Evening Star Newspaper, September 3, 1931, Page 37

WOMA N’'S PAGE. Handwork in Dress Decoration BY MARY f ¥French dressmakers have many tricks R0 teach us about the use of simple handwork in decorating dresses and blouses, Fine tucks, fagoting and em- broidery may all be used without add-| ing to the cost of the dress, but’ they do add enormously to the distinction of the dress. Hemstitching. too, is a fa- vorite form of trimming and may be MARSHALL. 1used on silk crepe, or even silk wool, with excellent results. Today's skeich shows a simple com- bination of hemstitching and embroid- ery. As you see, there are five parallel lines of hemstitching arranged across the front of the blouse. The two out- side lines come at the outside line of the collar. The center line is in the direct center and the other two are midway between center line and the outside line. First measure these lines and mark with pins. Then with a fine point of your scissors clip one thread at the lower point of each of these lines. Pull the thread up with a pin or needle and draw it out. Two or three more threads should be drawn in each line, care being taken to cut each one carefully at the lower end of the line to start with, so that the material will not be puckered below this Yn!nt. Now thread a needle with silk to | match your material and hemstitch | along the line where the threads have | been drawn. Make either a double or single row of hemstitching. This done, lightly trace the outline of the embroid- ered design at the end of each line of hemstiching snd work it with embrold- ery silk. (Copyright, 1931) = ———— Jellied Shrimp Salad. Remove the black vein from two cup- fuls of shrimps and break the shrimps into small pieces. Add one tablespoon- ful of lemon juice, one tablespoonful of minced parsley, one cupful of chopped celery, half a teaspoonful of salt and a | pinch‘of pepper and paprika. Soak one | tablespoonful of gelatin for five min- utes in a half a cupful of cold water and disslove over hot water. Add to one cupful of cooked salad dressing and combine with the shrimp mixture. Pour into small molds which have been dipped in cold water. Chill. Unmold | each serving onto a lettuce leaf. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM Skeeterology.. y All along the Atlantic Coast from yllne to Texas the mosquito called ‘Aedes sollicitans” breeds in_brackish water and travels long distances in pur- sult of prey. In recent years this breed of mosquito has established itself inland in some places, as in oil flelds and sbout gas wells, where salt water is brought to the surface. The common breed of mosquito in villages, towns and cities is “Culex.” In the Southern States another breed called “Stegomyia” 1s common near habitations, but “Stegomyia” is squeam- ish and breeds only in fairly clean BRADY, M. D. I'I‘he ‘water must stand there for at least & week or 10 days for one generation of mosquitoes to blooom. Complacent old ignoramuses still put up with the mosquito nuisance in the belief that the varmints bresd in any shady spot in the deep grass or weeds. That is not so. Unless there is a pool or a little can or water under the weeds or grass, or perhaps a little pond, foun- tain or brook with stagnant water, the Tkor(,ers simply can't multiply or survive ong. Before you consign your neighbor to the place "¢aere all bad neighbors ought to go for 1}, inconsiderate maintenance | of the neighborhood mosquito nuisance THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1931. Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED, Learn to Play Alone. Every one admires the independent person, the person who can think and act for himself. Independence is the full flower of a characteristic which be- gins to sprout in infancy. All the way through their lives children are en- deavoring to be independent, and all the way through their lives their par- ents are, in many cases, endeavoring to prevent them from doing so. How do parents prevent this fine in- dependence which later they so much admire? I can't cover all the points, 50 I'll concentrate on just one. Parents constantly entertain the baby. The mo- ment the child opens his eyes and lets out one tiny peep the mother, the nurse, the father, the grandmother or some one is right at hand to pick him up, to keep him from knowing one moment of waking solitude. ‘When the baby is old enough to grasp and hold toys his parents are not con- tent to give him a toy, or various toys of all kinds and shapes, which he can hold in his hand and examine. They help him to examine them. They toss the ball about, making the baby's eyes shine with excitement. They shake the rattle vigorously. They punch the dofls which squeak, and in every way they take an intimate part in the baby's en- joyment of these toys which are de- signed for his personal satisfaction. The net result is that when baby is old enough to play by himself—there is always a time when the amother be- gins to think he should—he doesn’t know how. He needs some adult, some other person to enter into his games with him. He is entirely dependent upon them. If the mother goes out of the room for even a moment he drops whatever he has in his hand and howls dismally until she returns. She sends him out on the porch or to the sand pile to play. Does he play? Mercy, no! The neighbors telephone to tell her what she knows only too wel, ‘Do you know that Junior is crying his eyes out?” It was just a forlorn hope that she would be able to leave him there until he discovered no one was coming out and he'd have to play alone, All such distressing situations should be foreseen and prevented. It is difi- cult to persuade & child who has for two years been the shadow of his moth- er that he can have just as much fun playing alone. Every time the mother takes the baby's toys from him and shows him what he can do with them, every time she feels like a constientious martyr and sits down on the floor to help Junior build a block house, let her stop and think. What is she doing for the baby? Making him dependent on her presence. What is she doing for Ju- nior? She is thinking for him, using MODES=== | ==—=—=OF THE MOMENT brown, arnd. or e Wl dressNThe overblouse lng glrves. Sty MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. How to Lose Weight. l In most cities the Y. M. C. A. offers gymnasium classes for a reasonable fee. |and I welgh 228 pounds. | please tell me what exercises and diet | ™ |T should use to reduce? Dear Miss Leeds: I am 22 years old | If I were you, I would also make it a Will you Point to swim two or three times & eek. | For more detalled information than space allows here, please send stamped, I don't know of many exercises, and | self-addressed envelope with a request |T wish you would tell me which ones for my leaflet on how to lose weight. It NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Tllustrations by Mary Foley. CL A GRUB. EING a grub may have great possibilities in the insect world. A bee grub has one chance in a thousand of being a princess, later & Queen, and having every attention lavished upon her. The grun of a beetle, however, is going to take after his nts, True, he may be a tiger e and roam the woods, or a great rhinoceros beetle or even a tumble bug, known as the sacred beetle. It he is a beetle grub, then he works for his living. His mother does not care for him or place food for his bene- fit when he is & tiny infant. Grubs, as you know, are far from handsome. They have tiny red, brown or black heads; strong jaws, true feet | located very close to the head and a white, thin-skinned body. Their one aim in life is to see just how much food they can consume. It is nothing unusual for them to increase their size a hundredfold after leaving the tiny g8 Some grubs are most beneficial to us and others, like the grub of the Japa- nese beetle, a most dreaded enemy. The beetle grubs live under ground in the city of the grubs. Under our feet there is & war going on unceasingly. A mother mole-cricket | trip abroad, as a with 200 or more children to feed is determined woman when she goes to market. Her children are healthy and | always hungry. A juicy grub makes an exceilent steak. The grub of the June | beetle lies on his back and eats the Toots of our corn and other plants. He goes below the frost line during the | Winter and comes near the surface as warm weather approaches. He often lives under the ground for three years— in fact, this is his habit. Some of his | cousins stay for four years. After stay- ing for this length of time they await | a rainy season, then, when the going is | they appear on the June bugs. They hide | | about in the daytime and seek our food | at night. | Why & grub should be so ugly, then appear as a handsome creature with | wonderful coloring and trimmings of horns and spots is more than we can FEATURES. A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. Fm HEBERT, Rhode Island’s bald, -born Senator, is back in the Capital after an extended European trip with the belief that any Federal system of unem- ployment insurance will lead to the dole. Insurance has long been the spe- clalty of Senator Hebert. On his it up,and soon the Wwere heard. Senators gat in the galleries flnhhng leries lingered until he had All in his family are the eldeAAL daughter, piano. ~Adrian, thy violinist, Marguerite. plays the” e while Felix Ex Vil Far douard, is the third their home here the Heberts time 0 time entertain a select gy of friends ith thelr music. The Go or of Rhode Isl Claded in the lgt, |0 s bsen in- The old group is Adrian is practicing law in R Island and only occasionally gets down ]ue;r twuhmrmn. Three are all that are also plays the member of the Senate Commit- tee on_Unemploy- ment, he made a Before came S uilt up a rep- utation in this Senator Hebert has played the violin fleld. As a district since he was & boy. His judge in West Warwick, R. I, for 20 | [orce him to study musie. yes 17 of which he spent as deputy | Pecause he likes it. insurance- commissioner of the State, | he became known widely as an expert in insurance legislation. i State Legislatures found his advice | valuable, and he has appeared before | the provincial lawmaking bodies of | Canada on the subject. He had been Senator_only & short time when he was called in by & Senate committee for advice. Although any personality is a cluster o 1 Of medium height, rather serious in | Of selves, the most important b; manner and pamsiaking, Hebert doesn't | the personal selfthat y private ie)r e impress one as the type of man to | prajsement that - interest himself in so prosaic a thing | at 1o one else knows any- as insurance. | thing about. The personal self for you As a matter fact, music is his art. |is the most important thing in the He plays the violin and viola with real |world. That's why you ki skill and is a regular attendant at!eoncented FouTkeepiitiso wel chamber music concerts in the Capital. Bl One of the first times he attracted | When you were a child, you supposed attention in the Senate was with a |(his personal self was your body, and violin. It was one day back in 1929—a |NOthing elwe. You identified the se few months after he had been sworn |With the flesk. As you grew oider you in—when the tarlff bill was up for Made a few discussion. On tables at the back of the chamber | ¢luded the clothing you wore, the pe Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. The Personal Self, were various dutiable articles on exhibit, | ¥0u owned and the toys with which o |played. And as you grew ever olders the Senate adjourned, as|you added, one after another, the senti<>~ including s violin. en Hebert walked from the chamber he |Me€nts and values you attacl saw the instrument. |everything. Even e munonuh?r u‘fi He couldn’t resist the urge to pick yvglme:a things became in time part of personal self which you alone WHO REMEMBERS? ‘kn’;;l most about. e biggest factor in your personal self grows out of your social au‘;ound- | ings. \hnu identify your personal self with what you think other 1 |¥ou to be. i .80 the history of any personal self is a gradual growth from the body alone to the soclety in which one finally settles down. In about 25 years the |egoist, the child, is made over into a BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office, (Copyright, 1931.) musicians, Mrs. Hebert is a pianist, cu‘.'z.hcmne,’ ' changes in your estim: | of ‘your personal dimensions. You i = stralns of soft musle” him, and, small, appreciative audience . ;:llys the cello, ~ grougy Ve o broken up mnow. = hode rents didn’t = - He plays” her imagination instead of letting him ',zv“.;"o'dv“",,:;ofi&m’:fil;fej;,";l,p.',’;‘ufx’l‘ use his. She is depriving the child of | me what fruits and vegetables are not that glorious chance to discover the |fattening | amusement value of toys for himself. | Al fould you recommend a gym- | After he has learned how to enjoy the | nasium _ where . they have reducing | water, such as the rain barrel or open | from the open cistern or fountain pool wells or cisterns. “Culex” is not so|or rain barrel or bird bath in his yard, particular and will breed prodigiously |look well into your own eave troughs in any convenient drain, ditch or open |and see that you are not growin' the sewer, even when cleaner breeding varmints yourself. I speak with emo- places, such as old tin cans or bottles, | tion about this, for I passed all one figure out. The same can be said of | some caterpillars. In most cases in the | insect world members of the younger | set are mighty ugly and have little re- [ semblance to their former selves when are available. ©Of course, all mosquitoes must have standing water or liquid to breed in. JOLLY POLLY A Lescon in English BY JOSEPH J. FRISCH. under the weeds or obstructed eaves,[ DR. CUREM DOES NOT CARE TO | MEEY ANYONE OF IMA DUDD'S LK. IMA THINKS THAT FALSE ‘ DOCTRINE MEANS GIVING THE WRONG X MEDICINE. Summer in a terrible passion over the | open fountain in my neighbor's yard, only to discover toward Autumn that 1 had been breeding my own in an eave trough blocked with dead leaves on the garage. I feel ashamed whenever I | meet_my ncighbor now, after all the ill | | luck I wished him. I didn’t know. butall | along he kept some goldfish in his pool | and they take care of the tender young mosquito larvae or wiggletails ~quite | efficiently. 1f you have to have a pool or reservoir lof standing water near your abode. either stock it with goldfish or minno (minnows preferably) or cover it with a screen to prevent access of the fe- male mosquitoes when they seek a place to deposit their eggs, or at regular in- | tervals spray upon the surface a thin film of crude oil or kerosenc or old motor ol of any kind. The oil film on the suria~e of the water smothers the wiggletails so they will never grow up, inte adult me-quitoes I people only knew it, the cost of screening homes in a community is classes free or where they do not charge 'h? MRS. N. M. B. paratus by himself, he is then Teady to learn how to enjoy them with others. Alec the Great J! ) o = & AT W AT | poached; one tlice of brown bread. mu | Answer—Such excessive weight is not But the first step is independent play. lnormal, and before you start a reduc- | ing program it would be well for you to see & physician to determine if there is some glandular disturbance which is | causing the condition. Your diet should consist largely of | watery vegetables, such as spinach, cabbage, Swiss chard, lettuce, celery, | green beans, etc. Eat many of these raw, and when cooked do not season hem with butter or with cream sauces, but take them plain with salt and pep: per. Take plenty of citrus fruits— lemon, orange and grapefruit. Typical aily menus for you might be: | Breakfast—One orange, coffee with cream but no sugar, one egg, boiled or will not only give diet suggestions, but will outline definite exercises. A word of caution to you, my dear, and others who are anxious to lose weight: Don't try to lose too fast or you lose your health along with the pounds. Dieting under the advice of & physician is always the safest method. LOIS LEEDS. (Copyright, 1931 . i of the Luncheon—Large serving of lettuce and tomato salad, with dressing made With mineral oil, otherwise with vinegar and seasoning. One slice whole wheat bread. Sliced peaches (plain) and one | cup weak tea with no cream or sugar. | Dinner—Average serving of lean| young | often much greater than would be the cost of an intelligent campaign to sup- press the mosquito nuisance. Some for- | ward looking communities now have an ordinance making it a misdemeanor to meat, such as beef or lamb; large serv- ing of cauliflower. sprouts or some sim- ilar vegetable; celery, radishes; baked |apple or fresh fruit (no cream or sugar). I've never found the happiness That comes in flowing measures; I've had to take my share of it The parent birds American eagle do not teach it to fly. It seems to be born with the flying instinct and also is a fighter from the | time it is hatched. W. A. J—IIk is properly used only #n the sense of same, identical, espe- cially in connection with Scotch clan names, as “Kent of that ilk.” meaning “Kent of that same clan or name"— that is, “Kent of Kent.” Ilk is some- times incorrectly used as if it meant “kind or class of persons,” as, “I dislike persons of that ilk." |allow mosquitoes to breed on the | premises. ~ Any trained inspector from |the health department can determine definitely by examination whether mos- quitoes are breeding in & given place. { (Copyright, 1931.) | The deep pool of boiling water near Mount Hekla, Iceland, once known as the Great Geyser, is the hottest spring in the world. ] Clean up that Refrigerator! OW is the time of year when you have to be extra careful to keep your refrigerator sweetand sanitary. Wash it at least once a week with Gold Dust. A tablespoon- ful to a gallon of water is enough. It leaves no soapy residue and it kills all germs. Your grocer has Gold Dust in two convenient sizes. Get your package today. For grea economy, ask your grocer for the big House- bold package. In little bits of pleasures. “Hello, Lou. John and I want you and Harry to come out to dinner to- It's going to be a morrow night. surprise party in a way. to surprise you and give you a treat at the same time. “You know how often you and I have tried to make biscuits, and suc- ceeded in making bullets instead? Well, I have mastered the art of bis- cuit making—and I want you and your hubby to help me and mine cele- brate the triumph. “Don’t you be afraid of my mak- ing a failure. It isn’t possible. We thought making biscuits, and the like was a knack possessed by a few and a secret known only to the elect. But that's all a mistake. The sectet is Self-Rising Washing- ton Flour; and there’s no special knack about it. is “accer This “ac I‘M ul “Give me Emerson 8983 please”’ “Here’s the recipe—2 cups of Self- Rising Washington Flour; 21/ table- spoons shorténing; about 23 cup of milk—sweet milk or buttermilk. Iam using buttermilk, Now, then, sift and measure the Self-Rising Washing- ton Flour; blend in the shortenings add the milk a little at a time to make a soft dough—roll 15-inch thick, cut and place in the baking sheet—no baking powder to bother with, you see. Everything is ready for the oven ‘in a jiffy.” It takes about 10 minutes to bake in a hot oven—475° F., the recipe says—and out will come 16 deliciously light, brown and fla- vory biscuits, “That'll only be four apiece, won't it?> * Oh, well. T’ll make a double batch. It’s no trouble with Self- Rising Washington Flour. “Youre coming? That'’s fine— make it a little early and see me make biscuits neither of us ever thought I would be able to make.” I am going waffles, etc., Self-Rising Washington Flour is for sale by grocers and delicatessens in all sizes from 2.lb. sacks up—with every sack GUARANTEED. Wilkins-Rogers Milling Co ‘Washington, D. C. | grown up. It may be their reward for | their youthful unattractiveness. It seems fo be & just one, when you see | the beauty and form of some of the | Brown beetles under a magnifying glass. | | They have their troubles, too, when | man decides to plow and harrow his fields. The birds swoop down from everywhere. Some of them are so wild | over having their food made so handy { for them that they overeat and cannot +fly until part of the meal at least has | been digested. | There are parasites ever on the watch | for just such a chance. 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