Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1931, Page 26

WOMAN’S PAGE. . _THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1931 - i . Deali ng With Extra Luggage BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. THE COMPACT “CARRY-ALL” IS A MOST CONVENIENT PIECE OF LUGGAGE. Labor day sets a punctuation period to many vacationists’ holidays. From this day on for a month or more home- 'ward journeyings are seasonable. Among the hosts of travelers, few find the lug- gage for the outbound trip sufficient for the return. It becomes a question how to take the accumulation back, or such part of it as is necessary or too treasured to leave behind. A'few so- lutions are offered today. If distances are not so great that parcel post rates are high, a package of the bulkiest (but not heaviest) articles can be packed and sent by mail. Wrap the bundle in heavy wrapping paper, or first put the things in a cardboard box. Such a box is light weight and will not increase postage much. For the contents select unbreakable articles and those which will not be hurt by being tossed about in the handling. Shawl-strap luggage is a great aid The only cost is for the strap. Articles are made into a rather long, circular parcel. This is wrapped in a steamer Tug, raincoat or some strip of dark cloth, so folded abqut the parcel that nothing can slip out at the ends. The shawl strap fastened about the parcel holds all securely and provides handle also. The carry-all, written about recently, 48 perhaps the best solution of all. It can be made in a few hours, in an aft- ernoon or evening, and be ready always for just such emergencies. It oan be taken on the outbound trip, this time folded and tucked into small compass in & suit case or trunk. It holds arti- cles without any slightest chance of their falling out. It costs but a trifle to make. All the materials—natural-col- ored linen, binding tape or brald and yamn for embroidery—can be found in any oountry store. When soiled, it will launder to look like new. And when | finished a smart piece of new-style lug- results, one to be included in natty d E Por Collegs gitls and those going away to other schools than universities, these carry-alls are just the thing. The ‘cases protect contents from dust so per- fectly that they are fine for motor trips. There is enough flexibility, even when well filled, for the carry-all to be easy to pack in the irregular spaces into which bags and baggage must often fit in a car. A diagram pattern with full direc- tions for making a earry-all can be had for 10 cents. The circular blossom motif with flowering vine border to match 18 10 cents for the two. The circular motif was designed especially to cross-stitch on the ends of the carry-all, and the border to work about the ends of the bag portion. So em- THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE Extreme aimplicity of style makes | this & charming model for all-day ‘occasions. It has all kinds of slenderizing quali- tles, to say nothing of its smart indi- viduality. 1t simulates a hip yoke and achieves | an unusually slenderizing effect through its moulded, long-waited bodice belted 8t point most becoming to its wearer. When it is so easily made—why not have it? It combines white crepe silk ‘with black and white printed crepe silk. Style No. 3372 is designed for sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches: bust. | requires 3% yards of 39-inch % yard of 35-inch con- ?:c':fl&n prints, plain flat crepe silk, iton crepe, marocain crepe and crepe :an,nho appropriate. ¥ » pattern of this style, send 15 ¢ents in stamps or coin directly to The Washington Star's New York Fashion ‘Buresu, Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, New York." Our large Summer Fashion Book of- ers a wide choice for your Summer in darling styles for the chil- as the adults, jotdet. book, 10 -centa, H § broidered, the bag is distinctive. Old English letters for cross-stitching own- er'shmmnl.s on the carry-all are 5 cents each. Tuesday—Home canning and pre- serving and jelly making. (Copyright, 1931) NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. — Illustrations by Mary Foley. XCVIIL CUTWORMS. Noctuida Family. O lay your cherished vegetable garden low seems to be the aim and ambition of the army of cutworms. At times they have been known to ruin a large field of potatoes or beans over night. The damage they do is reckoned in millions. The parents are night prowlers and their children follow in their footsteps. In the afternoon your garden will look healthy and promising, but the next morning the plants will be cut off at the base, a clean cut, with no sign of the culprit near. ‘The mother moth is dressed in unin- teresting clothes of purplish brown or During the day she clings to a So close to her sides are gray. leaf or rail. her wings folded that you are not aware of her presence. Her head and color- ing s0 resemble the surface upon which she clings that few people ever see her. At night she goes about with her bright eyes gleaming in the dark. These moths have even been called “owlet moths.” The mothers are rather careless about placing their eggs. Some have been found on drapery, window sills and stems. There are about 500 of them in one mass, usually on the hard ground. They are a pale yellow and about one- twenty-fifth of an inch long. As the little worm grows the egg turns darker. In a few days the baby eats its way out of the shell and, turning about, |, consumes its own shell. This is the only time it shows any signs of being economical. The variegated cutworm, so named because of the yellow spots ajong his back and the dashes of black and the yellow band below the black trimmings, is the most common of all the cut- worms. When full grown he is all of 2 inches long and extremely plump. ‘The little cutworms now eat ‘their fill of the leaves.near them and often may be seen “looping” about with the aid of a silken rope as they move from leaf to leaf. In one week they outgrow | their first coat and drop to the ground. Digging down into the earth; they then sleep in the daytime and come out for food at night. . . 2 When it is time for the next growth the youngster begins to shrink. He is a littl Eeevish at this stage and, if touched, he switches about from side to side. He goes down in the earth for about 2 inches and constructs a very smooth, one-room apartment. Here he sheds his last coat as an infant and is covered with a tan oval shell. It is ahgut an inch long and pointed at the end. . When the transformation from worm to moth has been completed, the little occupant of the shell curls his abdomen with its tiny hooks upward and starts his journey toward the surface of th> | earth. Gradually he pushes his way up, finally reaching the top. After resting a bit he begins to swell and soon the covering splits and he walks out. When his wings dry and night comes he seeks his mate. Copyright. 1531 FOOD PROBLEMS BY SALLY MONROE. Eggs for Dinner. One hostess of unquestionable taste does not hesitate, occasionally, to offer a perfectly poached egg on toast as an entree for dinner. At a luncheon given for a little group of notables at her house recently, she made the piece de resistance of the meal a flowless omelette. The achievement was not in presenting some strange exotic food to startle and tempt but the most usual of foods prepared to perfection. As we are getting down to simpler dishes we are becoming more interested in having these simple dishes prepared to perfection. The cook who can make a good omelette or a perfect custard is the cook that is being sought. Luncheon. Sweet potato salad, cold boiled tongue, tuna fish with chili sauce and horse- radish dressing, cucumbers marinated in French dressing, a stalk of stuffed celery, brown bread and butter sand- wiches and a handful of large red or white currants or raspberries in a let~ tuce cup. BUG Edgar A murray's No p, vHou‘s_el_lold Meghod- BY BETSY CALLISTER. Towel- Supply. How about your towel supply? Does it need replenishing? If it does, you really have & rather’ pleasant task be- fore you, for the towels in the shops just now are most tempting. And they are 4airly reasonable, too. It is a very gdod plan to choose towels of different colors for the differ- ent members of the family. This plan makes it quite easy to keep the different towels separate, even when they are in one bath room. It is easy for small Jane, for instance, to remember that her color is red, and that bath towels, hand towels and washcloths with red borders belong to her. And young Jdimmy can equally easily remember that blue is his color. There are enough colors for the rest of the"family, too—yellow and ‘pink, green and violet—so that nobody need encroach on anybody else's color. If you don’t want to have different colors, then you can embroider dif- ferent initials or. the towels, and mark the washcloths with the small ma- chine-made letters that you can buy at the notion counter. Or, if you wish, you may use these little letters on towels and washcloths, too. Some housewives with large families give each member of the family a num- ber, and then mark all towels and bed linen with corresponding numbers. This is an easy arrangement, and you can buy numbers for marking like the initials. (Copyright. 1931) NANCY PAGE Baby Ann Bumps Her Head and It Hurts, BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. The Summer business of Roger's firm called him out of town frequently. And since the weather was pleasant, and Lois and Baby Ann were both well, he often took them with him on his trips. Occasionally they were overnight trips. And then came the problem of keeping Ann in bed. In the days when she was smaller she could have been put into a large dresser drawer, which was emptied, padded well Inside and then set on the floor. But she was too large for that. Sometimes the hotel could supply a cot. When they had this type of bed with no protecting boards or sides Lois used to pin the back of the baby's night- gown, with a large and hefty safety pin. right into the bedding. She attached her infant to the middle of the bed. as it were. And never did Ann fall out. But one day when she put Ann to 1sleep for an afternoon nao she forgot to fasten her in and the baby fell to the floor. 0 She bumped her head. Lois had taken a course in first aid. and did what had been advised. Later she said that she wondered she ever remembered what to do. she was that scared. She put cold cloths on Ann's head for 20 minutes. The paleness of her daugh- ter did not seriously disturb her, since she knew it was due to the nausea. The jar had made her sick at her stomach. So she gave ‘her no food for an hour and a half. At the end of 20 minutes she took the.cold compresses off the baby's head and wrapped her warmly and held her. As soon as she dozed off she laid her softly in the middle of the large bed and sat right beside her until ;lhe baby waked and Roger took them ome. JOLLY POLLY A Leseon in English. BY JOSEPH J. FRISCH. | SUPPOSE WE ALL YEARN FOR THE GOOD OLD DAYS WHEN MOST EVERY: FAMILY WAS meO-O\R FAMILY, M. H—"Almost (or nedrly) every family,” is the required form, not “most every family.” Similarly we say, “al- every da “Almost (or nearly) all girls are pretty,” not “most all girls.” Creamed Turnips. Peel and slice some turnips. Cook until tender, then drain off all the water. Salt and perper them and add one tablespoonful of butter and half a cupful of sweet milk. Let heat thor- oughly and serve immediately after mashin, Q] EXIT BERRY STAINS Remove them easily with Annette's Tagic powder. —Just moisten spot Tub powder 1 rush e cs, o) 1o odor, ‘cannot advertised in _and Housekeeping. and Drug Stores. FREE ¥iii, '8¢ i Soe"ser e. Oc_son : " ddrecs _Dept. 326 Rnertes o0 datiney st Boston. NNETTE'S 7 iT's A P ave PER V- | most _(or nearly) every day,” not “most |. 2% | DorothyDix| == CCORDING to a lesrned psychologist, gentlemen'do not prefer blondes but Dumb Doras. It is not what is on the outside of their heads that gets girls dates and husbands, but what is inside of their little beans, and, according to this authority, the emptier they are the better. A lot of evidence can be mm& forward to support this contention. For it is a well known fact that most_popular girls in any circle of soclety are never the cleverest ones, and that any baby-talk fiapper can marry six times to a college graduate’s once. Men flee, as from a = lence, from the cultivated young woman who seeks to engage them in serious conversation. Go back in history as far as you like and you will find that men have never had any appetite for feminine brains unless they were scram- bled. Indeed, up to a few years ago no other scandal about her could have so effectually damned a woman as for her to be called “strong- minded,” and a girl who was really intelligent concealed her terrible misfortune as carefully as she would & pl_':yslul blemish. 'URIOUSLY enough, this fatal attraction that the moronic female has for men is not confined to men who are themselves dull and stupid and ignorant. The intellectuals succumb to it also, and so we are da! confronted with the spectacle of brilllant men married to fool women, of husbands and wives who do not speak the same language or have & thought or an interest in common. \ NE would think that such unequal marriages must inevitably end in disaster, and that in time the clever man would be bound to tire of his dull wife, but such is by no means the cgse. In reality a man 1s much more apt to be happy married to a nitwit than he is to a genius. » Somehow it seems to be necessary for & man to look down upon & woman, especially to look down upo wife, and not only to feel his superiority to her, but to have it zed by the world. You will find no contented homes in ‘which the gray mare is the better horse; no adoring husbands who have to take a back seat while the spotlight is turned on their wives for some intellectual achievement. It pleases s man to have you praise his wife for her beauty, or her goodness, or her domesticity, but you will never make a hit with him by praising his wife's brains. No man ever finds out that his wife is lacking in intelligence 80 long as she considers him the greatest man in the world. On the contrary, he considers that she is a woman of most unusual judgment “BONERS” Humorous Tid-Bits From School Papers. Color Consciousne: " Oolortulness is one of the outstanding characteristics of the age in which we live. The public demands color and plenty of it in everything from kitchen utensils to automobiles. In the realm important role and this season seems clearer hues. Milady wants a vivid dash of color in her costume acces- sorles as well 85 among the cosmetic jars on her dressing table. It is not strange, then, also show range and brightness of shade to match her surroundings. and red lips, of course, need no artifi- cial coloring. ‘Thelr shade is ab- solytely right and thelr fortunate pos- 4 costumes the shades that best set off - her natural beauty. However, those FEATURES. MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. of fashion, color has always played an | there are two different classes. has a decided yellow undertone includes such_shades as tomato, burn$ orange and c3al; naturally an orange tinge in make-up is desirable whi frocks of these shades are worn. other includes duller reds, like old rose, fresh strawberry and { to have brought us even gayer and | | that make-up should | A naturally clear, rosy compiexion | sessor should carefully select for her | IT WAS RAINING CATS AND DOGS | Who have not the good fortune to pos- AND THERE WERE POODLES IN | sess high natural coloring—and a large | proportion of girls in their late 20's| and over belong to this class—must re- sort to cosmetics in order to appear to THE ROAD. An esop] s is & green vegetable, and perspicacity. Hm is the paradox. ‘While men don't want women ever to display any brains, they want them really to have them.. They want their wives to be clever enough to manage them without their knowing it, to keep them entertained and amused and to have enough sense to run their households thriftily and make they must never let it appear that things, a good appearance in soclety. Only it took any intelligence to do these DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright. 1931) BEDTIME STORIES % Twitchtail Teases Fli Pray heed this warning if you please! & very seldom to tease. —Twitchtail the Saquirrel. Since the arrival of Flip the Terrier at the ranch where Twitchtail the gray Ground Squirrel lived, the latter had had a lively time of ft. Flip had taken great interest in Twitchtail, altogether too much interest from Twitchtail's point of view. You see, Flip had dis- covered that Twitchtail was.not a tree Squirrel, like his cousin Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel back home, and, while he could climb, he preferred to spend most of his time on the ground, and never did climb high in a tree. This just suited Flip, and every day he started out early in the morning intent |on catching Twitchtail. “I'll get him yet,” Flip would mut- ter. “I never did have half a chance with Hn;gy Jack, but this fellow is dif- ferent. ne of these days I'll surprise him away from his home and then I'll . “Just as if wi 't have troubles enough without this fellow about,” he grumbled to Mrs. Twitchtail. “We did have some peace before he arrived, but now he is for- | ever popping out when I least expect him. Our other enemies go on about their business when they fail to catch us, but this fellow hangs about just as if he had nothing else to do. It makes me nervous. Yes, sir, it does s0.” But after a while Twitchtail grew accustomed to having Flip come dash- ing after him, and rather enjoyed the excitement of a race with him. He had great respect for Flip's running ability and took the greatest care not to be surprised far from a hole into which he could pop. or a rock or tree he could climb. Once he reached a place of safety, he would scold Flip in true Squirrel fashion and tell him just what he thought. Perhaps it was just as :ell !xl:ilt Flip didn't understand what e said. It always tickled him to see how ex- cited Flip became, and after a while he began teasing Flip just to get him excited. From the big rock beside his home he could see Flip when the latter was some distance away. Twitchtail would chuckle when he saw the littls Dog coming. ' Then he would go half way to meet Flip, always taking care not to get so far that he couldn't reach the safety of his hole before Flip could catch him. He would sit up. back to Thornton 7. Burgess. him for dinner. Instead of watching for them, he would think of nothing but teasing Flip. And s0 it came about | | | TWITCHTAIL WOULD CHUCKLE WHEN HE SAW THE LITTLE DOG | * COMING. | that he learned a lesson for which he |very nearly paid a great price. He | learned that teasing don’t pey. (Copyright, 1131.) Fashions of Today BY MARIE SHALMAR. Jewelry of Old Design. | The revival of Second Empire and Victorian fashions has brought about a | revived interest in quaint, old-fash- |foned jewelry, and necklaces, bracelets, | earrings and brooches of the sort your grandmother wore are very much the thing at present. + Among the gefinitely modern jewelry | there are necklaces and bracelets made |of aluminum beads, and sometimes aluminum is combined with rosewood and other precious woods. Rosewood bracelets are chosen to wear with the brown afternoon dress, and some of the [new leather or fabric belts are finished with wooden buckles. Purple has come back in the wake of the Eugenie fashions. There is a lovely soft purple chosen for some of the most attractive new velvet dresses | for formal afternoon.or evening wear. | Then there is a new bright blue, & little lighter than royal, also a good color for the formal velvet dress. Flip, and pretend to be very busy mkmg in every direction but toward | p. DAILY DIET RECIPE CARROTS AND ONIONS GIVERNY. You may be sure, however, that there wasn't & teeny, weeny second that he | didn't know exactly where Flip was. Often Flip would not see him. Then | Twitchtail would whistle a sharp, clear note. Flip would stop to look in the direction of that whistle and Twitchtail would twitch his tail, which was all that was necessary to catch Flip's| sharp eyes. With a.yelp Flip would dash at him and Twitchtail would start for home, always arriving just about | one good jump ahead of Flip. It was|. great fun. It was the most exciting kind of a race. Mrs. Twitchtail didn’t like it at all and said so, but Twitchtail | merely laughed at her and kept right on. e Day by day he grew bolder and went\ out of his way to tease Flip by sud-| denly popping out right in front of him. However, he did this only when he had a safe retreat close at hand. It| got so that Flip hardly even ventured out without having Twitchtail appear unexpectedly. “Can't catch me!” Twitchtail would bark_in the most provoking manner, 4nd Flip was just foolish enough to try. It got so that Twitchtail grew care. less. He forgot to watch for other ene- mies, his natural enemies who would have liked nothing better than to catch Tiny buttered carrots—18. Tiny buttered onions—24. Buttered toast rounds—8. \ Grated cheese—6 tablespoonfuls. Hot cream—6 tablespoonfuls. SERVES SIX PORTIONS. Place the tiny carrots in the center of & chop dish. Around the carrots place the toast rounds, sprinkled with cheese. On the toast put three or four small but- tered cooked onions and pour one tablespoonful cream -over each toast round and serve'at once. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes fiber, protein, starch, fat. Lime, iron, vitamins A and B present. Can be eaten by children 6 years and over. Can be eaten by normal adults of average or under weight. The tich cream adds fuel value. Good in diet to increase weight. better in warm weather WHEN the days get hot— ; Y keep cool by eating Kellogg's .C@V €Ll €S T PEP Bran Flakes. Crisp — easy-to-digest — of all women BUT ... good to eat and good for you. A taste treat always because THE American woman fascinates men of every nation, for she has the of their matchless flavor. ‘They have just enough bran to be mildly laxative. Serve these better bran flakes to the youngsters. En- R joy them yourself. Made by e Spanish, the culture Kellogg in Battle Creek. the mystery of the Oriental. £ Every charm is hers, except one . . . the faultle: cnmylexion of the Englishwomen. For fourteen decades En‘flhhwomen have used Pears’ Soap and won radiant complexions. Get a cake and watch Pears’ generous lather bring the natural color mounting to your face. At all drug and department stores—w] :fin aresold, BRAN FLAKES | vusentcd, 18 5omted; s wore. grown in gardens. Ambidextrous—able to use both hands as if they were your feet. ‘The Puritans found an insane asyjum advantage in the brighter hues that are so popular today. When artificial color {s used in cheeks and lips the question arises, “Which shade?” And the answer nat- in the wilds of Americs. | urally is affected by the_color of frock pis milady plans to wear. It is quite ob- In the Spring the salmon ascends | vious, of course, that a shade of rouge fresh-water streams to spoon. | that looks well with a costume of bright Ceomapimyd green, yellow, orange, apricot or coral Napoleon had zhre;l:lvel—-vonphine,: would not be so effective when one is Maria Theresa | wearing clothes_in any shade of blue What happened in 18127 The war| of 1776, An aorta is & man who makes long | speeches. I an orange tinge is best with the for- | mer group of colors, while the latter seem to call for make-up with a ver- .milion cast. It is hard to generalize |'successtully on such delicate points, | but any one with a good color sense (Copyright, SUMMERTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE, 1031.) | best shade of make-up to use. | that in order to avoid an unpleasant conflict between one’s clothes and Last week a request came to me to | Reds are perhaps most important, and assist in ‘the fight to preserve a beauty | spot in the Blue Rl Mountains—a | glen with a white sprite of a waterfall | in it, & wealth of rhododendron, of fern, | and lichen and moss, and haunted not | only by the roar of the fall and a per- | petual breeze set in motion by it, but | by the most gladsome chorus of bird | voices I have ever heard. 1 have done what I could toward the | preservation= of this lovely spot—the | coolest place in Summer south of Mason and on’s famous line. But what | distressed me was that everybody waits until the eleventh hour to make a wild- life preserve out of such places. For years I had been saying that this par- | ticular waterfall and glen should be preserved. Nobody listened. Now the | owner is preparing to sell it all to a | saw mill, and the waterfall to an elec- | tric plant. He wants his mone d | wants it quickly. Now some ladies are | starting a campaign to save. They will | have to bid higher than very rich com- | panies, and raise their money instantly. | Ten years ago it could have been done | at a low figure and all in good time. | I have alwa; dmired the tactics of the Washington naturalists who bought up an island in the Potomac, useless as real estate, and have made it their pri- vate wild-life preserve. Partly because it was an island and hence well fitted to conserve rare species of plants and animals from destruction by fire and ax, partly, perhaps, because so many savants have combed it over so care- fully, this island now has a longer list of rarities in the nature-lovers’ line than ‘ any other portion of the District. It | shows what quiet, thoughtful, rational | nature conservation can do when in | the hands of experienced Washington | sclentists, | € | My Neighbor Says: If a cake falls in the center when baking it is very possibly due to the fact that the oven door wes opened too soon after the cake was put in. In the case of a sponge cake the door should never be opened during the first 20 minutes Evergreens should be planted early, by the middl> of October at the very latest. If the weather is dry st time of planting dip the Toots into a thick mud paste be- fcre planting. but it is not neces- sary if the season is wet. Ever- greens do mot require much at- tention after planting except that they must not be allowed to become dry. They should be kept watered up to the time of freezing. (Copyright, Domino 1631) Largest selling Cane Sugar On the air Saturday nights at 8.30 e el Sweeten it with Domino” mated at 2.200.000 tons, as compared | eelen b CH AL n0 with only 1,456.000 tons in 1930. verging on purple. Less vivid make-ufh |is needed with these colors, and lipe |stick should have no hint of orange lin it. " With turquoise and chartreuse costumes, however, & vivid lipstick with orange tinge will be found effective, A delicate accent of color is all that ig required with pastel frocks. While black and white are not really cblors, they are always in vogue fop certain types. They are good with ivory complexion and carmine lips or blue-green. Rouge and lipstick with | | can learn by experiment which is the | | . Observation and experience wili show | | make-up, it is necessary to recognize | the primary rules of color combination. | when & sophisticated cffect is desired, SUMMER AN IDEAL FOOD DuriNG the hot summer months, eat more cottage cheese! It's cool, refreshing, nutritious — and extremely easy to digest. And it has so many appetizing uses! Try it, for instance, in this tempting salad: erisp green lettuce an ice-cold slice of pineapple a snow-white mound of Cottage Cheese ... topped with a sprinkling of grated pecans! Cottage cheese is delicious always, but particularly good in summer. And it's a health. food too. Telephone West 0183 Wise Brotkers ' CHEVY CHASE DAIRY@E .4 s o o 10 A D R D 1 N r T L AIRY The United States Public Health Service says; - “Of all the natural enemies of man the fly is un- questionably the worst. We know now that flies are highly dangerous. One single fly may cause typhoid fever and many other serious illnesses.” Protect your home! 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. 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