Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1933, Page 24

MAGAZINE PAGE. Garden Bowl for Embroidery BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. ing to the calendar. It is the month when thoughts turn with especial interest to gardens. It suggests the garden bowl as icularly felicitous for Spring em- idery. Those who contemplate giv- ing Easter remembrance gifts can have no more delightfully appropriate design for their stitchery than this charming garden bowl, of classic shape, with its rfusion of flowering plants and vines. Ele design has a balance of rare beauty. ‘The garden bowl can be developed in warious stitcheries, such as filet crochet, embroidered filet net or crochet, darn- ing, cross stitch, knitting, bead work, tapestry crochet, or any needlework in which a stitch occupies a square, or more than one stitch is made to fill in 8 square, large or small. The adapta- bility of the design to any preferred form of work makes it appeal to all women who ply the needle to make beautiful articles for the house or for accessories of the costume. As filet embroidery, while extremely easy, is new to many readers, full di- rections for doing it are given on the pattern sheet, as well as directions for making the shaped filet crochet, fitted to size and shape of semicircular arm- chair tables. ‘The design can be carried out in either of the two-color schemes fully described and for which there is a key. Or any color may be used by following the key and substituting colors other than those given. The pattern is smart for bags, since SPR!NG arrives this week, accord- | can be the curved lower part shapes itself to the curved contour of many styles of bags. It can be of darned filet worked in colors, which is the most unusual | decoration. Or regulation filet crochet | can be used. In each case the filet, embroidered or plain, is appliqued onto the outside of the bag. Or the work done in cross stitch through canvas basted to the foundation. The canvas, after the embroidery is done, is then cut and pulled out, leaving the | stitchery on the bag only. Or, if a square weave of material is used, the design can be worked by counted threads directly on the bag. A nightgown case as dainty as the flowers of Spring is made of any chosen pastel shade of silk, with the enyelope flap ornamented with an appligie of the embroidered filet. Chair backs and armchair end-table covers in this work are novelties. Natural colored linen with filet net of the same shade and embroidered in one of the tapestry color schemes given on the pattern sheet is handsome. Any of these articles are marvelously well suited to Easter gifts. For 10 cents and a self-addressed and stamped envelope, with a request di- rected to Lydia Le Baron Wrflkn, the garden bowl pattern will be sent any reader. The work is quickly done and gifts, bridge prizes or articles for bazaars, fairs, and charity sales can be made in these quiet Lenten days and be ready for use as needed when festivi- ties begin again. (Copyrisht. 1033.) Conquering Contract By P. HAL SIMS Mr. Sims {8 universally acclaimed the greatest living contract and auction player. He was captain of the renowned “Four Horsemen™ team and has won 24 national championships since 1924. HAVE described the responses with minimum hands, whether short- suited or containing a five-card suit. We are now concerned with hands which justify a slam-try from the responder’s point of view and with which he must therefore make some response other than the mini- mum_‘“three no- trump.” My last article dealt with the fairly simple situation where the responding hand, having no five-card sult to hid, can respond only in raises of the mo- trump _declaration. I wish next to consider responding hands with one or more suits to bid, strong enough for slam tries. When to Assume Y ibility for a Slam Development. ‘The same principle applies here as How It Started P. Hal Sims. BY JEAN NEWTON. That Word “Clown.” “Is there not something incorrect,” writes one of our readers, “in the use of the word ‘clown’ bumpkin. I mean something not in- tended in the origin of the word? Weren't the old court jesters, of whom the modern circus clown is, of course, @& descendant, men of the keenest in- telligence and usually enjoying the con- fidence and friendship of their ruler? Wasn’t the old jester a philosopher and a wit rather than an entertainer of low degree?” ‘The error of our reader is in assum- ing that when we say “clown” we are applying the name of the jester to the boor, whereas in actual fact, clown is the name of the boor. That is the primary meaning of the term, for it comes to us through the North Euro- pean languages, from the Danish root, “klunt,” meaning log, block. It is its adaptation to describe the modern Jester of the circus that is an acquired meaning. The fact is that it appeared in English during the sixteenth century | for both “clod” and “funny man.” but the clowns of the drama of that date were usually represented as country ‘bumpkin: P (Copyright, 1933.) PAPA KNOWS BY J. KENNETH BOLLES. *“Pop, what is a_flask?” “Disease of the hip.” Gopyright. 1933.) for a boor or| throughout my system—when assured of another chance to bid, do not force except to deliver a message which you can make clear only by forcing at this time, to convey very definite informa- tion which is not dependent on any subsequent support or confirmation from | the opening bidder. You know that the | opener will make another bid—generally | three no-trumps—if you take him out {in & suit by bidding three in that suit. This is a minimum response, but one which opener will, nevertheless, not pass. You will have another chance to bid if your hand requires it. An immediate force (jump takeout in four of a suit) should "therefore only be made when you can virtually assure your partner that there will be no loser in that suit, that it is good for five or more tricks, and that in addition your hand contains, fot entry, a primary trick outside the long suit. Your suit-holding must therefore be of five or more cards con- taining two of the top three honors. This usually makes the suit solid, as & two no-trump opening bid is not made on a hand without at least a queen in its weakest suit. A Sure Basis for & Slam Try. ‘There is no “if” about this suit; there is no “if” about your hand. It will presumably take six tricks in the play, and your partner knows that five | of them are in the suit named. If he holds three of the suit, he can posi- tively count on discarding two losers in other suits on your good suit. If he holds only A x or K x there is a chance of losing a trick to the jack, and he should take that into account in his next response. ~However, generally a two no-trump bidder will hold three to the ace or king, or else his doubleton will be A J, K J or he may hold Q J x. and then no allowance need be made for a possible loser in the suit. Sp. KQxxx DLAxxx Ht x x clxx Sp. K xx Ht x x would justify responses of four spades and four diamonds, respectively. You have no further bid in the hand, so that unless, partner bids the slam, you must pass thereafter. Should the opener now bid another suit, you must take the declaration back to the same number of no-trumps. Having told your whole story on the first bid you made, do not rebid the same values. The slam decision is up to your er. Signing Off Without Passing. If he develops the slam-try by bid- ding another suit, by steering him back to no-trumps you are not proclaiming additional values of any kind. You are merely showing a preference for the safer and higher ranking contract. ‘With the two hands, your second bid should be a minimum return to mno- trumps, even if he bids five diamonds over the first example; in the second hand neither of your king suits justifies a raise in that suit should the opener bid it over your jump takeout. Your distribution in both these hands does not offer any reserve playing facilities. You have your suit and your outside primary trick. You have told this to your partner. Abide by his eventual decision. (Copyright. 1933.) D.AQxzxx ClKxx Mr. Sims will answer all inquiries on con- tract that are addressed to this newspaper with self-addressed, stamped envelope. %Keeps Age a Secret | Brushes Away Gray Hair | . Now you can really look years younger. | With an ordinary small brush you just ||l tint " those_streaks or patches ‘of gray ||[Bpsk,, b rour natural” shade—whetner | londe, brown or black. %0 ea. | || do—at he Years success. a : Active coloring agent is purely vegstable; Defles _detection. No _tell-tale, “dyed” ||| luster, your money back. 5oc. druggisis.—Advertisement. THE EVENING NATURE"’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Ginkgo. [INKGO trees are the oldest ex- They . gan and there are fossil re- mains to prove it. The tree as far as records and habits go never grew wild. In 1727 and 1737 the ginkgo tree was first introduced into Europe by the Dutch and planted in the Botanic Gar- dens at Utrecht. It is said, too, that seeds were brought from Japan to Eng- land in 1754. In Kew Gardens in the year 1795 a ginkgo blossomed. It was a male tree. A tree planted by the famous Jacquin in Vienna flowered in 1768 and was a male also. The maidenhair tree, or ginkgo, is said to have been brought to America through the efforts of William Hamil- ton, who obtained it from England in 1784 and planted it in his garden at Woodlands, near Philadelphia. The garden has since been used as a ceme- tery, but there are two trees there in i perfect condition. The male tree is 7 feet and 7 inches in girth and 75 feet high, while the mate has a waistline of 6 feet 6 inches, but is the same height. ‘Washington, D. C., has the most fa- mous avenue of ginkgos, in the Depart- ment of Agriculture grounds. There are 90 of them. The tree has no insect enemies, & marvelous recommendation for any tree. It will flourish in any soil and grows Just as happily in a narrow street as in open places. The roots go down deeg under the tight pavements and reac! for moisture. The tree has so much in its favor and only one drawback. It bears inch-long yellow fruit which is very offensive. When ripe, it drops to the ground. The decaying fruit makes things look untidy and the odor is most objectionable. In China the nut is highly prized as food and is roasted, as we do the almond. Scientists talked things over; the so- "IGINKGO- s # lution was this: The seedlings were grafted from the father trees to the mother trees. There was no fruit and all the trees planted in city streets and parks are gentlemen trees. - In their youth the ginkgos are tall and slender, but as they grow older the branches form greater angles with the trunk, the top of the tree spreads and when planted along sidewalks, in double rows, the arches are formed and cool, shady streets are the result. In the Spring the deeply notched, bright-green leaves clothe the tree. In Autumn they turn a brilliant yellow and soon after flutter to the ground. The sturdiness of the tree, its ability to grow fast under adverse conditions and the fact that the troublesome fruit ques- tion has been removed makes this a fa- vorite city tree. My Neighbor Says: If you use cocoa instead of chocolate in making chocolate candies, substitute three table- spoonfuls of cocoa for each large square of chocolate. If cocoa is used, add three-quarters of a tablespoonful of butter to make it as rich as when chocolate is used. Paste your doctor's telephone number on the door of the medi- cine cupboard. In repairing torn gloves, first buttonhole, in amall _stitches, round the entire edge of the slit, and then draw together the stitches, one by one, down the center. Repairing of this kind is very neat. To bone a fish, slip the knife under the rib bones near the head and slit down the entire length of the body cavity. Then cut down to the ridge of the backbone, taking care not to cut through the skin. Disconnect the back- bone at the head and lift the bony framework out of the fish. (Copyright. 1933.) SCREEN ODDITIES BY CAPT. ROSCOE FAWCETT. BTAR, WASHINGTON, I‘lolfin( Trump in Reserve Veil of Mystery Keeps Wife Interesting ‘Worse still, she has shown him the secret of how she does her con- juring. He knows exactly how she will react to every situation. He can anticipate with deadly accuracy just what she will say on every subject. He even knows what she thinks and thinks she thinks. T}n one thing that men crave above all others in women is novelty. It is the unknown that piques their curiosity and rouses their spirit of adventure. Let any new girl go into & community and she takes all the beaux and dates away from the local girls. They may be better looking, more intelligent, more charming than she is, but she has the lure of novelty, and that is a knockout every time with men. ‘Men cease to notice the profile of Laura, which has been a familiar sight to them since they made mud ples with her in the kindergarten. ‘They take Susan’s murmt!; line of conversation and Janey's sports- manship for granted because they are accustomed to them, but they are bowled over by the eyes that they look into for the first time or the fresh line of attractions that some stranger presents. That is why girls have to g0 away from home 50 often in order to find husbands. AND it is why so many wives lose out, for by no means is the wife always old and fat and frumpy and the “other woman” young and slim and chic. Just as often as not the wife is more pulchritudinous and living- skeletonish and better dressed than the ladylove, but the trouble is that one is a picture puzzle that he has solved and the other is one that he has to yet work out, and that is what fires his fancy. Problgl{ at the bottom of most of the side-stepping of husbands is boredom. e eternal flat monotony of domesticity gets upon their nerves and they feel they must have change or die. They are married to women who have let marriage get into a rut, and, as somebody has pithily said, the only difference between a rut and & grave is the depth. T}m is nothing alluring in that. Nothing to keep a man pepped up and eager to go back of an evening to a wife who has never changed the rr‘lve‘t{. she combs her hair nor made an original remark since they were ma; Many & man finds that his wife has let herself become a thrice-told tale. She never spices life with any variety. She never puts on a gay dress by way of change for dinner. She never tells & funny story. She has never read an interesting book. He knows before she begins to speak that she is going to recite the same litany of domestic worries that she does every day of her life about how hard she has worked, and how troublesome the children have been, and the awful price of butchers’ meat. And there will be the same old things to eat—roast on Sunday, cold on Monday, hashed on Tuesday. ONCE 8 very clever man said to me that his ideal of a perfect wife was one who could be married to & man for 40 years without his ever finding out whether her complexion was her own or whether she bought it at the drug store. And this was only another way of saying that & clever woman kept herself attractive to her husband, and how she did it was her trade secret which she didn't give away to him. Not many women have this subtlety, or will take the trouble to do this. They disillusion their husbands by leaving all of their make-up off in daly life, and this applies to manners and conduct as well as their faces. They bludgeon their husbands into walking the straight and narrow path with the stick of duty instead of making it a primrose path along which they lure them. They don't even bother to oil up the domestic machinery with a little flattery so that it will run smoothly instead of creaking and groaning as it goes. THAT is why husbands are so hard to manage. For men don't really mind being worked by women. They cnly object to the raw way in which it is generally done.” And they don't want to see the wheels go round by which they are ground into submission. So it is the wise wife who ll::v:u ;::u 3:-‘ c-hrfi on u;e u‘gle. bx:,t wgg always keeps a trump or two e she can play need. e ki hersel; riddle that her husband %e\'er quite solves. i fisn: bisrestne She never tells him all she thinks, nor everything she does, knows that there are secret chambers in her heart and soul that ;x:dh:: never explored, and that mekes her a perpetual fascination to him, The patron saint of all wives should be Scheherezade, who told her hus- band a continued story with a new chapter every day, and every chapter ended in a note of suspense. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1933.) % MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY BY JAMES J. MONTAGUE. Havers and Holders. When a statesman arises With & soft, kindly smile on his face And speaks of the cares That he cheerfully bears, And the burdens of power and place, You may make up your mind in an instant That this harried and overworked man ‘Will play the hard part That is breaking his heart Exactly as long as he can. ‘Whenever a boss politician Remarks that he cannot afford His money to spend Years and years without end To serve the good folks of the ward, ‘You may come to the speedy conclusion | That despite all complaints and abuse, Right there he will stay ‘While the years roll away, And you never can joggle him loose. He constantly voices complaints That the worries and woes | Which a great leader knows But once he has tasted of power, In power he'll steadily stay; | He will stick hard and fast And a dynamite blast WIll be needed to pry him away. (Copyright, 1933.) MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Stewed Figs. Wheat Cereal with Cream. Soft Boiled Eggs. Toast, Orange Marmalade, Ooffee. LUNCHEON. Com Chowder. Toasted Crackers. Orange Sauce. Almond Cookies, Tea. DINNER. Boiled Spareribs. Boiled Cabbage. Potatoes. Hot Buttered Beets. Hot Apple Pie. 7 d LEAVES OF TREES USED N MOVE SETS ARE PAINTED A BRILLIANT GREEN TO MAKE THEM PHOTO- GRAPH BETTE! Amzl Afir@m fands _use LUX for Dishes SUGENE PALLETTE OWNS A MOTORIZED BUNGALOW N WHICH HE HAS TRAVELED EXTENSIVELY THROUGH MENICO AND THE SOUTHWEST. ‘heese, Coffee. (Copyright, 1933.) NATURAL FEAR Wa cats. jrand Prize == Winner of Grand Price it B Formerly sold at $53.50 ‘When a man gets an itch for an office ‘Would wear out the patience of saints. | | | D. C, MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1933. \DorothyDix| Bedtime Stories BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. Brash Young Hare. OT always, of course, but too often is youth heedless, reck- less sure that it knows best and Hieben tar werntigs, 1t is brasn. listen to 3 rash. Yes, sir, youth is brash. That is, it is impetuous. It is inclined to rush into things headlong, without care and proper investigation, certaln that it knows all there is to know. Jumper the Hare had been much disturbed by the discovery that there was a strange hare boldly intruding on his home range in the Green Forest. Now it is one of the laws of the Green Forest that each one, or each family, living there shall have a home range or hunting territory which shall be recognized by others as belonging to the individual or the family, as the case may be. By unwritten agreement others of the same kind respect such a range and keep away from it. This home range, like the home itself, belongs to the one who established it. It was so with Jumper the Hare. He had established a home range and he regarded it as his very own. He knew every tree, bush, stump and stick on it. It was big enough to give him a sup- ply of food the year through. It was to him just what the dear Old Briar- patch was to Peter Rabbit. He resented having any one intrude on it, especially another Hare. By the signs, Jumper had formed a tllrl}; lccurft?e idea of the intruder be- fore ever he ?Ot glimpse of him. “He is & young fellow,” muttered Jumper. “He is one of those brash young Hares who think they own the Great World. He is big and strong. _The signs show that. He is heedless. If he were not he would be more careful in the matter of leaving tell-tale signs of his presence. He is so sure that he knows it all that he doesn’t care who knows that he is about. He knows better than to feed on this range of mine, but he thinks it smart to do it and not get caught. He'll come to no good end. That kind never does. If ever I catch him I'll teach him a lesson he will not forget in & hurry.” X It was just a few nights later that Jumper encountered the stranger. It was in the very middle of his home range that he came upon the stranger sitting in a patch of moonlight. He appeared as unconcerned as if he be- longed there. Jumper stopped abruptly. Then he thumped angrily. The stranger merely turned his head and looked at Jumper in the most casual manner. “Hello, grandpa!"” said the brash young Hare. “It's a fine evening.” Jumper almost choked with anger. | "HELLO. GRANDPA!"” SAID THE | BRASH YOUNG HARE. “IT IS A FINE EVENING.” “What do you mean by coming on my puttered he. excited, grandpa. Don't get excited,” retorted the brash young Hare. “Is this your range? I won- dered who was using it. I guess it is | big enough for two. I rather like it | around here. I'm thinking of staying. If you don't like that you know what you can do about it.” “Yes, I know what I can do about |1t, and'I am going to do it right now!” | snapped Jumper with an angry thump. “You can just run along and live somewhere eise. grandpa,” continued the brash young Hare, just as if he hadn’t been interrupted, and his man- ner of calling Jumper grandpa Was most impudent. . Jumper’s eyes, usually so soft, fairly blazed with anger. He hopped a little nearer. The young Hare, while seem- |ingly so careless, was watching every move and, suddenly, to Jumper's great surprise, leaped straight at him. Jumper hadn't expected anything of the kind. | He had expected that brash young Hare to take to his long heels. So Jumper was completely taken by sur- prise and knocked off his feet. ONLY *1985 ‘WITH FREE ATTACHMENTS ® SAVE 9% ON A MODEL 9 VACUUM CLEANER THIS WEEK ONLY NLY a limited number allot- ted us by the manufacturer for this special bargain sale. These fine, powerful cleaners have been thoroughly rebuilt by the Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Company. All worn parts have been replaced with new parts. They look like new and are fully guaranteed the same as new cleaners. $290 DELIVERS EASY PAYMENTS Phone e P l.h'y' Jor in Your Home National 8800 POTOMAC ELECTRIC APPLIANCE CO. 1Oth. & E Sta,NW. *>* Phone NA. 8800 iheight and has a woody stem. WOMEN'’S FRATURES. 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