirup. By Thornton W. Burgess. that pile IT WAS BUSTER BEAR WHO WAS FAST ASLEEP THERE UNDER THE BIG BRUSH PILE. small pile of brush when Peter was last there had become a big one. - Now Peter dearly loves a place like that. It was great fun to explore it and he really was having a lot of fun all by himself. Then without warning, he discovered that he had a neighbor, a great big neighbor, who was fast asleep. It was startling, to say the least. A queer feeling ran over Peter and up and down his back. He wasn't exactly afraid, yet there was something of fear in that furny feeling. It was Buster Bear who was fast asleep there under the big brush pile. Yes, sir, it was Bus- ter Bear! Peter wasn't exactly afrald for the very good reason that he knew that there was little likelihood that Buster would waken. Once, long before, he had found Buster's Winter bed room and he knew that like Johnny Chuck “What's that way at the bottom,” Puffy | “m « « . and perfection in leavening when two-thirds of the rising is completed in the mixing is assured Two-to-one powder such RUMFORS A Kin rer ust rise twice and the remaining third takes place in the ov, HE leavening of Rumford always takes place in this proportion. That’s why it is called ‘‘two-to-one’’ leavening. is light when it is placed in the oven. In the oven’s heat just the right amount of addi- tional leavening occurs to make cakes and hot breadsof perfect lightness and texture. Remember! You can get two-to-one leavening only with.an all-phosphate order Rumford from your grocer today. RUMFORD ALL- PHOSPHATE BAakING PowDER THE RUMPORD COMPANY, Emscutive Officss, RUMFORD, R. L Fect Lal(e o« leavening makes dough that as Rumford. So be sure to | ANYTHING SAFE IN - | often. Everyday Psychology »Y DR smssE w. A Case of Nerves. 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