Evening Star Newspaper, July 11, 1932, Page 24

MAGAZINE PAGE. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C Tree and Truth Quilt Design BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. EVANGELINE o WALKE R » BIX BLOCKS ARE SHOWN IN THIS SECTION OF THE TREE AND TRUTH QUILT PATTERN. IN WHICH LITTLE TREES AND HATCHETS ARE THE MOTIFS WHICH UNITE IN FASCINATING RHYTHM. HE “trec and truth” patchwork quilt design, offered readers today, is an entirely new pat- tern of historic and legendary | And significance. For simplicity and | quilt The tale is founded on fact, whether the exact incident occurred or not. It is a graceful story of vital significance. so the Washington anniversary built, block by block and piece beauty it is cqual to the best of the by piece, around this four-square cen- old-time quiltmakers' patterns, in which | ter ~descriptive of this story dear to a few units when combined give the appearance of intricacy, especially when Joined in strips, or used as an all-over quilt pattern. Each s uare of this new | the hearts of Americans. The naming of quilt patterns to re- flect the events of history is one upheld by the old quiltmakers. It is fitting pattern is composed of two hatchets, | that there should be this repetition of each laid at_the root of one of the| This is all, except the background units. Yet so cleverly are the hatchetc dovetaled together and trees fitted into their respective that symmetrical beauty is in each square ‘When the squares are joined together in reverse order, as _pictured, this beauty is intensified. Rhythm of line and balance of units are striking, each contributing a share to the harmonious whole, rather than any one feature being overconspicuous. Thus does the two trees. design conform to the requisites of old | patterns. The “tree and truth” design is one which by virtue of suggestion belongs in the Washington anniversary quilt, two other designs for which have already appeared—the “Washington pavement” and the ‘“cherry tree. Today the story of George Washington and his little hatchet is reputed to be legendary, but the fact remains that he was ever famous for his veracity.| Star Patterns Home Frocks. Every woman will enjoy the inter- esting design of this pattern. It has the simplicity and trim tailoring so essential in a house frock, yet it has| the niceties of styling that charac- terize dressy frocks. The diagonal contrast is a becoming frame for the face and one of the newest fashion features of silk dresses. Contrast is cleverly used on the perky sleeves and the skirt. It is No. 773. Designed in_sizes 14, 16, 36, 38, 40, 4& 44. Size 36 requires 3% yards of 3@inch fabric, 335 yards of ~39-inch fabric, with seven-eighths yard for contrast Simplified illu cutting and s rated instructions for ng are included with each pattern. give complete di- rections for making these dresses. To obtain a patiern of this attrac- tive model send 15 cents in coins. Kindly be sure to write very plainly on each pattern ordered your name end address and size and mail to The Evening Star Pattern Department, ‘Washington, D. C. Several days are required to fill orders and patterns will be_mailed as quickly as possible. Fashion Magazine, filled with the Jatest Paris style news, tcgether with color supplement, can now be had at 10 cents when ordered with a pattern and 15 cents when ordered separately. The Evening Star Pattern Dept. Inclosed is 15 cents for Pattern No. 773. Size...... Name (Please Print)..... City and State.....oevvierennnne neckline featured in | quaint custom in the “tree and truth” design. The development of the pat- tern in plain and figured materials, especially when chintz is one of the textiles, lends charm to the quilt. It helps to accent the fascinating geo- metric forms, which result when squares are combined Note the meander, the squares, angles, etc., in the illustration composed of six blocks, 50 simple and easy to make. The “tree and truth” pattern, with full-size units and directions for mak- ing and using in various ways, can be had for 10 cents. Don't forget that a self-addressed and stamped envelope should accompany each request, di- rected to Lydia Le Baron Walker, care of this paper. (Copyright, 1932.) JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English. BY JOS. J. FRISCH. JACK HIGH, THAN NO BETTER JUDGE, SAID, FAINT HEART MAY NOT WIN FAIR LADY, EARTS HAVE WON ‘than whom' may be accepted as good Eng- lish,” says an authority, “but sentences in which it appears can always be im- proved by rephrasing . . . as in ‘The president, than whom none was more competent to judge of its wisdom, op- posed the motion,’ but better, ‘The president, who was the most competent,’ etc.” NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. PECAN. Hicoria Pecan. HE Indians gave to the pecan its name, and it was this tree which, on two occasions, saved Evangeline and her people from starving as they wandered and grieved for their lost Acadia. The trees are ornamental, reaching from 100 to 180 feet high, with a broad top and a base sometimes 6 feet in diameter. The tree has little commer- cial value as timber. Its mission in life is to yield fruit, give shade and improve the landscape in which it finds itself. All over the South pecan orchards are being planted, the large, thin- shelled nuts being chosen for seed. Grafting and budding are still in their infancy, but much progress has alreedy been made. By wise selection and propagation, the red shell lining has al- most been eliminated. When the yield is abundant the surplus crop is put in cold storage. Ninety per cent of the nuts today are gathered in the woods, the pickers receiving from 3 to 5 cents a pound. The nuts are sorted and placed in revolving barrels. Here they get the polish by friction, and old nuts are rejuvenated in the same way. ‘The pecan prefers low, rich ground near streams. It is native in Iowa, Illi- nois, Indiana and Southern States bor- dering the Mississippl River to Central Alabama, and its range has been ex- tended by cultivation in all Southern | States. The tree is a fast grower and | soon pays the owner for his investment. The bark is light reddish brown, broken into scaly plates, and the branches are smooth. The wood is light brown, com- pact. heavy and brittle. The pointed uds are small and yellow, with narrow | scales. The greenish flowers are stami- | nate in catkins, they are abundant, | scurfy and four-angled. The bright | yellow leaves are from 12 to 20 inches | long, of 9 to 17 leaflets, short yel- | lew. stems. The fruit is in a cluster, and from 3 to 11 pointed-at-both-ends nuts may be found in a four-angled husk, winged at the sutures, which open at maturity. The nut itself is smooth, | reddish, cylindrical, thin-shelled, and the kernel is sweet, with a red astringent granular coat. | Of course, anything as delicious as the pecan meat will have many ene- mies. There is the pecan-case bearer, a persistent little “worm,” which con- sumes as many as three nuts before it is full grown. These little pests are on hand when the pecan bud begins to swell, they eat into the tender bud, and | it withers and drops off. Tousands of trees are the victims of these deter- mined eaters. The pecan weevil, with a very long beak, which she uses as a drill, is another aggressive enemy. She bores a deep hole into the immature fruit. turns about. and inserts-from one to six eggs in the tunnel just made. Of course, the fruit is doomed to sup- | port her offspring. | As the pecan offers such handsome | returns in a very short time, the many | insects which are trying to get a foot- hold now must be eliminated, and steps are being taken by the growers to make life miserable for them. | (Copyright. 1932.) | Everyday Psychology Creative Ability. | Most creative minds either don’t know or don't care to discuss the source of their creative activities. They know very well that a thorough ln\'esnganonl‘ would in some measure deflate an ego | | that never cares to be disturbed. | For example, William Blake, the | mythical English poet, asserted that he | was able to get in touch with super-| | natural powers. Socrates said that a| favorable daemon followed him about, | dictating what passed for his own per- sonal ideas and conduct. Victor Hugo was always talking about fate. So on,| for any number of great men. | Modern psychology dares to strip To- | mance from creative ability. Creative ability is merely the ability to hold on to one’s day-dreams long enough to put them into some plausible form. In this sense, however, the word “merely” in- dicates the difference between medi- ocrity and genius. The average man allows his day- dreams to dissipate into thin air. Whereupon he goes back with some- thing of a thud to his hewing of wood and carrying of water. The genius makes day-dreams his stepping stones to a unity, new and useful. The out- come i ed & creation. Sacrifices One of Evils Reaulrol of Modern Social to Make Conditions Ideal Home YOUNG boy who committed suicide the other day left a note addressed to his sister, “because she was the only one who was ever at home.” That is not only one of the most pathetic heart cries I have ever heard, but it is one of the most scathing arraign- ments of modern social conditions that has ever been made, and the real explanation as to why youth has gone criminal and why our jails and penitentiaries are filled with boy and girl racketeers and gangsters. Nobody home! No light in the window, No fire on the hearthstone. No cookies in the jar on the shelf. No savory dinner cooking on the stove. No mother waiting and watching for one to come home with a kiss of welcome and loving hands to draw one across the threshold. No mother who even knows when one comes home. No mother to listen to the accounts of one's little triumphs. \JOBODY home! The house dark and lonesome When one rushed back from school or in from play. Nothing to eat except some cold stuff in the ice box, or perhaps on the dining table a few coins weighting down a note saying “get yourself something at the delicatessen at_the corner.” Mother out at a bridge or a club or a lecture or a tea. Father going straight from business to the golf links. Both mother and father coming in late in a rush to get ready to go out to dinner and a night club. No time to tell mother and father anything. Lonesome thing for children to be left to spend their evening by them- selves, or with only a servant for company. ‘Tney are not old enough to care much about reading. They are not fluent conversationalists. They have little initiative and can't think up original ways of amusing them- selves, so, naturally enough, they follow their parents out on the street. IT is a common thing to hear it seid that the home has become outmoded; that it has become a place where people go only to change from day into evening clothes; that it has become a sort of springbcard from which a family leaps off in different directions, and that the father and mother and children meet so seldcm that they scarcely recognize each other at sight, and never get well enough acquainted to know one another’s minds and souls. This is only too sadly true, but the trouble is that when we throw the home and family life into the discard we have nothing to put in their place. Nobody ever yet has been ingenicus enough to invent a satisfactory substitute for a home that is a place of love and peace and cheer and comfort. ][ i one thing for children to come home from schocl of an afternoon to a mother who is always on her job, and Who knows why, if they are late; a mother who has always something good to eat waiting for a hungry boy and girl; a mother who knows how they spend their afternoons, and with whom they play, who gathers them in of an evening as a hen does her brood under the wings, and who spends her evenings with them helping them with their studies, encouraging their ambitions, thrashing out with them the problems of their little lives. 1t is another thing for children to know that when they get home mother will be gone about her own diversions, that the door may even be locked and they will not have shelter unless they go to some other child’s house, or hang around a fire engine house or a corner grocery. Ad- mittedly to have to be perpetually on duty calls for endless self-sacrifice. 1t is a high price to pay for motherhood, but unless a woman is willing to pay it she has no right to have children. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1932.) SCREEN ODDITIES BY CAPT. ROSCOE FAWCETT. DAVIES S HONORARY COLONEL OF COULDN'T OBTAIN ADMITTANCE TO ASTUDIO 1S AGO.TODAY HE IS HOLLYWOOD'S WEALTHIEST STAR. THE CAST BEFORE MAKING THE FIRST SCENE OF A FILM. (Coppright 1932 by The Beti 3 Inc Chicken Roll. Mix two cupfuls of cooked chicken with four hard-cooked eggs _finely chopped, half a cupful of chopped celery, one tablespoonful of chopped | green pepper and one and one-half cupfuls of hot thick white sauce. Cool. Shape into small round rolls about four inches long. Dip in bread crumbs and in one egg mixed with two table- spoonfuls of water, then in crumbs again. Bake in a moderate oven until the rolls are brown, or for about 15 minutes. 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MANHATTAN LAUNDRY Cut the Watermelon in slices one- fourth inch thick and remove as many Use fancy cooky cutters to cut the crisp melon for the canape. Watermelon hearts are If you happen to be enter- taining at_bridge, the melon may be club and spade cutters. Line individual serving plates with nasturtium leaves and ar- range the fancy shapes of watermelon as fancy dictates. A green cherry may be placed in the center, or a mound of JULY 11, 1932. WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. B. Patent Office. When Dan Rice and his famous horse, Excelsior, attracted Washingtonians to the circus at Sixth and B streets north- west? LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. We was eating breakfist and ma said to pop, Did you read P. Willis Hinkle's article last nite, Willyum? It was quite inspiring, it was on the subjeck of pub- lic benefacters and it went on to say that the greatest public benefacters are pers with big print on every lip, they are the people who see their duty and do it quietly with only the unseen ap- plause of their conscients. In fact P. Willis Hinkle says the noblest public benefacters of all are the ones that are never heard of and who go down to oblivium rapped in their own mod- esty, ma said. And after lunch she took off her dia- mond ring and put it on the side of the basin in_the bathroom to wash her hands. Giving me a ideer, and I thawt, G, if she ony forgets her ring like she genrelly does I can hide it and she’ll think she’s lost it, and then I can find it and put it back again without saving a werd to her and shell never know who the public benefacter was. And I kept on watching her and she forgot her ring all rite and went in her own rcom and I quick snuck in the bath room and snuck ma's diamond ring in my pockit, and I herd ma com- ing back and I just had time to jump ma looking 2round the bath room tawk- ing to herself. Now that's a funny thing, that's really strange, I could of sworn I layed that ring rite here on the basin, in fact I made up a slite rime so as to be sure not to forget it again, let's see. yes I remember. here I lay my ring on the basin, just before I put my face in. So that proves it, but on the other hand, where is it? I declare if Benny had been around I'd have some clew, but this is absilutely mistifying, she said. I'll look in my bed room, but I remember the rime, basin, face in, O deer if I've lost my diamond ring, she said And she went in her room to look and I quick snuck in the bath room jumped back in the hall again, and pritty soon ma came back to the bath room again and saw it, saying, Well I declare I must be either losing my site or my senses, well anyway the relief is all mine, bleeve me. a modest benefacter, feeling lucky. Raspberry Desser{. Ue one quart of fresh raspberries partfally mashed and cooked, or other fresh fruit instead of the raspberries, or canned fruit, may be used. Press out the juice, saving some whole frui of juice allow one-fourth cupful of sugar, four tablespoonfuls of orange juice, and one teaspoonful of vanilla, Chill’ thoroughly, fold in one cupful of shaved ice, and serve in a chilled dish at once, with whole berries on top of the dish. Be sure that the juice is rather concentrated and of fine flavor before folding in the ic not the people whoes names fill the pa- | and put the ring back on the basin and | Me sneeking down the back stairs like | for decorating the top. To each cupful | WOMEN’'S FEATURES. Masters of Music. BEETHOVEN. N the year 1787, a German youth | came to Vienna. He was 16 years old. In his native town, Bonn, he had won note for his ability in music; but the great wide world | knew little of him. The youth was Ludwig van Beethoven. of 4, Ludwig had been fond of piano, but his father, a singer and music of music which was his nature. Many a time the child was whipped because | he did not want to practice or because | he did not play in the manner his father | desired. | While in Vienna, Ludwig met the | famous Mozart. At that time Mozart was 32 years of age and was known as a genius all over Western and Central Europe. He listened to the playing of | the young Beethoven and afterward re- | marked, “Keep your eyes on him—he will make a stir in the world.” Beethoven did make a stir in the world—no less & stir than the great Mozart. Five years after his first visit to | Vienna, Beethoven returned to the city so famcus for its masters of music. Mozart was now dead, but the young man became a pupil of another noted | musician, Haydn. | It was not long before Beethoven's |name spread over Vienna. Not only | was he a great pianist. but he com- ‘p’.sad music as well. His work seemed My Neighbor Says: ‘Where economy has to be con- sidered, it is advisable to buy half-bleached linen. This is much stronger than bleached and very soon becomes perfectly white with washing. Before placing plates on the table, instead of putting them in the oven to heat pour hot water over them for a few minutes be- fore using. White stockings that have be- come yellow may be dyed a very light shade of tan if dipped in coffee that has been strained and cooled. Frequently the finger is pricked when sewing and a blood stain left on a light material. To re- move .t moisten a piece of un- bleached baste cotton in the mouth. When well moistened rub over stain, working from out- side to center and it will soon dis- appear. (Copyrisht, 1932) As a tiny lad | teacher, almost tock from him the love | UNCLE RAY’S CORNER to grow finer with each passing year. The time came when Beethoven had to fight againdt despair. Before he was 30 years cld, his ears began to “whistle and buzz,” as he described it himself. He was becoming deaf. A man less strong than Beethoven BEETHOVEN AT THE AGE OF 40. might have permitted deafness to spoil his life, but not so with this German musicien. “1 will bid defiance to my ate ¢ He was deaf. He was lonely. He was without the help which a kindly wife might have given him. 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