Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1932, Page 45

Wedding dress of flesh colored duches. satin, and tulle veil held by a braided coronet. The bridesmaid’s dress and jacket are of flesh colored chiffon, while her hat and muff are of pink feathers. THE SUNDAY STAR., WASHINGTON, This bridal entourage shows French lace, with a sa Detachable Coliars V(Q)ffiFur ahd F abricri O far as coat materials effects of all sorts are in favor on the other. Full - length coats —that is, long enough to cover the dress—are numer- ically the winners and always the most | appropriate for the woman who buys but one or two coats for the season. | | But don't forget tbat there is a new |interest in coats of the three-quarter | | length that are frequently seen. They are made to go with some of the new eiort jacket dresses. For sports and motor wear there are | coats that end midway between the hips and knees—buttoned coats that are fre- | quently referred to as reefers | | Sleeve treatment has been a real | problem among the coat makers this season, and so far as the future of fashion goes, it is a question that has | by no means been settled. Latest news SPRINGTIME the new vogue for yellow. D. C, MARCH 6, z 3 The bridal gown-is of parchment colored satin with a pointed train. The tulle veil drapes the face and the train is square. The bridesmaid wears a dress of yellow chiffon and yellow of velvet in three shades of yello from the fuller sorts of sleeves. Some | fullness in the region of the elbow. * x x X this season—as you have doubtless | discovered—lies in the collar treatment bilities. Those that have fur collars that are furless at the neck have scarf or shawl collars or revers that are de- [Tx-m most, distinetive feature of coats | Signed to be worn two or three different ays. There are many smart Spring coats quite devoid of fur. Those that have | jParis Puts Waistline High, Low, Sometimes Medium 1932 1 T'S “Pay your money and take your a certain set of style developments in choice” this Spring. | Paris we hear of many. | Fortunately paying your money| Chanel, for instance, places her has a bright aspect because prices waistlines below normal, just above the are really down. Dresses, coats, | hipline; Lanvin makes use of what is suits, hats, blouses and various acces- | called the low natural waistline; many sories really are lower in price than |important dressmakers show a waist- they have been for many a vear, and |line just a triffe higher than normal; PART THREE. White satin and lace wedding dress with corsage bouquet blossoms. The veil shows a Russian coronet arrangement, go, tweedy | from Paris indicates a reaction away | Almost every coat has two collar possi- | fur show it either on the sleeves or on d - the collar—almost never in both places. | on the one hand, with a variety | of the influential dressmakers have even | have them so arranged that they may |Fur cuff treatment shows flat fur cuffs of tightly woven carded materials | Bone back to sleeves that are definitely | be removed, leaving the scene entirely | extending from the wrist nearly or quite | straight, while others retain a definite | to the cloth collar beneath, and coats |to the elbow. Cuffs of this gprt are | not applied over the fabric, but are used in place of fabric at the lower part of the sleeves. Then there are the large applied cuffs, usually of fox, that are attached at the elbow, swinging round the arm /in a graceful loop. while the lower part of the arm is trimly covered with a | straight, snug cuff of the material. | * x K X COAT closings this season are usually | placed well over to the left side, | buttoning from a few inches above the | waistline to a few inches below. For the time being at least, dressmakers are doing little with the button-down-the- front idea. You may have heard of the so-called “buttoned coats” by which is indicated the new coats that show a series of but- tons and buttonholes all the way down the left side to within a few inches of the hem. Martial et Armond, expo- of orange The brides- maids dress is of flax blue chiffon with a sash bow of Du Barry pink taffeta, and her hat is of blue crystal straw. ) 1 manufacturers and dressmakers 'have | while Augustabernard and others effect | a8 BeM. NAHE €0 (U FN L Sty i of white organdic embroidered in L, SRS 3 v e Bridal goun of white satin and lace in rose point pattern, worn with a de Medici veil of tulle. The bridesmaid’s dress blue and white. Her hat is of pink straw trimmed with blue forget-menots and the mufi is of the same flowers. Enunciation Counts OTH in business and in society it is of great value to speak with elear-cut enunciation. When a well bred woman accepts a seat offered by & stranger in a street car she does not confused and mumble her ‘“‘thank " under her breath. Instead she ac- the courtesy by & slight| bow of the head and a perfectly aydi- ble and self-possessed “Thank you." In a like manner the well bred man does not slip out of his seat, confusedly pull 2t a woman's sleeve to attract her attention and mutter, “Seat, ma'am.” Rather. he rises and, raising his hat, says distinctly, “Will you take this seat, madam?” If the woman is turning her back and it is necessary to attract her attention the slightest touch on the arm is all that is necessary. BY D. C. PEATTIE. If you have any taste in very early and very rare wildflowers of the Dis- trict of Columbia, try then to find the ground pink. _or moss pink, botanically | known as phlox subulata. It is, of e el bink, but a phiox—and the utiful of Vi e t phloxes, to my way All phloxes resemble pinks a little in their opposite leaves and tubular flowers with flaring limb; the moss pink especially is a charmer. with its pink- | purple or rose-colored flowers with their | darker center or sometimes even white. | It is not. of course, the earliest wild- | flower, but it is the earliest one of really great beauty. And when I say it %8 rare, that, too, needs qualification. Its mMsual #ange is on rocky hillsides { and c2ndy banks from New York State | to Northern Florida and west to Michi- gan and down along the mountains to Kentucky. So its range is wide enough, |but it is nowhere very abundant, and | here in the District it is confined to a few cliffs and banks above the Poto- mac in the Great Falls region—our happy hunting ground. The moss pink is said to be “de=| pressed.” but botanists do not refer to | an emotional or financial condition but a condition of stature; the plant instead of standing up spreads out in broad mats. Curiously enough for a phlox. the leaves are almost scale-like or needle-like. The moss pink frequently flowers in February. With the exception of the skunk cabbage and the various catkin- bearing trees like willow, elm, etc., and the maples (all of which are scarcely’ admitted to the category of flowers by most people). no other native plant that I have studied blooms so precociously, though of course there are a few garden flowers from over the seas and some little European lawn weeds that dare to show their heads in the worst of months. I once saw moss pink in bloom in a garden in Portland, Me., in March. How anything can bloom in Portland in March surpasses the comprehension of all who have been there in the wind and rain of that season. From that day I have admired the moss pink beyond all other early Spring flowers, as, in- deed, it deserves to be admired. Strange that no poets, always eager to twang the lyre for Spring, have passed it by. Perhaps one reason is | that poets are such poor botanists that |they don't know moss pink when they see it. Perhaps, too, the fact that the moss pink is not native in New Eng- |Jand has been a reason for the neglect accorded it by the muse, for New England supplied us with most of the old-fashioned nature poets, the kind that the writers of school ‘“readers” managed to give even less expensive things a style and a line of real quality. | You really can take your cholce—of | hats, dresses, coats, blouses, scarfs, a compromise by joining bodice and skirt above normal and marking a low natural waistline with a belt. So whether you want to place your | Paris gave us the impression that there | dresses of these various types of waist- gloves, necklaces and everything else waistline at normal or slightly above that makes up the Spring wardrobe— |or slightly below, you have perfectly because there is tremendous diversity | good authority, and within a short in fashions. The first despatches from ! time, if not already, you will find Things were | line ready for your selection. wasn't much change. | One of the Paris dressmakers has | | no less than a dozen cloth-covered but- | tons at the side, with a deep shawl col- lar of the material and lavish fur cuffs swinging from the elbows, leaving the actual line of the sleeves below the elbows close and straight. (Copyright, 1932.) | Fresh Paint Stains delight in, whe Il e mwfli their ecstasies running along pretty much as they had | been. general construction. The differences | would be achieved by way of new de- | talls, slightly different use of fabric | waistline high at the front and low at | and color. But things have happened | since then and the fashion situation No drastic changes in line or |evolved the Egyptian silhouette in his | new things—and that is something new. Lanvin uses large sleeves, makes a the back. For daytime skirts are 10 inches from the floor, for afternoon Come Out Easily AINT stains, if they are taken in time, are easy to get out. But is not quite so stable as it seemed to just above the ankles, for evening at | if they are allowed to dry in they are be a few weeks ago. | The interesting thing is that the dif- ferent important dressmakers in Paris | the floor or instep. So among them, the French dress- makers have given us something nov | almost beyond being taken care of at home. Youthful Jane, who is training to be have been working along rather dif-|to think about when we buy our new | an artist or a house painter, has put ferent lines and instead of hearing of ' Spring wardrobe. One Child Shouldn’t Get All the Hand-Me-Downs ‘HERE are three little girls in the family—Elizabeth, Jane and Ann. Elizabeth is 9, Ann is 4. Pane is in between. | Jane rebels. Not because she is in| between, but because she has grown up to most of her 7 or 8 years on hand-me-downs. She thinks she ought to have the same privileges that Eliza- beth has in helping to choose her own clothes. Her mother has always boasted a bit because it has never cost so much to clothe the younger girls—there are | always good coats and even dresses to be handed down. Our sympathy rests with Jane, In a family with a fairly ample income our own personal advice is not to hand clothes down at all. That may seem like rank extravagance. But we know 50 many younger girls who are really hurt by this procedure that our ad- vice is not to do it at all unless posi- tively necessary. To be sure when children sre young—up to 4 or 5—no offense can possibly be taken, byt after that age it is likely to cause ‘discon- tent. In this family it is Jane who gets most of the hand-me-downs, since there would be little left of Elizabeth’s outgrown coat after Jane had worn it to pass on to Ann. Actually there need be no extrava- gance in not passing Elizabeth's clothes to Jane or Jane's to Ann—because | clothes in fairly good condition are always very welcome to charitable or- ganizations. city whose children will really welcome the is & very to outgrown clothes,qand it much more u-rue‘bl. thing wear the outgrown coat of a cousin in another town that none of your friends have ever seen before, than to have to face the world in a coat that has been identified for a season or so with your older sister. By careful buying, too, it is possible not to have any outgrown clothes to hand down. Barbara has a new coat this winter which she outgrows before next season and has to pass on to Jane. Why not buy a coat a trifle too large for Barbara this year, take it to a tailor and have the seams taken in and the hem turned up—or do this | yourself— so that next year, instead of passing it on to Jane, it may be let out | =0 that Barbara can wear it for every day? Chocolate Cake. Cream three-fourths cupful of butter and gradually cream into the butter two cupfuls of sugar. Stir in four beat- en egg folks and two and one-half blocks of melted bitter chocolate. Add one teaspoonful of vanilla flavoring and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder and two and one-half cupfuls of sifted flour. Beat half a teaspoonful of bak- ing soda into one cupful of buttermilk and alternately add the buttermilk with flour to the cake mixture until all is used. Lastly, fold in four beaten egg whites and bake in three layers. Pilling.—Pour half a cupful of boil- ing water over two cupfuls of sugar and boil until it spins a thread. Beat this slowly into two well beaten egg whites. Add 15 marshmallows cut up ::\dn;:;l:; hbleapomfl\:}l:: vtll:“”fn.yw.mn ens, begin e layers of the cake. | this theory to a hard test, and her | mother has had a chance to try it out on several occasions. tOnemoa Jane's masterpieces was painted er new party fir&s‘rwhich Jane adored with all the fervor of her careless 7-year-old heart. The dress was splotched with bright orange paint and the splotches dried on. Nothing could be found to take them out. They were lessened— | but they weren't eradicated. A few days later Jane decided to try another masterpiece, in the center of the living room rug. The large rug was a monotone, and of course the blue and red smears of paint that were there | when Jane removed herself and her artistic endeavors to a safer place look- | ed_awful. | hot-foot to the drug store and bought | bottle of turpentine. And with plenty of clean cloths she promptly went to work, before the stains were dry. They all came out and the rug bore no trace of them with which to twit the repent- | ant Jane. If they had dred in, the big rug would have had to take a special trip to the cleaner's. New hats Combine Winter and Spring | THERE'S no necessity for bursting forth in a Spring hat this season. You can make the change by easy stages so that even if you do give up your Winter hats in mid-February, no one can accuse you of rushing the sea- son. All the shops are showing clever |little hats that combine lightweight felt with straw and fabric. And there is the new woven cellophane that looks like straw but isn't. There are charming little turbans | made entirely of cellophane, black, |navy blue or brown, and sometimes a ibami of straw is used to give the light- | weight felt or fabric turban a touch of Spring. p: Your hat should be like the weather Jane’s mother was disconsolate. But | she didn't scold Jane. Instead she went A bridal gown of white satin becomes a formal evening gown when the train and Alencon lace Jjacket are removed. The bridesmaid's dress is of yellow gecrgette with a jacket of nasturtium colored suede lace. Her straw hat is trimmed with velvet nasturtiums. —partly Winter with a touch of Spring. So much has been said about the new flower-trimmed hats that we might have expected hats laden with roses and violets and forget-me-nots and pansies in the good old nineteenth cen- tury manner. But the new flower trim- med hats are different. Usually the fowers are white and they are massed !ll one side or tucked in a fold of the felt or fabric so that the lines of the hat are as well defined as you please. You can prevent salt in the kitchen shaker from hardening and caking by placing the shaker, when not in use, in a covergd jelly glass. Under conditions of humidity this Iis well worth the extra effort