Evening Star Newspaper, April 12, 1933, Page 26

MAGAZINE PAGE . Revival of Old-Fashioned Thrift BY LYDIA LE AKING the most of things is|assumed quality of excellence. It was again assuming a place of im- -portance in homes. minor It is virtue which thrives settlers and their an essential. In most of us who have these stanch early a | descended from pioneer offspring A best under financial pressure. | there linger traces of this thrift, incipi- 3t ‘was held in very high esteem in the ent, perhaps, in days of opulence, but ready to assert itself on demand of tightened purse strings. In those.early days, it was rather easier to save than today, for houses had attics, and barns had lofts in which to stow away unwanted articles. To- ‘day in modern spartments, in which frequently there is not even a general storeroom, it becomes an unsolvable problem—this disposal of articles in already well filled closets. So the un- needed things must either be given away, or sold, or immediately put to another use, such as frocks being made over to suit incoming styles, or cut into sofa cushion covers, or transformed into pleces for patchwork quilts. This transformation follows the cus- tom of the early American days. It is certain that if these thrifty housewives had not put stout parts of discarded dresses into quilts, these coverlets would never have withstood the rav- ages of time. Moreover, the material was of excellent quality. It was pro- duced partly because of its durability. Today it is wise to follow their ex- ample and use fine-grade material, combining colors carefully for a beau- tiful blend of tones. If they are of lower standard, such materfals give a cheap appearance to a quilt and de- tract from both pattern and work- manship. ‘Among the quilt patterns which lend themselves admirably to diversity of textiles is the “Tree and Truth” de- sign. It is one of the quaint symbolic patterns, which, although “of modern conception, hark back to the days when quilts told stories. Every American knows the tree-and-hatchet story so artistically interwoven in the quilt de- sign, which is 10 cents, with picture and pattern units clearly printed and full directions for making squares. Please accompany coln with stamped and self - addressed envelope directed to Lydia Le Baron Walker, care of this . The quilt can be developed in silk and velvet or cotton and "(Copyright, 1933.) Pointed Paragraphs The man who fails to start doesn't have. to stop to think. That wife governs best who doesn’t let her husband know she’s trying. Girls who act kittenish when they grow up. You can sometimes judge s man's ability by the number of relatives he has to support. The difference between a -cook and a chef is that the latter can fix things up so you can't tell what they are. Our idea of a hero is & young man who attempts to prove that two can live as cheaply as one, just because his best girl told him so. Even s $20 bill is good only so far a8 it goes. He who borrows trouble pays the in- terest with worry. UNCLE RAY’S CORNER ‘Wonders of the Heavens. true, or that the facts “seem to prove” that it is so. Then they work on and on and on, in efforts to make sure. About many things, scientists are as certain as we are when we say, “the sun will be seen in the sky tomorrow if the day is clear” For example, they can tell what eclipses of the sun and moon will take place for years to come Long in advance they. give the time of day or night when such eclipses will be seen from certain parts of the earth. One interesting thing ‘sclentists have done has been to study the “gravity” of different planets. They have learned power to pull things to them as other Pplanets have. pears to have the strongest gravity. an-expert high-jumper -from the ea could go to that planet and use as much strength and skill in jumping as he ‘uses on eartlr, he would find it hard to leap over a wheelbarrow! After testing his ability to jump he might say: & “Well, well! I have lost my power. Never again shall I be a hero in a track meet!” If such were his thoughts, he would be making a mistake. If he returned safely to earth, he would have no trouble in jumping over a horse. Let our same athlete go to the moon, and what would he find? Supposing, as before, that he could live after the | trip, he would amaze himself by his jumping abilities. Gravity on the moon | Is not negarly so great as on earth. The man could jump over a two-story house, if he found such a house on the moon. We know there is not.onc chance in a million of finding a house on the moon, but we are “just sup- I rth are young often act cattish when they | that some planets do not have as much | Jupiter, largest of the planets, ap- THE EVENING STAR SONNYSAYINGS I ast the coach could I break off trainin’ on account I was only a water- bucket boy, an’ he said “Sure”! Bring on yer dinner! Here comes a feller 'at has broke trainin’ wif a bang! (Copyright. 1933.) Everyday Psychology BSY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Pretenders. It is now an established fact that every person is something of a per- tender. Of course, no one likes to ad- mit that fact. It's a painful confession to make. The situation is this: Eevry person has many selves in his body. He a mutiple personality; a per- sonality for every ticklish sitpation, every perplexing social problem. If he can’t make a satisfactory adjustment to a situation through his dominant self (the one he usually uses and is know by) he calls into service one of the psychological “bench warmers” that he carrles around to use in case of emergency. For purposes of self-re- spect, if for no other, he generally keeps this retinue of substitute selves out of sight. Now and then some one will tell you how he found happiness. It was when he quit pretending. Willlam James tells the story of & woman who to enjoy life the day she quit trying to be beautiful Many a policeman becomes & good public servant the day he quits angling for the position of chief of police. A private secretary becomes a successful employe when he g to the whole business. When a person’s ambitions outdistance his abilities, he begins to go to pieces mentally and starts on & voyage of pretenses. (Copyright, 1933.) JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in Etiquette. BY JOS. J. FRISCH. DAD CALLS ALL HIS FEMININ! S “SPEAKING (JACKIE, THIS 1S THE FIFTH TIME IV'E TOLD. YOU NOT YO PLAY WITH = YOUR H. M.—Continual nagging of chil- dren at the table in the presence of ‘company” should be avoided. Such treatment usually lessens a child's in- centive to good behavior before strangers. Many families do not per- mit the children to come to the dinner table until they have learned proper table manners in the nursery. Metal in the Radio. and alloys enters into the construc- tion of the radio. Steel, in strips and bars, leads the metals in quantity, total- ing 110,000 tons a year. pper, in | sheets and as wire, follows with 12,000 | tons, with copper alloys accounting for | 4,000 tons more. Tin in foil form and | tin-plate aggregate 1,800 tons. Nickel | alloys, used in tubes, amounts to 1,500 A HINGTON |DorothyDix| “= HIGH school student was recently called upon to write an essay on the subject of divorce. He summed up his obsérvations and conclusions on domestic infelicity by saying: “Divorce comes of people of the opposite sex marrying, for how can either know what the other wants?” W D. C., WEDNESDAY Reason for the Divorce Problem. A Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings cometh wisdom! For, after all is seid, isn’t the real reason, nine times out of ten, that ‘marriage is a failure and husbands and wives do not understand each other and can't get along together, the bare fact that they are of opposite sex and do not know what the other wants? N° COUPLE ever marries with the sinister purpose of wrecking each other’s lives. No lovers ever envision divorce as the end of their romantic dreams. No man ever marries a woman with the deliberate purpose in his mind of breaking her heart. No woman ever sets out with malice aforethought to make her home a hell on earth. for her husband. Nor are many men and women consciously bad husbands and wives. Mostly they think they have given a pretty good performance in the domestic role. They have done their duty as they saw it and they honestly don't see what their Johns and Marias have to find fault with. THAT is why in every divorce case each of the high contending parties considers himself or herself the aggrieved one. “Good heavens,” cries the man in exasperation, “what does a woman expect of her husband? Didn't I work my fingers to the bone for her? Didn't I give her a good house and a good car, and didn't she have charge accounts at the best shops? Haven't I been as domestic as the house cat? Have 1 ever stepped out of evenings? Huh, a woman doesn’t know a good husband when she gets one.” “I can't understand why he left me,” moans the woman, “for I have never even looked at another man since the day we were rried. And T've been the best housekeeper in town and he has never had a button Off or & sock with & hole in it and I have watched over his health and seen that he always had what was good for him to eat and wore his rubbers when it raiped. But men never appreciate a good wife.” BOTH the husband and the wife speak no more than the truth as they see it. From their points of view they have been good husbands and good wives. Only neither knew what the other really desired in a mate. A regular he-man is never attracted by a mannish woman. The more feminine and fluffy-ruffles they are, the better he likes them. And there is nothing that a woman so abhors as a sissy man. The fair sex has always fallen for brutes and caveman stuff. But the attraction that draws the two sexes together before marriage undoubtedly sets off the explosion that blows them asunder after mar- riage. For neither knows just what the other wants and neither under- stands the other just because they belong to different sexes. The man thinks he is being a good husband when he provides for his wife's material wants, and it never crosses his mind that it is just as important for him to feed her soul as it is for him to feed her body, and that she can suffer as much from heart hunger as she could from lack of food. NOR can a man see any sense in a woman always wanting to be told that she is loved, and desiring to be petted and complimented and fussed over and made much of. To him it seems as superfluous to be forever assuring his wife that his affection has not changed and that he still regards her as the most admirable woman in the world as it would be for him to go about proclaiming that he was an honest man or a successful grocer or that he paid his debts. What's the use of words when he spends his life toiling to make her comfortable and never finds fault with her or bats what she does? That ought to show any woman how she stands with him. Same way about wives. A woman thinks she is a good wife if she is a good cook and housekeeper and penny-pincher and if she never belongs to clubs or plays bridge or has a thought or an interest beyond her hus- band and her children. Furthermore, she is firmly convinced that if she loves her husband she has a right to nag him to death and boss him as completely as if he were a 3-year-old feeble-minded child. The most | self-righteous wives in the world are those who never let their husbands | eat anything they like without telling them how bad it is for their stom- | achs or permit them to drive the car without their back-seat chauffeuring. | UT & man knows that a husband wants something besides virtue and ! domesticity in his wife; that he would rather be married to a woman who was a good companion than a good cook, and that what he wants in a wife is a good sport who is jolly and good-natured and easy to get along with and who will tell' him how great and wonderful he is and generally rub his fur the right way. Any man would understand that. But women don't, and the trouble is that husbands are men. And it doesn’t seem that there is anything we can do about it. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1933.) GOOD TASTE TODAY BY EMILY POST. Famous Authority on Etiquette. cities! In fact, the sight of a derby! is sald to proclaim a New Yorker. (Whether thig is true or merely “they say,” 1 don’t know.) other hand, are more fashionable in other cities than in New York. One sees them fairly often at the races and at weddings. At races they are of tan duck; at weddings of white duck.” The great objection to spats is that it is About Clothes. NIGHT letter from a man asks three questions: * it proper to carry a cane to buslnau?" it ! ened, was placed on top of each cup. Spats, on the (* | wanting” comes to us from the Old Testa- ings, a cane is not especially suitable for an able-bodied man. But for hours of leisure (especi- ally if wearing a cutaway coat) in the daytime, and always with eve- ning clothes, a is essential to smartness. A heavy stick is also proper in the country. Derby is the American pro- nunciation; darby the English. This A great variety of metals, minerals hat is womstmm un to Spring almost every man in thes city of New York. But I . am told that it is unusual in other Emily Post. | waistcoats. My almost impossible to get them to fit. Spats that wrinkle or stick out in a duck’s bill are quite as bad as a broken- down collar! “Dear Mrs. Post: I have always been told that it was in best taste to wegr clothes—a cutaway preferably—to a supper or dinner party on Sunday eve- ning. On a visit to New York I found the three other men present not only in Tuxedo coats, but wearing white hostess, to whom I apologized, assured me that my clothes were entirely proper, but I have won- dered since whether her assurance was merely a gesture of tact. What is your truthful ly? And what about white walstcoats?” Answer: Whether your hostess was truthful as well as tactful depends upon | whether you were invited beforehand ' or whether you were at the last mo- APRIL 12, 1933 NANCY PAGE Spring Luncheons are Green and White Symphonies. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. “What would you think of a white and green luncheon for a Spring day, Nancy?” “I think it be T i— ‘would Lois, and here's a big if—if nl'll:d' only you will invite me and let me help|than plan and prepare it.” Nancy knew that Lois was apt to get tired rather easily. She knew, too, that Ann got on her nerves occasion- , these days. consented. The two women sat down. Here is the menu they planned: Cream of lpnmo soup with ks of parsley or leeks, sauted hominy, breast of chicken with cream gravy, parsley, celery sticks stuffed with cottage cheese and chives, frozen fruit salad, saltines, coffee with whipped cream on top, mints. Y The hominy was purchased in the can or in bulk. It was drained and then sauted In butter or bacon fat. The white meat of chicken was taken from a tin of ready canned chicken, but it might well have been cooked at_home. This course was served from a large bowl at the table. ‘The frozen fruit salad calls for may- onnaise, cream cheese and cream. It has bits of pineapple and creme de menthe cherries in it. It is &lnnndy acid and not cloying after the cream soup and hominy course. ‘When the coffee was poured, spoonful of whipped cream, unsweet- It gave a snowy white look to the bev- erage. The saltines were served with frozen salad. The mints were white. The flowers were White or sweet peas with maidenhair fern. | w:r. was a pretty luncheon and good, How It Started BY JEAN NEWTON. “Weighed in the Balance—" We have an indulry for the origin of | the expression, “Weighed in the balance | and found wanting,” to indicate an in- accuragy, a failure to live up to expec- tations, a lack in some important re- pect. « “Weizhed in the balance and found ment. In the Book of Daniel, chapter 5, where Daniel, after all the wise had failed, interprets for King Bel shazzar the handwriting on the wall, “M'ne, M"l‘!:, T’kel, Upharsin,” we find the Persian: ment_invited to come or to stay. In the first case, strictly , you should have worn a dinner coat, but since in many American communities a cutaway is considered proper for family supper on Sunday, the fault was not_a great one. The white waistcoat is always worn by New Yorkers ous collector. beetle, flowers of early Spring around Wash- ington mental in their pollination; of lady-bird, and & species seen before, sald was very common under stones in early Spring. He had WOMEN’S FEATUR SPRINGTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. Collecting Insects. the day were He had a fine vernal an anthobium or rove is abundant on the disreputable or in bad odor—little mile lipedes, beetle larvae, grubs, worma, and other creatures that, distraught with terror, flee the light and melt away down cracks. ‘The real nature lover never requires beetle, ‘which and is probably very instru- & species 'd never of click-beetle, that he others than beetles, too, My Neighbor Says: Leather-covered chairs that have become sticky should be cleansed with a cloth moistened in gasoline, benzine or alcohol. Then apply olive oil, let stand 48 hours, and wipe thoroughly with cheesecloth. Mildewed leather can be restored by applications of petroleum ointment. Never sprinkle pongee. Roll it up in a towel while wet and iron while still damp. ‘To cook & ham so that it will retain all its flavor, encase it with a paste made of common flour and water, taking care to see that the steam cannot escape. Bake in l!hot ohv;:‘\, lfllo'ifll L3 quarter of an r for every pound. The paste can be easily removed and it takes all the rind with it. A ham cooked in this way is delicious. When stockings grow thin at the heel, patch the inside with a small piece of stocking the same color and darn carefully. The need not show and the will wear much longer. ‘When a recipe calls for maca- roons and there are no more on hand, take a cup of bread crumbs, one-half cupful sugar 1 almond At Trifling Cost— 'With Easy Tintex ‘ Fashionsble Colors for © Everything You Wear, Without Muss or Fuss gs put saucepan of water on P of gas oven or broiling oven, and you will have nice hot water for your dishes. of the smart world. rly gentlemen and those who dwell in the quieter by- ways. of society wear black ones. (Copyright, 1933.) Here’s good news! A fow you in your Spring ward- It isn’t how sets of | "undies,” how many different dresses, how many of stock- own that counts. 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