Evening Star Newspaper, May 3, 1933, Page 26

NANCY PAGE Dainty Tucks Are Trimming in Themselves. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Lois spent the morning shopping. Bhe purchased yards of fine white hainsook, some narrow fine lace, some frashable, narrow untwistable tape and & layette set of patterns. That afternoon she took a nap when Bhe put Ann to bed and then later woke, took & low easy chair which let her feet rest on the ground and started making some tiny garments. She knew she would not need many dresses, for Ann had some she had outgrown. Then, too, dressing up of infants is a thing of the past. But nevertheless she did want to make a few new clothes. She chose one simple dress which Wwas ornamented with nothing but fine tucks. She was undecided as to whether to use her pet pin tuck or the newer overhand tuck of the more dressy shell tuck. She rubbed a little powdered mag- nesia on her hands to keep them free from moisture and then she started. ‘The pin tuck is always hand run and is no wider than an eighth of an inch. Bhe made her line for the tuck by creasing the material on a thread, using the finger nail for pressure. ‘The overhand tuck completely covers the surface of the material and is in effect a rolled edge where there is no_edge. ‘The shell tuck is made in two steps. First run tiny tucks no deeper than a quarter of an inch; an eighth is better. Then, taking needle and thread, insert needle, draw tuck up on needle. ‘Take two stitches close to tuck line to hold it in place, slip the needle inside the tuck for a matter of one quarter of an inch, bring it out and take two more fine stitches, drawing tuck up close to the tuck line. SPRINGTIME BY D, C. PEATTIE. Butterflies. CORRECTION was recently of- fered to one of my statements, upon the reason that I gave for the comparative poverty of the District butterfly fauna in early Spring, and I accept the suggestion thankfully and beg to pass on the sub- stance of it. The real reason, says my observant correspondent, is not a matter of late or early frosts or thaws, but rather that our Spring in this mild climate is so gradual in its progression that the butterflies emerge over a long period of time, while in the latitude of Boston, for instance, Spring is such a miser- able affair that there are no butterflies at all until well into May, when sud- denly they become very numerous, all broods and species appearing at once. I believe this now to be the correct explanatior. It applies more or less to flowers a%o. In the Great Lakes re- gion, where I was born, I recollect that all insects and flowers burst forth at once, Spring having a duration of two or three weeks there, instead of two or threc months, as here. So we are not 80 impoverished for Spring butterflies as I have made out, the truth being that we have at least a Spring! ‘The butterfly that has been attract- fng my attention is the yellow clover butterfly, which has begun to appear, especially the earliest males. This is one of the commonest species. Every- body has seen a medium-sized, round- ish-winged, yellow butterfly with black- bordered wings, the forewings bearing each a small beauty spot of black. There are several broods a year, and they vary in darkness of coloration and in s The situation is further com- Plex by reason of the two forms of fe- male, one yellow and the other white. I defy any one to suggest a round rea- son why this should be so—to set forth a purpose in this curious scheme of things (if you believe in “purposes” in nature), or to explain, even, how it can happen, or the laws governing the vary- ing production of yellow and white fe- males. Any day now that is sunny, in any ‘open field, you will see the yellow clov- ers flitting about. And perchance, you will think that still another color is found among the ladies of this species. But the very similar orange butterflies are the orange clovers that spread here from the Rocky Mountain States, about 1895. The bigger, more pugnacious orange males continually fight our yel- low species, especially the yellow males, and may eventually drive out or kill off our native yellows. This has_often happened in’butterfly history. But is something stranger still happening? A epidopterist has pointed out to me that the yellow males are very attentive to the orange females, who seem to flirt with the idea, without actually becom- ing traitoresses to their race. No won- der their orange husbands are fighting mad! The orange males make no at- tempt, however, to interest themselves in the yellow and white damsels. Special IF you are the woman who said just the other day that she could not afford Thinks Girl of Today “All Right” -New Invention That We Haven’t Quite Got Used to—Hasn’t Any More Vices Than Her Grandmother. RRESPONDENT asks: “What's the matter with the modemn 2?17" Nothing. She is just & new invention like the radio we haven't got used to, and sometimes we think she is the thing in the world, and sometimes she is too loud and much static about her, and she gets on our nerves an she ought to be suppressed. Undeniably she often shocks us, but so did we shock our mothers. Every generation has been horrified at what the younger generation did and predicted that it would come to no good end, but somehow the dismal prophecies have never been fulfilled. MANY of us can remember when it was considered just as wild and daring for a girl to go out in a buggy with a boy for a jog behind old D%I‘?hm as it is now for one to go joy-riding with a gay crowd in an automobile. We can also recall when old ladies raised their eyebrows over girls who sat out with lads on dark porches when mother wasn't along to chaperon, and when preachers thundered philippics against round dances as they do against night clubs now; when no respectable girl would have smoked a cigarette in public, and one who appeared on the street in pants would have been arrested by the police. Wln.!.. nothing happened. The modern girl of a generation ago, who made her elders’ hair stand on end, settled down into being a steady- going wife and mother and leader of society and promoter of good causes, and began to worry about her own daughters, just as the modern girl of today is going to do. Perhaps the modern girl does smoke too many cigarettes and drink too many cocktails and pet too much and discuss subjects that good taste makes taboo in mixed company, but that is because she is a little drunk on freedom. It is her first taste of it and it has gone to her head. She hasn't learned to distinguish yet between liberty and license. IT IS the swing of the pendulum. If you had always been kept under mother's thumb you would inevitably hop & little high when you got free of it. If you had always been made to come home at 11 o'clock, you would naturally stay out late just to prove to yourself you could do it. Old Mother Eve bequeathed all of her daughters an insatiable appetite for forbidden ideas, and that is why theyeare gorging themselves now. - But after a bit the modern girl is going to find out that she has terrible indigestion, and then she is going to go back to the plain bread and butter and roast beef and potatoes that the experience of thousands of gener- ations of womén has proved the most wholesome and nourishing diet for her sex. FTER all, when you once achieve the right to do as you please and nobody cares whether you do it or mot, there is no point in going on flaunting your banner of defiance to public opinion, so the modern girl is swinging back to normalcy. Most of the wild women are getting married and domesticated and bringing up their children far more strictly than they were brought up. It is a common thing to hear one of them say, “I know the ropes and I am going to take better care of my daughter than my mother ever took of me.” Perhaps the modern girl is hard-boiled. And perhaps that is a thing. Women have been ruled by sentiment too long, and it is time they were using their heads instead of their hearts in deciding the vital problems of life. THE modern girl, who has worked side by side with men, knows their tricks and their manners and isn't going to be so easily befooled by spurious love-making or giib promises or men with a “way” with them. She will look more at what she is getting when she is offered a matri- monial bargain. And,so I look to see fewer women in the future who marry drunkards to reform them or who put up with philanderers who two-time them. The man who marries a hard-boiled girl must be a good husband, who goes fifty-fifty with her to hold her. Nor will there be so many family martyrs, girls who sacrifice their lives to selfish and neurotic parents or to grafting sisters and brothers. Women will look at the propo- sition clearly and see that they have as much right to their lives as the other party has. AND. believe it or not, the modern girl is more efficient than her mother was at the same age. At 18, 19 or 20 mother couldn’t have earned her own living. Ehe was as helpless as a young kitten. But virtually every little fluffly-headed flapper has a job and is standing on her own silly three-inch heels. Furthermere, she is a shark at bargain-hunting. She can squeeze a hundred and five cents out of every dollar. ‘The modern girl even knows more about cooking than mother did when she married, because she has been taught it along with reading and writing and arithmetic in the public schools. She can not only make the dough but bake it, and the young man who gets her for a wife isn't going to be poisened on bad cooking. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1933.) Giant Air Liners Ordered. they are expected to be ready for serv- ' nearly four tons. ice next September. Each will have | Two giant air liners have been or- | {our 630-horsepower engines, will seat dered for the London-Paris route, and | 40 passengers and carry a pay load of | species are familiar to us, others little own. They are intelligent, industrious and have the happy faculty of adapting themselves to whatever condition they ~CHICKAREE- QP find, and are able to thrive where others perish. ‘Their fondness for mushrooms is but in the Summer, in order to take advantage of the cool breezes, one lzm- structs an airy home in the toprhost branches of a lofty tree. Out of reach of his enemies he is most frolicsome, full of curiosity, and very “sassy.” If disturbed, he turns upon J‘m in_a frenzy, calls you every wicked name known to squirrel “pro- Everyday Psychology One of my readers asks for my opin- ion on flights from reality, such as day dreams. ‘This problem is as old as the race. Plato and Aristotle grappled with it. Taking opposite positions, they estab- lished two separate philosophies which have influenced human reflection to this day. Plato tried to run away from reality. Aristotle tried to accept it. Neither of these two great thinkers suc- ceeded. I don't suppose there ever was a normal human being who didn't dis- cover some unsolvable conflict between his world * " and his world “as if.” The gulf between reality and fancy is unbridgeable. If it were not, this would be a dull world. The most of us succeed in making reasonable compromises between our real and cur imaginary world. We may tolerate a vain fancy for its own sake, and then proceed to keep it to ourselves. ‘This seems to be the normal way for getting along in a world of contradic- Cane Sugars Sweeten America “Sweeten it with Domino” fanity,” and apparently would keep his tirade up for hours. % His habit of country, from enables “I'M sure I could never be guilty of perspiration odor in under- things.” How many girls say this. ‘We hate to admit we could offend in such an unforgivable way. Yet we all perspire. Under- things absorb the perspirationand there is bound to be odor. Others notice it so quickly! 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