Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1931, Page 26

WOMAN’S PAGE.’ Merits of Nautical Fashions BY MARY MARSHALL. ‘Whether you are 14 or 40, slim or “plump, blond or brunette, you will find nautical fashions becoming. And ~whether your navigating exploits con- * sist of paddling along a stream or river, sailing on a bay or cruising in a yacht across the ocean, you will find the new marine costumes appropriate. There are nautical swimming suits consisting of white jersey shirt with navy blue shorls and straight sailor Jack there are white linen or duck Rob trousers to v.ear over your bathing | suit, and there are sailor suits and dresses and accessories of all sorts. You will know them by their colors— navy blue, white, navy blue with white or red—by their sailorly design and by their nautical emblems The most popular of all these sea- faring emblems 1s the anchor applied to the slecve of the jacket or the front of the blouse. Today’s sketch shows a modernized version of the traditional nautical anchor, which you easy to copy on sory of your own hol- iday clothes. On & white blouse or cress, you may apply a red or white anchor, and on a blue background the anchor may be red or white. If you like. you may carry out the anchor de- sign with solid embroidery stitches, using a long satin stitch. An easier method is to cut out the anchor from cortrasting color and then to sew it in place. If you use flannel or other material that does not fray readily. you may cut the anchor of precisely the right size.” If*it is made from linen or other matesial of loose THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE Few models will be found more be- coming and individually smart than this French bloomer dress. The short kimono sieeves, neckline and knoted bow trim at the center- front of the brief bodice are edged with rick-rack braid. . . It is an extraordinarily simple affair to fashion—exceedingiy so for the de- lightful result gained. Any of the lovely new cotton fabrics are suitable for its development. Sketched is pale blue dimity printed in deeper blue motifs. This style, No. 3132, may* be had for tiny children of 2, 4 and 6 years. Pink and white candy striped cotton broadcloth with plain pink bias trim is very effective. Yellow linen, orchid checked gingham and red and white dimity print are cute suggestions. The 4-year size requires 2% yards of 35-inch material with 3!, yards of edging. 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. Vacation days are here again! So nearly here, at least, that it's time for you to be thinking about your Sum- mer wardrobe. ‘We've prepared a book to help you plan for the most colorful fashion pe- riod of the year. A book that offers the best sclection of siyles for the sea- #on for the adult, miss, stout and child and helps the reader to economize. You can save $10 by spending 10 cents for this book. The ition is limited. so we suggest that you send 10 cents in stamps or coin today for your copy to fashion department. Price of book, 10 cents. will find | | ir. honor of the occasion. the event be weave, 1t should be cut a trifle larger than the finished design. The edges then should be turned under neatly, basted and pressed before it is sewed in place. OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRL Simplify Things. Children in a household make end- less work. If there is only the mother to do everything the whole scheme of living must be simplified. It is waste- ful of precious energy to do work or to have worries beyond the bare margin of necessity. The fragile, dainty things that make a house beautiful must be put away until the time when the children can help to care for them. Little children ; must handle the things about them precious they add to the burden of and if these things are fragile and care and anxiety the household mother must carry. Better to put them in a safe place for a time and decorate the home very simply. The children’s clothes ought to be as few as can be sufficient. Every extra garment means more expense, more care, more work. They ought to be as simple as possible. Children must play; they have no knowledge of the cost or the care their clothing involves. The simpler the better. The possessions of each member of | the family have to be held down to | the least possible quantity. Many a house is littered with odds and ends that are of little value to anybody but a great annoyance and a source of trouble for the mother who must pick them up and put them in place again and again. Only when the children can take care of their possessions are they to be allowed to increase them at will 'Living must be simplified. When there is a family of children it is a matter of great moment to have guests to dinner. The extra work is a severe tax. If added to that is the care of fine linen and silver and china and , Precious possessions brought out comes a sadness instead of a jov. I the guests can have exactly what the family is used to having things are easier all around. The simple thing is always better. The children want a party now and then and they ought to have it, but it should be a simple affair. The fun is the thing. not the elaborate service or | elaborate refreshments. A cake and a good drink, a dab of ice cream and a fancy cake, & stick of candy and half mon, & few -salted nuts in a pep- sermaint candy basket—such simple | ‘oings served by the children them- selves in & spirit of good fellowship will make a party that won't leave & bad taste in anybody's mouth. When simplifying things, simplify | thinking a little, too—instead of cir- | cuitious ways go stralght to the heart | of the matter. Accept. life as it ls. frankly and do the best you can to brighten things. Good humor, honesty, | simplicity will lengthen your days and fill them with peace. How many times have you strained every nerve to make a showing, only to discover that all you had gained was the weariness of flesh and spirit? Try simplifying things and know the | atisfaction of being vourself in your own house. It is truly a grand and glorious feeling. Household Methods BY BETSEY CALLISTER. Flies in Kitchen. “Can you tell me what to do to keep | fies from coming in the kitchen?" asks K. M. “Our house is well screened, but as soon as warm weather arries they come into the kitchen. Is there something I could sprinkle about to keep them out?” < v ‘There is nothing that T know of that will keep flies out when they have a chance to get in when the kitchen screen door is opened. The thing to do is to make the region of your back door as uninviting as possible. If you have a house to yourself you can do this without much’difficulty. Decaying refuse of any sort—even moist tea leaves—will attract flies, so be careful that there is no refuse of any sort 2pbout your back door or in your back ard. i Flies are very fond of garbage cans. which are often placed near the kitchen door. In summer these con- tainers should be scalded out after| they have been emptied and the scald- | ing is more effective if you use hot soda water. Get some coarse washing soda and dissolve this in water. Add some of the strong soda solution to a quart- or more of scalding water and rinse out the cans. If the kitchen refuse ‘is always wrapped in papers, ' you will have little trouble in keeping ! them clean in this way. After the cans have dried sprinkle them with borax, for those who have studied the pests tell us that flies can- not breed or long remain where there A good plan is to have som borax in a sifter-top can so_ that i may be sprinkled evenly in the cans. Of course you should be sure to keep the garbage cans closely covered. Flies | sometimes breed in a cellarway or the cellar that seems clean and neat.| Wherever you see them about, sprinkle | some of the borex. It is surprising how quickly flies diminish where a warfare of this sort is waged against them. Baked Asparagus. Cut the tender portion from on> bunch of asparagus and boil in salted | watsr. Then place the asparagus in an oval baking dish, either glass or pottery, draining the liquid from the asparagus| before transferring it. Place with the tips of the vegetables all in the same direction. Pour over the whole a gen- erous amount of cheese sauce and sprin- kle buttered cracker crumbs over the top, garnishing with dots of butter and some paprika. Place in a hot oven :md’ bake until the crumbs are well browned. Serve very hot. ‘Whipped Cream. To sweeten whipped cream, about two hours bafore whipping th: cream, cut some soft marshmallows into small pieces and add them to the cream. Neither sugar nor flavoring will be re- quired and the cream will be delicious. My Neighbor Says: ‘Earthenware or glass baking dishes may be used when making deep-dish pies or pudding. The food can be served in the dish in ‘which baked. Flace p2can nuts in a pan, pour boiling water over them and let then siand in the water a little_while. Then crack them and the meats can be easily re- moved. The smell of fresh paint gives many people a headache, and to none is it an especially agrzeable odor. Here 1s a way to handle a freshly painted room: Place a paper bag containing several pieces of charcoal in the room and close it up tightly. Another effective remedy for the trouble is an onion sliced into small plecss and put into a pail of water. Set the pail of watr in the room ‘and the water and onions will absorb the odor. Instead of pouring liquid paraffin on top of jelly, put a small piece of paraffin in bo‘tom of glass and pour in hot jelly. ‘When jelly has cooled paraffin will be on the top. % (Copyright, 1931). THE EVENING WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office. When “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” showed with the original Uncle Tom (George Kunkel) at Odd Fellows’ Hall on Seventh street? NATURE’S CHILDREN BY Lll.iLlr.;Ni(;OK‘ A—THEY. Tilustrations by Mary Foley. XLIIL THE SEVENTEEN-YEAR LOCUST. Cicadidae Family DER the earth for 17 years, then a new dress and sunshine! In April, thousands of little cicadas will return to the upper world and seek the tree on which they were born. Yeais be- fore, their mother made cradles on twigs and branches of trees with her sharp blades and -laid rows of eggs headed toward a little door in the care- fully excavated nest. Four hundied to six hundred baby cicadas hatched seven weeks later. The tiny insect walked out of the egg, giving iiself a twist to loosen the shell. Rushing about the nest she slipped down the smooth bark of the tree or a playful breeze carried the tiny creature to the ground. Wildly she seeks a crevice in the ear h and digs in for dear life. Down about eight inches she goes and hunts for the roots of shrubs or trees. Mak- ing a tiny room for herself she stays there a year or more and enlarges her room to fit her girth. Then she moves on. During all the years underground she casts six coats. The call goes forth that it is time to ascend. With the pick and rake on her fiont feet she begins to climb toward the surface. When the dirt accumulates she smashes it with her knees against the surrounding earth If the season is rainy, turret above the ground and awaits the summons. At 5 or 6 o'clock in the evening, you will see pouring from holes under the trees and shrubs these earth children, headed straight for some upright object. Having lived so long underground, one would think they would be modest and retiring. Not a bit of it. They are going to make their debut and have no time for spectators. Before your very eyes they start to undress. First they clean their feet very carefully with the curry-comb on their face. This is most imporiant, as the cicada must grasp firmly the rough object on which she stands or she will lose her life. After a brief rest of a half hour she rocks back and forth as if to test her hold. She humps her back, the old skin splits along the middle of the thorax, going over the head to the first seg- ment of the abdomen. The white back is exposed and two bjack spots,stick out, then comes the head with two bright red eyes and the front part of the body is released» Bending over backwards she pulls out the first leg, then all four are free, followed by the wing-bases. Four slender cords are left in the old shell. They are the inner lining of the breathing apparatus. The cicada hangs back from the shell all free except the tip of her body. Another rest. Raising herself she reaches over and takes hold of the body entirely from its moorings—step- ping out from the shell in which she has lived so many years. The wings xpand and lengthen. What a beauty she is in her new dress. Ivory tinted, splashed with black, a pink vest and transparent creamy whit> wings veined in red. The brown “W” seen in the wings, was thought to stand for wa now 1t is thought il stands for warmer weather. The gentlemen carry drumheads con- cealed bencath the wing-bases. The rapid vibration of strong muscles makes the sound we hear. The lady cicadas have no drums and are silent, neither do they have ears. A beak-lik» mouth enables them_ni;a- pump the sap from the trees. e harm they do to the trees is to make the incisions for the nests. The parent locusts live from April until June, and are seen no more. «Copyrizht, 1931.) STAR, Was the Old- Fashioned Mother Best? WASHINGTON, D. C, Her Due IT is the fashion to flay the modern mother with abuse and to glorify the old-fashioned mother. ‘We are always being told what a poor, weak, miserable makeshift of & mother the modern mother is, snd we hear harrowing tales of how she prefers bridge to babies and "how she neglects her children while she gads the streets and haunts department stores and matinees. And in sharp contrast to this frivolous creature we have depicted for us the old-fashioned mother who never wandered away her own fireside. Mothers_have always been loving and tender and patient and self- sacrificing. I believe that this exaltation of the mother of the past over the mother of the present is as much a myth as the regretting, but that we wouldn't have revived the past that we are always ood old times in on a bet. And I also belleve that the modern mother is one of the greatest of all modern improvements. I their own childhood. We had duty toward us, according to thel CHALLENGE all those men and women of 50 or thereabouts to consider mothers, mothers who did their full lights, but we had kerosene lamps in those days, spiritually as well as physically. - Mother tried to keep her children well and healthy, but she had never heard of the germ theory or of vitamins or a balanced ration. And 80 if her babes sickened and died or grew up weak and ailing or affiicted or malformed she laid it to a mysterious dispensation of Providence and never thought of connecting it with a soured-milk bottle or the wrong kind of food or adenoids or tonsils. THE modern mother knows that her children’s health and their very lives lie in her hands. of child-rearing. food for body Listen to any and they quote from the Baby Book exploi ‘They see to it that their youngsters have just the proper uilding, and no ignorant and squeamish fear of the knife group of young mothers talking iting the latest sclentific theory keeps them from having the little operations performed that a child may need to correct some abnormality. ‘The old-fashioned mother took her children as the Lord sent them and brought them all up alike. She kissed them when they were good and spanked them when they were bad, gave them such education as her means and opportunity offered and let it go at that. The modern mother tries to safeguard her children’s future. She sees to it that her daughters not only have a good education, but that they are taught some way to make a living. She watches her boys like a hawk for indications of their particular bent and she tries to help them develop that so that they may get at once into the occupation for which they are best fitted and not waste years, as so many men do, in finding themselves. ‘The old-fashioned mother sacrificed everything to her children. The modern mother makes the sacrificing business a 50-50 proposition with her children, which keeps them from being spoiled and selfish and makes DOI (Copyright, 1931.) them respect her. ROTHY DIX. MODES OF THE MOMENT I like to share my good times. I'm not the sort to care For sitting in a corner A-playing solitaire. Fresh Corn. ‘When fresh corn is b:coming a little too hard to serve on the cob, prepare it as follows: Cut the corn from six ears of corn, taking care not to cut too closely to the cob. Put three table- spoonfuls of shortening in a frying pan and when hot add the corn. Stir con- stantly until beginning to brown, then add enough milk and water to cover, and let simmer gently until tender. Add a lump of butter, salt and pepper to taste and a small pinch of sugar. This is delicious. SPEAKING OF COTTAGE CHEESE FAMILY-SIZE package is a grand convenience! IT CONTAINS ju enough of our delicious cottage cheese to allow a generous family-serving, for a supper, or for lunch. It’s deliv- ered by yo delighted with Listen to the Na from 7.30 to 8.00 (E. r milkman . . . and it only costs 10 cents! You’ll be , 8o try a package tomorrow. ! Dairy Radio Program every Tuesday night . T.) over WRC and associated N. B. C. stations. Chestnut Farms Dairy A DIVAISION OF NATIONAL DAIRY Ruge fox collar S is worn. cer a satin same red vel- vet used. in., irdfe. (it - Sports Clothes Are Rainbow-Gay This Season! , Tintex Gives Bright @ New Color Easily and Instantly! 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CORY. Here I is tryin’ to tell you ’bout the decoration ob independence, an’ what does you do? Suck yer fum! Aren't you got no patriotics? (Copyright, 1931.) Household Methods BY BETSY CALLISTER. “I have an aqua blue crepe de chine afternoon dress that is too short and a little skimpy across the shoulders. I could easily make a shaped flounce for the skirt and cape collar that would give the right silhouette, but I cannot | match the material. I have been told that if I get material of somewhere near the same shade and then have the whole dress dyed it will all look the| same after it i1s dyed. Can you tell me-‘. whether this is true? I would like the dress dyed navy blue. MRS. J. B If the material is of precisely the same quality the chances are that after dyeing both the old and the new would | look the same. But there is always a| chance that they would not. I would | suggest that you get a small sample, or buy an eighth of a yard of the nearest match you can get, and then take a small piece of the old dress—which you can doubtless cut from one of the seams or the hem—and then mix a little | dye and dye the two pleces together. | In that way you can sce whether the | two materials” will look the same way | after they are dyed. If they do, then go ahead—buy the material needed. make the alterations in your dress and | dye it with the same dye you used for the experiment. % | “I have often cleaned my dresses, | blouses, etc., by dipping them in gaso- | line. Usually I have good results, but not the last time, when I cleaned a white georgette collar and cuff set, a navy blue wool skirt and a black silk crepe dress. The skirt and the geor- gette set came out very nicely, but the dress showed grayish streaks here and there, so that I had to send it to the cleaner after all. I rinsed the things carefully in clear gasoline, so I cannot account for the streaks. Can you tell me what to do to prevent this f happen again? R A” 1f you had brushed the dress carefully with 'a fine brush and then pressed it| under a damp cloth the streaks would probably have disappeared. Sponging with a damp cloth after the gasoline has been thoroughly dried out from the fabric will also remove such streaks. ame | | Mayonnaise. ‘When making mayonnaise, use the vinegar from a jar of sweet mixed pickles instead of plain vinegar. This makes delicious mayonnaise and also| FEATURES. MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS, Decorate Tresses. Combs, ornamental and otherwise, used to be a part of every coiffure, but that was years ago. Some of the more conservative members of the older gen- eration who happen to have abundant hair may still use side combs and back copbs, but the simple hairdressing of recent seasons has made them unneces- sary except as decoration. The comb used by the modern young woman is often a combination comb and barrette set with brilliants or pearls. It holds her hair back of her ears and is not bulky enotigh to interfere with her close-fitting little hats. There is often Just one such comb when the hair is worn parted on one side and it is on the small side. With a center-part coif- fure two small combs or barrettes are usual. They add a touch of color and are decidedly dressy. A popular version of the side-part coiffure with combs may be dressed with hair that is being allowed to grow and barely reaches the shoulders. Put the part on the right. Comb the top hair up from the brow and have a deep wave over the left side of the forehead. Bring the next wave forward and curl the ends of hair upward in a loose roll, covering the left ear down to the lobe. On the right side, where there is less hair, comb it back about level with the temple, insert a long, narrow comb to hold the hair diagonally behind the ear, then bring a big wave forward on the sjde of the cheek. Curl the ends up in wide roll to match the other side. . The back hair may be left straight or waved very slightly, with the ends curled up on the nape of the neck. Invisible hairpins should be used to keep the back hair from standing out from the head. The natural contour of the head must be retained. The roll of hair at the| back comes lower than those at the | sides, so that it forms a flattering back- ground for the lower part of the face. Another more dressy coiffure for hair | of about shoulder length is arranged newer coiffure, there are only a few wide, loose waves. The first wave near the part is shallow and does not come over the forehead. Another very deep wave swirls forward, covering the teme ple to the outer corner of the eye, dips down in front of the ear and uvp again 50 that most of the ear is exposed. The back hair is made into round curls of three lengths which are pinned firmly at the nape of the neck in an interesting tfl,}:xuhr formation. e apex of the triangle points dows the neck, while the base runs across th: back of the head. At each end of this base is placed a large ornamental hair- pin or small comb. There are four flat- tened curls between the combs or pins; below is another row of three curls, be- low that are two, and the apex of the triangle is a single curl _Instead of using a pair of combs or pins, a pretty effect may also be ob- tained by using one long comb across the triangle of curls. If the hair is not abundant enough to make the curls of the right length, it is a simple mat- ter to pin on a few extra ones, and the long corb will hold them in place with a center part. As s usual with the nicely. A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. EONIDAS CARSTARPHEN DYER, of Missouri was suggesting nothing | new recently when he told the Presi-| dent the legalized sale of beer was| worth & billion dollars to the country. For the portly Representative from St. Louis has been crusading for beer a long time—since the eighteenth amendment, | as a matter of fact. There is nothing of the “wild-eyed wet” about Dyer, however. Mild, calm | and dcliberate, he is known “on the Hill" as cne of the sanest members of the wet bloc in Congress. He con- ducts his beer cru- sade in much the same fashion that he secks other leg- islation. His creed is sim- ply that the American people have a right t drink beer if they want to: that a man's capacity is too small to get drunk from drink- ing 2.75 per cent beer, and that such a beverage is the only thing that can make enforcement | of the eighteenth amendment possible. His constituency is a part of the city of St. Louis. H> has represented that district in Congress for nine terms. Ex- cept for a period of about one year, when he lost in an election contest, his service has been continuous. Observation of conditions in his dis- ! [Rerrenmweszt constituents had no use for “hard” lig~ uors. They were content with beers and wines. Now, he sa bootleggers and rotten where in evidence. “And those who have no money to buy whisky have a beer crock going in their homes at all times. Beer with an alcoholic content that runs from 8 to 10 per cent is being made and consumed. And every member of the family from the old man to the baby helps with the brewing.” He presented his 2.75 beer proposal to the Wickersham Law Enforcement Commission and personally appeared before that body for an hour and a half . speakeas! hisky are every | to explain it. Convinced that his plan is the only one that can weather the courts, he also believes that it would bring the modifi- cationists and those who insist on out- right repeal of the eighteenth amend- ment into the same camp. If beer is denied, he sees the modifi- cationists in great numbers going over to those who would repeal the eight- eenth amendment “Then where will the drys be?” he asks. His name is familiar to those who never heard of his interest in beer. The national automobile theft act bears his name. And the famous Dyer anti- lynching bill has kept him in’the pub- Iic's eye for vears. Silk Dresses. When it is inconvenient to press silk dresses on the wrong side, tissue paper utilizes something that would other-|trict is responsible for his beer crusade. may be used between the dress and wise be wasted. He says that before prohibition hi: the iron. Stop losing valuable sleep! One lone mosquito can keep you awake all night and rob you of the rest you need. Stop blood-thirsty mosquitoes from annoying you, outdoors, on the porch, at golf, in the car. The easy, sure way t6 comfort this sum- mer is to spray Flit! Flit kills flies, mosquitoes, moths, bed bugs, ants, roaches. Harmless to people. Easy to use in the handy Flit sprayer. Does not stain. Flit is guaran- teed to kill, or money back. Get the famous yellow can with the soldier and the black band—today! LIT LARGES T SELLER .IN 121 CcOU NTRIES BECAUSE ITS STAINLESS VAPOR KILLS QUICKER