Evening Star Newspaper, June 20, 1931, Page 12

WOMAN'S PAGE Trimming for Summer Dresses BY MARY ‘world rie bow at the front of the neck will surfieumu answer the purpose just as we The double tab arrangement shown at the left is easy to make. Cutjtwo feces of linen or batiste, plain or em- | roidered, 9 inches wide. on all sides and edge them with nar- row lace, fulled slightly or mitered at the corners. Then gather them a little in the middie and there you are—they are ready to sew to the front of your blouse. If you use this trimming on a cotton or linen blouse or dress you may use the same sort of valenciennes lace to edge the neckline. long and 4 inches Another easy-to-make neck trimming | is shown at the right. Cut a plece of sheer material—embroidered batiste or fine linen 7 or 8 inches long and 5 or 6 inches wide. Shape it to form the BEDTIME STORIES How Craft Won a Dinner. The crafty almost always tries By clever trick to win the prize. ~Old Mother Nature. It was in just such a way that Mr. and Mrs. Spezedfoot the Coyotes won their dinner in Prairie-dog Town. Speedfoot had known just what would happen the instant that Mrs. Spee foot shoyed herself, and it had pened. Yap Yap, the nearest Prairie- dog. had given the alarm and instantly there had been a mad scramble for safety. In a jiffy the town had ap- peared deserted. Mrs. Speedfoot had kept right on, and Speedfoot had waited until the last Prairie-dog had disa peared. Then he had raced after her. Straight into the very middle of the town they had raced. There Speedfoot had flattened himself behind one of the houses, one that he had seen some half-grown young Prairie-dogs enter. He could hear excited barks coming from houses all around. He knew that in each just a little wi trance a Prairie-dog was sitting on a landing providea for just that purpose N o o 3 )~ s 7 - N IT WASN'T LONG_BEFORE HEADS APPEAR AT THE ell ready to pop out as soon as it seemed safe to do so. Mrs. Speedfoot sniffed at the door- ways of several houses, and in those houses there was sudden silerice. Then she turned and walked back the way she had coms. When she reached the edge of the town, she trotted on. Back on the rise of the ground she sat down. It wasn't long before heads began to appear at the doorways. Of course, Mrs. Speedfoot was seen at once, but MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Cantaloupe -~ Molded Cereal With Cream Broiled Lamb Chops, Potato Cakes Hot Date Muffins . DINNER. PFruit Cup, Roast Duck Currant Jelly Celery Olives Mashed Potatoes Aspagarus, Butter Sauce Cucumber and Tomato Salad - French Dressing Strawberry Shortcake Coffee. SUPPER, Duck Sandwiches Stuffed Olives Peel about 2 potal and cook in salted water until tender. Drain and mash. Add more salt, caraway seeds and flour enough to make stiff. Flat- ten out into round cakes about 1 inch thick, cut as you would pie and bake on pan on top of stove. Have plenty of salt pork fat to cook them in. Turn every few minutes so they will not burn. They should be eaten while hot with plenty of butter. ROAST DUCK. Singe, wash, remove oil and all ggue” substance; 'nhb?g salt own basting, Put into a minutes reduce heat. minutes per pound. SHORTCAKE. O T L butter melted, '3 tablespoonfuls milk, 1 teas Finish them with a narrow hem | MARSHALL. jabot_sHown in the sketch, turn s nar- 3 hem or roll the edges and finish idery yourself. A single jabot s effective, but if you want something & little more elaborate make | two of these pointed tabe, one a trifle |larger than the other. Embrolder the | smaller one and place over the larger i:‘nqhmnnwlnwmmltm!mt LITTLE BENNY 11 @ and after a while pop sed, Keep in one place, gn; you, are you a flee or are Y |" Well G, pop, Im looking for some- thing, Im looking for a key, I sed. ‘What sort of a key? pop sed. Just a ordnerry big round key with a Jittle rust on 'it, I sed. Ive look everywheres except under you. pop, maybe youre setting on it, I sed, pop sed. A man of my sensitive nat: couldent feel this comfortable even sit- |ting on a little flat key, much less a big_round one, and ‘wi more 1 doubt if 1d feel this comfortdble again if I | once got up to see if I was sitting on & | key of any dimensions, he sed. | Well its darncfunny, T sed. And T started to look again, looking |on things'and in things, and between things and under things. and after a { while pop Sed, Youre a flee and not bol;' Ive decided the question for my- self. Well G wizzikers, sitting on it, its the Jumping jukiter, look pop sed. And he got up far enough for me to feel under him. Wich I did, and it wasent there, me saving, Its darn funny. | _Ive herd of much more amusing ha penings, pop sed. What key was it, what was it for? he sed. Im not sure, I sed, and pop sed, For | Peet. sake how can even a flee look for something without knowing what he’s looking for? , pop, I know what Im look- ing for, 1d reckonize it as soon as I |saw it, but I dont know what is was | for because I ony found it this after. noon and I havent had time to find & keyhole for it yet, I sed. s, youre 2 flees, pop sed. | Wich just then I found the key in my back pockit. Pop. you must be last place, I sed. or yourself, By Thornton W. Burgess. she was too far away to be dangerous, and the word was passed on. In a few minuies the boldest Prairie-dogs were sitting up on their mounds all watch- ing her and scolding as fast as their |tongues could go. They called her everything they could think of that was bad. They made fun of her for her failure to catch one of them. More and more came out, young and old, and every one of them sat up to | watch Mrs. Speedfoot and express an | unkind opinion of her. They had seen (but one Coyote, in the first place, and | naturally thought that that was the |only one. So no one thought to look for another. With her in plain sight, they were too .excited to do any real thinking. Mrs. Speedfoot waited until |she saw four half-grown youngsters |come from the house behind which | Speedfoot was hiding. She grinned and |then turned as if to trot away. It |seemed as if every Prairie-dog in that |town was out watching her and barl |ing at her. | Once more she looked back. She |saw Speedfoot spring from behind that |house. In an instant the whole town Wwas once more a scene of confusion, with shrill whistles of alarm in all di- rections. Most of those Prairie-dogs didn’t know what it was all about, but they did know that somehow there was great danger, and, without stopping |to see just where it was, they scram- bled for the nearest doorways. Only those who were near Speedfoot knew what the trouble was, and they didn't wait to see what was happening. Mrs. Speedfoot trotted back into town. Straight to where Speedfoot was waiting with a broad grin she went. Then she, too, grinned. “It worked, didn't it?” she said. “‘Of course it worked,” replied Speed- foot, and there was just a hint of pride in his voice. I knew it would. The silly things were all looking at you. It didn't enter their heads that there would ne any danger in the mid- dle of the town. Well. my dear, we will have that Prairie-dog dinner just as we planned. Here are two apiece and I caught them so quickly they didn't even know what was happening. There is nothing like a clever trick to get what you want when you can't get it any other way. Now we'll get away from here and out of sight. Out of sight is out of mind, you know, and our visit will soon be forgotten. Then aom:"tl.me we can work the same trick This time it was an hour before the boldest of the Prairie-dogs poked their heads out for a look around. The town appeared as if nothing had happened. But for the remainder of the day all |the little people living there were in a very-nervous state. (Copyright, 1931.) My Neighbor Says: After washing white silk stock- ings or gloves and rinsing them thoroughly be sure to hang them in th: shade to dry. This will keep them white. If the chicken is well rubbed inside and out with a cut lemon before being cooked it will make the meat white, juicy and tender. ‘The instinct of a baby is to put everything into its mouth. A mother should choose for it toys that ere smooth, that can be easily washeéd and kept clean, toys without loose parts that may be detached and swallowed; brightly painted toys should never be -considered. Seven drops of lemon juice added to a pint of cream before whipping it will cause it to beat up in less than half the time it ‘would without the juice. (Copyrisht, 1931) SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. ggest * |an attractive cclor rather than the dull ly used. NATURE'S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Mustrations by Mary Foley. XXXVI . THE CABBAGE BUTTERFLY. £ Pleris Rapae. HE ma took place in the evenm:.q.";he bride and bjds groom wore straw-colored clothes. - The ul.cr;w:.l- , ‘were splashed C] ‘the tips and her body was Anrker. The 's wipg trimming was much lighter. Both had wayving antennae, or “feelers,” and a pair of large compound eyes. They uncoll heir hoselike beak % by the plants. They are not fastidious. A lovely flower will be passed by for & stagnant pool or a dead animal. Two davs after the the mother flits about seeking a home site for her 200 children or more. our vegetable garden she hovers, espectally the cal , radish, caulifiower and mustard. ised lghtly on a-leaf, she | curves her body and fastens a spindle- shaped, yellow egg on the under side. The thoughtful mother knows that her baby will be protected from wind and rain as well as enemies. One child to a leaf is her plan, but sometimes an- other mother uses the same leaf. Four to eight days later the little worm will use her jaws and wriggle out of the eggshell. Later she consumes ‘her egg house and takes a rest. Then she espies the delicious green leaf handy and greedily eats and eats until she outgrows four coats in all. At the age of 10 to 14 days she is a little over an inch long and velvety green. Down her back is a stripe of pale yellow, and dots of yellow trim her sides near the pore . * Three rln of jointed legs and five pairs of proplike ones | help her move about the cabbage head. [+She is now a caterpillar and has noth- | ing to do but to change into a butterfly. ‘Then she becomes a chrysalis and anchors herself to the cabbage stalk, to a tree or some object nearby and goes to sieep. Although she seems so quiet, all kinds of changes are going on in her body. In a Week or a few days more the thin, si'ken home bursts and young Miss Butterfly walks out. Her crumpled wings straighten and \dry. Soon she marries. \ In cold climates they sleep in "the chrysalis case until warm weather comes before having their coming-out party. There are several generations in one season. Three to six weeks from egg to butterfly. In 1883 the worm ichneumon fiy was brou country to help zave our cabbages. The chalis fly, an- other enemy of the cabbage worm, lays her eggs in the little cabbage worm, making a tasty meal for the flies. The bad-smelling ambush bug cleverly hides in thé golden rod or the thistle and when the butterfly alights he captures her and sucks the juices from her body. ‘The birds have found the juicy cabbage worm makes a delicious meal and 30 in their way they help us out. (Copyright, 1931.) | Alec the Great l tyke. over poin! my head But still, I know what I l}ih.y Household Methods BY BETSEY CALLISTER. “We have just finished cleaning house—including the cellar, which is always the worst job of all, a5 so much dust collects while the furnace fire is going. We have to have a man in to clean the walls, and this year he white- washed them and all the woodwork. I thould like to do something about the cement floor, which- is-gray and dirty- looking and hard to keep clean. The cement is in good condition, but rough and hard to wash. Would it be pos- sible to paint it? I have been told it takes so much paint that it is an ex- pensive thing to do. Please tell me what sort of paint to use if you think it a good plan.—J. P.” By all means paint the cellar floor. This is a fine time to do it, as the cellar doors and windows may be left open and so prevent the paint from ::ml.l\n( in the rest of the house while I cannét suggest the brand of paint to use, but I advise you to buy some inexpensive white paint for a founda- tion. Be sure that the cement is clean and .dry. Apply one coat of the paint with & large , end do not worry if it does not look perfectly even. Let this hly, and then apply a e white paint. Pinally, apply one coat of better paint of the desired shade. T would su usin| dark paint that is usually . Brick red or moss green will look cheerful and be just as practical as slate gray or dull brown. A cellar fioor ted in this way may be swept regularly and occa- sionally swept and m¢ so that you will never have to go to the expense of h."nf it scrubbed, as you did when rv:'t leaned house ::hh Spring. no very great expense you can have your coal bins boarded up more securely than they are, so that the coal dust will not get about so much, or it lflldyblpflllblshhlvelhemmle! and the coal bins separated by parti- tions, 80 that the rest of the cellar will be comparatively free from dush (Copyright, 1931 Pork Tenderloins. Split pork tenderloins almost 5 a stufing as for gwu, using DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Bashful Suitor Is Advised to Wire His Proposal. Behavior and Reputation. D!AR MISS DIX: Iam & man of 45. Some years ago I met a beautiful and talented woman about my own age. I fell violently in love with her and have reason to think that she cared for me, but a miserable bashfulness has prevented me from ever having spoken to her of my feelings. 1 have never even taken her anywhere, aithough I should be very proud to do so. Because of this, her manner has completely changed toward me. To this day I am petrified. whenever I see her coming and my heart beats like & triphammer and my speech fails me. What can !d:?y ANSWER: You certainly cannot be afficted with pen-paralysis as well as dumbness, so if you can’t summon up enough courage to tell the lady of your love, for heaven's sake write it to her. Of course, proposing by letter is & cold way of doing it that rhakes every woman want to say “no” because it robs her of the thrill that comes but once in a lifetime and takes the kick out of her great moment. Still, it will do in an emergency. 80 write and ask the lady to marry you and if you haven't the nerve e letter, do it by wire. Telegraph her the 10 important . 1 that really counts anyway. And comfort yourself with the reflection that, once you have nerved yourself to take the plunge, the worst is over and all the balance is easy swimming. YOU can't wonder that the lady’s attitude toward you has changed and that she must regard you as a very faint-hearted lover. Evidently she has waited for you until she is worn out and her patience is exhausted and her nerves are reduced to a frazzle. 1 could weep for her when I think how many times she has led you up to the propoesing point and you have turned and run away from it, how many opportunities she has made for you to speak and you were tongue-tied. She must have felt like batting you over. the head a million times. But she was silly herself not to do the proposing when she saw that you were too bashful to do it. Maldenly reserve is good up to a certain point. Then it becomes excess baggage and should be cast into the dis- card. But take my advice, Harry, and don’t keep the poor girl on the anxious seat any longer. Wire her this very day for s life contract on her heart and hand. . DOROTHY DIX. EAR MISS DIX: I am a young girl, 16 years of age, and I am beginning to realize that a girl's happiness depends upon her reputa- tion. Will you please tell me a few things that will ruin a girls good name? HILDA. Answer: It ruins a girl's reputation to go with a wild crowd. “Birds of a feather flock together,” says the old proverb, and a girl is judged by the company she keeps. It ruins a girl's good name to keep unseemly hours and to roll home with the milkman. It ruins her good name to drink and pet and neck and sit about in parked cars with boys. It ruins a girl's good nage to meet boys on the street instead of receivigg them in her own home. It ruins a girl's good name for her to “pick up" men and to go riding with strange men in automobiles.. It ruins a girl's reputation to accept the attentions of married men. It ruins a girl's reputation to dress immodestly, to dance vulgarly and to be loud and boisterous in her conversation. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright. 1931 Books as Decorative Elements BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Bookeases with glass doors have certain advaniagse. Books are decorative elements in| Incidentally, glass-daoe bookcases re- them to lend | lieve the homemaker ¢)f much laborious to this fea- ‘positioned. Fver;;d_ly Psychology »Y D"- JESSE W, SPROWLS. ‘Which Way Civilization? ; ; 5 § 5 H i e éf-:g;f; i HE i 3 H g ; ¢ 4 ! oL} (Copyright, 1931.) NANCY PAGE Vacation Clothes Practical Ones Tliis Year BY riomENck LA GANKE. Polly was going for a two weeks' va- cation. She wammted to know whht kind of clothes to buy. Nancy told her that she would rysed very few for her vacation that weuld not fit into her regular Summer wardrobe. Even when one stays at there are motor trips, picnics, evening/dances and occasional dinners down tpwn. And the clothes that will do for those affairs are just cool of morning. A Panama hat is , aliways. It has a brim. It can &un or rain. It is light and easy itted or boucle suit is practical n wear. With such a suit may wonn dressy blouses or pol> shirts. It is #n ail around costume. A yrinted silk dress for afternoon wear or for lunch or dinner at the tea room or hotel is good. The silk may be Eerlnwd. say in black or white, or it may & plain one in a Shantung weave. But Shantung weaves lend them- selves more readily to the sports type of dress. One of these in linen or Shantung or better still ‘n pique or mesh is ideal for or for . It has, this year, cap sleeves. evening wear there -is a dress of cotton net or embroidered batiste. With this one should have a diminutive wnf say of silk or preferably of biack vel- vet. This may be the cape ty as shown here, or the abbreviated jacket which is usually so short itds almost a bolero. (Copyright. 1931.) DAILY DIET RECIPE EGGS IN TOMATO CUPS. !'::r tomatoes. T eggs. One-lufr“ teaspoon salt. SERVES FOUR PORTIONS. Chotse round tomatoes of equel size. Wash them. Cut off tops, scoop out. insides (save these for soup or gravy). Drop a raw egg into each tomato cup, sessoning with salt and replacing tomato cover. Put tomatoes on a baking dish and bake in moderate oven about 15 minutes until eggs are set. Serve very hot. Can be served plain or with & Bechamel sauce or & brown gravy. DIET NOTE. Recipe as given furnishes pro- tein, much iron, lime and vita- mins A, B and C. Could be eateh by children 4 and over. Can be eaten by normal adults of average, over or under weight. Rice With Tomato. cooked with tomato, with ‘& different, hearty and delicious dishes. It is also good with creamed chicken, with fish au gratin, with curries and as & savory. JOLLY POLLY A Lesson Etiquette IT'S_HARD TO FOOL ANTS. THEY CANg The Woman Who Makes ‘Good - BY HELEN WOODWARD. Who started her helped her husband out in the early days when he was & small person | her | words than the words themselves. he | the | career as htened the highest n& ’b"u':lun typist and who became one of women in America. % When Katie Brooks heard that . Carrington was she i together, perhaps running a their husbands on ‘an innocs week end trip. ey . Katie flurhed, but this was in her own house, so she sald nothing. And later the same evening Mrs. Carrington got worse. “Such a lovely dinner.” she said. “Of course, you don’t have trouble with servants,” Mrs. Brooks, because you un- derstand them. That's the advantage of having worked yourself, you know.” Kate Brooks was bitterly offended. This was silly of her. But I suppose she was more hurt by the malice behind the 1 they had come from some one else, and been spoken differently, she would have been delighted with them. What she didn't know was that Elise Carrington was such a snob, so uneasy about her own place in the world that the only way she could justify herself was by insulting every one she met. But MILADY B BY LOIS Reddish Blonde. | Dear Miss Leeds: 1 have light blonde | hair which I wash once a week with | castile soap, using a camomile tea rinse | afterward. I have noticed that my hair | is getting reddish around my forehead. | How can I hide this reddish ? { DAILY l anywhere and look carefully at the roots that you will fina the same red- | dish tinge which is so noticeable in front. It is likely that the blonde rinse | thag.you have been has kept the bulk of your hair light, but has not had an equal chance to bleach the new hair near the roots. Possibly the natural shade of your hair is a dark blonde; the new growth that has not often been bleached has turned reddish, while the rest, which has been rinsed frequently, has’ become much lighter in eolor, Or you may be a red-blonde by nature. The red streak may be bleached to match the ends of hair, or you may let your hair grow out #s natural color. If you decide on bleaching, have an ex- | perienced operator do the work with | peroxide. LOIS LEEDS." Flabbiness, Dear Miss Leeds: I am 5 feet 62 inches tall and weigh 150 pounds. My | flesh is very flabby, ially over | shoulders, arms, legs -:{Eflp-. How | can I reduce, and how I should I exercise at one time? . Answer—The type and amount of exercise you need to make your muscles | firmer depends a good deal on your age | and state of health. If your organs are | sound, you may, of course, take more | vigorous exercises than if you had a | weak heart. Have a thorough physical | examination by doctor and_ask his | advice on diet and exercise. I have a leaflet on these subjects that I shall be | glad to send you on receipt of a stamped, | addressed envelope. Besides indoor ex- | ercises which you should do for 10 to 20 minutes both morning and evening, you should take a walk every day. Swimming and ballet dancing may be included in your reducing program if your health permits. LOIS LEEDS. Powdering the Hair. Dear Miss Leeds: I am going to dress | in Colonial costume and wish to have | white hair. What shall T powder my | hair with and how remove the powder | afterward? OLD-FASHIONED GIRL. Answer—Apply cornstarch with a | OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRL Answer—I think if you part your hair The Joy Time. There is a time in the life of each | child when there is joy in learning some special thing. Each step in growth has its time allotted. If we catch that time by its forelock and do the teach- ing, the child knows the joy of learning. He overflows with happiness at his suc- cess. He is tireless in his efforts. Let the joy season go by and learning for that special department of knowledge becomes a pain. I cannot believe that painful learning is ever as high in qual- ity or as great in depth as the knowl- in the joy time., ttle children learn to read with joy in the early school years, along about the time when they are five and six. It is easy to get them to read then. They love to find new words, make new sounds, hear and tell new stories, add to their vocabulary and their library. But let those years pass without the instruction and learning to read is slow, uphill work. ‘The joy has departed and only the drudgery remains. In the middle grades of the elément- ary school the children like to learn n&a. tables, lists of dates, all the rlg;.\k mical facts of the course of study. ey like prim order in the class room. They like the teacher to mark their work right or wrong. They count marks and work for place on the honor rolls. This mastered in these are happy doing this sort of work. But let them go into the upp:r without knot their les. lists and facts, and at once they lose all Interest in school and drop behind. The joy time has passed and a new joy time is on. They cannot enter into it be- mm%lqmnmmkqmledn ired. ign languages are learned-best in riy years. The best way to learn il it and little chil- a8 hnnug is to use Toik’ the langus iy the.chi- you - dren wemow -m'l“m them learn in the time. The joy time for grammar es in the early high school years. time for language is in the first seven years. find t.hzt a child has difi- E; Eégggggfg | dear. gcr;rlnnmn chances in Hollywood are 8 (Coprright, EAUTIFUL 1931) brushed out lwrt:-vud. to a The ved streak. may be bleached. make-up gives the complexion a dark tone? M. V. Answer—Bathing tired, dull eyes with a simple eyewash, such as boric acid solution, helps make them look hrighter. ‘There are reliable eyewashes on the market. However, the only way to get & real sparkle in your eyes is to be healthy. happy and interested in life. Eyes are the mirrors of the soul. (2) Suntan powder in liquid or dry gives & dusky hue to the complexion. It comes in shades of light and dark brown. 1S LEEDS. (Copyright, 1831.) THE STAR’S- DAILY PATTERN SERVICE Develop this delightfully smart model in one of the new printed linens nmow 80 modish—and it's stunning. Carry it out in yellow and brown scheme as sketched—it's just perfectly ‘The ground is yellow and is pat- terned in soft green and cocoa-brown coloring. The bindings are in the brown shade. - The beruffied sleeves and jabot are pl yeliow handkerchief linen. It's 30 inexpensive and simplicity #- self to make it. . Style No. 3153 is designed for sizes 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 45 inches bust. In a silk crepe print, it is especially nice in skipper blue and white print with sleeve s and jabot of self-fabric with the binding in plain blue. For resort, a red and white dotted dimity is attractive. Flat washable crepe silk in white, yellow or dusty-pink is very chie. For more formal occasions, select chiffon pnll,:‘.- bby lace or chifforr voiie. Size ‘36 requires 3% yards 35-inch :;}h“‘:dln;& 35-inch contrasting, with b 2 e o S i et cen amps or wi n Snt.u"l New York Fashica Bureau, Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, New York. T i <R3F 2x3 4 o Bl