Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1931, Page 37

WOMAN’S PAGE. For Eight-YealsOld Daughter ‘much ot,umn.nl;‘u a:ked "’,‘ aol:lne suggestions for mal iresses for her 8-year-old daughter. Ex can buy lovely materials at such attractive prices and ean often make use of good material own dresses. 1 sometimes it would be worth while to take course in simple dressmaking.” oourse the dressmaking lessons would help, but if your time is limited can _very well get along without You ‘can find many attractive designs for little girls that can be used gor & filumber of dresses simply by vary- ing the so that in the end the oost for dress is very slight. It is possible to make many sorts of simple Summer dresses without a pat- tern and with no special knowledge of pattern making because so many of the Summer dresses are made Without sleeves. . The sketch shows s little girl's dress that ‘may be made from a not very large piece of material—a remnant or the good material from one of mother’s old dresses that has been washed and pressed. The skirt is straight, hemmed at the bottom and gathered at the waist. There is no thke'., as the belt is loose enough to slip over the shoul- ders without one. This belt is straight at one edge and made with two points at the back and two at the front. This, too, is made without an opening. Straight straps of material join the two back points to the two points in the front. When the suspender skirt is worn a small clasp pin at each shoulder should be used to keep the straps from slipping. My Neighbor Says: “To cover scratches on dark colored ture, wrap a swab of cotton oh a toothpick and dip in iodine. Apply to the scratches and when dry, rub with furniture In making custards if you break s plece of stick cinnamon into the milk when you are beat- ing it, it gives the custard a faint cinnamon color without darken- ing it. Grease in wash material should rapidly yield to soap and moder- ately hot water, Pérsistent traces will have to be bleached with Javelle water. Very pretry and durable rugs may be made from old chenille curtains and rope draperies. Ravel out the chenille and wind it into balls, then, with a wooden hook, crochet pleces into round, oval oblong_rugs. B Foopsrisnt, 1931 MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Proper Facial Cleansing. Dear Miss Leeds—Will you please tell me how to cleanse the face (night m,mmx) without stretching the Also, are blackheads the result ©f improper skin cleansing? M. O. M. Answer: In l:lelnslxnl tl{: skin at bed- time, first apply cleansi cream or oll, . Drtythethln, lgnd with the ‘Tub the cream on the skin @il traces of e mr!e,,] soft cloth or absorbent ‘eotton. ‘wash the face well with mild soap and warm water. Rinse tepid water and finally in_ dry with a soft towel, fments are upward, even in the drying process. ‘The next u&: to apply e little tis- Sue cream or food and gently pat this into the skin with an upward, ro- tary movement. If you do not use & patter, perform the same upward rotary, Fflmu movements with the finger- ips. It is the gently invigorating ro- tating motion with the fingers which eradicates the tiny wrinkles and the stimulation helps keep the facial mus- cles firm and rounded in contour. After the massage with tissue cream one is ready to remove the unabsorbed cream. To do this, moisten a pad of absorbent cotton in skin freshener or sstringent and lightly go over the face and neck. This not only removes every trace of cream left on the surface, but 1t also stimulates the skin and is cool- ing. At this point a piece of ice may be in a soft cloth, and, beginning at chin, run the ice gently over the face and neck. This stimulates the skin and closes the pores, and thus to prevent blackheads. morning cleansing may be ex- actly the same as that outlined for bed- time, except that after using the astrin- gent and the ice rub, a foundation cream and make-up should be applied. There is no danger of stretching the skin if you massage correctly. Never use a downward movement and always pat the skin, rather than stroke it. ‘Yes, improper cleansing methods are one of the commonest cause for black- heads. Ot course, diet, too, plays an important part, as does the condition of the digestive tract. The bowels must be kept normal and one must drink lenty of water to have a clear skin, ?m from blemishes. Many find it impossible to cleanse the face during the day, but constant ap- plication of fresh make-up without cleansing will clog the pores. If pos- sible, cleanse the face at noon with a cleansing cream and then apply a mild astringent lotion before using more mafie- up LOIS LEEDS. THE EVENING NANCY PAGE . Cousins May Wear “Brother-Sister” Suits BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Joan had no brothers nor sisters, so she used to like to pretend that she was big sister to her little cousin, Peter. At her school they saw 50 many youngsters who were dressed alike, especially in families where there were two or three children of somewhat the same age. This idea, although Joan did not know it, is borrowed from the French, where they have suits or dresses of simi- lar design and where they think of them in terms of “little brother-sister” suits. Following her plea that she and Peter be dressed allke, Aunt Nancy worked ‘ ] Wy out & dress for Joan which was made of white linen. It was bound in red and ornamented at the pocket with an ap- plique of red cherries and green leaves. At the hem was a wide band of bright blue linen for applique. Peter's suit was of white linen, with | red bindings, applique of red cherries and green leaves and‘brief trousers of | blue linen. An every-day outfit that pleased both shildren was made of dull blue gingham. The necks, with small opening at_the side, were bound with fast-color blue cuff sleeves of Joan's dress and bound the armholes of Peter’s suit. A band of blue partially outlined the armholes. The sloping shoulders of lit- tle Joan showed that later on she could wear with grace the evening dresses. Plain socks and black xofords with no ornamentation were what the children wore with these play clothes. Peter liked Joan’s puff sleeves so well that he wanted some on his little suit, but his mother persuaded him to “go masculine.” - PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM Only Eight to Remain. In a report of the medical officer in charge of the National Leper Home, at Carville, La., it appears that 55 new patients were admitted in 1930 and 23 patients were paroled with leprosy ar- vested and as no longer a menace to public health. In the same year seven ;bat:auclpedmdnxof hem re- one was de as en- “t0” Hospital * at Goverament 722 died, lent. and three other paroled patients re- turned for medical or surgical treat- ment for conditions only secondarily related to their former leprosy. There is nothing very remarkable about all that. It is the usual thing to see at least 23 leprosy cases out of a total of 308 patients in the hospital, arrested, so to speak, and sent home in a year. The striking disclosure in the medical officer’s report is this: “Eight additional patients complied with the requirements for parole (that is, their leprosy was arrested .and they were 1o longer & menace to anybody’s health), but due to deformities and dis- figurements which could not be cor- rected, tients elected to remain in the 1 rather than be sub- jected to hardships and humiliations, ;ne inevitable outlook of many paroled epers.” ‘;ehope the reader will find it diffi- cult to forget these eight cured lepers. Put yourself, in fancy, in the place of one of them. First misfortune came and selected you as the victim of leprosy. Then your friends one by one drifted away and left you to the mercy of the rabble. You had to go away to the leper colony—which seemed ter- rible to you at first, but proved quite different after you reached the place. parents, BY ALL MEANS, SHOULD KNOW THESE FACTS Because nothing could be more important than early and proper care of a child’s teeth and gums. But how will you decide the best way to care for your child’s teeth? There are so many different dentifrices and countless theories. A leading research institution made an investi- gation among 50,000 practicing dentists in order to get the opinion of a real court of authority, Here is the summary of the replies received: @8% of the answers stated that germ adids most frequently cause tooth decay and gum irritation ; ©O8% agreed that the most serious trouble occurs at the place where teeth and gums meet; @8% stated that the best product to prevent these acids from causing decay and irritating the gums is Mill of Magnesia. Doesn’t this point straight to Squibb Dental Cream as an effective dentifrice to offer your ¢hild—to use yourself? It is made with more than 509% Squibb Milk of Magnesia. Squibb’s is a safe dentifrice. It contains no grit, no astringent, nothing which might injure. It eleans beautifully. And it refreshes and soothes the mouth, Children like its pleasant taste. Copyright 1931 by E. R.'Squibb & Soms . SQUIBB DENTAL CREAM GUARDS THE DANGER LINE BRADY, M. D. You found life there not at all bad. Indeed quite a cheerful atmosphere. After six years of it, say, fortune again smiled on you and you were paroled. You hurried home, but again misfortune met you—your friends just were not any more and your neighbors were downright cruel. At last you gave up in dugnlr. ‘What was left for you? The cheerful atmosphere of the old colony invited you. You went back and asked to be taken in once more. ‘The doctors and nurse and other of- ficers were just as kind as ever and allowed you to resume your old place. Fortune smiled on you once more. ‘The persecution of lepers is, of course, due to fear inspired by ignorance and misunderstanding. Actual experience of physicians and nurses and other at- tendants in leprosy hospitals has proved to the satisfaction of any reasonable person that the disease is but feebly if at all communicable through ordi- nary human contacts. It is as true of leprosy as it is of tuberculosis that the place where one is least likely to con- tract the disease is in a properly con- ducted hospital for the disease. ‘The old melodramatic idea of the hero or heroine renouncing home and |friends (not to mention the duties and | responsibilities of everyday life) to go away to live and labor among the lepers —the farther away the more romantic— is obsolete now. But even so, the laity in many communities in the United States are still steeped in ignorance and superstition and perhaps these | eight cured lepers were wise to remain in the leper colony. 1931.) w /N ALKIRS \ \ binding of & darker shade of blue. The | same binding finished the diminutive NE out of every three will drink deeply of glorious Wilkins today. amber depths they’ll find mellow invigorating Coffee satisfaction. In its sensible price they’ll find true Coffee economy. STAR, WASHINGTON, DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX ] D. C, Would Ante-Matrimony Confessions Make Happy Marriages? DEAR MISS DIX—Don't you fhink that if young men and women would explain their faults to each other before marriage it would do a g;lc deal GEORGE. to avert unhappy marriages and prevent Answer: divorce? 1If lovers were disillusioned before marriage it would undoubtedly avert unhappy marriages because it would wreck the institution of marriage altogether. John would never lead Mary to the altar if he had a close-up of Mary’s temper and tongue, nor would Sally ever sign up in a life partnership with Tom if she had the remotest idea that Thomas w ould grab all of the profits and emoluments of the firm and thrust them into his individual pocket and that she would never be able even to collect the wages of a hired girl for her labors as wife and mother and cook and housemaid and butler and ‘shopping agent and seamstress and nursery governess and so on ad infinitum. Of course, your plan is theoretically correct. The honest thing for every young couple to do when thinking of getting married is to lay all their cards on the table and expose all their faults the other part & chance to take them or leave them. Certainly it is but common heonesty for a man to tell the wo going to be in his power whether he is industrious or lazy, wheth go-getter or an also ran, whether he is good-natured or irritable, whether he is grouchy or cheerful, what sort of language he uses when his collar-button rolls under the chiffonier and particularly what his views are regarding the status of a wife and the claim she has upon her husband'’s pocketbook. Probably no man in the world ever told a woman the truth about him- self. Probably he could not, even if he so desired, because we are all so lenient to our own faults. We make such convincing alibis for them and we see them in such a different light from the way they are going to look to the men and women we MmArITy. ‘The lazy loafer who had never had the grit to stick to a hard job might tell a girl that he had never succeeded, but he would excuse himself by saying that he had been the victim of bad luck or that he only needed her to inspire The sullen grouch would tell a girl that he had always been misunderstood. The tightwad would describe himself as thrifty and the man who never meant to give his wife a penny of an allowa | would vaguely say that all he had was hers. him to enable him to do great things. could. It is the same way with a soman. and her unreason temperament and her shiftlessness she would camouflage as bad health and her extravagance would masquerade under her love of beauty and by the time she got through making out her list of faults it would look like & schedule of all the most desirable virtues, Nor would the lovers be warned by even an honest confession of the dis- abilities of their prospective husbands and wives. The fault that would later on get on their nerves and rub them raw would seem scarcely a blemish seen from the far distance of courtship, ‘Then, such is the vanity of lovers that they would believe that they would be able to work miracles and correct the one and make him or her over into the perfect husband or wife of his or her desire. Thousands of people marry on this platform, believing they will be able to do what everybody else has failed to do. So I greatly fear that the ante-matrimony confession would be barren of results. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1931.) A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. IT would be interesting to know what | books President Hoover carried along | with ‘him when he went to sea on the | Arizona for a cruise to the West Indies. For the Presi- dent rarely goes| on a visit without being well sup-| plied with reading | material. When he | first planned the | national parks en route, the Library of Congress was | called upon for| books of all sorts. There were vol- umes to explain | what he would see in the parks.| ‘There were studies | on economics that he might look in- to _at other times. The President is described as one of the greatest book lovers ever to occupy the White House, And he is an ardent cgllector of books. Library authorities say that he has an unusual faculty for delving in out- of -the - way places, in searching for material not readily accessible, ‘When he was in China, for example, he gathered a comprehensive-cofieetion of books in many languages on China and the Chinese people. These even- tually were donated to Stanford Uni- versity and became the nucleus of that institution's great Chinese library. His war library at Stanford is more evidence of his love for collecting. Dur- ing the war, at every opportunity, he gathered documents, pamphlets, procla- mations, periodicals or broadsides re- lating to the war, which in time will be foundation materfal for the history of | that great conflict. One authority says that Hoover is the greatest bcok collector among the Presidents since Thomas Jefferson; | that he resembles Jefferson, in that on all his journeys he gathered volumes eventually valuable to the student. Coolidge was something of & book- lover, and collector, too. His favorite | is sald to be “Alice in Wonderland.” | Several years ago, when the original | manuscript of “Alice in Wonderland” was bought in London, at an auction by an American, Coolidge invited the DON and weaknesses and give the party of i =4 And leave her to collect it if she | Angelina would call her temper nerves blemishes in the character of a beloved purchaser to lunch at the White House, with the request that he bring “Alice” along. He asked many questions about the first publication. When it was ex- plained to him that the first edition, not being altogether to Carroll's liking, was suppressed, Coolidge was greatly surprised. “Suppressed?” sald the President. “I did not know there was anything off- color in ‘Alice.” Woodrow Wilson used books, but is said to have had no real love for them. Taft was interested in a mild sort of way. Harding had no interest in col- lecting books. Roosevelt was both a great reader and collector. 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