Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1931, Page 27

BY MARY MARSHALL. The sensible mother of today does not choose between a policy of buying all her children’s things ready made or of making them all herself. She buys some things, realizing that there is often real economy in doing so, and she makes some things at home, just as the sensible modern housewife buys some| of the rug and to clean it. of her cakes, pastry and cookies at the| even when you use a carpet sweeper or baker's or grucery store and makes come | vacuum cleaner. of them in her own kitchen. Art of Left-Over Dressmaking OMAN’S PAGE over or thrown away. And so no mat- ter how reasonable ready-made clothes become, left-over dressmaking will still be a worth-while practice. Especially important is the art of left-over dressmaking in the family where there are children. Dresses that are too short or too old-fashioned, or even too worn in spots to be of any use as they are, often provide material enough for a dress or an apron for one of the younger members of the family. Here is a little apron that you can cut from any cotton material for the baby. Here are the measurements for a baby uné r a year old. You can very easily enlerge them to make the littie | pinafore for an older child: AB is 9 inches, AD is 4 inches, GB is 2 inches, BJ is 15 inches, BI is 10, BC is 415, BF is 21, EC is 5 inches and Hi is 6% or 7. ! Draw a curved line from G to F.| from D to E, from H to J. And draw | a straight line from E to H, or one curving just a little. This is the front. | FJ should be on a lengthwise fold, and AG should be on a crosswise fold. For th. back, which extends just be- low the arms, the dotted line from b to c marks the lower edge. b is 115 inches from E. The neck line at the back is higher than at the front and is marked by Ga. a is 2 inches from R. Instead of folding the material crosswise for AD, and then lengthwise, you can make | the pattern of back and front to- gether, opening it out at AG, and then cut the whole apron on a lengthwise fol1 from ¢ to F and F to J. Seam up under arm seams from b to D. Household Methods BY BETSY CALLISTER. Modern Rugs. The visitor from Mars on first observ- the furnishing and working meth- ods of one of our houses might be in- clined to wender just why we had car- i pets on our floors. Nothing could be devised to citch and collect dust quitei so ingenicusly as the surface of & rug| o carpet, and every day we rub our| sh :s thay have been walkin, in the! dust of the streets over these carpets. *“hy don’t we take off our shoes on the | threshold and go in stockings or house| ippers, like some of our Oriental| cighbors? The fact remains that we do wear our shoes _udoors, and we shall probably continue to do so. And so long as we do we will have brooms and Gus:pans, carpet sweepers and small brushes and vacuum cleaners, if we can afford them. With ¢ vacuum cleaner is very apt to come a casting aside of all the old- time lore regarding the cleaning and care of carpets. We seem to think that | th- vacuum cleaner ought to do it all. | Our grandmothers taught their maids to sprinkle fine carpets with bran slightly roistened or with salt before rig. This was not used simply to he dust, but to bring out the color Try this v It is not a bai idea to have a small, | action. G STAR, WASHINGTO:! Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. BPROWLS. Memory. There is an old saying to the effect that a drowning man recalls in a brief time the whole of his past life. Th- i, of course, nothing to this old saying. It is just another of the hu. “eds of suppositions Which are | roularly taken for truth. The human mind seems to be so constituted that when' a -erson thinks about the un- known superstition puts common sense to_flight. 1 do not for a moment suppose that | this pronouncement will kill the super- | stuic. in question. Men, women and| children will continue to believe in it.| Some one from time to time will con- i 1e to enlarge upon what some one sald about one'. feelings pretty close to that - arful, inevitabie thing called death. The fact is one cannot think about death, even under normal condi- tions, without going through the mental | motions of considering what the past h meant. The eternities of a vast past and perhaps a still more vast fu- ture seem to form a circle. The one| turns upon the other. Every memory is an .nticipation in the making. When a person is in dire danger his entire mental equipment is called into The big idea is to find some way of escape. And so the drowning| man rapidly surveys his stock of knowl- edge and his storchouse of experience in the interest of prolonged life. Things he hi; not iecalled for years are now revived. The awful moments are full They stretch out in their fullness: they seem like hours. In his excitement J\r" loses trace of the actual passing of | time. When he has escaped he imagines that he has act. Orange Jelly Salad. Prepare one quart of orange felly, using_one cupful of cold water, two cupfuls of hot water, half a cupful of | orange juice, the juice of one lemon, half a cupful of sugar and two table- spoonfuls of granulated gelatin. Fill | a ring mold half full of this mixture| and le in the refrigerator until| it begins to thicken. Meanwhile sofien | a small packa of cream cheese or Neufchatel cheese with a littie cream or top milk and form into tiny balls. When the jelly in the mold has begun to set arrange these balls of cheese at regular intervals in the mold. Add the rest of the gelatin mixture and place on ice until perfectly stiff. When ready to uc. unmold onto a bed of lettuce. Fill the center and garnish the outside of the mold with white cherries, the Iy relived his past. i pits of which have been removed and replaced h filberts or hazel nuts, erve at Dress with mayonnaise and e h browned crackers. Honey Charlotte Russe. | Chill half a cupful of ce flavored honey by placing the taining it in a pan of ice water. Whip one quart of cr-am and add it to the honey, mixing both well. Line a dish with lady fingers and fill it with the honey and cream. Serve very cold. | PUFFY | MODE OF T PARIS Ojf-"fi”frwvn ensemble With checked black and. I/elfinu ta, /gif:, Jacket and black broad cloth skirt. Blouse a/ ,Da./,’e 5&1‘75 crepe de chine. B; 7 ” Lweren BY WILLIAM Clothes. res should be of loosely woven as light as possible (in white or light colored in Sum- mer or hot climates, dark in Winter or cold climates, permeable to air, and not tight fitting. Loose cowerings allow ulation of air and evaporation of ure from the body e essential points are given by Alfred B. Olsen of Battle Creek in Th ructive contribution on the use of cold air baths and sun baths in the treatment cf various diseases. The points mentioned completely cover the requirements for the hygiene of cloth- It ing. paper, ] ar, your money and PERSONAL HEALTH > HE MOMENT BRADY, M. D. convinced that exposure to cold is never injurious to_ one’s health, no matter {how much discomfort one may suffer during such exposure. . | " To all who think there is any sense |or truth in the teachings of such au- | thorities as these, I suggest the daily cold air bath as an excellent means of | developing in your long-suffering skin | some slight efficiency in the perform- ance of those functions for which the | skin was naturally designed. Or better, twice a day do a little dancing, light exer: or just walking or trotting | about somewhere in your skin, with | open windows, so that the air wili be as |cold as the season affords. Lengthen | the duration of this exposure gradually from day to day. Ben Franklin, you remember, wrote for an hour or £o every morning while taking his cold SPRINGTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. If you are a bit bored with the perennial raptures over Jack-in-the- pulpit and windflowers, the first hepati- ca and pussywillow, and I grant you that there has been & deal of bad poetry fingled out on the subject of these familiar vernal blooms, there are nevertheless some early Spring flowers that nobody has yet sung or wept over, that are indeed little known even to most nature lovers, but which grow within sight of the Capitol dome. I am thinking particularly of the golden corydalis which nods in the Potomac woods. Distinctly a rare plant, it is one of the daintiest little sprites in the woods. With it you may find a species of pepper-root which comes out several weel earlier than the ordinary variety, and at the same time keep your eyes open for Douglas’ bit- ter cress, with large, handsome, white petals. One of the quaintest little flowers that blow is the pennywort, with penny- shaped leaves and lovely, small, frosty- white flowers flushed faintly with pink, which grows in rocky woods and on forested rich hillsides, and belongs good-looking family of the . though biooming at the op- posite end of the calendar. ‘The wry first grass to flower is the melic grass, with the airest of little hanging blossoms. Scme Old World waifs that are rare with us and make a start with the first balmy days are the celandine (in the poppy family) and the lesser celandine (in the but- tercup family), nor must I forget, in this class, the mouse-ear mustard, that lovable scamp of & weed that girdled the earth in its widening range. FOOD PROBLEMS BY SALLY MONRO! Skins of Beans. Some v ple find the skins of all kinds of beans indigestible, in which case it is best to remove the skins after boiling the beans, before serving ther, in those dishes where the beans are served whole, or else rub them t! ough a sieve. Very often when well bolled the skins become loose and float in the water. Then it is easy to skim them off. Otherwise it is a tedious task to skin all the beans. Brown beans especially have very hard skins. trisPowder Base ADDS SPRING freshnessi Roughness, sallowness and dry- ness—the tell-tale marks of winter | can be easily smoothed, whitened and refreshed with Plough's Perox- ide (Vanishing) Cream. And this exquisite, fine cream has | FEATURES 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. Advertising Writers. with their subject give them thelr | weapons. It seems to me that all the girls that | don't want to be decorators or novelists | _If Ethel doesn't think I'm right about | want to be advertising writers. I can |this and wants none the less to go on | understand how that is. The writing | With her idea, she should try to get & of advertising is|Jjob in the advertising department of full of variety and | One of the big department stores, or it pays good money. | With an advertising agency. She should There % no busi- [Bet & job as st:nographer, and then ness in Amarica, | While she is working at that, pick up excepting those|What she can in the way of knowledge. dealing with|She should volunteer to write an ad clothes, which of- |here and there, and perhaps thus she fers more oppor- |can work her way into the job. tunities to women.| That's the easiest way for a girl to When I began to 8¢t a start in the advertising busi- write advertising | ness. Some of the best women copy 25 years ago there | Writers I know began as stenographers, were almost no |Ethel has nothing to lose by trying this other women doing [Plan Maybe I'm all about the it. If you wanted to advertise corsets |age limit. " Perhaps she will be the ex- or baby food, a man was hired to write | ception that proves it. v the copy. Men awkwardly wrote down mgi'rl:ohlkvm‘ vm?[len{l I"n anuflfl : - | Tk may wr what they thought women might like | the'r work, n LA l’ol'om“;vn:fll to hear. That's all done with now. SONNYSAYINGS Such copy is now written by women. BY FANNY Y. CORY. Helen Woodward. This is one of the few jobs for which women are paid as much as men. There are executive positions in the adver- tising business which women seldom get, but in the writing of copy they have every chance. None the less, I think I ought not to encourage Ethel | W., who writes me thus: | “I am an experienced stenographer and secretary—have been doing that kind of work for 15 years. I, of course, | am anxious to get away from it by this | time. ~Since I have been working I | have taken a three years' literary course | and have had one year's work at an art | school—studying _layout, copywriting, | psychology, etc.. I particularly want to | write copy. Have had a few poems ac- | cepted by magazines, and would do any | kind of writing that would take me | away fro the office grind. One must | live, though, so I stay on in an office, | hating it all the time.” | It's highly probable that she would | | have made a very good advertising copy | | writer if she had started at it 10 years | earlier. In this work you ought to be- | gin before you are 25. There is a cer- | tain quality of enthusiasm, a certain | readiness to jump to a new idea which | seems to go with youth. There are older copy writers, of course, but they began when they were young. Years of experience and thorough familiarity 1.1, if 'at aren't & sight to madden yer eyes! as the sayin’ is. (Copyright, 1931.) air bath. A phase of cooking that will always| stiff brush and dustpan to use with takes your choice, makes your face powder cling for remain important in any household|the vacuum cleaner. If a portion of So far this Winter T have worricd | The modern trend, at least in fash- i i i 4 > Where economy is practiced is left-over | th rug looks faded and dull, sprinkle | along without an overcoat, but with my | ions for women, is to wear less clothing. | hours. Invisible—yet it harmonizes BI'SS n the Arms of Mor heus cookery. Because, no matter how care-| well with the mositened bran or salt | alphabetical armor on, the same as in | Every such move is in the right direc- | with skin texture to add an alluring P fully you plan, you will always have|and eive it a brisk brushing with the | Summer. It is only fair, however, to |tion, so far as health is concerned. | new depth of beauty to complexions good fooc on hand that must be MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. made| little s2 or broom. | add that so far this Winter I haven't seen any ice- or snow. But just the same I observe that 9 out of 10 men of my age in this vicinity sport overccats much of the time, not because they need warmth, I belleve, but just be- cause they are mere men, with women managers at home who make 'em wear em just to be on the safe side, you People who bundle or coddle themselves too much are generally astonished at the improvement in health when they get the cold air bath habit and begin to worry along with the least possible clothing. (Copyright, 1931.) Use for Tweezers. Plough's Cleansing Cream pene- trates the pores, bringing forth all deeply embedded dirt and grime. prevents “‘skin congestion” (dirt | clogged pores) and keeps the com- | plexion clear, clean and pure in tone. | Plough’s Cold Cream brings back the precious moisture stolen by the When in the arms of sleep, how restless some folks are. They toss and squirm and fidget. Often it’s all because the mattress is not comfortable in any of the thirty-three positions which we assume in slumber. It % : e G B S know. I stand for a good deal fror A ve your m 5 i new bou: Hair on the Face. (e Srowin of muperfiucus Iuic except | e omen of my ttie world- but they | Keep in your kitchen a palr of | dry home heat and blusterly winter Have h“ b F"";’l “".‘l'l’b‘“:;’ .'l' ¢! hy"“ SRR R N S L g T | will never succeed in making me wear |tweezers which have a broad base winds. It helps the skin to regain Ko -4 St s 45 e superfluous hair from face or body | are many comes up again and again the bridge of the nose or on the in my | objectionable hairs temporarily, how- correspondence from readers of this | ever, column. When the hair appears over | chemical means of removing the and these include the use of depilatories, wax, and pumice stone. Since these meth- a razor | an overcoat until I become too feeble {to resist—I mean when I don't need one for comfort. Dr. Leonard Hill, authority on ventilation, famous English climatology rather than the kind that are sharp. You can use these tweezers for remov- ing small pin feathers from chickens and other fowl. The feather comes out with one pull. lows. | | | new life, new vigor and freshness, thus banishing wrinkles and hol- Each of Plough's Peroxide, Cleans- ing new ticking put on. The cost is only $4 to $9. The work is done in one day. upper lip or chin -it presents an em- | cds must be employed time and again and hygiene, says “it is absurd to pu ing and Cold Creams is economically | i again, { \/ barrassing beauty problem that can- | they usually make the hairs come in on an overcoat when going cut for a Saw ot priced at 25¢, 35¢ and 50c. 903 E St. N. W. not _be overlooked. R | thicker, s0 it is the best plan to use walk. It is good to go out and he Tomato Juice Cocktail. | 54 " What causes the excess hairs? Is|them sparingly. My advice to any braced by feeling cold and so be im- B there anything a person can do to|girl who is troubled with superfluous pelled to take vigorous exercise.” Combine two cupfuls of tomato juice 9 National 9410-9411 | with half to one teaspoonful of salt, one check the growth? The answers to both these questions cannot be very definite. Hereditary factors and gland disturbances are considered the chief causes of the condition in pronounced cases. The average case of superfluous hair, however, is not abnormal. There are countless women whose faces ex- hibit more than the usual light downy growth, Byt they are in no other way different from women with compara- hair on her face is to let it alone or bleach it unless it is extremely con- spicuous. In such a case, it may be removed e! ently. Hair on the limbs should also be bleached unless it is an exceptionally heavy growth, when it may taken off from time to time with a depilatory. Under- arm hair should, of course, be removed regularly. Before leaving the subject of super- 38 “How do you spell rhinoceros?” asks Bunny, with a frown. “I want ‘o put him in this list of ‘sights’ I'm noting down.” Puff: “You'd better ask him—he lives just across the street; To that Dr. Olsen adds: “This may seem a hard saying for many who live in modern hot houses and have formed the habit of overclothing themselves. The time to make the change is in the Summer and early Autumn.” To that I would add: “Baloney. Un- less you're a veritable old mollycoddle you ‘may make the nge whenever the notion strikes you, no matter whet the weather or season. tablespoonful of vinegar, one teaspoon- | ful of table sauce and four drops of | tabasco sauce. Sfrain. Shake with cracked ice and serve in cocktail glasses. Slotez/e's BEAUTY CREAMS | tively hairless faces. ‘The question is often raised as to the effect of applications of greasy fluous hairs, I want give you a word of caution against jerking out hairs from moles or from the nostrils. In the former case, the whole mole should be removed, hair and all, by excision, electrolysis or other suitable method in the hands of an expert. When hairs in_the nose become too long, they may be carefully clipped. Of course, they will grow in again. | My Neighbor Says: | Smoked ceilings may be cleaned by washing with cloths wrung out of.water in which & smal plece of washing soda has been dussolved. © tead of chopping cal | | for slaw, use the m;‘?.i m”r’?fi | | meat srinder. vou win find it | | | much easier and the work is done Just as well. A couple of pinches of brown sugar put into soup that is too salty will remove the salty taste and still not sweeten soup. With a smail camelshair brush rub the broken edges of china Bleach the Supertluous Hairs creams upon the growth of fluous hair. While the cream cannot | cause new hairs to grow, it may, if| used often enough, gradually darken those already present so that they be- supe: come more conspicuous. Then, t0o,| | and glass with a little carriage as we become more self-conscious | | oil varnish and if neatly put about our personal appearance, the | | together the fracture will hardly normal . growth of hairs that passed | | be perceptible and will stand both ‘unnotice before seems to assume heat and water. alarming proportions | In many cases, also, there is an ac- tual increase and darkening of these hairs as the years pass. The change | 1s governed by the glands of internal | secretion and not by external condi- tions. | No perfectly safe way has yet been discovered for permanently checking Tumblers that have been used for milk should always be washed in cold water before they are washed in hot. When this is done, the milk does not stick to the glass and they will not have a cloudy appearance. (Cop! ht, 1931.) 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