Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1932, Page 24

MAGA Applique Design ZINE PAGE for Quilted Rug BY LYDIALE BABON WALKER. HE quilted bedside rug in which the cherry tree pattern of the Washington anniversary quilt is used as applique decoration has proven so popular with readers that another design is offered today to be used similarly. You will remember that the cherry tree bedside rug was made to go with the Washington quilt, making a unique ensemble, as the same design ornaments each. While this in- sures an artistic completeness of deco- rative elements, the quilted rug does not necessitate having a coverlet to ‘match. It can be developed in tex- tiles and colors suited to the scheme of any chamber and form an attractive mal to be used by a bed. Or it can 2ls0 be suited to a bath room scheme and become a bath mat, following one of the original antique Persian fash- ions, although in bath rooms of totally different types. The pattern offered today can be used for a hooked or applique quilted mat. ‘The same design in applique can be used to ornament a bedspread, thus combining the two pieces of spread and bedside mat in a way similar to that found in the Washington anniversary ensemble. The circular floral design for this other ensemble set can be used for a round rug or an oblong one. The circle is used in the center of quilt or rug. and a straight border of matching pattern is put around the edge, with the single blossom in center of the rug. ‘The quilted rug is made by applique- ing the design onto an already quilted and bound pad, such as comes for in- fants’ cribs. Cut the circular design of Stems and foliage from one textile. Cut the fowers, centers and buds from an- | other color, or several colored textiles) may be used, thus offering an oppor- tunity to use up scraps of material. Allow seams. Baste and fell down the complete design in sections, as given. Cut center floral motif from one of the gay textiles and position and well down in exact center. Bind edges of a round rug cut from the crib mat. Or use the circular design with central flower for middle of a quilted oblong mat and make a border of a straight stem, with flowers and short stems. Cut these units from circular design and arrange each side of the straight stem. Make each stem from a length of textile cut the width of the main stem in the circular design and long enough to extend the full length of each end of the quilted foundation. Edges look best when bound with stem- colored textile, although they may be | left as bound for crib pad. For a spread to match use the cir- cular applique motif, as on the rug for middle of the spread, and put a straight stem and flower border around entire | spread. The design has all units in | right size for either rug or spread. If | patterns are out from traced units on | the pattern sheet, it will leave the sheet complete for future use. This is the thrifty method. | If a colored rug foundation is wanted, the white quilted sateen crib pad can be | dyed. Or two pieces of material with | cotton batting between can be ruled in | crossing_diagonal lines and the lines be run in heavy white cotton, or. better | still, in a cotton to match the founda- tion. Bind edges and the quilted mat ! will be ready for decoration with the applique. There is no easier bedside or bath mat that can be made than one of these, especially when a ready-made foundation is used. Thornton | BEDTIME STORIES % Fomer || Reddy Gives Up. A mother’s love knows no retreat And always 1t is hard to beat d Mother Nature. NCE Reddy Fox sets out to do a thing he does not like to give up. This is_especially true | when he is after something to | eat. He is smart and knows it 3t is the same way with Mrs. Reddy. It is hard for them to believe that any one can be smarter. So when they went out to find the babies of Mrs. Lightfoot the Deer they wouldn’t admit even to themselves that it was possible for Mrs. Lightfoot to be | smarter than they. From her actions they were certain that those fawns were ~ i, DON'T BELIEVE SHE HAS ANY BABIES,” DECLARED REDDY. hidden in a certain thicket. Whenever they approached it she drove them away in great rage. Furthermore, they 1 are about. She must go to them several times a day to feed them and by watch- | ing we can find just what place she goes | to most often and there we will find the babies.” | So Reddy and Mrs. Reddy kept out | of Mrs. Lightfoot's sight and where | she did not get their scent, but where | they could keep watch of her. She| browsed over a considerable space, some- | times in one thicket and sometimes in another thicket. But when she lay down it was most often in the thicket from which she hall so fiercely chased them. And it was most often in a certain part | of that thicket. So they were sure that | &here was where the babies were hid- | en. | They waited until Mrs. Lightfoot went | down to the nearest pool in the Laugh- ing Brook to drink and then once more searched that thicket. They found no | baby Deer. They found the bed of Mrs. | Lightfoot. but that was all. | “I don't believe she has any babies,” declared Mrs. Reddy. | “But if she hasn't, why should she | care if we enter this thicket? Why | should she drive us away in such a rage?” demanded Reddy. | “I don’t know,” replied.Mrs. Reddy. | “Perhaps she did have some babies and | something has happened to them and | sh:‘hns not recovered from her grief | yet.” Reddy shook his head. “No.” said he, “that isn't it. If she hasn't babies, then I do not know mother love when I see it. There is sqmething queer about this. Somehow she has managed to hide those babies, but how is beyond me. I guess,| my dear, we may as well give up.” | “We will have one more careful look,” | replied Mrs. Reddy. ‘They did. It was a very careful look. It included several thickets in that vicinity, but chiefly that one in which Mrs. Lightfoot spent so much time and from which she had so fiercely driven NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. ARMADILLO (Dasyphus noremcinctus). OOK at the original model of the caterpillar tractor. This crea- ture is the only animal, so far as we can find out, who is clad in armor. When danger appears imminent he can draw his legs up un- der his head and shoulders, which form a solid shield, and, rolling himself into a hall, wait until all hostilities cease. Eons ago these creatures grew to be 7 feet long. The largest ones today are found in Brazil, and reach a length of 4 feet. The suit of armor is beautifully sculptured and consists of bony plates with V-shaped pits in them. The plates are broken up into nine rings, held to- gether with bands of tough elastic skin. The pointed ears and long tail are well protected with bony plates, too. Caves and rocky places are their fa- vorite home sites. The armadillos with which we are familiar are found in Texas near Brownsville, not far from the mouth of the Rio Grande. Here they dwell in great numbers together. They are not fighters. Their sharp, strong claws are used for excavating burrows in which to rest. If captured, they can put up a fierce struggle, in which the hind lags are powerful and efficient. From morning until night they are scouting for ants, insects, snails and bird eggs. Nothing in the food line seems to appeal to them so much as a feast of snakes. The ground is filled with holes where the armadillos live. They poke their snouts pig-fashion, looking for ant hills or juicy grubs, lifting the light soil. routing out unsuspecting underground dwellers. Little is known about their family life. We know there are four children a vear. They are born With a soft leather jacket which gradually hardens. Their eyes are open at birth, and, like the whole family, Zheir evesight is poor. The little anim: d leather balls trot after their mother, and if she gets too far ahead of them they run briskly after her. As they move about, the hunting habit is_begun at once. Their little tongues flash out and frisk the busy ant into the waiting mouth. For teeth| there are little white pegs. If alarmed, one rushes for the tall grass, and he | is some sprinter. If caught too far from shelter, he promptly draws up his legs and rolls himself into a ball As a pet he is most amusing and gentle. The yard, however, becomes 50 pitted it reminds you of a target prac- tice board and you decide to give your pet to the zoo, 1 In Central America the natives eat them and turn their shells into baskets. The long tail forms the handle. The coyote_appears to be their only enemy. The little armored car presents too many obstacles for less persistent foes. (Copyright, 1932.) WHO REMEMBERS? ‘When the Hudson Taylor mansion occu- pied the northwest corner of Ninth and D streets? A have never yet met present for each? be Dbetter? what should I say when I meet them for the first time, and again when I leave? exactl, I word my thanks to mother and father- in-law for taking me with them?” | might grandmother a box of candy or con- se wait and send her something ward think would well in her house, or that you think she would like for herself. the grandfather something, too, if you like. them or send them a bought present at all. MONDAY, SEP N Is Tusase e Achievement in Hcmu of This Age for O d |DorothyDix| |How Much Better Off We Are Than Our Grand- parents Were!—Now We Make a Cult of Optimism Instead of Holding Tearfests. cause to be grateful for, is the increase in happiness. We have made lif¢ so much pleasanter and more agreeable than it used to be. Especially have we improved the latter decades of human existence, which men and women used to put in in patiently and ,forlornly waiting for the end, and in which their liveliest amusement was making their wills and selecting their pallbearers. THE most notable achievement of this age, and the one we have most Possibly young people are no happier now than they were in what we erroneously call the “good old times.” Doubtless it was just as much fun to ride behind old Dobbin with your best girl at four miles an hour as it is to speed with her in an automobile at 60, and as romantic to hold hands at the church supper as it is at the cinema. OUTH Is the time of enjoyment, and, barring some tragic situation, is always happy, but youth is short, and after it had fled men and women settled down, as the phrase goes. Life used to be a dull and depressing affair. Perhaps that is why people used to think and talk so much more about going to heaven than they do now. In our complacency we take whatever good befalls us as no more than our due and less than we deserve, so we fail to note how much more enjoy- able things are for us than they were for our forbears. Yet those of us who are middle-aged and over can well recall when there were virtually no amusements or diversions except for boys and girls. A RESPECTABLE middle-aged man was supposed to find all the relaxa- tion and get all the thrills he craved out of his business and his family, and his credit actually would have been impaired if he had taken any time off to play. No golf, no tennis, no polo for him. Even a fishing or a hunting trip was looked upon askance, and what would have heen thought of him if he went on both a Summer and Winter vacation one trembles to think of. As for a woman, she virtually adjured the world, the flesh and the devil when her first baby was born. She became all mother and ceased to be a human being with any desires for pleasures and frivolities. She joined the black silk brigade and got her excitement out of the baby’s first tooth and Junior’s going to college, and took her rqmance vicariously through her daughter’s beaux. WHEN the Browning clubs were first started women hesitated to join them because it was such a bold and adventurous thing to do. A wife and mother would never have outlived the scandal if she had left her family for any reason save to nurse a dying relative, and after the children were married she was supposed to be done with all real interest in life and to find her only pleasure in nursing her grandchildren and meditating upon death. Consider tH altered status of the middle-aged and old now. They are the play girls and boys of the modern world, because they have more time and more money than the young. All the pleasure resorts are crowded with elderly people who are dressed to kill and jolly. The only post- mortems you hear from them is over their golf games and their bridge losses, and when their children get married parents don’t climb up on the shelf, They buy tickets around the world and start out to do the things they couldn't do when they were young. LL real happiness, however, must come from within, and herein lies our greatest modern improvement. We are meeting life with more philosophy than our fathers and mothers did. We are making a cult of optimism instead of a religicn of pessimism. In the past the ability to mourn was developed into a positive talent Maidens pined away with a green-and-yellow melancholy over the cads who °d them. Neglected wives spent their lives grieving over hushands who betrayed them. The women who never “got over” sorrows were, somehow, looked up to with a sort of awe. The streets were black with women who put on crepe in their youth and never tock it off. \VOME.\' have just as much to weep over now as they ever did, but if they shed tears they do it in private and turn a brave and smiling face upon e world. Ncbody can imagine a modern girl dying of a broken heart because some drus store sheiic threw her over. 5f her Checks are wan she covers up their paleness with rouge and laughs it ofi The wives of philanderers don't fret themselves into the grave over infidelities, Even the women who have great <orrows to bear take them with what Stevenson called “that brave attitude toward life.” Nor do wemen tell their troubles as they used to do. No black-garbed women come to spend the day with us and have a tearfest as they did with our grandmothers. "It is considered bad form to talk about your operations and poor sportsmanship to tell the faults of the husband who ports vou, and so when women gather they do not sup on funeral- aked meats. Altogether this is a happler if not a better world. E<pe- cially for the middle-aged and old. DOROTHY DIX. - (Copyright, 1932 GOOD TASTE TODAY BY EMILY POST, Famous Authority on Etiquette. Making His Family Yours. GIRL, newly engaged, writes: "I am going to take a trip with my fiance and his mother and father out West, to visit my fiance's grancparents, whom 1 Should I take a Or will a joint gift | ation, your inclina your heart. There is no rule as to what to say. It is the evidence of interest and rea | mess to respond that counts. Remem ber that many people show their feel- ings with difficulty. They think kind |and affectionate and approving | thoughts, but they don't know how to say them or show them. Don't wait for his family to come all the way to meet you. Go half way—even three-quarters 'of the way by yourself. Especially in the case of old people and children | Look and listen with interest to what they show you or tell you. Try to dis- cover their pet likes or dislikes and act, | or refrain from acting, accordingly. In n to take them to Also, And _ just ‘how should my future Answer. — You his who like to be prompt. Don't try to | assume the role of prima conna—even | though they seem willing to give it to | you. Don't flaunt your opinions. contradict, no matter what you think. | If asked your opinion. give it truthful but don't emphasize it. And, of course, take ved fruits, or after- you Took that = o as for them, is to learn to love them, learn to like what they like, and then And send | just be yourself. (Copyright, 1932.) ‘The most perfect gift possible| Cellophane flowers are popular as hat It is not really necessary to give other words, don't keep waiting those | Don't | the secret of happiness for you. as well | MBER 26, 1932, Star Patterns Charming New Blouse. Simplified {llustrated instructions for cutting and sewing are included with each pattern. They give complete di- rections for making these dresses. ‘The more blouses in one's wardrobe, S Doy o the smarter! This lovely contribution to blouse fashions features a becoming cowl neckline, tab cuffs and an inter- esting waistline effect. It is No. 904. Sizes 32. 34, 36, 38, 40, 42. 44, 46. Size 36 requires 3 yards of ‘36-inch ma- terfal, or 27 vards of 39-inch material, or 2 yards of 54-inch material. To get a pattern of this model send 15 cents in coins. Please Write very plainly your name and address, style number and size o each pattern or- Jered. and mail to The Evening Star Pattern Department, Washington. D. C. Sever:l days are required to fill or- ders and patterns will be mailed as quickiy as possibie. The Evening Star Pattern Dept. Pattern No. 904. Name (Pleasc Print) Size. . ................ £eeecossnnen Economy Spice Cake. One and one-half cupfuls flour, five teaspoonfuls baking powder, cne cugiul brown sugar, one and one-half cup: water, onc-quarter cupful butter, one teaspoonful nutmeg, one teaspoonful cinnamon, one teaspoonful sal one cupful raisins. Sift flour and baking powder together. Boil sugar, water, butter, spices, salt and raisins together two minutes. When cool add dry in- gredients. Mix , and bake in but- | tered and floured shallow pan in mod- |erate oven (350 degrees Fahrenheit) bout 45 minu Remove from oven. ! Let stand two or three minutes before | taking from pan. | Drouth is cutting down Brazil's cot- | ton yield. WOMEN'’S FEATURES UNCLE RAY’S CORNER Flying Around Euxope. LAND OF THE DUTCH. FTER leaving Munich, we follow | the valley of the Rhine River, and in the course of several hours pass over Cologne, a fing city which has grown up along side the famous river. Soon afterward, we cross the border of Holland, land of the Dutch. We | pass by Rotterdam and Amsterdam, and at length land at the Hague. ‘The Hague is the capital city of Hol- | land, and is noted as the home of the | Palace of Peace. As we stroll along the streets and look at the large, well fashioned government buildings, you suddenly turn to me and say: “Almost everything I've read about Holland has told of wooden shoes worn by the Dutch, but so far I haven't seen a single person wearing wooden shoes! They all seem to be wearing leather shoes.” “¥Yes,” I reply, “almost every one in the Hague and other Dutch cities wear leather shoes. That is the custom for| cities. Long ago, I believe that the wcoden shoe custom was common everywhere in the country, but not now. | Some of the farmers and fisher folk | wear wooden shoes, however.” | “Do you know of any place we could go in Holland where all the people ‘wear wooden shoes?” { “We might go to Volendam or the | Island of Marken, where most of the people wear wooden shoes.” | We decide to visit the village of LITTLE BENNY || BY LEE PAPE. I was around at my sister Gladdis's | house this afternoon, and tonite at supper I said, Hay ma. hay pop, what's you think, little Wille has a loose front tooth. Well of all things, I always said that child was precocious, ma said The things he says are just too killing in their adult outlook on life. For in- stants the other day the milkman want- ed to collect a trifling bill and he d Willie if his mother was m. and Willie { spoke up like a flash in the pan and said No, but I am. Can you imag- ine that, his mother wasn't in. but he was, can yeu imagine a more old fash- |ion rejoinder? In fact he's alwavs | been years in advants of his years, but imagine him starting to lose one ¢ his ferst teeth at his age. that real climaxes the climax, she said Maybe in a month or so he’ll have |a full set of wisdom teeth, pop Personly I didn't get my last wisdom tooth till I was 8 years old, and ye made some pritty cute remarks a very erly age. r day a prying visitor ., my lttle man? and 1 My age life is now divisible by 2, e perform: that operation would have very little Vleft for his panes. That visitor never asked me another question, pop said. O yes, you're marvellous ar { were. but that doesn't alt | that little Willie has a premat tooth, ma said. How long h: | that way, Benny? she said, and I said. Ever since yestidday when he fell on it. | Well for land sakes you silly why didn't you say he'd | ma said and I said, You didn't ask me Wich she didn't, | Wholesale commodity prices in Chile { aze higher than a year zgo 1 | | | | | WE SEE Al Volendam, for I remember s good- ratured hotel keeper whom I met there back in 1928. All I can recall about is neme is that he told me to call OLD SAILOR TELLING A BOY SOMETHING ABOUT A MODEL BOAT. him Fritz. feel sure tha Volendam itself is s As we throy ing our eves ope see an old «a on a dik about a mod “Where is we ask the words since Dutch. His_hotel is small, can but I locate it, since ) Volendam. keep- for the hotel. we I something t to a boy hotel kept by Fritz sailor, using German none of can_ speak and , fun sent to all Ray and ask to enclose a IIZTIYETTYYEYYYY YTy Yy Disinfe cted Buffalo Moths and ALL VERMIN CYANIDE GAS FUMIGATION EXTERMINATION Guaranteed Service FURNITURE GUARANTL ACME DISINFECTANT and FUMIGATING CORP. 824 Albee Bldg. Natl. 2058 ek ik kAR Ak kR Ak OTH PROOFED ED i YEARS them. The thicket in which the fawns My Neighbor Says: never succeeded in enticing her very is the gift of your responsive appreci- ornaments in London this season. far from that thicket, although they tried and tried. Yet, though they had searched through and through that thicket, they hadn't found those fawns. “We will have to try another plan,” gaid Mrs. Reddy. “We will keep in hiding and not let her suspect that we | MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Stewed Figs Dry Cereal with Cream Eggs a la Goldenrod Toast Marmalade Coffee LUNCHEON. Cheese Souffle Stewed Tomatoes Hot Baking Powder Biscuits Aprifot Whip Tea, DINNER. Cream of Carrot Soup Shepherd's Pie Boiled Spinach Tomato Salad, French Dressing were hidden was the farthest from the one where Mrs. Lightfoot spent most of her time and was looked through very hurriedly. Reddy ddn't_expect to find the babies there and he wasn't disappointed. So at last the search was given up. Mrs. Reddy had a narrow escape from the hoofs of Mrs. Lightfoot and on this account was the more willing to give up. Baby Deer might make a wonder- ful dinner but there were other di ners easier to get and without danger; she would be quite satisfied with these. So. for that matter, wouid Reddy Fox. The chief reason for which he hated to give up was that it was an admission that Mrs. Lightfoot had proved herself too smart for two of the smartest folk in all the Green Forest. ‘His pride was | To wash chiffon, squeeze it gently in warm soapy water until clean, then thoroughly rinse it in warm water in which a lump of sugar has been dissolved. This will give a little firmness after being_ironed. It is best to dry the chiffon before ironing. ‘When any portion of a velvet gown is crushed from pressure, hold the part over a basin of hot water, lining side next to the water. The pile will soon be restored. 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