Evening Star Newspaper, October 26, 1931, Page 26

WOMAN’S PAGE,’ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, FEATURES. Thornton BEDTIME STORIES 7% % Peter Cuts a Caper. py Rabbit or a boy up his Leels to show his joy. ©Oid Mother Nature. A b Kic Peter Rabbit sat on the edge of the dear old Briar-patch looking diseonso- lately across the Green Meadows. It was a beautiful day in late Fall. The air was clear and just cool enough to make one feel good. Peter didn't feel §00d. _ Little Mrs. Peter noticed it. “What's the matter with you, Peter? Did you eat t{> much?” she asked. Peter shook his head. “Nothing is the matter with me,” he replied shortly. Little Mrs. Peter looked at him shrewdly. “1 know what it i5.” said she. “You want to go over to the Green For- est. You are getting tired of the dear L W %7y ~— SInl Vg, *POOH!" SHE EXCLAIMED. “THAT'S NOTHING TO GET EXCITED ABOUT.” old Briar-patch, though how you can is more than I can understand.” Again Peter shook his head. “No,” eald he. “No, it isn't that. I don’t know what it is. I just feel as if some- thing is going to happen.” Little Mrs. Peter sat up abruptly. hope it isn’t anything bad, Peter Rab: bit!” she exclaimed. Peter grinned. He couldn't help it. “Don't worry, my dear,” said he. I didn’'t say that anything is going to happen. I merely said I feel as if something is going to happen, but that doesn't mean that anything is going to happen. Since Farmer Brown's boy and Flp the Terrler were carried away by that great man-bird, nothing much has happened around here. I wish some- thing would happen. Nothing bad, my dear. Of course, nothing bad,” he has- tened to add. “I should hope not,” retorted little Mrs. Peter tartly. “So long as we are safe here in the dear old Briar-patch PERSONAL HE BY WILLIAM Sweets for the Sweet. “How much sugar is good for a per- son?” asks my Iowa reader. Might well ask which I'd druther do or flshln% But the lad goes on to com- plain bitterly that his wife can't enjoy coffee, breakfast focd, sauce and such things without simply covering it with sugar. Why, she uses three or four spoonfuls of sugar to the cup of coffee, and s0 on up. What will be the result of such indul ? " She's welcome to all the sugar ‘wants if it is gcod for her, but that seems too much to be healthful. She is 27 and the mother of three healthy kids. Finally, the young fella gives us a pat on back—he reads this column every night ex: Sundays and ‘and gets a kick out of it, @ lot of mor: THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN . SERVICE The fitted costume for the new sil- houette frook molds" the figure firmly through the bodice. ¥ It is given a brassiere effect at the nt. 1 The attached -u:t"g shaped with a gradual widening ‘toward the comfort- ably full hemline, It is held by shoulder straps and opens at the center-back. It is a boon to the woman with & mature figure. It will make the youth- ful figure still more youthful. Style No. 3377 Is designed for sizes 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48 inches bust. Size 36 requires 2!3 yards 35-inch. It's easily fashioned. It is interest- ing sewing that is easily handled. Run the seams on the sewing machine and finish the bindings by hand. It will give it French accent. Crepe de chine and flat crepe are sturdy and dainty for its development. For a pattern of this style, send 15 cents in stamps or coin directly to The ‘Washington Star's New York Fashion Bureau, Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, New York Don't envy the woman who dresses well and keeps her children well dressed. Just send for your copy of our Fall and Winter Fashion Magazine. It shows the best styles of the com- ing season. And you may obtain our pattern at cost price of any style shown. ‘The pattern is most economical in ma- terial requirements. It enables you to wear the new frocks at little expense— two frocks for the price of one. You will save $10 by spending a few eents for this book. So it would pay you to send for your copy now. Ad- dress Fashion Department. Price of :x*“. 10 cents. of pattern, 15 nts, ¢ e and have plenty to eat, I don't care if nothing ever happens. I don't sec why people cannot be confent with a good | home and plenty to eat. What more | can any one ask? It is discontent that | makes most of the trouble in the Great | World. That's it—discontent. Peter Rabbit, you are not listening to me at | all. stick or & stone. now?" 1 might as well be talking to a What is it you see | “Peter was sitting up very straight | looking off across the Green Meadows |and_ his long ears were beginning to | twitch with excitement. Just then littie Mrs. Peter noticed a humming sound | that grew into a steady drone. hopped over beside Peter and also sat up that she might see better across the | Green Meadows. 'Way off, high above |the Green Meadows, she saw what looked like a great bird. She knew what it was. It was an airplane, a man-bird, as the little people of the Green Meadows, the Old Orchard, the Green Forest and the Old Pasture called it. She had seen airplanes passing over | often. “Pooh!” she exclaimed. “That's noth- ing to get excited about. One would | think you had never seen one by the way you act.” “It 18 coming down, Fuzzy, my dear!” (Peter always called Mrs. Peter Fuzzy.) “As truly as my name is Peter Rabbit, it is coming right down on the Green Meadows!"” It was true. The droning sound had stopped and the great birdlike machine was gliding down. It circled the Green Meadows and then swept past the dear old Briar-patch, causing Peter to duck and timid little Mrs. Peter to run under ithe thickest bramblebush, all for no |reason at all. When the latter did | venture to go back, she found Peter | kicking up his heels, dancing abcut end | otherwise cutting a caper in the most | 2bsurd fashion. For a long minute she |stared at him. Then she found her tongue. | _ “Have you suddenly gone crazy, Peter Rabbit?" she demanded. 3 ! “I told you I felt as if something was going to happen!" cried Peter, kicking up his heels again. “He has come back! He just got out of that man-bird. And here is Flip. I never did like that pesky little Dog, but I de- clare, I'm glad to see him. Hear him barki I wish I could bark, but all I can do is to kick up my heels.” | “Por goodness sake, Peter, do have a little sense.” retorted little Mrs. Peter testlly. “Who has come back?" | “Parmer Brown's Boy!" cried Peter | happily. “Farmer Brown's Boy and Flip the Terrier. If I didn't know that dog would chase me, 1 would go right over there to meet them.” ~ “You'll stay right where you are!" declared Mrs. Peter with decision. And Peter did. ALTH SERVICE BRADY, M. D. support for his ideas avout raising kids. I suspect my Iowa reader moved out there from Vermont, where they're as it as anywhere this side of Scotland. r.nu:n%‘u low mhL‘: is today a man shoudn' begrudg wife a couple fuls of it in her berries. neral way, an active young e that ought to take all the . She can burn it, all right, chasing those three kids around and keeping 'em in good order. Not to men- tion rustling three square meals a day ‘hildren and active young people, pe:ple who work or ph‘.' hard every day, use sugar free.y if they like it or like sweet things. 1t is the best of . foods—the finest fuel to put vim, ‘unm lnuhn,fla‘:m arathon [ TS, n Tufiners, men who do strenuous labor, that sugar I any fcrm is very best emcrgency ration when is spent, utterly fatigued, nspmuh- collapse. Sugar in or of milk chocolate, the nat- drink of orange juice or r in a glass of milk, or cane ;\gl:rnln any of ll!c:l'! of soda ges, cr a piece of candy carried in the et. It doesn't matter whether you depend raisins, Sumdrops or a banana for your emer- gency ration, it tides you over just the same. Sedate, quiet, dignified, elderly fclk cught to go easy with the sugar. Those of us who live by our wits and manage | to shirk all honest work and dodge all Inu.lva play, must be abstemious in th: | consumption of sugar in any form. A | sweet tooth is a grave handicap for a | sedentary individual—it leads many a victim straight into diabetes. | Even a 35-year-old youth who is | much too stout ‘must shun all sweets in any of profusion, Of course everybody, even a person with diabetes, must take some sugar. But stout folk had better curb any special craving for S ere 1s no evidence at all to support the ancient theory that much sugar or sweet food was bad for the teeth of a child. We know now that such food is as good for the teeth as it is for the heart muscle or the muscles of the legs and arms. So I should advise my Towa reader not to worry about the girl friend's fondness for sugar, as long as she dcesn’t get too fat to love. AUTUMN Every yvear at just this time the hornets decide that my attic was put there by an all-wise Providence for hornets “(for whom, plainly, the whole of creation was intended) to spend the Winter in. That cold, windy house of theirs under the north eaves is their exile Egypt. My attic 15 their Canaan, their promised land. So in they worm thelr way—though worm 18 & poor verb. They are a great deal quicker and more intelligent about it than worms. In their hornet way then, and very shortly, it becomes dan. gerous to go rummaging abous among those curtain rods, picture frames, photographs of coustns, ofl paintings in- herited from distant uncles, boxes, books, magazines, trunks, moth bags and old toys that fill every property jumbled attic. Up to the present the hornets have never bullt more than a few cells of a nest, owing to the fact that I wage war on them. But suppose some Autumn | they succeed! Who knows a conven- ient way of disposing of a hornet's nest? Just try and think of a few practical | suggestions. I still remember my thrill of fear | when I went, as a child, on hornet wars. So numerous in the orchards in Autumn did the hornets become on_the mountain top in the Blue Ridge, where I spent several Winters of my child- hood, that even tough-hided mountain- eers were driven at las: to action. Then, with torches and dogs, by night, | they would set forth, one very scared chiid bringing up the rear. Some boy, | bolder than the rest, was set to climb the tree and pour down kerosene upon the nest. Then a torch was thrust | aloft, the frail papering gray nest burst | into flames, and away we fied from the | wrath to come. c:-uex-x'g nt you. But cruel were the stings that we endured, and there is no moral suasion with hornets. Then ali about, the woods would light up in | the glare, and perhaps an animal would | start off in the underbrush, turning the | hunt into a coon chas:. | Sometimes there were opossum hunts, | sometimes rattlesnakes got bad, and the bolder spirits set out in parties to root them out of tangled underbrush. But none of these encounters with nature ever equaled the thrin of doing high battle with the insects. After all, they were the most dangerous; and if we would only ige the fact, insecws may yet be man’s undoing. She | | severe, Fashions of Today BY MARIE SHALMAR Autumn Blouses. Some of the new blouses show hand- drawn work and hemstitching as part | of their make-up. Wide, full revers! that fall in most becoming soft lines are edged with hemsticthing. with bits | of drawnwork at the corners. Many of the new blouses are shaped | with tucks over the shoulders to give the smooth fit needed there, and yet| allow for a little fullness above the | waistline, where it almosi always ap- pears in’ this year'’s models | Jacket blouses, so-called, are one of | the smart modes, especially among girls | at boarding school and college. These | are tailored blouses of angora, jersey and other thin wool fabrics and are worn with separate skirts, without| coats, in the milder Autumn weather Doubtless later on they will take their place under Winter coats, a good cold- weather fashion They are made usually collarless necklines, but some- times a soft scarf, attached to the| back, is looped ascot fashion at the front to give softness and a bit of contrasting color Most of these blouses are belted and only occasionally are they tucked into the skirt. Some of them have pockets | on the peplum section | These jacket blouses, of course, but- | ton down the front, jacketwise, instead | of slipping on over the head. [ NANCY PAGE Beauty Skin Deep; Take Care of Skin. with rather BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Faces have to bear the brunt cf all kinds of weather, and for that reason need especial care. Cold winds, dusty winds, soot laden winds all blow upon the young znd old. Furs, scarfs, and mufflers protect the throat. ~Gloves cover the hands, but faces get all the | winds that blow. And some of them show it. The care of the face is an art or science in itself. Some skins respond to one treatment, some to ancther, but there is not a one | that does not need real cleanliness. A mild, pure soap, a czean washcloth and warm water used at least twice a day can harm few skins. The thousands upon thousands of pores in the skin must be kept clean. A clog pore means a blackhead or other skin blemish. Some skins are rather sluggish and do not take care of tnemselves. For such a skin the new ice cold pack may prove of use. After the relaxing effects of warm water it is necessary to close the pores of the skin. It has been found that applications of ice do that. But sometimes it is difficult to get ice. Sometimes it is messy to hold against the face. To take care of those diffi- culties Lois found a new device. It looks comething like & smail darning egg. It has some patented “insides” which, when directicns_are followed give an icy temperature to the utensil. By rub- bing this over the face tie temperature is Iwered and the pores close, thus firming up the skin and making a per- son look young and blooming. DAILY DIET RECIPE COFFEE CAKE. | Bread flour, 2'2 cups Brown sugar, 2 cups Shortening, 25 cup Salt, 33 teaspoon Baking powder, 2 teaspoons Baking soda, 4 teaspoon Eggs, 2 Sour milk, 13 cup Cold strong coffee, }; cup Cinnamon, % teaspoon Nutmeg, !2 teaspoon Chopped peanuts, 2 cup. SERVES 12 LARGE PORTIONS. Rub together the flour, sugar, | salt and shortening until crumbly. Take out one-half of this and save for the top. To the rest add the sifted spices and beking powder. Beat the eggs. 2 lve soda in the milk and add this to the beaten eggs Stir this liquid mixture into dry mixture with the cold coffee Pour in greased pan. Add the crumbled flour mixture and the chopped nuts. Over all sprinkle half teaspoon of cinnamon. Bake at 350 degrees F. about 25 min- utes. Yes . You can SLEEP No more sleepless nights caused by nerves. No more tense, wakeful hours, with every nerve “‘on edge.” Now— you can sleep and rest if you will do this when you go to bed. Just drop a Dr. Miles’ Effervescent NERVINE Tablet into a glass of water. It makes a sparkling drink — pleasant to take and harmless. In a few mo- (aso ments your tense nerves re. lax. Your overwrought ner vous system is quicted and brings you sound. restful sicep. When your nervra keep you awake at night — try Dr. Miles’ Efferveacent NERVINE Tabiets. If you are not pleased with re sults, the druggist will re. fund your money. Dr. Miles" NERVINE is also sold in liquid form. AT ALL DRUG STORES Large Size $1.00 Small Size 25¢ Preparations for Halloween BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. HUNTING GOBLINS IS A GAME FOR OLD OR YOUNG. If you are going to entertain on Halloween try and have some deco- rations that will suggest the Autumn. These can be in cornstalks in corners of the rooms, or in great sprays of Autumn leaves. If it can be arranged with safety tc have a lighted pumpkin hobogoblin peering from the stalks or the gay foliage the effect will be magic. It is so easy to have electric lights shaded with pumpkin-colored paper slit to give lurid goblin features. If cheap shades are not bought for the occasion paste paper on the globes of fixtures and have the features made as just described. Be sure to keep the light mellow in some gay. Hunting hobgoblins is a game for old or young. Use walnuts. Carefully separate the shells, remove the meats, which are used in the refreshments. Paint or dye the shells pumpkin yel- Jow. On one half of the shells paint eyes, nose and a wide grinning mouth. Use black paint or ink. If you cannot have the pumpkin-colored shells just make the features, using a fine paint |brush and ink if there is no black paint. The best hobgoblins, however, are yellow with black features. Number as many small squares of paper as there are whole nuts. Glue the nutshells together to make complete hobgoblin heads, first inclosing one number in each head. Place these goblin heads in a row on a mantel- plece. ‘These will help decorate the Toom, especially if back of the heads there are cornhusks, gray Autumn leaves or de=p brown' ones. A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. IT would be a curious twist in politics if Ambassador Edge's visit to the United States were to result in his going back to his old seat in the Senate. The New Jersey seat made vacant And Edge might be the man. Edge's love for the Senate is fa- miliar to everybody in Washington. He has figured prominently in some highly im- portant situations abroad since he be- came Ambassador. He is credited with a desire to try to recapture his Senate seat in 1932. Edge would be a valuable man in the Senate just now for the adminis- tration. The stanchest of Old Guard Republicans, he could be relied on in | every instance to side with the admin- istration and fight its battles. Thoroughly grounded in Senate pro- cedure and familiar with its every mood, he could make himself felt from the very start. There would be no learning the ropes for him. He knows them all. Edge’s friends say that he is getting rather tired of living abroad and away from politics. He wants to get back in the hurly-burly of it all again. This long session of Congress coming up in December is expected to last until National Convention time next Summer It may be one of the most important Congresses in history. If the Ambassador is lonesome for the Senate and anxious to get back in the swim, now is a good time. ‘Though he would have none of the that is Fo7 a fruit Never Picked Seems strange, But SunsweeT California Prunes are never picked from the trees like ordinary fruits (and never knocked doesn't it? €rom the trees, like some ordinary prunes). They§) hangill so sacur- ated with sunshine and so heavy with natural fruit sugar they drop from the trees of their own weight. Theselast few days on the trees give ¢hemawealth of healthful goodness you will never ) find in ordinary jprunes. Be sure to insist on genuine eree-ripened SUNSWEETS for your protection Buy them in the clean, handy 1-and 2.1b cartons SUNSWEET California PRUNES ‘Tree-ripened’ Each player in turn is blindfolded, stood at a certain distance from the mantelpiece, turned three times and told to walk to the shelf and take one hobgoblin. The other players call “cold!” when the blindfolded player walks in the wrong direction, “Luke- warm!” when headed partly in the right direction and “Hot!” as he nears the mantelplece. The one hunting a hobgoblin must not disturb those he does not take. ‘When all players have their hob- goblins, the hostess, presiding over a large caldron with red and yellow pointed pieces of crepe paper pasted to its side to represent flames, stirs the contents of the kettle with a wand, or | she appears to be stirring. She picks | out one package after the other, calls out ber on it, and the person who has found a corresponding num- ber inside his hobgoblin'’s head comes forward and takes his reward. ‘The prizes can be little fortunes writ- ten on slips of paper, such as: Count the seeds in the next apple you eat and you will know how many moons shall pass before you are married. The first person to whom you are introduced after the next full moon will be the one you marry. ‘Whom do you know who owns a black cat? Get the person to tell your for- tune. The prizes may be bonbons with mottoes inside, or they can be trifling favors of Halloween candies or any- thing in connection with Halloween. (Copyright, 1931.) | prestige and seniority that he formerly | enjoyed, even as a junior Senator he perhaps could have a “whale” of a good time. - Caviar Dressing. Take & cupful of good mayonnaise and grate into it a very little onion. Add a few drops of lemon juice, then beat in two tablespoonfuls of fresh horseradish. Add three tablespoonfuls of caviar. Fold all together and chill. Serve in little center hearts of lettuce or with sliced tomato and hard cooked Now Is The Time For Gay New Color In The Homel Brighten Drab Cur- | @ tains and Faded Frocks Quickly with Tintex Dull, dreary days ahead! Drab curtains, drapes and dresses . . . washed-out luncheon sets and lingerie . . . all need to be bright- ened with gay new color! Easily and almost instant- ly Tintex will restore the original color-freshness toany and all wash. able fabrics, or will give them new and different colors, if you like. Go, today, to any Drug Store or Notion Counter . . . ask to see the Tintex Color Card . make your selection from the 35 | fascinating Tintex Colors . . . You will be amazed how easily and quickly Tintex brings bright new color to all washable | fabrics in home and wardrobe! «—THE TINTEX GROUP—, Tintex Gray Box—Tints and dyes all materials. Tintex Blue Box—For lace - trimmed silks—tints the silk, lace remains original color. Tintex Color Remover— Removes old | color from any material so it can | be dyed a new color. Whitex—A bluing for restoring white. | nessto all yellowed white materials. | At all drug and soriois canacers LOP Tintex TINTS ANS DYES “BONERS” Tid-Bits Papers. Humorous From School A SURE-FOOTED ANIMAL IS AN ANIMAL THAT WHEN IT KICKS IT DOES NOT MISS. Truancy is something which has been proven to be true. The resurrection was when the wom- en came and found the tomb had been rolled away. Blunderbus is the name the British have given to their busses. One of the rights people enjoy under the Constitution is the right to keep bare arms. What kind of a noun fs trousers? Uncommon noun, because it is singular on top and plural at the bottom Adagio is & kind of anesthetic danc- ing. The escphagus is the thing the back- ‘bone leans on. (Copyright, Cake Filling. Nothing is_daintier than a white cake filled with whipped cream. Such a filling is made by whipping a cup- ful of cream until it is almost ready to become butier, then beat threc table- spoonfuls of powdered sugar into it and spread the mixture between the layers of white cake. It is not necessar the cake to be white, but it is pret 1931) MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. Fall Coiffures. Every coiffure has its day and at present the sleek mode of & few years ago is no longer seen. For who could wear an Empress Eugenie hat on a straight sleek bob, for instance—the bob which was s0 smart two years ago? Even the flat, wide waves of year ago won't quite do with these new hats. No, the hair can't just lie flat and close to the head. It must be | towel wrung out in hot water. Wind the towel around the entire head like a turban and let it remain on until cool. Remove and immediately ar- range the hair into fluffy waves by pinching it with the fingers. Put the fingers on the head where your hair naturally waves and then use them in fluffed out in_adorable little feminine | curls and puffs which peep out from under these creations. For milady who has been going in for feminine modes for the last two or three years finds | particularly in her coiffure, during the coming season Does that mean that bobbed hair must absolutely go? many of my read- ers ask anxiousl No, if bobbed hair is becoming to you, keep it bobbed. But it cannot be a short bob. It must be. long enough to arrange in fluffy curls and the ends must be turned up in_curls. ‘Those who are fortunate enough to have the least sign of a natural wave are particularly blessed today. Such hair can usually be made very fluffy by running a wet comb through it or by steaming the hair lightly. To steam the hair, first comb and brush it until perfectly smooth and then wrap the head in a large Turkish Alec the Great since accidents will happen—then ‘The best that one can do Is try to keep the doggon’ things From happening to you. | that she must be still more feminine, | scissors fashion. Continue this opera- tion until the hair is dry and the waves seem firm. Once a week is often enough to steam the hair. Those whose hair is long may ar- range a bun at the nape of the neck after the wave has been put in. A | point_to keep in mind is not to pull the hair back too tightly. Some women whose hair has a beautiful natural wave when bobbed complain that it seems to become straight when allowed to grow long. In most cases this is due to pulling the hair back too tightly. Give the hair plenty of freedom, so that it can fall into waves easily and naturally. Here is an attractive coiffure for hair of about shoulder length. Part the hair high on the right side. Put in & few soft, fluffy waves on each side and curl the short “scolding” locks in front of the ears. Curl the ends of back hair upward, letting_them lie on the. nape of the neck. Bring the ends of the hair from the right and left sides of the head to the back and cross them at the center, securing them in place with a butterfly-shaped barrette. 1If the hair is long enough, have the curled ends mingle with the back hair. In the colonial period of our history the poll tax was enacted by nearly all the North American colonies at one time or other. 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