Evening Star Newspaper, July 20, 1931, Page 24

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C FEATURES, MONDAY, JULY 1931. WOMAN’S PAGE 20, \DorothyDix| WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. - Reglstered U. 8. Patent Office. Finds Contempt Lowers Its Standards JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English BY JOSEPH J. FRISCH. Dress for Dance at Boat Club Why_a Child Must Admire Its Parents The Woman Who Makes Good BY HELEN WOODWARD. MARSHALL. . Who started her career as a frightened typist and who became one of BY MARY Barbara is 18. She has spent one year in college here the {reshmen give o dances or proms and scldom attend | those of the upper classes. The fact is that. though Barbara is an attractive irl with acark brown eyes and lighter Brown hair, she has never been to any big dences. visit a room m be informal p shore g denc written to that big pa that will b she can n that will w she is planning to August. Ther: wil the friend’s sea- one really big boat club. Barbara has advice about the dress for vants something 1al, som:thing , and something We have chcsen a dress that will be just the thing. With the help of a paper pattern for a simpl: Summer eve- ning dress she can cut it out and make it herself. We suggest organdie for the material beceuse organdie is by all means the most attractive material this Summer for evening dresses, and if Barbara uses soft wads of tissue paper when she packs the dress it will not be flattened out to much in ner trunk. The int reting thing about the dress is the ruffies which extend from the knees to the hem and are made of different shades. Yellow we think would be a good color for Barbara, so the drcss should be made of a pale yellow, with the highest ruffie of the same color. The text two ruffles below should be of | a slightly deeper tone of yellow. Then | two of a decper tone and so on with the lowest ruffle a desp yellow or orange. | The ruffles should be cut on the bias and finish’d with narrow hems, then applied so as to cover the skirt from the knees to the hemline. (Copyright.1931.) Red Raspberry Circles. Sift one quart of flour three times, | then rub two tablespdonfuls of melted | butter and one tablespoonful of short- | ening into the flour. Add four tea- | spoonfuls of baking powder and sift a | fourth time. Then add a dash of salt, | one cupful of milk, six tablespoonfuls of pulverized sugar and two well beaten eggs and beat until fluffy. Grease some | | round molds well and dust with flour, | | shaking the flour off immediately so that it does not adhere to the sides of the molds Drop the batter into the molds, fill three-fourths full and bake in a moderate oven until a golden brown. When ready to serve, scoop out the centers and fill with sweetened raspberries folded in whipped cream. Heap high to form a dome, garnish | with more whipped cream and sprinkle with green candied leaves. Special Halibut. Cook one packsge of noodles in boil- | Ing water. Put a bay leaf, & few sprigs | of parsiey and celery into some boil- ing water and boil half a pound of halibut in it for 15 minutes. Drain | the noodles and flake the halibut. Mix | the noodles and halibut together, press into individual molds with some thick cream and butter and cover with cheese sauce made of one pint of cream sauce | with half a cupful of grated cheese added to it. Make some spinach tim- bales by baking spinach souffie in tim- bale cups. Put some cooked eggs through a ricer and sprinkle on_top with a little paprika to top off. Place larcund the platter. MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOL Brightening Hair. There are many girls and women who believe that their hair is so drab and uninteresting in color that it can never look pretty. In childhood their hair may have been a pretty goldn color, which makes it ail the harder for them to resign themselves to dark blonde or light, mousey brown. Some resort to bleaching, but when this is done at home the usual result is streakiness or overbleaching. which, in turn, s the life and elasticity out of the hair. For hair of the intermediate, char- acterless hue between the pure blonde and the rich dark brown, the pure Egyptian Lenna . is cne of the most satisfactory treatments. It bright- ens the darker shades of hair without making them actually red and gives a flattering auburn tinge to the medium S LEEDS the head in a towel to keep in thc | warmth. Remove the towel when you think the pack has been on long enough and shampoo the hair. The coppery henna pack usually months. The hair | usual every two weeks. After the sec- ond shampoo a vinegar rinse is often given to strengthen the color. Use a half-cupful of cider vinegar in a quart of water. If the color happens to be too strong after the heana pack, it may be darkened by using a bluing rinse hampoo. Henna may also be used in the form of a rinse to lighten the hair without making it red. I do not recommend it for flaxon or light blonde hair, nor for hair that contains much gray. It is best for the medium browns, but may e used to give a livelier glint to dark brown or dull black. Tie a heaping teaspoonful of the dried henna leaves in a small cheese- | cloth bag and steep them in a pint of very hot water for five minutes. Squeeze out the bog and use the rinse while warm. Shampoo the hair first, of course, and rub it with a towel to re- move most of the moisture before ap- plying the rinse evenly all over the | hair.” This henna lotich may be used as a wnal rinse after each shampoo. i (Copyright, 1931). NANCY PAGE I t cdoron a small strand = s#hades. It is also good for the hair it- self. One must distinzuich very care- fully, however, between the unadulter- ated red henna powder to which I r>fer now and the so-called henna dyes that come in ail other shades. There is even a “white henna” which isnt henna at all. but is merely a bleach. The henna pack is made by mixi the pure Ecyptian henna (about fon or five tablespoonfuls are usud enough) with enouzh boiling wate make a smooth, creamy paste. Do the mixing in an enamel or china bowl and do not boll the pack. it is a wise plan to make a test on a small strand from the lower layer of hair. to see how long the pack should be allowed to remain on in order to develop the right color. For the medium drab shade, four or five minutes_are long enough to leave the henna, but for darker shades a longer period is required to bring noticeable yesults, After you have learned from the test strand about how long to leave the pack on, apply it evenly all over the hair with a toothbrush. Then wrap MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Plums. Dry Cereal with Cream. Minced Beef on Toast. Doughnuts. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Presh Vegetable Salad. Hot Bran Muffins. Harleguin Bavarian Cream. Wafers. Iced Tea. DINNER. Pot Roast of Beel. Mashed Potatoes Buttered Carrots. Romaine, Fren-h Dressir- Chocolate Cornsta, " Puddii._ Goff MINCED BEEF Make a medium thick ¢ sauce. When boiling, put i sauce a cup of finely minced roast beef. cne teaspoonful poul- try seasoning, pepper and butter. Pour over hot buttered toast. VEGETABLE SALAD. Mix tcgetber one cupful string beans cut into small pieces, one cupful peas, one_cupful fine-cut celery, 1 cupful boiled beets cut into dice and one-half cupful dried cooked carrots. Use French dressing end serve on a bed of crisp lettuce leaves. Rub the bottom of the salad bowl with garlic and let stand one-half hour before serving. PUDDING. This is a chocolate cornstarch pudding without eggs which is delicious. Six tablespoonfuls cornstarch, three tablespoonfuls sugar, one-half teaspoonful salt, two teaspoonfuls cocoa, three cupfuls milk, one-half teaspoon- ful vanilla, Mix dry ingredients and stir. ‘Then pour on slowly the rest of milk scalded. Cook slowly 15 to 20 minutes, stirring constantly, Remove from stoye and flavor. Serve cold with whipped crcam. (Copyright, 1931.) Dirt Never Helps a Girl's Complexion. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. The third talk in the good looks sc- ries for the good taste club members concerned make-up, complexions, D der puffs and cleanliness, with cmpha- upon the cleanliness. The woman who talked to them about hair had cautioned them against using another person’s brush, comb, | hair pins or clips. She had said that | such articles should be as personal as |the tooth brush. And now came the | third speaker who not only said that | one girl should never use another girl's powder puff, but that she should use {her own only a day or two at most, | before she washed it. She said that most bad complexions | came from uncleanliness somewhere. | A poor diet would work from the i | side out, but granting that the diet was right and the amount of water drunk | daily adequate, poor complexions, | These came because the skin was not cleansed often enough. A second make- up put on over a previous one rubs in | the waste perspiration and the grime | Three or four cleansings | of the day. | of the skin, dailys are good. Mild soap |and water may be used. A cleansing | lotion which is mildly astringent is { useful during the day. | It fingers are going to apply some |of the make-up, they too should be | clean, otherwise much dirt is rubbed in. Pure cosmetics used with discretion jon a young skin are not harmful. Only, said she, young girls should realize they do not need as much as | the older woman. And then she end- | ed as she began—be sure your powder puff is_your own and be sure it is | clean Better to use small wads of cot- | ton, throwing one away after each us- | ing, than to use & dirty puff over and Lover. | (Copyright, 1931.) tone imparted by the lasts _two or three | is shampooed as | there could still be| When the old whirling brush of the horse-drawn street sweeper was a fa- miliar sight on Washington streets? NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Tllustrations by Mary Foley. GALL FLIES. (Superfamily Cynipoidea.) OW would you like to live in a house with walls and ceiling made of your favorite food, and the more you ate the larger grew your house? This is just what happens to the baby of the gall-fly. You will find these wonderful little houses of every shape and color, on branches of trees, stems of flowers and | buds of willows, even on roots of plants. 1By their house you will know them. Every little egg is placed on its partic- ular plant and on a certain spot on that plant. The little grub will then grow and make the style house all of lits ancestors have used. In the Spring the mother wasp, fly, midge or aphis flies about seeking her family's favorite building site. She in- serts a tiny, slender egg, which has & very long point at one cnd, into the |tender plant tissue. Shortly afterward the little grub will begin to draw upon the plant for its food. This “irritates” the plant and it begins at once to send out a vegetable growth in sclf-defense. However, this serves only to cover the little intruder the more and to feed him |as_well. Then there is the willow cone-gall The mother is a gnat, and she places | her eggs in the bugd tip of the young| willow. The little grub hatches and be- gins to eat as all little grubs do. The | willow tries to protect itself by folding the scales of its bud close together. This makes a shingle house for the in- truder and the willow bud stops grow- ing. Soon it looks like a short, thick knob on the tip of a stem. There are other insects which come along and use | this house, too, they help eat the food {but _do not occupy the same room. The blister galls on the white oak | grow close together. _They really look |like blisters and got their name this w The mother is a wasp and she arranges her family close together on| the underside of the leaf. When her | children grow up they are boys and; girls and they favor their grandparents. But their children turn out to be all girls and they favor their grandparents, too. The little house of the midges and | aphis is decorated with hairs on the outside and the doorways are fuzzy looking. In Europe, galls are used for | the tannin they possess. Some are used for the manufacture of ink. There are 1,500 species of galls and you can see them on many of our trees and plants, once you know where to look for them. The little goldenrod gall-house is not made by a son or daughter of a gall- insect at all, but by the offspring of a little brown and gray mottled moth threc-fourths of an inch long. Of course, her child is a caterpillar. The house he constructs is spindle shaped, to conform to his figure, and there he resides in his one-room apartment, eat- ing his fill of goldenrod juice. One bright day he decides to see the world. He cuts an oval-shaped door in the upper part of his home with beveled edges on the outside. He places debris before this door to keep out the quisitive ant or the prowling beetle and takes & nap. He awakens a moth, pushes the material from his door and tumbles out. With his new, strong wings he flies about, enjoying the scenery and seeking his mate. Galls are made after the egg hatches and when the grub begins to grow. The insect eats' the vegetable fiber and spits | it out. The plant tissue has been | changed into a substance secreted by the glands of the insect which causes the gall to grow faster than the oc- cupant. The oak-apple gall is as large as a small apple and may be cut open and examined with easc. In the very center will be seen the grub, if it is a | green gall. The grub always cuts a doorway from which to escape. Examine your gall and you can tell if the owner is in residence or not. (Copyright, Coffee Frappe. Beat two egg whites until stiff, then beat with one cupful each of granu- Jated sugar and maple sugar until blended. Fold in three cupfuls of strong coffce and freeze. Garnish with !three cupfuls of whipped cream fla- vored with one teaspoonful of vanilla extract and blended with one cupful of diced marshmallows. | 1931) Frozen Eggnogg. Heat two cupfuls of milk and one cupful of powdered sugar in a double boiler, stir into six egg yolkes that have been beaten until a light lemon color, then fold in the stiffiy beaten egg whites and blend with four cup- fuls of cream and two teaspoonfuls each of nutmeg and vanilla extract. Freeze, but not too long. e Orange Biscuits. Cut some orange peel in thin strips and cook in sugar sirup until thick and soft, stirring all the time. Shape bak- ing powder biscult dough like Parker House rolls, and place the orange peel in between the layers. | carried by the blood stream to.the re- A FAMOUS child psychologist recently stressed the importance of teach- g a child to admire its parents, and declared that it was fatal to its development to have its faith in its father and mother completely blasted, no matter how unworthy they may be. Especially does it appear to be necessary for children to have reverence for their mothers. ‘This is easily understood. To the young child its parent must looked up to; be admired; be imitated. Some one who 1splncnrnabe Wl}:E dom and goodness. Listen in on little children talking to each other and they are boasting of the virtues of their parents. “My mother is the most beautiful woman in the world.” “My mother can sing the best or cook the best.” “My mother has the loveliest clothes.” “My father is the strongest man that ever was.” “My father can drive an automobile faster than anybody.” TAKE this adoration, this admiration that & child has for its parents away from it and all of its standards are swept away. Its altars are overturned. Perhaps most parents do have some dim vision of how Important it is that their children should admire them and look up to them. At any Tate their vanity makes them desire above all things to be an authority to thelr sons and daughters, and no complaint 15 more bitter than that of the fathers and mothers who wail out that they can't do a thing with their children and that John won't listen to them and Mary won't be guided by their opinions, THERE is no denying that modern parents have lost control of their children. The traditions of obedience have gone into the discard. The heavy father business is a laugh instead of a terror. You can't threaten boys and girls who earn their own living and help support the family with turning them out of the house and shutting the door on them. If children defer to their parents' wishes now, it is because they respect them and not because they are afraid of them. This makes it all-important that parents should build up in their children’s minds, from their very babyhood, an ideal of a father and mother who are invested with almost super-natural wisdom and good- ness and who are to be copled. But, instead of doing this, many parents are gullty of the incredible folly of stripping every rag of illusion that a child may have about its father and mother from it and holding up each other before it as an object of derision or contempt instead of something to worship. THEY forget that a child takes its opinion of its father and motrer from what they think of each other. Father writes the price tag for mother for little Sue and mother sets the value of father for Johnny. It father admires motker and treats her as if se were a little queen; if he is always talking about how beautiful and sweet and lovely and good she is, the children wili be her adoring slaves and always be trying to save mother and to make mother happy and to live up to what they consider mother's high standards of conduct. JF, mother has whined and fretted and complained at father because he didn’t make more money and got caught in a bad investment and if, perhaps, in a fury of jealousy she has accused him of having affairs with other women, the children look upon him as a poor, weak fail who has made a mess of his own life and whom t propese to let interfere with theirs. T, re don’ So when the time comes when the mother expects th exercise authority over grown child: because s stroyed their respect for him. And when calls upon t to influence the daughters she cannot do i that she is a fool (Copyrisht. 197 MODES OF THE - MOMENT WA Lr/”;’r‘_l'.l‘fiez\{ a and a series gl’:."rj et 5 Walking Way to Beauty BY CHARLOTTE C. WEST, M. D. ] adolescent girls growth quite sud- | denly begins to “speed up.” In some young folks the rate is out of all pro- Dortion to the strength or age, and we call this the awkward period. In some young people self-consciousness of their ungainliness assumes such proportions 25 to make life unbearable. 1t is especially at this time of great- est growth, when height is attained at the expense of vigor, that systematic outdoor exercise is particularly called for. The body, a_complicated machine of the utmost intricacy, requires proper | tion and elimination of w fuel to feed it not only food, but oxygen | This is of particular necessity in | young folks who are prone to constipa- |tion. Purposeful walking and deep breathing are a powerful aid in over- | This wholesome diversion makes its ap- peal to every young girl. No apparatus is required, Just a pair stout walking shoes, 'light-weight clothing, skirts short and no restricte | ing bands to interfere with deep breath- |ing and splendid circulation of the | blood. Thus equipped, tre club or se- | lected group of congenial spirits enter | into the sport. In hiking, pursue deep. purposeful | breathing. not only to aerate the blood but to floor the entire system { fresh, pure air, which h: motest cell. It is due to a lack of systematic out- door activity that so many girls acquire during the awkward period lifelong de- y fects, tricks of manner cultivated to |lungfuls of fresh air with every breath, hide constrained and uneasy postures. | stimulates the entire circulatory sys- or a certain pose to cover up a physical | tem, and all the tissues are renewed. imperfection. The defects, the awkwardness, the un- One of the best all-around outdoor | gainliness alluded to above give way “sports” within the reach of adolescent | gradually to a steady gain in health girls in every walk of life is “hiking.” |and beauty. lking, taking in deep Sanitary Risk in carelessly-made substitutes for Kotex SAFETY should be your first concern in sanitary protection. Health safety. The kind of safety you are certain of in Kotex, the padthatisusedin leading hospitals. But how about those nameless substitutes, of whose makers you know nothing? What assurance have you of their sanitary safety? ‘Who made them? Where? How? Atre you sure you'd use them, if you knew their origin? : There’s one certain way of avoid- ing risk. Ask for Kotex. Genuine Kotex. It's immaculately clean— made by wonderful, patented ma- chines from start to finish, in sur- roundings of hospital cleanliness. Kotex is splendidly comfortable. 1t may be worn with perfect safety on either side. Soft, filmy layers make adjustment easy. Treated to deodorize. Readily disposable. KOTE€X Sanitary Napkias IMA DUDD NEVER GOES TO THE BALL GAME WITHOUT SHE TAKES HER BROTHER. AT THE GAME YESTERDAY, WHEN SHE WAS TOLD %) "5 THAT THE PITCHER WAS k7 WILD, SHE SA\D, "PERHAPS HE DID NOT HAVE THE. PROPER HOME TRAINING” H. K. R—"She never goes to the ball game unless (not without) she takes her brother” is the required form. If “without” is used, omit “she takes.” We then have “She never goes to the ball game without her brother.” Simi- larly we say, “Don’t go without your umbrella,” not “Don’t go without you take your umbrella.” Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Don't Look for Flaws. Parents are hard to please. demand panaceas for every ill and and even when there is no cording to the ‘“books” which are, after all, just averages of many kinds of gain. We deplore overfeeding when it has some undesirable results. When it has none, then let well enough alon averagr, but everything else is so ideal cver. She writes: “My baby, who weighed 9 pounds at birth, now at 5!, months weighs more than 19 pounds. He hos always demanded more food than he four bottles daily of 8 ounces each. He gets 3 ounces of orange juice, 2 tea- spoonfuls of sieved vegetable and 2 teaspoonfuls of cereal twice dail 1 broth and he gets some of this. “Although he eats every bit of every- thing I give him, he is really not what one would call a fat baby, but he is solid as a piece of wood. He is happy and contented and when put to bed at 6 o'clock sleeps all night through until 6 the next morning without waking. “Do_you think I am feeding wisely? * Isn't this too much? Would it be wise to cut down on the foo now that he has started to get teeth Most mothers would give millions for a baby this young who was good all day and slept all night. When the baby is teething his appe- tite may diminish, in which case sim- ply do not force food. but let him do his own “cutting down.” There is time enough to dilute milk and decrease amounts of food when some reason f it appears. While he is bounding up- ward with vigor and happtness, it would be a shame to change one thing. Chicken Biscuit Salad. Butter 8 cr 10 tea biscuits. Thor- oughly mix one and one-third cupfuls teaspoonful of celery sait. haif a cupful of stuffed chopped fourths cupful of mayonnaise dressing. Spread the mixture between the bis- cuits. Serve on crisp lettuce leave sprinkle with powdercd sugar and su round the biscuits with half & cupful of preserved figs, cne-fourth cupful whole stuffed clives and one-fourth cupful of candied ginger. |adroit in dealing w They | litely, sweetly condescendin. Mrs. R's baby has put on 10 pounds | in 5 months, which is better than the | that this is of no consequence what- | | active adu four months of sage and he now getc | cook the vegetable in beef or chicken | the highest-paid business women in America. She is now married to cne of America’s famous authors. Not What She Seemed. ‘When I was new to offices we had an executive whom I did not like. She was a large woman, nearly 50, which seemed to me old enough at that timg, wken I was orly 21. Her fresh, clear com- plexion was young, but her t0o buxom figure insisted on age. The thing T dis- liked was a sort or sweet manner, as though you'd [} cooked apples and had forgotten )t‘he sugar and then v SUBAT [Bhd hen Helen Woodward. It didn't mix. The sweetness was no inner flavor, but an outside sprinkling that was merely indigestible. And there was a kindly condescension in her manner that was simply mad- dening. Well, she sat there each day in what looked like the serene mightiness of her job, head of her department Of that she herself was sure, for she had held it for 20 years. She was really doing the woriz badly; she had no inner capacity for it. But she never suspected her unfitness. And she was h her superior. With inferiors she was, as I said, po And then I was amazed to hear that |she was terribly unhappy. The light | had gone out of her life. This woman | was in love. For 25 years she had had |a lover. | The man was a successful banker | with a wife in an asylum for the in- sane. So they had been very secret. And during the long years their secret [love had settled into something steady and calm. And then when this woman was 50 years old_the man's wife died. She was sure he would marry her. But he martied another woman, & young girl of 20, That's all T know abaut it At the time I saw her in the office, so superior, she was in despair. All that time she was bearing her tragedy | and keeping her face to the world with | courage. She had a good job which |she liked and money she'd saved up, | but with love gone. | It she had married in the beginn |she would have been a self-sa | matron, ruling her house and her ch dren, and playing bridge. Sh person, conservative, who loved a quiet life, and saved her y. To have a secret love a: {must have been a dreadful defiance of |every moral idea which she valued When the man deserted her she have felt it was & punishment o sins. T felt so ashamed to think that I No' one would have thought of her h2d disliked her. ; in a sentimental setting. She was so | The sugary manner was the mask plump and rosy and corscted and so Which she used to protect herself. ure of herself, in the office any (Copyright, 1931.) Fixing Room for Elders room. Good illumination is essential A lamp should be placed beside the easy chair and another beside the bed The ones who fecl the slightest in- security in the dark should not be ex- pected to turn off the light and th make their way among the furniture the bec. The chest or dresser should be dequately lighted ar es should be wi perfect repair for the elders make rite books, family pt mall objects which & rough years of as: { these things do j > of appropriate furnishi to remain in this ro ¥y grow to feel that way abo our_possessions some time. UCH has been written about rooms for children and rooms for the members of the household But what about the elders? Has any one ever stopped to think that have some special nceds and are en- titled to some special consideration The elders themselves them in her decoration plans will find her efforts ciated. First of all elders whi notth: windowed room o possible give them floor, if you live in a house can watch some of the act they are no longer able to parti 2 select | If you are an apar! | him | of cooked diced chicken with one-fourth | clives and _three- | of | a room which gets m shine and whic beyend its wind the very young. apprecial safe ‘The floor sk all over, or nearly all over. r are treacherous and bare floors are co A few small rugs may be placed on top the carpet if it is desired to give ad tional life and color to the floor. But they should not be used on a waxsd floor. A waxed floor is treach enough even for young people; aged it creates hazards that may hav serious consequences. The window treatment requires cial consideration. Tre g should be of some easily laundered ma- terial so they may alw be fresh an give the Toom the cheerful aspect fre: ness imparts. They should be trans- parent, or tied back so as not to struct ‘the view or keep out the su shire. eries should be of a light uch as linen n'z or cretonne. Heavy silks or velvets are rather depressing. Elder people do ot no_matter how all sider the spotles s bs fruit SEND 10¢ fomic daied Chsuncy St., Boston, like dark cor PERFECT CLEANSER The United States Public Health Service says; “8,287 people died in oné year in the United States from Typhoid Fever, and ten times that number suffered from the infection, for which common houseflies are largely responsible.” Can you ignore this danger? 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. Do not confuse Flit with other insect sprays. Flit is guaranteed to kill, or money back. Get the famous yellow can with the soldier and the black band —today! LIT LARGEST SELLER IN 121 COUNTRIES BECAUSE ITS STAINLESS VAPOR KILAS QUICKER