Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1931, Page 12

WOMAN’S PAGE. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1931 Selecting Household Hardware BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. SIDE LIGHTS IN COLONIAL STYLE HAVE MANY PRISMS. ‘When building & house one item | that should be carefully considered is | the hardware. This includes all metal fittings from plumbing pipes to hinges. If the dwelling is in old Colonial style there are excellent reproductions of the hardware used in this J::rlod of American settler days. If house is of ultra-modern architecture the very latest modern fixtures should be installed. And so it is with each archi- It is not the Iware imperative to know just the particular type. Glass knobs may be round, or hexagonal, clear or opague, pure white or cream. And when it comes to metal knobs. or wooden ones the variety is bewildering. Shapes of keyhole es- cutcheons are innumerable. And these are but the minor things. In the matter of lighting fixtures more can be made that are flagrant than in almost any one other item of hardware. When refitting a house with these fixtures the house- has to exercise especial care, for he is on his own. When a dwelling is built the architect will advise, or the plans should indicate the style and it is to be assumed that types will be correct. Take time to study fixtures and to a reliable firm who has an advis! decorator, who will help with- out extra charge. Salespersons can | tell you the varying merits of fixtures, but it is not their business to be dec- orators. If you kne the styles of fixtures best suited to your rooms, salespersons should be satisfactory, but do not er?:fl them to go beyond their | scope, which is salesmanship. : (Coprisht, 1931.) ever small, it with the items or keyhole plates, as they also are termed, come ‘within this category. ‘When replacing hardware be sure to match that which you have, unless you are doing over an entire room and wish to a radical style. It is not shape of a new correct. The finish must also match. It is in small details that errors easily creep in ‘when replacements are necessary. Door knobs, even in definite kinds, bave so many variations that it is A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. T dido’t surprise many _persons in n whe:h‘Henry Prather find no one else who could and would do it that Fletcher agreed. How well he succeeded is evidenced the commission’s record for the last L At the close of the first year the com- mission worked as a unit—unanimous in all its recommendations to the Presi- dent. | Fletcher is in his late fifties, rather tall, with snow-white hair and a ruddy wmfi;xhn. His sense of humor has carried him safely through most of the incidents of his career. And| they have been many, in war as well | as_diplomacy. He quit his law practice to join Theo- | dore velt and his Rough Riders for the Cuban eu:rlrn in the Spanish- American War. ter that he went over to the Philippines as a volunteer sec- ond lieutenant to fight the insurrec- tionists. ‘His love for horseback riding still per- sists, and he is an accomplished horseman. Iy E?agi six had untarily quit Ambassador to Teturned Ttaly and to private life. He was in when House : g e Fletcher E repeated his request, only to get a more emphatic refusel. And it was not‘ Hoover insisted nti Mr It was in the field of diplomacy that 4 he excelled. His long years of service in Central and South America have won for him a popularity and a place in the esteem THE STAR’S | of government officials of these DAILY PATTERN | | i ictompanicd Hoorer on his soutn SERVICE trip |in the role of “guide, philosopher and You can have long or short sleeves. |friend,” and at every point of call It’s just as you fecl about it. The short sleeves. was greeted as a long-lost | brother. | Pan-American papers printed columns are tricky. Don’t you think |about him and the way he was regarded they are the way they tie in youthful |in those countries. fashion, leaving an open area above? When Ambassador Dawes made his The skirt is cut so as to give its/ celebrated remark that diplomacy was ‘wearer a slim line. The kilted plaits | “easy on the brains, but hell on the hang so smartly straight only to flare | fect.” Fletcher's observatjon is typical the ‘Im in motion. of the man. And the whole affair is so easy. “It depends upon which you use,” Crepe silk in white printed in black, ' he said. made the flfllin“ nl. It's so lovely for town as well as resort. Numberless schemes could be used for | LJTTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. The Weakly News. Weather: Could be werse to the inauguration | oy NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Tilustrations by Mary Foley. LXXXI1V. NIGHTMARE INSECTS. OU don’t have to eat lobster late at night to see weird animals. ‘Take yourself for a walk in the or in an orchard where the treehoppers hold forth. These strange creatures have the most fantastic headgear you ever want to see. They sit in solemn groups. Some of them have bell-like knobs on their feel- ers. Other have great roofs over their bodies. Some have eyes that move in every direction. Over on another limb you feel that you are seeing a dead leaf. Not at all. The leaf spr wings and soars away. ‘This is the dead-leaf butterfly. So per- fectly does she imitate the dead leaf when her enemies draw near that they 8o away searching elsewhere for her. Over there is a dead branch. Ob, well, you know it is, and that makes you feel better. You turn about just in time to see the “branch” drop to the ground by & silken thread. It is the child of the geometrid moth, the famous measuring worm. His arch enemy had been close upon him, and he assumed this ruse until all danger was past. Then the leaf-mantid. Right before your eyes is a leaf that looks as if some- thing had taken little bits out of it, and along comes an insect which is about to walk on this leaf. My! The legs come from under the leaf angd shoot out after the unsuspecting one. There are the praying mantis, who sit like little saints. Eyes upturned toward heayen. Front legs lified as if in prayer.' The long green wings like flowing veils, Before you know it the creature gives a shud- der, and so do you. The insect which she has been waiting for has come with- in reach of her mighty arms, and in a flash they have reached out, caught it, and she is consuming the poor thing before you have had time to know what it was all about. There are dead-looking leaves rolling about at your feet. These surely are that and nothing else. These, too, have occu- pants. Insects have crawled on a leaf. fastened one edge with silk thread and rolled it about themselves. Going home you see a caterpillar creeping along the path. It seems to decided to examine it. Just before you lean over the object you notice a queer little black spot on one of the white ones, and to your amazement a tiny fly steps out and flies away. Later you watch many tiny flies lift the lid from an egg on the back of the caterpillar and fly. No use, you realize that the strange things you have seen in your sleep and called nightmares are not ope bit more strange than the insects you have seen on_your walk. Try it for yourself and see how many there are about you. (Copyright, 1931.) veryday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Genius, Geniuses of all ages have been puzzles for the masses. Some have been called | queer, and not a few semi-popular writ- ers have tried to establish the theory that all genluses are or may become insane. There is little or no truth in this theory. Geniuses appear queer merely because they spend their time at work. Mozart, the great musician, applied himself completely to everything he did. child, he covered the chairs, walls and discoveries, said, “By continuously thinking of them. Swammerdam, the tch physician, worked for six years on the anatomy of the frog. The great naturalist, Buffon, spent 50 years at his desk. ' In his own words, genius is nothing but “much patience.” In addition to long patience and hard work, there is another factor, the tremendous tendency for thinkers to do times.” But it is only apparently. So far as geniuses have let us in on the secret of their success, it appears that their thoughts must “bake” a long time before they are ready to take concrete form. Newton's statement comes pretty close to being a disclosure of the es- sence of this kind of thinking—*uncon- sclous cerebration.” It appears that thoughts must have time to get to- gether or integrate. (Copyright, 1931.) My Neighbor Says: SISSIETY PAGE. Mr. Benny Pottses cusmzen Mr. Artie | Alixander had supper at Mr. Benny | Pottses house Sattiday and they both | | started to giggle with nuthing to giggle | |at and couldent stop, till Mr. Benny| | Pottses father got mad, being reely | | something to giggle at. the result being | they both had to finish their supper in the kitchin. SPORTING PAGE. Thersday afternoon Puds Simkins ate hot dog sanwitches at the circus and | |all #t did to him was give him & appe- | tite for.supper. | FREE MEDICAL ADVICE By Docter B. Potts eskwire. Deer doctor, T get dizzy spells. What dou you advize?—S. Hunt Anser: Stop standing on your hed. If a recipe calls for sour milk and none is available, add two tahlespoons of vinegar to one cup of sweek milk. Let stand for three minutes and the milk will sour To remove dents from furni- ture, dampen the bruise or dent with warm water. Fold a plece of brown paper five or six times and soak it (folded paper) in warm water. Lay the moistened but not dripping wet paper over the dent and on top a warm flat iron (not a hot one), letting it re- main long enough to cause evapo- ration of water or until dent is raised even with rest of finished surface. Repeat process if neces- sary. In boiling vegetables which take a long time to cook, like but- ter beans or string beans, put a pinch of soda in cooking water. | 1 { POME BY SKINNY MARTIN, | Anyways I Like It | | € drink milk at every meel to make me| ] fatter, | | Ingluding 2 exter glassesful at dinner, | |And although nobody’s noticed eny | | chnn{e yet, | | At least I dont beleeve it makes me | | thinper. | INTRISTING FACKS ABOUT | INTRISTING PEEPLE | Shorty Judge was stung by a bee | when he was about 3 years old and | | has never associated with insecks since. | even ant Persey Weaver never gets his hands derty, the ony reason he washes them | | being habit. { PR gznr Fruit Salad. It will save gas if cooked on a gas stove. (Copyright, 1931) JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in Etiquette. BY JOSEPH J. FRISCH. have white spots on its back, and you | Even when learning his arithmetic as a | floors of his home with figures. New- | ton, upon being asked how he made his | their work at what are apparently “odd | ing new | grows out of their combination. i I DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Wilta Girl Be Happier With People More Socially Prominent Than She Is or With Her Old Crowd? DEAR MISS DIX: I am & girl not euite 22 years of age, attractive in appearance. 1 have been very pupular with a crowd of boys and girls with whom I have been going since my school days, but I have broken away from that crowd and am now going With & crowd of young people who are very much more socially important than those that I went with before. ¢ ‘These girls and boys are very much wealthier than I; have beautiful homes, dress much better and enjoy a social position which I have not. While T am “more or less accepted by them, probably because of the chap who introduced me to them in the first place, I cannot help feeling a little cut of place with them and am often very unhappy and envious of them. I certainly don't enjoy the popularity with them that I did with the old crowd. Please tell me, Miss DIx, it pays to be striving for something that seems above me. I know one should be ambitious and not fontent to remain in a rut, but my getting out of a rut in this case has made me very discontented with my home, and 5o on. On the other hand, this may be an opportunity for me to meet new people who may prove of importance to me later. SUNNY. Answer—It has always seemed to me that the queerest ambition in the world is the desire so many people have to associate with the people who don’t want to associate with them. But it appears to be a common mania. Every day I see people running after people who snub them. I see people practically hiring other people to come to thelr parties. I see people enduring insults and humiliation in order to get asked to places and groveling before the men and women who are wealthy or of a higher social position than they are. What the social climber gets out of it that makes it worth the strug- gle and strain and striving, the money it costs and the snubs and kicks he or she—but the social climber is generally of the feminine sex—gets is something I have never been able to figure out. However, evidently there are plenty who consider that they are sufficiently rewarded when they are invited to an omnibus tea where all the guests wonder how they got there or are permitted to pay some society woman's gambling debts or contribute largely to her p:t charity. Practicaly all social aspirants buy their way into society. ‘The check book route is the quickest and surest way to get under the right awnings, but as you are a poor girl that means of arriving is barred to you. Also your sex is against you. Young men are always at a premium in society, while girls are a drug on the market. Any personable young man with a good address and a glib line and a well cut even! suit and nimble heels is welcomed with open arms by society matrons, but there are already too many girls who have to be provided with beaux and dancing partners and husbands to make either the mothers or the girls desirous of having another girl break into the charmed circle. And the prettier and more attractive she is, the less do they put welcome on their door mat. Of course, as you suggest, you may find the fairy prince of every young girl's dreams in this new environment—some man who is handsome and charming and has a bank account—but, alas, fairy tales very true in-real life. While rich young men may th around with pretty poor girls, when they get married they nearly always pick out a wife from among their own set. So I wouldn’t bank on that possibility too heavily. I would reflect that among the hard-working boys that you have grown up with there is mighty likely to be some go-getter who will be giving his wife ropes of pearls and limousines at middle age, while the man who inherited a fortune is pawning his wife’s engagement ring to get money to pay the rent. For in this country the man who has to make his own fortune very often makes it, while the man who was born to a fortune nearly always loses it. One of the chief objections to going with people who are better off than you are is that it is bad fer the soul. You are kept in a constant state of humiliation, because when you are with them you are shabby beside their imported frocks, and your fiivver looks like an ash can beside their fine cars. And this takes all the starch out of the strongest character. Nor, being human, cen you keep from resenting their having so much more than you have. And it is ruinous to your purse. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright. 1931.) KAC)(?FETI-% MOMENT PARIS Worths brilliant green 7a.£a.rdz'n4 frock wlh. cap sleeves for embrols dered yole, o ;&%b chiftor. . Long straight noet 1o ife ball cufr L S AR e Saving Without Scrimping BY EDITH M. SHAPCOTT, Nutrition Conmlufil‘ Home-Making Center, New York. TS initial cost may seem like a large | green. Pour into a tray of an auto- outlay of money, but a good refrig- | matic refrigerator and allow to freeze until quite firm. Remove to an ice-cold | (I erator vflhp:hie!:hpelrl::r! nev;err lgn“ve« 50 degrees Fahrenheit is one of the big- | gest food economies the home can have. | mixing bowl and beat with a rotary egg part in saving on the food bills is | beater until mixture is very light. Fold Its &x‘l ly realized in [ protection it gives to milk, cream, meats and other perishable foods, for without the refrigerator the wastage on these products would be alarming. Portunately for those who lve in the newer apart- large in stifly beaten whites of eggs to which the salt has been added. Return to the freezing unit to finish the freezing. Butter Scotch Parfait.—One-third cupful brown sugar, one tablespoonful | butter, one-quarter cupful water, yolks of two eggs, one cupful heavy cream, one- Immnm te nful salt and one tea- ments in cities, automatic re- frigerators are fur- nished. ‘Those who | Chill, e must buy a good icebox should not look | sistency of boled custard, add salt and upon it as & luxury, however, but as a | vanilla. Fold into chilled egg mixture. means of definitely saving money, since | Turn into tray of 1t saves food. | frigerator and freeze without stirring. Milk and cream may be kept a week = These recipes may be used and frosen without souring if the refrigerator |in an ordinary ice cream freezer. is slwaya st o temperature that pre- | —_— vents the growth of bacteria and molds. | i With proper storage facilities there 18 10 | tury Shronioice craity e wooth, cen® feed 1o dmit the menus to easily kept | variable weather as we experience now- foods, 5o it is possible to plan meals | adays. He records a May-like day in | three’ or four days, or even a Week, | january one year, and is perturbed by ahead—always a saving. Food {it; indeed, peagers i <4 a day or 50 ahead With no fear | church for seasomanle wthor o of its spolliny | - , and left-overs may be I Alec the Great I counted upon to be practically as fresh several days hence as on the day of | their first appearance. | 1f one has an automatic refrigerator, | o bought or day and kept in the freezing unit until time to serve it, at which time it will be found attractive and of just the | %mmmfl;‘sm SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. One fing I aren’t goin’ to do, not never, an’ 'at's smoke a pipe. (Copyright, 1931 Milady Beautiful BY LOIS LEEDS. Enlarged Pores. Dear Miss Leeds: (1) I work over & } steam table all day and find that the pores in my face have become enlarged. Is there a remedy? (2) 1 have used a mud pack twice. After each treatment my face has cleared up amazingly, but I have heard that they are not good for the skin. I am 19 years old. ELLEN. Answer—After cleansing your face well, both night and morning, rub it with a plece of ice wrapped in & soft cloth. Also always use an astringent before applying make-up, as this closes ! the pores. It also stimulates the skin and tones up the pores so that they will not be so apt to become relaxed and thus enlarged. If you will send stamped, self-addressed envelope with a request for my leaflet on,the care of olly complexions, you will’' find on it detalled dlucuomnmn of skin in which pores are e 3 (2) The right kind of a facial pack is beneficial. It tones up the l;m-ecnlel and its astringent properties refine the pores. The Eamnm ingredients make a good pack: Mix together two tablespoonfuls of carbonate of mag- nesia, one tablespoonful of fuller's earth, one tablespoonful of peroxide. Thin with witch-hazel or rosewater to a smooth paste. Use the facial pack in this way: Pirst remove surface dust, make-up, | etc., with cleansing cream or oil. Re- move cream with a plece of absorbent cotton or a tissue square. Apply one or two hot towels to open the pores of face and neck. Now apply clay evenly with the fingertips .ndt‘el"t it dry. uln applying be sure to pul on gently, neither rubbing or stretching the skin. The face should be covered thoroughly so that the skin does not show. Leave it on until thoroughly dry—about 15 or 20 minutes. Remove gently with a soft cloth wrung out in tepid water. After removing the pack apply a warm towel and then bathe the face with witch-hazel, Next apply a tissue cream and massage gently for a few minutes. Remove excess cream with a plece of tissue and then apply your astringent or skin tonic. “Apply {ouxulon 'crer:‘mr and make-up if you are going out ai the treatment. LOIS LEEDS. V. M-I think your nair would look very well arranged in a wind-blown bob. Such a bob is very comfortable (particularly for Summer) and it should be especially becoming to you a3 sa, our face R 1S LEEDS. (Copyright. 1931.) Cream Pie Filling. Two squares chocolate, 25 13 cup flour, % W salt, milk, 2 tablespoons butter, 1 teaspoon vanilla and 2 eggs. Melt chocolate in double boiler. Add sugar and flour. Blend and add the milk. Cook 15 min- utes. Stir frequently. Add rest of in- gredients and cook 2 minutes. Pour into baked pie shell and cool. Top with whipped cream. " Ham Timbales. Two cupfuls chopped cooked ham, one cupful soft bread crumbs, two ta- blespoonfuls chopped onions, two table- spoonfuls chopped green peppers, two tablespoonfuls chopped celery, two eggs, beaten; one cupful milk and two table- spoontuls butter, melted. Beat eggs and add rest of ingredients. Pour into individual buttered molds. Set in pan of hot water and bake 30 minutes in moderate oven. Unmold on platter. Surround with creamed peas and gar- nish with parsley. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Cantaloupes. Oatmeal with Cream. Baked Sausages. Blueberry Griddle Cakes, Sirup. Coffee. French Dressing. Peach Shortcake, Whipped Cream. Coffee. SUPPER. Fruit Salad. Ice Box Rolls_x.‘emu Squares. 8. GRIDDLE CAKES. Make griddle cakes in the usual way, with sour milk, only a bit thicker with flour, and then stir in a generous amount of blueber- ries. Can be fried in small sized cakes or have them as large s & teaplate. and pile up, with butter and sugar and a tiny grating of nutmeg between. PEACH MELBA. Place a large, half, hollow side up, in & glass. Top with a mound of va- P ’w&wm two tal thinned with the canned Frances was dressing , | Her chum, who was not invited, had suggested tha hite i =§§;~ §iEE & = in . But don't be discouraged. Hatpins have been revived in France ornamen 3 ’tp):e left side o keep the hat !:lom out of position and to give a0 ‘added mote Of coquetry to the rakish little hat with which it is worn. (Copyright, 1981) At the Children’s Table BY MARY HOPE NORRIS, Founder, Mothers' Radio Round Table Club. SCI!NTIBTS rank vegetables next to l milk in im ince in the diet of the growing c! 3 are the source of regulal + + » mineral matter, vitamins and bulk . . . &8 well as actual food value. They have a wonderful toning - up effect on the digestive system because they contain cellu- lose, which In cooking veg- etables the careful mother will con- serve the valuable mineral properties by using as little water as possible. Some vegetables— spinach, for in- stance —need no water added to them other than that which clings 1o them in the washing. As much as possible, conserve the water in which you cook vegetables . . . a splendid addition to soup ... fresh or canned. accustomed to from infancy. Nowadays the baby begins to take his Children like vegetables if they are | gre: them vumzmn-tmmotimm He can take tomato juice after 1 month .~ Lightfoot’s Cousin. Qur friends 'tis given us to choose: Our relatives we can't refuse —Lightfoot the Deer. the matter of relatiyes. Yes, sir, he is fortunate. He has no one whose rela- gulch or canyon, near the head of which the old cabin was NANCY PAGE “Why Look Untidy?” Asks Frances. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. ‘The Good Taste girls were going to & picnic. Nancy had invited them, but since some of t:le girls Hv‘edu:lr out, it | Was necessary for most of them to go on_the street car or the bus. for the affair. B 'k trousers. But luci Frances dem L don't belleve that Mrs. Page would di - one “Have it your own way. are & prig. Bet no boy at you.” Frances felt the that remark, but was not quite socially experienced enough to wfl:m;wmzwa-t- BEDTIME STORIES of age . . . carefully strained, of course, On such a diet as this he not only re- ceives those all-important vitamins and mineral matter, but he learns to know and like the taste of vegetables. It 8 an easy matter to his taste for One pint cooked potatoes, one tea- spoonful _salt, one-fourth ful / pepper, two tablespoonfuls s two tabl fuls fat, two me- dium wW:uee, one mwm ful ed carrots, with the grated cheese. cracker crumbs on top of the cheese. Bake for 10 minutes in & hot (500 degrees Fahrenheit), By Thornton W. Burgess. situated, when he was startled by crash in the bru;h oft fnm:ne.nslde. Peeping e saw & imal distan ce and Lightfoot the Deer is fortunate in | yhere “IT_1S LIGHTFOOT AND IT LIGHTFOOT," COl PARM/ ER BROWN'S BOY TO HIMSELF. It was & Deer. There was no about that, no doubt whatever. It a Deer, but somehow there was unfamiliar about this one. “It is Lightfoot and it isn't Light- foot,” _contin Brown's to himself. “This fellow is an 1 remember Lightfoot to be he isn|’ quite so graceful, but it is else. Now what is it?” is what it is, those f he had borrowed a My, my, such ears for Lightfoot had are vet now, for I have often foot with his horns in the By being in the velvet he the horns, or antlers, were still cov- to | ered with the velvet-like skin with which they are a period of growth and while hardening. “They are as handsome as Light- foot's, and I don't know_ but hand. somer,” continued Farmes Brown's in his hts, the while he nom to determine what it was that seemed odd about them. Suddenly his face cleared. “I know now!” he exclaimed aloud, forgetting for the moment that watch- ing latter 38 g i E isfifififizi ] E-'“ifi R