Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1935, Page 29

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO Nature's Children PAGE. WOMEN’S FEATURE MAGAZINE D. €, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1935. Bedtime Stories Frock for Larger Figures BY BARBARA BELL. | N YOUR Summer wardrobe in- clude this gracefully designed frock that uses an up-to-the- minute cape in lieu of sleeves, so as to make it adaptable to many | different occasions. Fancy it topped by & becomingly brimmed hat and worn with smart fabric gloves, opera pumps and all the little fixings which give charm and finish to our every- day clothes. Caped styles are a favorite warm- | weather fashion with many of us. but | with none is it more popular than the none-too-slender types who find com- | fort in frocks which eliminate sleeves without producing an underdressed | appearance. Fashion points to notice in this model are the flared flounce on the skirt and the gathered detail which keeps unnecessary bulk away from the waistline. Darts in the back insure trimly-fitted lines at the hips. | Fabrics for these softer frocks are | full of variety. Silk prints have never | been more interesting. Garden of | Eden floral effects are new and color- | ful. And so are brightly printed coarse nets and fine silk crepes with | cloky and relief weaves. Dotted motifs, derk on light, are more popular than in years. Constellations of stars are similarly used, vet with a differepce. Cotton vaile is back again with added charm in its crease-resisting quali- ties and the feminine beauty of its colors. Barbara Bell pattern No. 1612-B is designed in sizes 36, 38, 40. 42, 44, 46, 48, 50 and 52. Size 36 requires about 4, yards ot 39-inch material. A pur- chased flower is used for center front trimming. Every Barbara Bell pattern includes an illustrated instruetion guide which | is easy to follow. BARBARA BELL, ‘WASHINGTON STAR. Inclose 25 cents in coins for Pattern No. 1612-B. Size....... Name ...oeoeecenennnecncnsnnes Address .......cc000ne. eene (Wrap coins securely in pape! ) (Copyright. 1935.) Conquering Contract BY P. HAL SIMS. Mr. Sims is universally acclaimed the | greatest living contract and auction player. He was captain of the renowned “Four Horsemen” team, now disbanded, and has won 24 national champion- ships since 1924. These articles are based on the Sims system, which includes the onme-over-one princxple.; which the Sims group of players was the first to employ and develop. The Opening Lead. OLDING a scattered, loosely constructed hand with few re-entries and nothing much in the line of a suit, I have advised opening your short | suit against a no-trump contract in an effort to find your partner. I know that I shall be accused of mak- ing up the following hand simply to {llystrate the above precept, but 'pon my honor it was actually played at| my home, North and South overbid a trifle In getting to a contract of three no- trumps. North, naturally, was the declarer. East’s hand, taken by and large, offers little chance of setting the contract. Clubs had been bid by North, hearts by South. There- fore East mechanically opened the queen of diamonds. He should have led the seven of spades. Against that opening North hasn't even got ® play to make his contract. Moreover, of all the openings that ———e Sonnysayings BY FANNY Y. CORY. This sad music I i just killin’ me. lays an’ sings b say, “him, - (Copyright. 1835.) East might have picked, the queen of diamonds was the worst. His cer- rect opening from the combination that he holds is a low diamond. In the actual play of the hand North lost the timing and failed to make the contract. He took the heart finesse; West refused to win with the king. Instead of continuing hearts the declarer knocked out the «.ce of clubs. West shot back a spade. North then gave East his jack of dia- monds and East fortunately had an- other spade to set his partner’s suit. If North continues hearts, leading a low one from the dummy, he can take out West's two re-entries before that opponent has a ¢hance to make up the spade suit. Thus Nerth will win two spades, thrée digmends, a club and three hearts, just making three no-trumps. Tomeorrew’s Hand, & A-Q-x-X ¥ K-Q-J-x-x ¢ None & Q-J-10-x N : 10-x-x -2 W;!: 4 Q-7-x-x & x-X-X-X A K-J-9-x - ¥ 10-x-x 4 10-9-8-7 & x-X & x-x ¥ A-x-x ¢ A-K-J-x-X & A-K-x South plays the hand at four spades, doubled and redoubled. Wést might have risen to the occasicn, but he let the declarer make his contract. (Copyright. 1935.) Mr. Sims will answer all inquiries on con- tract that are addressed to this newspaper with self-addressed, stamped envelope. e Psychology Social Attitudes. TUDY the behavior of mén and women in a general way. De- do or not do, when all the world, or all the State, or all the city, or all the church, or the ¢lub iHiey be- long to, is looking on. You will then have classifieations of social attitudes. You can predict a person’s actfons, if you know what the groups he be- longs to would sanction. Every one Men are very deferential to the herd to which they belong. You may im- dagine that you are a strong indi- vidual and that the “herd mind” And %o it is well for you that you are afraid of what other pedple wil benign. lm Publié bpinion is fust as dangerous a8 it 1§ Be BY LILLIAN 00X ATHEY. Common Sulphur. Colias philodice. BRIGHT spot of yellow on the roadside or in the lower meadow, which you suppased to be golden crocus or even pansies, will, upon your ap- proach, flutter into the air. It is then you realise your mistake, and find, instead of flowers, you have come upon the sun lavers, dainty sulphur butterflies, surrounding a mud-puddie. The tribe of yellows, to which this butterfiy belongs, is a most interesting one, and you will want to get better acquainted this Summer. There is such & wide range of sizes, too, the dainty being less than an inch acrass its wings, and the brimstane being three inches. Oceasionally there is an albino among them, and that, of course, is indeed thrilling to a butterfly collector. The life story is fairly well known, but there is always more to find out about these outdoor folks. They are known to be long-distance flyers, and in the South there are many hroods, while in the North there is only one. It is believed that these winged- flowers migrate from the North to the South in Autumn, and the younger generatian in the South flys North with the warm weather. It is not at all upusual to see flocks of them flying in either direction. The mother selects a leaf of & food plant her offspring will need, and places a single egg upon it. In a | /"~ I'short time, less than two weeks, with favorable conditions, a little green caterpillar will creep forth, He is a canny youngster, and keeps well hidden from the sharp eyes of his bird foes, by dining on the tissue of the under surface of the leaf. Further, he eats between the small ribs, so he is inconspicuous. Even when he crawls up the stem of a fresh leaf, his white stripe, along his green uniform, helps to hide his identity. After feeding for some time, out- growing tight skin and shedding it, his creeping days are over. Wending his way to a place where protection and anchorage are available, he takes this important step. A dainty mat of silk is woven, into which he tangles his toes. Then he spins a strong girdle of silk into which he thrusts his body, to hoid himself steady while he transforms mnto a busterfly. This stage finds him inclosed in a chrysalis, a hardened case that protects him while body changes are going on. In about 10 days he will step out. Now you see a very lovely, golden insect, with black bordered wings. ‘There are black dots in the forewings, and orange ones in the center of the hind ones. The under wings are a deeper shade of yellow, and there is no black border. But there is a row 1 of submarginal, brawnish dots on each wing. His mate is not so brightly colored. You will find this fiyer from Canada to South Carolina and West to the Rockies. There is a species, much like this one, in the Far West, and another in the Southwest. (Copyright. 19145.) —_———— Solar System. "8 build a solar system! Let an orange stand for Jupiter. A plum can be used far Uranus, and the same for Neptune, the one for Neptune being » bit larger. If you can't get Plums, or if you want a harder model, use walnuts or something else about the same size. Marbles will do for three of the planets—the earth, Venus and Pluto. ‘They should be small—about one- fourth the diameter of the plum or nut used for Uranus. An orange not so large as the one for Jupiter may stand for the central part of S8aturn. You can cut the rings out of cardboard, the outer ring hav- ing 8 diameter of about 7 inches. pea may stand for Mars, and & smaller pea, or a tiny ballbearing for Mercury. Next comes the sun. What you ought to have is a ball about !5 feet in diameter. A very large pumpkin might suggest the size of the sun, but this isn’t pumpkin season. Can you figure another way to obtain, or make, a ball which will stand for our won- drous sun? If you want to put your solar system together, I can tell you how to space it, but I cannot give you the room! Let Mercury be 108 feet from the sun, Venus 200 feet, the earth 276 feet, Mars 420 feet, Jupiter & quarter of a mile, Saturn half a mile, Uranus a mile and Neptune & mile and two- thirds. Pluto should be farther away than Neptune, about 2 miles from the sun. That would be a nice “little” model, wouldn’t it? You will have to cut down the dis- tances to fit thé space you have to use, but ‘;he figures will give you the eral idea. .mour solar system also contains comets and planetoids, or little planets. Grains of sand, chiefly between Mars and Jupiter, could stand for the planetoids. If you put in & comet, give it a long tail! box(wh science section of your scrap- k.) The “Surprise Leaflet” will be mailed without charge to readers who send me a 3-cent stamped return envelope. This leaflet contains riddles and tells how to perform magic tricks. UNCLE RAY. (Copyright. 1935.) Old-Fulnoned IHSI'I S(CW. Mélt a tablespoontul of drippings in a heavy skillet, add half a cupful well fioured sear nicely on both sides, then place in & casserole or heavy kettle and season with salt, pepper and paprika. Place a small can of to- County, where he became And shériff. In 1640, he Maryland, Dorothy Dix Says What Has Become of “Women’s Sacred Influence”” That We Used to Hear So Much About? And yet there was a time when every one prated about it and Relieved in it and it was the favorite theme of novelists and preachers. It was even part of the technique of courtship, and a lover pressed his suit by swearing to a girl that he only needed her sacred influence to enable him to lead the higher life or make @ fortume, OW long has it been since you heard anybody mention “woman's sacred influence” or saw any reference to it in print? Twenty years? Thirty years? So long that you can't remember. Probllhly the younger generation has never even heard of it at sl FOR in those simple, credulous days a woman’s sacred influence was held to be a sort of conjure that would work miracles. It had only to be exercised to cure a drunkard’s thirst for liquor, or to put energy and pep Into & Weary Willie, or to sew up the pockets of a spendthrift, or to turn a surly grouch into a cooing dove. In short, women were held to possess some sort of mysterious and occult power by means of which they could change a man into anything they wished. Incredibly, women even believed themselves that they were sor- cerers. Millions of the poor creatures wrecked thir lives by marrying men who were damaged goods and trying to cast a spell over them, by thelr influence, that would metamorphose them into desirable husbands. OP COURSE, there was never any more foundation in fact for the woman’s sacred influence myth than there is for the Santa Claus myth, and doubtless the reason that we never hear of it now is because we have grown up and don’t believe in it any more than we do in Santa Claus. We would be just as much amazed to see a man radically changed by & woman'’s influence as we would be to see Kriss Kringle come down the chimney with his whiskers and his pack. Yet, in spite of our skepticism regarding the voltage of woman's influence that makes us rate 1t as negligible, the thing remains. We are changed in some way by every human contact. Men still fall in love with women. Husbands and wives still live in daily association, their personalities reacting on each other. Men and women work together, play together. They are partners and rivals as they have never been before. Women's tastes and caprices are the things men study and cater to in the commercial world. Women'’s votes and women's opinions on any public question are something politicians regard with awe and misgivings. S0 woman's influence is still & factor to be reckoned with. But how? SPEAKING generally, men's influence over women is a thousandfold greater than women'’s influence has ever been over men. Women, for instanee, have never been able to keep men from philar.dering or getting drunk or doing anything else they wanted to do. But for thousands of years men kept women virtuous and sober because they set that standard af decency for them, although there must have been plenty of girls born with & thirst for liquor and a wandering foot and a love of wild adventure. Of course, there are exceptions to all rules, and all of us can point out cases where a strong-willed woman has reformed a drunkard, or where a8 wife has somehow managed to graft her cwn sturdy backbone into & spineless worm of a man, or where a thrifty and industrious woman has turned her husband into a millienaire. BUT. far the most part, the wife's influence has slid off the husband without leaving any more of a trace than water off a duck’s back. The man who could control his appetites controlled them. The weakling gave in to his. The man who was faithful to his wife remained faithful. ‘The petticoat chaser continued to chase petticoats. The hard worker brought in the bacon. And the ne'er-do-well's wife took in boarders to support him. And so we are led to this conclusion—that woman’s influence can- not change & man, but it can speed him up. It does na change his course, but it sends him faster upgrade and hurtles him more swiftly into the pit. A MAN who has a fine and generous character will flower into a nobler manhood if he has a wife who sympathizes with him and helps him develop the good in him, but the best woman in the world can't turn a mean, stingy, cold-hearted man into a philanthropist. A man who is ambitious will succeed more quickly if he has a wife who pushes him up the ladder, but no woman can change a lazy loafer into a go-getter. And so it goes. Women's answer to men’s alibi for failure, that it was their wives who did it, is. “We can't make silk purses out of sows’ ears. We can only influence you in what you are going to do anyhow.” But it is a pity we have quit talking about women's influence. Women got a whale of a kick out of believing they possessed it and it did men no harm. DOROTHY DIX. Modes of the Moment /'l%r‘ 1’72{' or chiffon spells allure for gay. Who Are You? The Romance of Your Name. BY RUBY HASKINS ELLIS. manor, Avon, in Charles County. He was a prominent and influential cit- izen, having been commissioned Gov- ernor of Maryland by Lord Baltimore in 1648. ‘The coat of arms here shown was borne by this founder. In his will he mentioned brothers, Richard, Mat- thew and Sprigg; sons, Thomas, Richard, John Matthew; daughters, Elizabeth, Catherine, Mary. In the New England colony, we find records of a number of Stones who were early settlers. Gregory and Simon Stone, brothers and grand- sons of Simon Stone of County Essex, England, settled in Watertown, Mass., in 1635. John and Willlam Stone, brothers, of Hertfordshire, England, were in Hartford, Conn., in 1636. In 1639 John removed to Guildford, Conn., where he signed a document known as the “plantation contract.” (Copyright. 1935) Baked Brown Bread. Sift together half a cupful of corn- meal, half a cupful of graham flour, one cupful of white flour, two tea- spoonfuls of baking soda and & pinch of salt. Add one cupful of chopped dnd | raisins, prunes or nuts, half a ecupful of molasses’ and one and one-half cupfuls of sour milk. Turn into a greased bread pan and let stand for one hour. Bak¢ one hour in a mod- erate oven. Turn the bread and pan mugmgmmam"mmm oved and in 1695 he died at his Nancy Page Shall We Send a Blue Ribbon to Selkirk. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. ISELKIDK, Ontario, is represented in our album of quilt blocks. We have an original pattern from Mrs. M. I. Hoover. worked it out, using some of the blocks that her youngsters played with. After havi put the blocks to- BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. HY eouldn’t you sleep all [ Winter as 1 do?” de- manded Johnny Chuck of Peter Rabbit, and added: “It is simple | enough. All that is necessary is to | get fat enough and then go to sleep. | | It is the easiest thing in the world.” | " poter shook his head. “For you, |tried it once. In the first place, I | simply can't get fat the way you do. | It doesn’t seem to matter how much | sleepy in the Pail that she thinks | should sleep, and forgets the rest of us.” What are you going to do now?"” | “I thought I would look around a bit and perhaps later go back to | sleep,” replied Johnny. “Come on! WeTl together,” said Peter. | Johnny stretched two or three look around She slys that she| perhape, but not for me,” said he. “I | times before he left his doorstep and joined Peter. | asked Johnny. | _“Anywhere you say,” replied Peter. “Where shall ve go?" gether she drew the design and then | I eat. I guess I eat as much as you | “It doesn’t make any difference to me pieced blocks of fabric. As she says, | do, but I can’t get fat. 8o when I so0 long as we don't meet Reddy Fox “the general effect is that of ribbons lacing under and over to the edge of the quilt.” When Mrs. Hoover pieced the quilt top she used red and white tried going to sleep for the Winter I didn’t sleep any longer than I usually idn, and I awoke as hungry as ever. | And you know, Johnny Chuck, that | or Mrs. Reddy or Old Man Coyote.” So they started off for nowhere in particular. Peter was hungry. He stopped now and then to eat some pieces. Any other color scheme could | When you are hungry you just can't ! dry grass or to reach up and gnaw be used, of course. And, as she sug- gests in another part of her letter, the blocks might be set together with AN sashing or strips. But in that case, as you can sce, the effect would be different. The members of the Nancy Page Quilt Club looked the pattern over and saw resemblances to the old favorite “Milky Way.” Nancy agreed with them and then pointed out the four-pointed star which alternated with the square box. In fact, a pum- ber of cOmbination designs may be seen in this seemingly simplejone. ‘The quilt members clipped the pic- ture and directions from the paper. Then they sent for the direction sheet with its pattern of actua! size. They traced the pieces onto light- welght cardboard and then cut these out to use as patterns. Since the pat- terns make no allowance for seams, they took care of that im cutting They laid the cardboard pattern on the piece of, fast-color fine quality cloth and traced around its edge with & sharp pencil. Then they cut the piece out, allowing one-quarter inch on all sides beyond the penciled line. ‘The seams were sewed on the line. They used number 60 white thread. They were careful to have a knot at the end of the thread and they fin- ished the end of the seam with two or three fine backstitches. They passed the seams flat when the block was pieced. They started the steam in one-quarter inch from ends and edges of material, and fin- ished it one-quarter inch from end. This allowed them to press the seams flat and to have no bunches of doubled-up cloth, The actual pattern for “Ribbon Quilt Desten’ may he obluined by sending :} cents and a self-addressed. stamped enveiope to Nancy Page. in care of this paper Back patterns may be secured by sending addi- tional 3 cent (Copyright. 1935.) Improvmg Colors. When washing black material or black garments, either silk, wool or cotton, rinse in a deep bluing water and they will not look dingy or faded. This improves the color. Priced from $4.00 0 §10.00-slightly more west of the Rocky Mountains, sleep.” “The trouble with you, Peter Rab- | bit, is that you run around too | much,” replied Johany Chuck. “You can’t get fat and run around the way you do. No one can. No, sir, it can't be done. You don't see me running about when I am trying to get fat. I | don't travel any more than I must to | get what I need. When I'm not eat- |ing or sleeping I am Kkeeping quiet. | That is the way to get fat.” “If it is all so simple as that what | bark from the trunk of a young tree, T = AR . vy | did you wake up now for in the mid- | dle of the hardest time of all the | year to find food? Why didn't you sleep through until things start grow- ing again?” demanded Peter. Johnny looked a little disconcerted. I don't know just what made me | wake up now,” he confessed. “I just awoke, that's all.” “But you don't have to stay awake just because you awoke too soon,” persisted Peter. “Why don't you go back to sleep? You are still fat enough. 1f being fat is all that is needed to put you to sleep you should have no difficulty right now. Why don't you do it?” | Johnny looked a bit foolish. ‘don'zd!eex sleepy just now,” he con- ssed. *Just s0,” spoke up Peter. “It isn't enough just to be fat; you've got | to feel sleepy, and if you don't feel sleepy you can't go to sleep. I guess Ol Mother Nature just makes those | The Debunker BY JOHN HARVEY FURB, Ph.D. THE EXPRESSION ‘HE'S A BRICK IS NOT MODERN NIANY expressions which are be- lieved to be modern are very old. Plutarch, in his “Life of L curgus,” tells the story of this Spartan { leader, who, when asked whether there was a wall about Sparta. re- plied: “That city is well fortified which has a wall of men instead of bricks.” Later, when an ambassador from Epirus visited this monarch and re- marked that there were no walls | about the eity, Lycurgus led his guest out on the plains where the army was passing in review. and proudly said: “There thou beholdest the * or to bite off some tender twigs and buds from a bush. “I'm dreadfully tired of such food,” he admitted, “but it is all there is at present. Why don't you eat, Johnny Chuck?” “There’s nothing that's fit to eat, so far as I can see,” retorted Johnny. “I would have to be awfully hungry to eat such food as you are eating.” Peter grinned. “I am awfully hun- gry.” said he cheerfully, “and you could do a lot worse than this, Johnny | Chuck. Where are you going?” “Back home,” replied Johnny. “I've done walking enough for one day.” | So back home he went. Thereafter | he was out every day and every day | he went farther, yet so far as Peter | Rabbit could see, he was eating noth- |ing. The truth is that Johnny was |living off himself. Yes, sir, that is | what he was doing. He s using up | the fat stored under his skin, and as !long as that lasted he could get along without eating much. Canoy-Coo 1S DANDY.CAUSE NOW I GET MY CODLIVER OIL IN DELICIOUS CHOCOLATE CANDY fi ! Codliver oil, so necessary to good | health, used to be a daily punishment, | especially to children. But Candy-Cod | changed all that. Candy-Cod is high- ,grade codliver oil in delicious little chocolate bars. March is a dangerous month, our resistance is low after the long Winter, but Candy-Cod will build up that resistance. Nothing so good for you ever tasted so good. TFry a box today. Candy-Cod now avail- able at Peoples Drug Stores Candy-Cod Company. 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