Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1933, Page 26

'B=10 - WOMEN'’S FEATURES Wool Ruffs in Filet Crochet BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. THE ANGORA CROCHETED RUFF AT UPPER LEFT 1S ORNAMENTED WITH THE SINGLE FLOWER BORDER. AND THE LOWER WITH THE VINE. DIAGRAMS INDICATE METHODS OF MAKING TWO STYLES. HERE is a wave of fashion for Angora-wool accessorie: One of the smartest of these is the crocheted ruff. It is so simple to make that any one wanting onc of these latest pleces of neckwear «can, at small cost and in a short time, have one to add to her Spring and Summer sport wardrobe. Follow direc- tions as given today. If the worker prefers knitting to crocheting, the ruffs can be done in this handicraft A crocheted ruff is made of a single strip of fllet crochet, plain or with a small design introduced. The depth of the ruff depends upon the width of the strip. A 5-inch strip, double box “pleated and sewed through the middle o a length of 1 inch ribbon is finished at ends with a wider ribb for tie- strings. The edge of the filet strip has a finish of single crochet in a contrast- ing color worked on the edges before pleating. It is as simple as this to make a ruff. Use fine Angora wool. A smarter ruff has a design in the filet which serves the double purpose of giving extra body to the crocheting. and also ornamenting the ruff. Two designs are offered today at 10 cents for each one. Inclose a self-addressed and stamped envelope with a request directed to Lydia Le Baron Walker, care of this paper. One design is for a single floral motif which is used in repetition The other is a continuous flowing vine with buds and leaves Another way to work the Angora filet crocheted ruff is to make one strip half the width of the onc given. Sew it in consfcutive rows about ! inch spart across a 1'z-inch-wide ribbon. ! Hold the strip loosely, so that it slightly fulls when sewing to the ribbon, and allow extra fullness at edges where the turns come. Finish as cirected for the wide ruff strip. Crochet across the width of the strip. When the distinctive desigrs are in- troduced there should be three plain filet stitches between the top stitch of the design and the edge of the strip. The center of the strip is plain in the wide strip with the pattern bordering each edge. In the narrower strip the border comes along one edge only, leav- ing the edge plain when sewed to the ribbon. If the design is wanted in a contrast- ing_color, crochet the filet strip plain. and, with a needle threaded with the contrasting color in a trifle coarser Angora wool. run in the pattern thrcugh the mesh. Use the same color for the single crochet stitchery along outer edges of the strip. White is a favorite color for these smart sport models in Angora ruffs. Light gray is another popular color and beige is still another. The con- trasting _colors in designs are apt to be pastel tones, but sometimes stronger contrasts are as pleasing. Black can be used if desired for edge stitchery. whatever the color of the running weave of a pattern. White with black patterns is smart. The color introduced in a ruff can be ore to go with some special suit or it can be one which will harmonize well with several. The ruff must always be very full so that the folds stand out well. (Copyright. 1933.) UNCLE RAY’S CORNER N 11-year-old reader has writ- A ten to ask me the name of the class is puzzled as to whether Peiping or Nanking should be called Nanking was declared the Chinese cap- jtal city; but the old capital, Peiping dors from foreign countries still have their headquarters in Peiping. [ Peiping, Nanking and Canton. present capital city of China. She says that her geography the capital. A little more than four years ago, cor Peking). has kept much of its for- fher importance. Most of the Ambassa- During the days of the Chinese em- pire the capital was known as Peking | tion | been periods when North China and South China had separate, well-organ- ized governments. Canton has been a seat of power for South China. “Peking” means “Northern Capital.” After the city was captured during the civil wars, its name was changed to “Peiping.” meaning “Northern Peace,” and military and political leaders de- cided to make Nanking the capital. Nanking is in the east central part of China, not a great distance from Hong- kong. During recent vears civil warfare in China has been more about the ques- of Communism than about the claims of government in Northern and Southern sections. ‘The movements of Japanese armies have brought trouble to the Chinese. Soldiers of Japan have invaded a sec- tion around the Great Wall, and there has been fear that they would try to | capture Peiping. Peiping is one of the oldest cities on | earth, and proudly traces back its his- tory more than 2,500 years. Latest fig- ures indicate that it is the home of about 1,300,000 persons. The present population of Nanking is given as 1. 000.000. Canton contains 1,360,000 citi- zens. With Peiping in the Far North of THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MAY 1, 19 Uncommon Sense Don’t Get ““Set” BY JOHN BLAKE. OUR ideas do not need to “set” when your arteries harden. One reason why elderly gentlemen become biased and opinionated and “behind the times” is that they think they know all they need to know. They lose that curiosity about life and the world and what is going on, which alone can keep a man young and interested and enthusiastic. Prof. Piccard was t 50 when, in a ballon of his own devising, he dis- covered what “it was lige” in regions which no cloud can invade. And in Los Angeles is Dr. Einstein, who knows so much about relativity that the average man can no more understand him than if he was talking in a foreign language. “Young men for action, old men for counsel,” ran the old proverb. But old men are getting rarer—that is the old men who are old in gJdeas and useful- ness. If you will take as much care of your mental health as you do of your 1 bodily health, the old age bogey will cease from troubling. In the days when men were rated by their physical strength, which made them useful in the fields and in war, they lost their usefulness, as a rule, early in life. But now that we have set machines to doing the work that once was done by brawn, the opportu- nities for the old have been vastly in- creased. Moreover, the medical profession, which today is doing many things be- sides rationing quinine to malarial vic- tims, has made it possible for men past 60 to be as fit as they were when they were boys of 21. So you will not need to retire to the chimney corner when your 60th birthday anniversary arrives. Take exercise and use a little com- mon sense about your food, and you can keep up with the youngsters at their physical pursuits, and, because of | the added years. that have brought | added knowledge, you can outstrip them in the competition which counts the most, the competition of minds. You can be as full as wisdom as you are full of years. Long experience will be behind you, and it will have taught you that you | have as important a place in the world | as anybody else, and are probably far| better fitted for the big work that is| going on than you were when you were | 27 or 28. That should be a pleasant thought For nothing is more pathetic than a | worn-out old man, who has only the | memories of the past to keep him com- pany. College Humor My wife’s driving took a turn for the | worse. —Awgwan. Dumb—Jack offered me his heart last night. I put him off till tomorrow. | Dora—Don't accept damaged goods. Last week he told me it was broken when I refused him—Red Cat. And the Germans named their ships after jokes, so the English wouldn't see taem.—Log. ‘Two-point-three—I wonder how many men will be unhappy when I marry. '33—That depends. 2.3—On what? H ‘lcfgg—on how many times you marry. Prof. Hanson in law intelligence? Jones? Jones (awakened by a hasty nudge)— I haven't got that far yet, sir. “Really, Bill, your argument with the | wife last night was most amusing.” “Wasn't it though—and when she threw the ax at me I thought I'd split.”"—Banter. | Bootblack (on steps of Old Main)— | Shine your shoes? Dean—No. Bootblack—Shine ‘em so you can see your own face in them? { Dean—NO! Bootblack—Coward! ! Do You Squander Happiness? \DorothyDix| # Are You One of the “Thrifty” People Who Refuse to Capitalize on the Joys of Today in the Hope of Having More Tomorrow? are so thrifty that they never throw away even so much as a penny. They always snap out the light behind them when they leave a room even ior a moment. Every particle of food left over goes into the stockpot. They pare the potato peels to a gossamer thinness. They save the backs of oid envelopes, and use up a lead pencil to the stub. They drive their cars as little as possible because they want to save their gasoline. The only thing they waste is life. The only thing they throw away is happiness. I know a woman who is throwing away her happiness by nagging. She married a young man who was the answer to any woman's prayer for a husband and he was wildly and romantically in love with her, but she is driving him away from her and killing his affection for her by her nagging. He areads to come home of an evening because he knows that he will be met at the door by a fretful voice. ! RE you a happiness waster? There are a grest many people who THE atmosphere in that home should be gay and joyous, but it is as dark and gloomy as & tomb because the woman at the head of it is always whining and complaining and thrashing over old grievances about her husband lending an old friend some money 10 years ago that has never been repaid or the time he went to see his mother when she wanted to go on a pieasure trip. ‘That woman has happiness in her hands, but she 1s throwing it away. I know a man who is throwing away his happiness by his grouchiness. He has a fine, prosperous business, a beautiful home, a wife who is pretty and sweet and amiable and intelligent and a splendid housekeeper, beauti- ful children. All the materials of happiness, yet he makes out of them nothing but misery for himself and his family. 'I‘HE very sound of his key in the door of an evening sends the tempera- ture of the house down to zero. It hushes the children's prattle and makes the cat scuftle for the cellar. He comes in looking like the day of wrath, finding fault with everything that has been done and left undone. He never speaks except to criticize or say something unpleasant. He files into rages over nothing at ail and spends the evenirg in a sullen silence. This man’s wife and children live in trembling terror of him. They never say a word to bim that tbey can help for fear of bringing down upon their luckless heads a torrent of abuse. They are glad when he goes on trips, Thankful when they can escape from his presence. He might have the love of s famfly and their appreciation and gratitude for what he does for them, for he gives to them generously. He might have his children's avms around his neck. He might be their confidante and have them tell him all their hopes and plans. He might live in that paradise on earth—a happy home. But he throws it all away for the sake of his grouches. ] KNOW plenty of other people who waste their happiness by not con- serving the joy of tod: ‘They are like that character in “Alice in ‘Wonderland,” who says: “Jam yesterday. Jam tomorrow. But never any jam toda; There is never sny jam on their bread today, yet today is all that any of us have. How often do vou see women who have good jobs, for which they get good pay, who are following some occupation in which they are really interested, yet who make themselves wretched, moaning and groaning because they have to work and support themselves or because they are not married. Not getting a single kick out of the freedom and the finan- cial independence and the careers that so many other women crave. HOW few mothers get any real fun out of their children. Especially when they are little. They look on their babies as burdens, and complain about being tied down by them and talk about the sacrifices they make in having to give up their bridge and night clubs and being kept so busy. They are bored by having to wash little faces and walk miles after little toddlers. And they miss the thrill and interest of watching a little mind unfold and the sweetness of a little head cuddled on their breasts and the greatest flattery that any human being ever gets, in hl‘lv“;gd. little child look up to one as all-wise and all-powerful and all-good. JLOOK at the thousands and thousands of men and women who never 4 enjoy life as they go along; who deny themselves the good clothes they desire until it is too late for them to dress up: who do without the good food they crave until they have lost their digestions and can only live on milk and mush: who put off the traveling of which they have dreamed from their youth until they are so old snd rheumatic that all they can do is to sit in a chimney corner in a chair. Happiness wasters, all of them. Foolish people who had happiness in their grasp and threw it away. DOROTHY DIX. POETRY (Copyright. 1933.) "MORE TRUTH THAN BY JAMES J. MONTAG! . Spotting the Spots. | They heard a page or two, and said: R o e e | SRR GG class—NOW | petween sun spots and conditions on | Iy v e Y iy | beween sunlspo I've bucked the market now and then, Of easy profits well assured, I've never tilled a garden spot But, ere my Summer’s work was Some ugly, mischief-making spot Obscured the radiance of the sun. ‘The cabbages refused to head, ‘The sweet potatoes would not sprout, The rutabagas, limp and dead, ‘Were lying listlessly about. When I have tried to write a play, Believing I was going strong. And might have wealth and fame some day Another sun spot came along. And when my masterpiece I read To great producers, far and near, done, ]But. obviously, only when ‘ The solar disk was well obscured. ‘With perspiration on my brow |, Day after day I watched them fall— | The stocks that I am using now | To patch the paper on my wall. Yet still I have one ray of hope That in the future I may thrive; I'm going to get a telescope And watch those stocks when they arrive. | Or maybe I shall use my head. | Immune to soul-corroding fear, | And simply hop into my bed To sleep until they disappear. WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office. ‘When you had to stand on a chair to 1 get into bed after your mother had stuffed the tick with fresh straw? How it Started BY JEAN NEWTON. That Word “Publican.” We have an inquiry as to the origin lof the term “publican” and the reason for the approbrium attached to the term, as in the Bible reference to “pub: licans and sinners.” says our reader, “means really inn- keeper, and not all innkeepers, or even | barkeepers, are necessarily evil.” We find that “publican” for “the keeper of a public house” is an_ac- quired meaning, which is said to have originated in a pun. Actually the word | comes to us from Roman antiquity de- | rived from the Latin “publicanus.” a| farmer of taxes and public revenues While tax gatherers were never the | most welcome of visitors, their name | itself would involve no stigma of moral | turpitude. It was from the circum-| stance that the inferior officers of this class of Roman officialdom were often oppressive in their exactions and were therefore feared and detested, that | “publican” came to be suggestive of cruelty and extortion. (Copyright, 1933.) | SONNYSAYINGS || BY FANNY Y. COR! AL Bl Baby is home bein’ Queen ob the May—Muvver is cleanin’ house an’ has | & paper-hanger paperin'—all sorts of | ‘citement! An’ look at me! (Copyright, 1933.) MAGAZINE PAGE. GOOD TASTE TODAY BY EMILY POST. Famous Authority on Etiquette. Table Linen. EAR MRS. POST: What sort of table linen should I get for my trousseau? Is damask the only proper dinner tablecloth? And “D what is best for a centerplece everyi How many | ful of sirup, three-Tourths cupful of day? And for company? napkins will be necessary? We expect to have family or friends in occasionally | for lunch or dinner —not more than six at table at one time.” Answer: Damask is in best possible taste for dinners of 12 and over, and, if you like it best, it is also proper for dinner for two alone. The only objection to it ‘is that it is expensive to keep laundered, since one acciden- tal spot necessi- tates a fresh cloth. Lace place mats on a bare table are the most useful ta- ble covering possible, because lace never musses, and should something be spilled, Emily Post. | that piece or that part of a piece can be washed out and pressed in a mo- ment. But lace will not do at break- fast! And yet—white damask, which is the most formal dinner table cover- ing known, and not very suitable for lunch, is quite unreasorably the con- servative dining room table covering at breakfast. the use of place mats or gayly colored | tablecloths so small in size as barely “For publican | t0_reach the table edges. I cannot tell you how many napkins vou will need, because this depends upon whether you intend to have one fresh napkin for each person every | meal, which, for a family of two, would be 42 napkins a week, or whether you | will have one napkin for each person for a week, which would be two. It is very simple tc count any number between these extremes. But don't for- get to add a fresh napkin for each visitor you are likely to have, and to make ample allowance for the time it takes for used ones to wait in the laundry hamper, and to be washed and returned to your linen shelves. A centerpiece is entirely a question of what looks well on your dining table. and of what you happen to have. If vou are buying a centerpiece, an urn or a deep bowl with a cover is prob- ably the most useful object since it can be filled with flowers—if you have flowers—or have its cover left on it, when you have no flowers. Or a cen- terpiece can equally well be a dish fllled with fruit (real or artificial) or But in the average house | the laundering question has encouraged | any ornament of glass or china or sil- r. To use that which you think is pretty is all that feally matters. (Copyright. 1933.) Good Pie. Cook over hot water until thick one cupful of thick buttermilk, half acup= brown sugar, two beaten eggs, one heap- ing tablespoonful of flour and butter the size of a walnut. Add half a cupful of seedless raisins and pour the mixture into a half-baked ple shell. Cook until the pastry is brown. |SCIENCE SOUNDS WARNING | \INCORRECT IRONING HEAT| \OFTEN A COSTLY MISTAKE "Temperature Needed for | Linen Can Ruin Dainty | Silk or Rayon Like other problems of modern housekeeping, the way we iron our clothes has been the subject of scientific research. From this we learn that for best iron- . ing, the heat must suit the fabric . . . and no two fabrics call for the rame heat. In fixing k\ the correct tempera- tures for linen, cotton, wool, silk, artificial silk, scientists warn us that a heat higher than needed can easily cause costly dam- age, particularly to dainty silk or rayon garments. No need to worry, however. A new electric iron solves our problem. It is called the Proctor Automatic Speed Iron. With this iron you don't have to know the science of correct ironing heats . . . you simply note the kind of fabric to be ironed, turn a pointer to the name of that fabric plainly marked on a dial on the iron, and the heat is regulated automatically to exactly suit that particular fabric. No guesswork . . . never too much heat for safety or 100 little heat for best ironing effect . and strict economy in electric urrent You must see this Proctor iron. You'll find it in nearly all steres that sell the higher grade electric appli- ances. N v is it the iron safest to use elf, or to give your laundress. but it offers many other unique features . . . an off switch right on the iron itself, where it is handiest; a built-on cord, doing away with the troublesome plug con- nection and saving repairs; high wattage to replace continuously heat used in ironing.—Advertisement. George: T'll tell you the real reason I prefer Tom. It's not h manner nor his speech nor his personality. You are as good as he on these points. It's his appearance. His suits are always clean and well pressed, his shirts and collars crisp and smart. He looks suc- cessful and he will probably be successful. But he’s no nicer than you. He merely knows a phone number you don’t know— Decatur 1120. That's the Manhattan Laun- dry and Dry Cleaning number. Start calling it, George. my number, too. If you do, you can start calling RUTH. 4 L3 SENT TO YOU ON 10 DAYS FREE TRIAL The Sensational | China, with Canton in the extreme South, and with Nanking about half | way between, it would seem that from | the standpoint of geography Nanking | is best suited to be the Chinese capital. Fec T N M ' A SCENE IN PEIPING. and was accepted by people in every part of the country. Then came al revolution. and the Emperor lost his throne. The famous Sun Yat-Sen was the outstanding leader of the revolu- tion which turned the country into a republic. He is now dead, but his mem- ory is deeply honored by the people. The Chinese republic_was proclaimed early in the year 1912. Peking remained the capital after the coming of the re- public; but civil wars broke out, and there were millions of Chinese who fused to accept Peking as the just cen- | ter of power. | (For “Travel” section of your scrap- book.) Puffed Potatoes. Puffed potatoes, which are baked po- tatoes from which the centers are ro- moved, mashed, and. after being en- hanced by various additions, are re- turned to the shells and baked for a few minutes longer, are greatly im- proved by adding horseradish rather generously to the filling. Before re- i turning to the oven, the tops should be covered with cheese. Grapefruit Baskets. To make grapefruit baskets for ap: Hows Business Quiet, Light New Model EUREKA Combines a MOTOR DRIVEN BRUSH with “HIGH-VACUUM” and other revolutionary improvements The day of big, heavy, awkward cleaners is past. 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