Evening Star Newspaper, August 20, 1931, Page 37

Little Touches of Distinction BY MARY Successful home dressmaking does not consist merely of careful cutting and fitting and neat finishing, This season especially we must also think of the little dressmaker touches and clever trimmings that make a dress distinctive or otherwise. Actually this little touch of distine- BEDTIME STORIE Credit to Their Training. v Of all the teachers you may test, You'll find experierce ‘ia the best —Old Mother Nature. Trust your mnose rather than your eves and ears, but use all three. Hide when you can and freeze to remain hidden, but jump apd yun when you must. Preeze if you gre surprised. but are not sure you have been seen. These are. the laws for long liviag taught the twins by their mother;"Mrs. Forkhorn the Mule Deer. And the twins learned and remembered. which 1s quite as im- portant as-learning. They-had seen their mother freeze standing right out in the open just at dusk and had scen Farmer Brown's Boy mistake her for a stump and finally go on his way without knowing that he had been looking at a Deer. That was a lesson never to be forgotten. They had been told all about freezing, but now they had seen it done and how it worked. They had seen for them- selves”the value of it. but not vet had thty had real csuse to try anything of the kind for themselves. They had their chence a few days later, however. Farmer Brown's Boy and Stumpy had started out at daylight | for @ long tramp in the mountains. They were walking quietly and were going up wind—that is, they were go- ing in the direction from which the wind was blowing. So it was that Mrs. Farkhorn's big ears failed to catch a wagning sound. and her wonderful nose fafled ‘o get their scent, for the wind was taking it the other way. But her watehful eyes’ saw them the instant they appeared in sight. She and the twins' were in the open, and Farmer Bfown's Boy and Stumpy saw them just as they themselves were seen. was a litle thicket close at hand, and into this the twins ran, crouching low at Mother's warning. ‘They separated as they entered it, and one lay down and fi in one place and the other did same thing in another part of the thicket. Mrs. Fork- away, bounding over the horn “dashed bushes and seeking to draw the atten- ) tion of these two strangers. Now the thicket was of low bushes, end Farmer Brcwn's Bov had marked where one of the twins had entered it JOLLY POLLY English FRISCHL A Lesson in BY JOSEPH J | TOOK ANC BOUGHT A MAGAZINE AND IN 1T | READ FIRST VICTIMS OF €5 ARE “She took took and dug a ! HAVE A COOL SWEET DRINK WHEN TIRED AND HOT A fine way to keep cool and com- fortable in summer is to drink cool drinks at the soda fountain or at home, sweetened to taste with sugar. There is nothing like sugar to sweeten home-made drinks such as lemonade, iced tea, coffee, chocolate and fruit punches, And there is no better sugar than refined cane sugar ~—it is acknowledged everywhere as the ndard. Refresh yourself with a sweetened drink. The Sugar Institute. @8 “Flavor and season with Sugar” MARSHALL. ] tion is not difficult to achleve. Keep your eyes open when you go through | the shops and you will see all sorts of i clever ways to finish collars and cuffs and walstline or interesting ways of introducing a touch of color. Today's sketch shows a very simple applique design used on one of the new sports dresses. It loows rather Japa- nese, but you don’t have to be Japanese to make it. On a jersey blouse you should make the design of jersey of contrasting color, or if you wish to use the design on a linen or cotton dress for late Summer and early Autumn, | make the design in contrasting color | | of linen or cctton. To begin with, draw Loff the design on & piece of paper of | the desired size and then cut it out, | allowing a quarter inch on all edges. Then cut out the material according to this pattern, turn in the edges a quarter of an inch, pin in position, | baste carefully at the edges and stitch | {or hem into place. |~ One advantage of this design is that | it does not have to be symmetrical and | that the outlines are intentionally 2 trifie irregular, so that with ordinary | carc in drawing off your design you may | be sur> of success, DAILY DIET RECIPE NOVELTY. Two cups raw carrots, shred- ded; one cup lettuce, shredded: six inner lettuce leaves; two tablespoons peanuts, chopped: two tablespoons stuffed olives; one-half cup French dressing. SERVES ‘6 PEOPLE. Scrape young carrots. Cut in long, thin strips. Sbred outer leaves of lettuce. Mix with the carrots. ‘Add chcpped peanuts and chipped olives. MiIx with the French dressing and serve cold in a lettuce leaf cup. DIET NOTE. Recipe contains lime, iron and vitamins A. B and C. Valuable in Jaxative diet. Can be eaten by children over 12. If mineral oil | | ‘were used in the Prench dressing, | | recipe could’ be eaten by those | | wishing to reduce. | By Thornton W. Burgess. NG NANCY PAGE Tim Has Simple Rompers That Are Smart. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. One.cf Nancy's friends had & little curly-haired boy of 2 who always looked well dressed, and, what is much more difficult to achieve, always looked as though his clothes had just been put on, “How do you mansge, Martha, to keep Tim looking so clean and fresh? Don't you have to keep a laundress full time on his clothes alone? I know I would have to do that if I hoped to have Peter look as nice as your young son.” | “No, because most of his clothes are | made so simply that it takes but a few | minutes to ircn a romper suit. Want to see the pattern that I use? | “I surely do.” And when Nancy saw the pattern she was not surprised at the ease of ironing and, for the matter of that, the ease of moking. Martha took fast color I for good rompers, and fast color cottons for everyday wear. The rompers were cut in cne straight piece. Then cut-outs were made as in- dicated for the space that became the crotch. The whole piece was now bound | with bias t2pe in a cont g or har- monizng color. | A round cpening with a slit at the center front was made and the raw | where one of them is,” he cried. Stumpy grinned, buf said nathing. | Farmer Brown's Boy made his, way | slowly and carefully into the thicket to the place he was sure that fawn was | hidden. Carefully he looked under the | bushes on all sides, but no fawn uuldl |He ran forsard eagerly. I know Just | | o see. “This {s funny” said he. “Those| fawns certainly didn't go out of. the | other side; at least, the ome I was| watching didn’t. He must be here” | Still, Stumpy said nothing, but quietly began to search for the oiher fawn. Back and forth Farmer Brown's Boy | walked around the place where he bad | seen the fawn disappear. The minutes | passed and &till no sign of the little | |Deer. He was just about ready to give up and decide that. after all. he had | been mistaken and the littie fellow had % > { £y g - = 7, 17, / | ‘ 7 = af? Nl ‘ L g o i = IT WASN'T A LOG; IT WAS THE FAWN. | managed to get out of the thicket without being seen, when what he had first. taken to be an old log un- der a bush caught his attention once \more and he looked at it closely. It v log: it was the fawn. The e crouched close to the ; neck and head stretched {flat before him and his ears laid back. He didn't move, although Farmer Brown's Boy was only a few feet from jhim. There was fear in his big, soft {eves, but bhe wasn't yet sure that he had been seen, and so continued to freeze, | Farmer Brown's Bov advanced two ! or three steps, and siill the little fellow lay as if he were, in truth, a log. But when Farmer Bro Boy began to| £00p_cver to iry to p hand on | him he knew that he was discovered. Instantly he bounded t t if thrown into the air by and went sailing over the join his anxious mgc r. An iater the other bounded aficr Stumpy had found it. Th led them away, bounding b over | bushes and fallen trees. And very proud | of her twins she was. They had passed | their firsi great test. Despite their | eat fright, they had rer s until the moment when they they were discovered Lemon Water Ice five cupfuls of water with two s of sugar and the grated rinds | s and three lemons for hen strain cool add the strained juice of and oranges apd half a of lemon extract. Freeze ours ce lemon granite, to five cup- water ice add one cup- and one cupful of finely | Serve with ladyfingers 1 nt him, for | mother | all year 'round | FINE in the summer-time! Nourishing in winter-time! And delicious all the time. That’s Kellogg’s PEP Bran Flakes. Three vital elements in every bowl— whole wheat for nourishment—extra bran for healthfulness — and that glorious flavor of PEP. Made by Kellogg in Battle Creek. At all grocers in the red-and-green package. L) PEP (BRAN FLAKES edge bound. This became the part through which Tim's head emerged Small washable buttons on a link of twisted thread held the slit closed. The back piece buttoned across the front on the upper leg, as shown in the drawing. The strap which finished the back be- came a piece which buttcned around Tim's waist and held the lower part of the rompers in place. The pattern is simple, so simple that one can cut it, 'and so ingenious that one wonders fio one ever thought of it belore. (Copyright, 1931 Spiced Grape Juice. Mix one quart of grape juice with half. & cupful of sugar, twelve short pleces of stick cinfamon, tweive whole cloves and a pinch of silt. Bring to the Bpiling point, cool and let stand for several hours. When ready to serve reheat, remove the spices and i add some lemon juice if desired. Serve | bot with sandwiches or cookies. Apples. Apples for stewing will peel more easily if scalding water is first poured over them. The skins are then easily slipped off and work and waste are avoided. A rose leaf or rose geranium leaf placed in the glass just before pouring in apple jelly will add to the flavor of tha jeliy and will give an attractive appearance. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Dmut MISS DIX: Which is more important, the training a child ceives at home or the training he Teceives at school? NIT. Te- A, e, receives at home is infinitely more im- Answer: The training a child portent than that which it receives at school because it begins cause it makes a impression child’s life than its is. A child’s earliest and most ineradicable ived in the home. pressions are recel to say that a child’s character is formed by this is true, by the time a child starts all that the teacher can do is to modify it a littls earlier, be- and Mluuthehomehmma‘ll m- Indeed, the behaviorists go so far as the time it is 3 years old. so, if to school its life pattern is fixed and e. CERTAmLY we all know that good habits or bad habits are formed in & child in the first few weeks after it is born. We all know children who have to be rocked to sleep or have somebodi spend hours every night get- ting them to bed and we know other chi n of the same age who are put to bed and left alone and who smilingly go to sleep by themselves. We know children who howl over everything and other children who never whimper. ‘We know children who are disobedient and saucy and other children who are respectful and mind when they are spoken to. Every day T see mothers with children not 5 years old that it doesn't take any prophet to tell will be wastrels and ne'er-do-wells and will be divorced and who will be failures in life because the mothers are teaching them to be self-indulgent, selfish, high-tempered and to respect no law save their own wills. And T see other mothers who are bringing up their children to be fine and noble and useful men and women. ¥ KNOW it is a common thing for mothers and fathers to pass the buck to the teachers and expect them to give the children the discipline that they have failed to give and to expect the teachers to turn little hood- lums into ladies and gentlemen, but have done the teacher cannot undo. parents have made. upon the children. made the more impossible, it can’t be done. What the parents She cannot erase the impressions the She cannot rub out the stamp the home has put The task is an impossible one in any case, and it is if such a thing could be, by the number of children with whom the teacher has to deal dally. Of course the school does exercise a great influence on many children, but it isn't to be compared for a moment with the influence of the home. DOROTHY DIX. * ok ok x EAR MISS DIX: Would you explain the difference between a girl being cheerful and being silly? I am going with is 18, and T can't between cheerfulness and silliness, should take seriously. cutting up is liked as much ful and pleasant? Answer: Giggling nothing gets on our ner Do you think a as one who doesn't and who is simply cheer- I am a fellow 19 years old and the girl make her see that there is a difference and that there are some things she girl who is always giggling and like the crackling of thorns under a pot and es more quickly. Nothing a girl can do queers her more than to be a giggler and a village cut-up. But it doesn't always imply that the F that hopping around and screaming nothing at all indicates that they are vivacious and full of spirit. the calm, cheerful, pleasent girl that irl is as big an idiot as she appears to be Many girls think and going into peals of laughter over But it is we all like, DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1931.) The Woman Who Makes Good BY HELEN WOODWARD. Who started her career as a frightened typist and who became ome of the highest paid business wumen in America Pleasure of Rage. an office T got very angry with my boss. I lost my temper and s3id a great many horrid things. Next morning 1 came to work sure that I had lost my job, but, worse than that, feeling morti- fled, because I felt that T had made a fool of myself. Mind you, I had a good reason for being - angry, but not a good reason for being foolish. The boss was & nice man. When I told him that I thought 1 had been silly, he said: were. Any fool can get mad. It takes neither ability nor strength to" lose your temper.” And that's an important truth All girls are touchy and easily of- fended, but it seems to me that girls who work for & living are more so than others. They are often tired and over- worked and the least little thing looks like a mountain. When the girl is proud she is apt to be 50 hurt she wants 1o cry. She hides it by getting into a rage, either with her boss or with the girl who sits next to her or with her best boy friend. She gets rid of a lot of steam that way. but she has to undo so much of it the next morning. I should have learned a lesson from that instance. And I did, but it didnt do me much good. T lost my temper after that, and I still do. Losing your temper is a rather pleas- ant proceeding. You get all excited and worked up and for the moment feel Once in | just fine, It is & form of excitement, |and any form of excitement is agree- able. Even the excitement that comes from fear has something pleasant in it. The trouble about the pleasantness of | losing your temper is that afterward you feel so small and silly and you may have to pay rather heavily for the pleasure. You may lose & job and you may lose a friend and you may lose & | customer. Of course, if you are willing to pay for the relief of letting your | temper go, why, that’s your lookout. | Besides, there are some people who can never get a square deal from others unless they get into a temper first. Un- | less they are angry, they can't stand up | for their rights. Lucky the people who can quite coolly get what they think is due them without the least disturbance. To be sure, sometimes girls look pretty when they get angry. Their eyes light up and their faces become vivid. But sometimes girls look terribly ugly in || Their mouths get | the same condition. hard, their noses get White, their eyes like beady little balls. And never know which youll be. Probably you're one of those who look prettier when good-natured. And then, maybe, worst || of all, you're one of those le who look ridiculous when angry. t's & real misfortune. It's a waste of time to get angry if you merely look absurd. My secretary comments here that she rarely gets mad, but when she does she is ali washed up with the person who rouses her snger. That means she doesn't get angry until the provocation is 80 terrible that nothing can overcome it. That's not the kind of loss of tem- per I'm talking about here. I'm talk- ing about that easy kind that flares up and disappears quickly. Summer Freedom Yours on these SPECIAL Just at the time when TERMS cleaning grows most burdensome, when heat and dust combine to exhaust your energy and rob you of needed outdoor hours, comes this wonderful offer of the New Hoover with its striking improvements and itsincrease of 25% in efficiency, on exceptionally de- sirable terms. Rersiining payments are in small monthly amounts. You receive a liberal allowance for your old cleaner. Make arrangements immediately, as the offer is soon to be withdrawn. You can also buy the improved new Hoo<er—more efficient make of cleaner at any same special terms. S. Kanns Sons Co. Lansburgh’s popular-priced than any other price—on these ~d Balance Monthly, Com- plete with Dusting Tools The ew HOOVERS Woodward & Lothrop Barber & Ross Authorized Hoover Service, 1909 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Potomac 4677 NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Tiustrations by Mary Foley. LXXXVIIL THE LACE WING. Chrysopidae Family. EAUTIFUL to look at, but a last- ing memory if you try to touch her. These golden-eyed, dainty creatures have even been called “sting flles.” Another surpris- ing thing about this lovely lacewing is | that she is the mother of the ugliest | baby you ever saw. Would you believe | it, her children are the aphis-lions! The mother is dressed In clear green | or i~ .sh transparent gauze.. Her eyes | are _urnished copper or gold. Her body | is slender and the color of her wings. | She looks Hke a fairy flitting about. No, | she is busy looking for stems of plants | and the under side of a leaf where she | can place tiny pale green eggs. And here is another wonderful thing about | this mother. She places her eggs on the | end of a stem which she makes her- self. All along the edge of a leaf or on 8 tree-stem ycu will see this dainty fringe of waving cradles. Close to the mmppy family life of millions of aphide, The wee baby. ugly little beast, | wakes up to find Admself in the same Eosltkzn as a pol. sltter. Hunger assails | im and fearlessly he walks down the | | stem to find food. He 1s in his seventh heaven. Ten days he fills up on the blood of his victims. Seeking a curled leaf, he makes a tiny cocoon, fastening himself securely to the leaf by threads of silk, Here for 14 days he grows into a golden-eyed lacewing.. | Early cne morning it will cut its way | out with a pair of sharp jaws. Now it is | a helpless creature and its only protec- tion is an {ll-smelling fluid, which it aims at you if touched. In the day the | parents hide and in the evening the mother, whose life is short, goes about fullfilling’ her mission ot placing the future aphis-lions. The little aphis-lion attacks large and small insects. His jaws are long and pointed, with grooved innner edges. He | plerces the body of his victim with the | sharp points, holds it up and lets its blood flow down his throat into his empty “tummy.” One taste and he is never satisfleds From now on he is & | bloodthirsty hunter. The aphids, our | well known enemies, are his favorite !orT of liquid, and in spite cf the fact that the greedy little lion 1s so ugly, he is & friend of ours, tried and true. {(Copyright, 1931 sold for $400 at a recent auction in Edinburg My Neighbor Says: Salt, moistened with vinegar, will remove burnt marks from enamel saucepans and dishes, they should be soaked in cold soda water for a few hours first. ‘When rolling out the last of your doughnut mixture, try roll- ing in a few cleaned currants. Then cut in small fancy shapes and fry in the usual manner. The kiddies will like them, the grown-ups, tco. Do not take too thick a rind off in paring potatoes. The best }s)kl‘l;lt of the potato is near the Keep some silver polish pow- der in a salt shaker at the sink to remove in a hurry stains on silver, | (Copyright, 1931.) | | A beetle is quite harmless, Unless he's one of those ! Has pinchers for a nose. for Economy BISCUITS & MILK MAKE AMEAY So simple to pre- pare—and so re- freshing-Lipton’s Tea iced—will al- ways be the most popular summer drink, because its marvelous taste cannotbeequalled. LIPTON'S TEA CHOICEST ORANGE PEKOE & PEKOE TASTIEST ICED TEA! I {1l i successes. didn’t have biscuits that sort. “I admit I used to fight shy of the kitchen, and had a panic whenever John gently hinted that he liked hot biscuits. You know how treacherous doughs are? I expect most young housewives, and older ones too, have the same dread of failure I had, for failures were much more common than “I couldn’t understand what was the matter; but I just didn’t scem to be sure of what I was do- ing'; and, I suppose, I had an in-* feriority complex. Anyway, we bzcause I couldn’t make them—nor waffles, nor hot cakes—nor anything of I wasn’t fair to my hubby; but it was peace to my pride, not to try to make them. “You can imagine it was a red- letter day for me when Mollie Stewart, that friend of mine from e n i Mediem ° “Look at these dandy Raleigh, suggested I sit in the kitchen while she madz a katch of biscuits for supper. When she brought out that sack of Self- rising Washington Flour the secret was out of the bag. Or, rather, I found the secret was IN the bag, for the biscuits were ready fcr the oven in a jiffy. No fuss or feathers; no measuring and mixing with baking powder —those things that wrecked my cooking reputation. Self-rising Washington Flour has them all. And it has something else that is peculiar to this particular brand of flour—a natural, nutty flavor. It is simply delicious. “Indeed, I can make as good biscuits, waffles, hot cakes and the like as anybody now. Not occasionally ; but EVERY TIME —thanks to Self-rising Washing- ton Flour.” Self-rising Washington Flour is for sale by grocers and delicatessens in all sizes from 2.lb. sacks up—with every sack GUARANTEED. o the Asso- |Who fool you from the rear, but who