Evening Star Newspaper, October 16, 1931, Page 55

WOMAN'S PAGF, Nightgowns Brought Up to Date BY MARY In spite of all the fashion revivals of the Victorian era, no one has any idea of reviving the sort of night gown that ladies wore in these good old days. Made of muslin or linen, buttoned up st the neck, with long sleeves and full gathers below a short yoke. No indeed. Modern women would rebel at such a revival. And yet the new nightgowns are in keeping with the new fashions. They are made fairly long—ankle length at the very Jeast. They show a well-defined waist- line usually a little higher than normal and sometimes they have sleeves—short puft sleeves or flaring cap sleeves. Sometimes they are made entirely of fine washable satin. Sometimes they show a combination of chiffon or ninon and lace and sometimes they combine two tones of satin or chiffon or silk crepe. One interesting new nightgown shows a skirt of white satin with a band of pink satin edged with a foot wide flounce of crepe at the hem. There's a wide waistband of pink satin with a short bodice of pink chiffon with becoming little short sleeves. This combination of materials makes 1t possible for you to bring old-fash- foned nightgowns up to date. You can make them long enough by adding a flounce of crepe or even lace at the My Neighbor Says: To remove machine oil from linen, rub it with a little lard, let it stand until the stain dis- appears, then wash it in warm water and soap. Individual fruit salads are most attractive and delicious when served with a ball of cream cheese sprinkled with cinnamon. Always keep a pail of sand near the furnace in your cellar. Should a spark light on a broom or papers left near the furnace, the fire may be quickly extin- guished with sand. Large-sized embroidery hoops tied to rods in clothes closets make excellent hangers for scarfs and sweaters. MARSHALL. |hem. You can shape them in a little | at the waist by taking in the side seams, and you can add a sash or girdle and a palr of amusing puff sleeves. (Copyright, 1931) THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, _16, 1931 LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Pop got another lettcr from ma to- day, her still being away at Ant Fan ny's on & visit, saying in it, Deerest Willyum, Well, Im still here, but nuth- ing lasts forever, in fact some things dont last even as long as you expected them to, and I have a ferm presenti- ment that this visit fits into that clas- sification like a band in a glove. Little Herbit is the fy that is spoil- ing the taist of the ointment. Accord- ing to Fanny he is a model of a para- gon and everything he does ony makes him seem the more so through her rose colored eyes, but I will give you a specimen of.an example of what an average day here is like and you can judge from your own conclusions. Well, this morning for instants I was awakened at the gassly hour of haif pass 5 by a dreem that a glant black- smith was using my defenseless body as an anvil to ply his trade on, and low and behold little Herbit was under my bed with an axual real life ham- mer battering away in a perfeck frenzy at the slates and springs. The ensuing scuffie brawt Fanny to the scene and she immediately took Herbits side, ex- plaining that he has a natural inborn genius for engineering and wasent it wonderful for him to be up giving free vent to his grate gift at a time when common ungifted childern would still be immersed in a stupor of sleep? And so it went on, histery repeeting itself to the verge of monotony. When I complained to Fanny about finding | insoluble | my shoelaces tied into an maze of knots, she said it was just another problem that Herbit had set himself to keep his iale hands out of ‘mischiff, and when I discovered several loose bills in my handbag cut up into ribbins, Fanny exclaimed in a gush of rapture how wonderful it was for & child to start life without an exaggerat- ed notion of the value of meer money. So perhaps you can expect me sooner than you expected, Willyum. Lovingly, Pawleen. I Cake Filling. Mix one cupful of sugar with two tablespoonfuls of flour or cornstarch, then add gradually to three whole eggs or four egg yolks. Add one cupful of English walnut meats and stir the mix- ture slowly into two cupfuls of milk which has been brought to a boil in a Reasons Jor Male Qualities Ezplains Conundrum to Women | DorothyDix A DESPAIRING woman asks: “Why are men as they are? Why do they think they are s0 superior to women and so much stronger than women and then demand more of women than they demand of themsclves or any other man? Why do they blame everything that goes wrong on the wife? ‘Why are they so selfish, stubborn and gontrary?” If men were better, they would be worse as husbands, because no woman could endure to live with one who had no faults or weaknesses, who was never swayed by prejudices or passions and who was always right about everything—who was really as superior and wise as a lot of men think they are. WHAT congeniality éould there be between a poor, frall, human woman and a perfect man? We may admire pzople for their virtues, but we Jove them for their foibles and it is only after a wife has forgiven her husband 99 times that she begins to focl really tender and protective toward him, that she really gets the mother feeling that makes her blind to his shortcomings. The reason that men demand more of a woman than they do of themselves and other men is because they never take a woman's work seriously and they think she is built along different lines, anyway, and that things don’t affect her as they do them. A husky, able-bodied man knows, for instance, that taking care of the children for & single Sunday afternoon reduces him to a mental and physical wreck, but he thinks it is just fun and play for a frail little woman to do it six days @ Week and he says that by Jove he wishes he didn’t have anything to do but stay at home and do the housework and look after the children. P course, the reason men always blame the wife is because it is a hereditary trajt that has come down to them from their first male ancestor. Besides, it is the perfect alibi for everything they do and don't do. It saves their faces and without doubt it is the convenicnce of having a goat handy in the family that drives many men into matrimony. A man will marry a woman because the is gay and frivolous and knows nothing on earth except how to dance, and expect her to turn into a serious, sedate and helpful wife who is a good cook and dim:-nurser. A man who is a scholar will marry a Dumb Dora who never even read a best seller and expect her to be an intellectual companion to him. A MAN will work himself to death to give his wife fine clothes and a handsome home and a high-powered car, but he will never pay her a compliment, or tell her that he loves her, or show her any little tenderness, although he knows tbat she is just eating her heart out with longing for some sign of affection from him and that she would rather he would jolly her along than give her all the money in the world. Men are one thing to men and another thing to women. And that is why no woman can ever understand a man any more than a man can understand a woman, DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1931.) | THE Cooking Hints. To blanch almonds, put the almond | in boiling water for s few minutes, then in cold water. The skins will | be made by beating one egg white together with a ripe banana Curdling of custard can be prevented by putting the custard cups in a pan of cold water. Heating an orange a minute in the “BONERS” Humorous Tid-Bits From School Papers. INDIANS PURSUED _THEIR WARFARE BY HIDING BEHIND BUSHES AND SCALPING THEM. 1In this course the teacher and puplils are kept constantly on the verge of mental exertion. Name of clown in “As You Like It" —Touchdown. In a limited monarchy only one man can be king at a time. A sincere friend is one who says nasty things to your face, instead of saying them behind your back. A caret is a cute angel turned bot- tom side up. Possession by sp! like the devil. All promises to marry must be 1n writing. its means feeling (Copyright, 1931.) French Fried Potatoes. Peel and cut into lengths about the size of your thumb and’as long as you wish enough potatoes for the meal. Wash and then dry them thoroughly with a towel. Sprinkle with salt and | fry in a deep kettle of hot lard, which | should cover the potatoes. When brown, FEATUR BEDTIME STORIES A Mountaineer at Home. Paith in himself that brooks no fear Doth mark the hardy mountaineer. Farmer Brown's Boy. It seemed to Farmer Brown's Boy that never had he seen & more Lnsplr-l ing sight than Bighorn the Mountain Sheep standing as if carved in stone on a ledge a dizzy height above him. From that ledge there was a sheer drop of 200 feel, or more, yet Bighorn stood | on thz very edge with as little concern | as if he were on level ground. There was a proud grace in the way he held | his head and the great curving horns | were a fitting crown. “I wish I could get nearer to him," thought Farmer Brown's Boy, “but if I move he will see me instantly and! o, Perhaps if I keep still right here | he will .come nearer. I have found | that I can sometimes see more by | patient waiting for things to come to me than I can by going looking for | them. Great Scot! Bighorn ought to | know better than to try to come down that rocky slope. Hell break his f necl Bighorn had left the ledge and started down a slope at one side so steep that it looked at that distance to be almost straight up and down. Of | course it wasn't, but it was so steep that no man would have cared to at- tempt to go down it even with the help of hands wherewith to cling to projecting rocks. Bighorn had nol hands, not even claws, only four black | hoofs. Still he seemed not in the least concerned. He bounded from one lit tle ledge to another where a slip would have meant a fall that would have killed him. He landed lightly on a jut- | ting bit of rock, his feet close together, balanced for a moment and then jumped to another. He picked his way daintily over a slide of loose stones, sending one or two clatterng down to the bottom. He bounded gracefully to a little shelf, paused for a moment to look off, and made a long jump to & ledge beiow. _ 80 Bighorn came down and Farmer Brown's Boy held his breath at times and then let it out with little sighs of relief as Bighorn continued on his way without slip or misstep. “A real mountaineer if ever there was one!” exclaimed Farmer Brown's Boy under his breath. “I would like | Brown one-fourth cupful By Thornton W. Burgess, he lacks the grace of you and always seems #® be picking his way with care. pose v careful, but you don't show it. ‘What is it now?"” Bighorn had thrown his head high and was the picture of alertness as he gazed steadily toward a jutting point of Tock at about his own level. Farmer Brown's Boy could see nothing but the rock, nor could he hear anything, but it was clear that Bighorn either saw or heard something, for there was an air of expectancy in the way he stood. Presently around the rock appeared another head with curving horns, but these were much smaller than those Bighorn wore. “I do believe it is Mrs muttered Farmer Brown's Boy saw that she was smaller and what lighter in color than Bighev! Behind her came two half row lambs. Easily the three picked their way down to where Bighorn wa* & them. They had not come G steep slope, but had made . around to join him. Feraaps > | because the lambs were not vet ecea. to such a feat and the risk was to¢ great. Bighorn now led the way, the others following. Now and then they stopped to get a bite to eat where little patches of green things grew among the rocks. So little by little they drew nearer to where Farmer Brcwn's Boy was hidden. Finally in a warm sunny place they all lay down, the two lambs close to their mother and Bighorn near by It was as peaceful a scene as ever % ard to believe that these were wil free people, mountaineers, at home on on these seemingly inhospitable moun- tain slopes. (Copyright, 1031) Panned Oysters. Drain off the liquid from one and one-half quarts of oysters and look them over carefully for bits of shell. of butter slightly in a heavy skillet, add the oysters and two tablespoonfuls of chop- ped parsiey, and cook at a moderate heat for about 5 minutes, or until the edges of the oysters begin to curl. Add salt if needed. Serve at once on (Copyright, 1831.) come off easil; uble boiler. 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