Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1935, Page 30

B-14 w OMEN’S FEATURES. THE EVENING BTAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©., TUESDAY," APRIL 9, 1935. WOMEN'S FEA TURES. Fads, Facts and Fancies for the Up-to-the-Minute Feminine Reader Comes the Wedding Day Delicate and Romantic Touch Is Given by New Field for Ancient Art Trend Toward True Femininity Cdrries Needlepoint Into Popularity With Present-Day Women. BY BETSY CASWELL. HE renascence of an ancient art has recently come about among modern women. With the fashion trend ever turn- ing more and more in the di- rection of true femininity, occupation for leisure moments also assumes a more delicate and romantic aspect. The art_is needlepoint. It is centuries old; in fact, its beginnings are buried in the mists of antiquity, but we do know that tapestries were being made in the days of Egypt under the Pharaohs and even prior to that time. Needlepoint, as we know it, is a di- rect descendant of those tapestries which have set such a high standard of value for textiles throughout the ages. At first tapestries were not woven for beauty and pastime alone—they were & very real necessity in the un- heated, high-ceilinged rooms of the day. Covering the bare cold walls, and forming screens against draughts, they also held in the heat of the great fires. Usually they were made by the women of the household, under the direction of the lady of the manor, and the tedious hours were whiled away in story-telling by various mem- bers of the group or entertainment by wandering minstrels and lute players. Later, of course, the ambition to make the tapestries as beautiful and deathless as great paintings was born and then began the weaving and stitching of the huge and exquisite pleces that are now enshrined in museums and private collections. I OMANCE and feminine tears and laughter went into every stitch and have, in some mysterious way, clung to the lovely textiles ever since. Thus, the piece of needlepoint which you make today will become the heir- loom of tomorrow, with an atmos- phere of delicate charm and rose- leaf memories clinging to it always. For the modern woman needlepoint has been simplified tremendously. Most of the shops have complete sets | of stamped canvases, the wools to| complete the design, and comprehen- sive directions. The work itself is| not complicated—it is only a half- stitch version of the old-fashioned | cross-stitch which you probably learned as a child. | As a matter of fact, many of the| echools are now teaching needlepoint | in their sewing classes. My small Betsy Caswell mas with a somewhat lumpy sofa cushion, covered with needlepoint of her own construction. The back- ground was blue and the central rather tipsy figure of Red Ridi Hood, was gay in the traditional let. It was really a juvenile master- plece of patience and persistence, and so fired her with enthusiasm that she 15 now hard at work on a pin cushion featuring the Eastern bunny—pure white with pink eyes! * X x ok ANY women have been devotees of tapestry work for years and their homes have delightful evidences of their skill in footstools, chair backs and seats, doorstops and cushions scattered about in a charming way. Now, however, I find everywhere & growing interest in the art among women who are not naturally “needle- minded.” The opportunity for creat- ing a work of art, that can be handed down in the family from one gen- eration to another, and also the tendency among women of today to become more feminine and domestic, have appealed to young and old alike. Washington shops are well equipped to take care of this new interest and, sensing this high note in the fem- inine theme, have been even giving lectures and instruction on the sub- ect. : I would advise starting out on a small scale; that is, with little area and a fairly simple pattern and back- ground. Thus, if you make mistakes, they will not be so serious as if you have embarked on a real work of art that will be hopelessly marred by the first somewhat faulty stitches. Lasting Beauty Exemplified by Fine Needlepoint As with all things, “practice makes perfect,” and your second attempt will be assured of far greater suc- cess than your first. Also, start out with the gros point, which is the larger stitch, and only attempt the fine and exquisite petit point when you have become true mistress of the t. A * ok % THERE are so many things that may be done with needlepoint! In addition to the chair seats, etc., I mentioned, there are bell-pulls of lovely coloring and design, men's lounging slippers, bags, firebench covers and fascinating small mats to place under flower vases. Choose designs that fit into your decorating scheme and make your home charm- ing with your own two hands. And, speaking of hands—when are they more lovely then when delicately threading a needle in and out of a piece of colorful fabric? If you wish advice on your own individual household problems write Betsy Caswell, in care of The Star, inclosing stamped, self-addressed en- daughter presented me last Christ- Dorothy Morale Just as Important in Home as on Battlefield. marriage my employment has diminished to part time. My wife nags continually and whines about this and says that other men make enough to live on, so why can’t I? It seems to me that invari- ably every time I get my courage up to make a desperate effort to find some- | thing steady she gives me a couple of | hours of complaining that just sinks me. It makes me feel licked at the start, although I know that, no matter what came, she would not be satisfied and would whine about something else enyway. Can you give me some help- ful advice about what to do? GERALD, Answer: The only helpful ;ldv'lc; Rnybody can give a man who afflicted with a whining wife is to gag her every time she starts out on an ©orgy of self-pity. But there are plenty EAR MISS DIX: I have been D married two years. Since my Cook’sCorner BY MRS, ALEXANDER GEORGE. MENU SERVING SIX. Breaded Veal Chops New Potatoes, Creamed and Boed Bread Grape Jam Butered Green Beans Fruit Salad Dessert Coffee BREADED VEAL CHOPS, BAKED. é tablespodht milk & paprika cup_crumbs tablespoons fat 2 esz yolks % cup water Mix salt, peprika, yolks and milk. Beat with fork. Dip chops into crumbs, in egg mixture and again in erumbs. Heat fat in frying pan and when hot add and quickly brown chops. Remove chops to baking pen, add water and lid. Bake one hour in moderate oven. Turn several times to allow even baking. If gravy is desired, mix 3 table- spoons butter with three tablespoons flour and add 1 cup water; When blended add to meat dripping left in pan after removing cooked meat. Boil 2 minutes and stir until gravy has thickened. NEW POTATOES, CREAMED AND BAKED. loin chops teaspoon salt teaspoon lemon Juice 14 'Cub ‘mayonnaise 8 cooked peeled 2 cupe mik 3 Jabieapoons '\ teaspoon papriki b % cup crumbs 2 tabl unoondl but- Melt 3 tablespoons butter and add flour, Blend and add milk and cook toes, salt and paprika. Pour into but- tered baking dish and cover with minutes in moderate oven. FRUIT SALAD DESSERT. white cherries 1 cup diced 6 peach halves Chill all ingredients, Arrange por- ranged on salad plates. Serve imme- diately. 8 into 1-inch balls. The lemon juice should be sprinkled \I'.b!lei g ¢ g ter. melte until creamy sauce forms.. Add pota- crumbs and melted butter. Bake 20 1 cup seeded % ecup cottase eese @ Bear aves #ons in individual piles on lettuce ar- If desired the cheese can be shaped ever tops of fruits just before served. velope for reply. Dix Says of things I can tell the lady in the case. Tm: first thing is that every com- plaining wife brings down upon herself the fate she resents. She| makes all of her dismal prophecies come true. She kills with her own hand the goose that lays the golden ! egg, for she takes every bit of pep and | ambition and self-confidence out of | her husband, so that he is defeated | even before he begins to fight. The | woman who never lets her husband | forget that she regards him as a failure becomes a failure. The wife | who always belittles her husband's judgment and ability, who is forever telling him that other men can do so and so, turns him into a coward and a quitter. The wife who is always re- proaching her husband because he doesn’t make so much money as some other man kills his ability to make any money at all. Before any of us can succeed we must have faith in ourselves. We must believe in ourselves. We must be sure that we can do the thing we are attempting to do. Otherwise we lack the hope and enthusiasm, the push and energy that enable us to achieve, and if a wife deliberately robs her husband of these she simply dooms him to failure. As LONG as a man's wife believes in him, as long as she tells him how great and wonderful she thinks he is, he will come up again and will fight through almost any difficulty to success. 'But if his wife does not be- lieve in him, if she throws cold water on his every plan, if she puts the bad luck sign on his every endeavor, she takes away his every chance to win out. During the war we were told the im- portance of keeping up the soldiers’ morale and that the spirit with which soldiers went into battle largely de- | body is capable of doing a great deal | endeavors to prevent anything inter- termined the results, whether victory or defeat. It is a pity that wives do not realize that morale is just as important in the home as on the battlefield. DOROTHY DIX. " (Copyright. 1935.) Nut and Cheese Loaf. Mix one cuptul of grated yellow cheese with one cupful of chopped walnut meats and one cupful of fine, dry bread crumbs. Fry, in one table- spoonful of butter, a small onion chopped fine. Add half a cupful of tomato juice and cook until the onion is soft. Then add the other ingredi- ents, seasoning with salt, pepper and a few drops of tabasco sauce. Put the mixture in & shallow greased baking dish and brown well in the oven. Serve with tomato sauce poured over the loaf. Italian Tongue. Boil a beef tongue until it is good and tender. Skin it and slice thin. Melt two tablespoonfuls butter, to which add one onion and two cloves of garlic, all minced fine. Stir in one tablespoonful flour. When brown, add a little water, one cup tomato ketchup, one-half cup chopped can- ned mushrooms, lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste. Let all boil together, then add the sliced tongue and one wine glassful sherry wine. Simmer for 12 minutes and servé with baked macaroni or spaghettl. ¥ By¥mily Post. (Continued from yesterday.) ND now to continue with the wedding. While the ushers / s are escorting guests to their places, the bridegroom and his best man arrive and wait to- gether in the vestry. The actual cere- mony then proceeds exactly as at the rehearsal. At a formal town wedding, or whenever there is to be a large reception at the house, the bride and bridegroom lead the recessional, go di- rectly out of the church and drive to the house. But in many smaller com- munities, when there is to be no recep- tion at the house, they often follow the friendly and courteous custom of wait- ing at the back of the church in order to receive the good wishes of the con- gregation as it passes out. However, let us say that at the . wedding of our Easter bride there is The rebirth of an old art is interesting modern women in needlepoint. Exquisite design and workmanship make each prece a potential heirloom. This finished chair is a perfect illustration of the old saying, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” BodyGoeson Despite Its Sick Spells Nature Provides an Extra Set of Means to Meet Needs. BY JAMES W. BARTON, M. D. PHYSICIAN knows that the body is not like a machine that is working at its greatest capacity all the time. As a matter of fact, your more work than it is ever called upon to do. Thus we find an extra eye, an extra kidney, extra glands in various parts of the body; we know that the liver is much larger than it needs to be, that the heart can beat twice as often and pump twice as much blood with every beat as it does under ordinary cir- cumstances, In fact, half of such important organs as the liver, pan- creas, kidneys, lungs, stomach, small intestine and large intestine, could be removed and the body would still keep on doing its work. As Prof. W. B. Cannon, Harvard University, points out, Nature is ready for more than the ordinary needs of the body, and it is because the body has this extra strength, which it can use in emergencies, that the physician is able to restore health to those who are sick. A trained physician knows the body, knows how much extra strength the body can exert in emergencies, and fering with the body's effort to use this extra power or strength. Thus outside heat, and heat manu- factured by the body through the processes going on within it, may in- crease the body temperature to a dan- gerous height unless the alert phy- sician prevents it. Or great fear can act on certain organs and cause great body disturbance. The family physi- clan can so explain this that the patient is reassured and loses his fear. HOW I KEEP MY FIGURE BY JEAN HARLOW. I am a great believer in simple diet. I feel 20 much better if I eat simple foods, and not too much of them. I think that heavy foods and a too- {full dieb not only ruin one’s figure, but one's health as well. I study the correct com- bination of foods which I think Very: necessary. For instance, I . cannot eat starches at the ne meal with meats—they sim- ply do not agree with me. For some people they no doubt are per- fectly all right. Each person should make a study of the things that agree and the things that do not and adjust her diet accordingly. I have the same thing every morning for breakfast. First thing when I get up I have a glass of warm water with lemon juice. My breakfast con- sists of a cup of coffee and a glass of grapefruit juice. If I have more than this, I feel stuffy. Luncheon is & raw vegetable salad, crisp toast and some sliced fruit for dessert. In the Winter I often have soup instead of salad. Dinner is my largest- meal. I do not always have meat—only about three or four times a week. Always three vegetables and a very simple dessert and coffee. Massage is & very convenient method of controlling the figure. Diet is good if a person is a little overweight all over, and massage removes excess fat from particular spots. For instance, & person may have rather large hips, yet be just right every other place— then massage is splendid. , especially swimming, and & normal diet are the main points that I watch in keeping my figure where 1 want it Jean Harlow, ’ Shows Perfect Taste Two-Piece Tailored BY BARBARA BELL. ‘WO-PIECE tailored styles are winning cholces with the large woman who is out for a dress that will adapt itself to serv- ice in many fields and always set her off to advantage. ‘Today’s illustration shows a model fashioned with simplicity, yet replete with such perfect taste that it can be worn for matinees, bridge parties, club meetings and all types of travel. The overblouse is becomingly sur- pliced with darts and set-in sleeves, giving it smart, well-cut lines. Be- cause collars take from the appear- ance of height, the neckline is fin- ished with rows of stitching instead, and for softness it is trimmed with a large , diagonally placed, with the top stitched to the left side, so that it remains in place. A slash is made in the right side of the blouse and the lower end of the bow is drawn through. This is an interesting touch. The skirt is made with just a flared panel down the front and a plain back, so that it can be put to work as a separate wardrobe item whenever 1t is needed. In the matter of materials there are many to choose from. Ribbed silk is very new and interesting, and so are the pebbly and matelasse weaves. Both conservative and ex- treme types of fabrics show this sur- face interest, whether they are cot- ton, wool or heavy silk. Never be- fore have all-over effects and crepon orinkles been so important. For this petiern we suggest any meterial that T Style Is Choice for is of a suitable weight to tallor nicely. Barbara Bell pattern No. 1631-B is designed in sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 36 requires 4% yards of 39- inch material. Every Barbara Bell pattern includes an jllustrated instruction guide which is easy to understand. BARBARA BELL, ‘Washington Star. Inclose 25 cents in coins for Pattern No. 1631-B. Size...... Address. . (Wrap coins securely in paper) (Copyright. 1935.) Scotch Omelette. Boll young and tender, leeks in salted water and when soft let drain. Chop to a fine mince and fry in but- ter. Add six well-beaten eggs, sprinkie with salt and pepper, cook in an omelette pan and serve on a hot dish. Just a few drope up each nostril. Qulckly,brnthlni anno oL again becomes clear’ Force Lost With Show Of Temper| Mind Retreats While Poison of Anger Is Having Effect. BY ANGELO PATRI EAR CHILDREN: Losing your temper is the most childish thing you can do. It puts you back once more to the day when, a little 2-year- old, you had a temper tantrum, kicked and howled and got blue in the face because you wanted the light out of the lamp. Your mother had to take| charge of you and bring you back to | sanity. Once your balance had been| restored you were put to bed to rest up and start again. You were a baby, of course, s0 you Were excused and disciplined. Now you are past your teens and people expect you to take charge of | yourself and carry your share of the load along, whatever road you may be traveling. If things do not work smoothly—and there are many times that they cannot—hold on to your temper. When you find it slipping, count 30, say the Lord's prayer, re- peat the words of some fine old hymn, | silently, and before half a minute has gone by you will be in control of yourself. Losing your temper is throwing away your own power. While the storm rages up and down your body your mind retreats, your reason lles smothered * under your primitive, childish emotion of anger. Nothing is accomplished until your reason is restored and your mind sits in power once more. You are weary after the struggle. Your nerves are twitching. ‘Your mind is foggy. Temper is the voice of anger and anger is a poison. You would not take poison knowingly, but you let yourself slip into anger and generate poison in your own body and suffer its consequences. Your mother guayded you against this evil when you were small. Is she to follow you all the days of your life saying, “Count 4 and 20; count 4 and 202" All the time you were raging your enemy was planning to take advan- tage of your weakness. He did not lose his temper. When he saw you losing yours he sat back and smiled. He knew he had you if he waited just & few minutes and kept smiling at you. And you were childish enough to fall into the trap. Temper settles nothing. After you have had your tantrum and poured out & lot of energy you needed for good work and said a great many things that you didn't mean, you had to go away and wait for the strength that came out of calm. Then you had to start over again with the ad- vantage on the side of the other party. There is no good word to be said for a temper tantrum. It costs you health and power and friends and happiness. It brings you nothing of good. There is no reason for afflicting yourself with it. Excusing yourself by saying “I have a dreadful temper, it runs in the family,” is a bad habit of self-indulgence. Break it. Make yourself smile at the first tremor and repeat whatever charm you have against it. Prayer is the best one. Then set to work. The minute you feel temper coming on repeat your prayer and start to work with all your might. A busy person holds on to his temper, because his whole being is under control. Yours, A. P. (Copyright. 1935.) WAIT ‘TIL SHE TAKES OFF THE SLIP COVERS AND SHE'LL 88 SORRY SHE DIDN'T USE~ DETHOL Dethol to be & fairly large reception at the house. At this there are always two separate receiving lines in the same room. The shorter one comprises the mother of the bride, who stands near the door or entrance, and next to her the mother of the bridegroom. The | father of the bridegroom usually | stands beside his wife, but sometimes he joins the father of the bride and together they walk about among the guests. (If the mother of the bride is dead, or absent, the father of the bride necessarily receives in his wife's place.) * k% X 'HE principal receiving line, which always stands in front of an effective background, is, of course, that of the bride and bridegroom and the bride's attendants, and no one | else ever. The order # which they stand—no matter from which side they are approached by the arriving guests—is as follows: The bride on the bridegroom’s right and her maid (or matron) of honor on her right, and her bridesmaids, if only two, stand beyond the maid of horior. But i if there are four or six or more, they are divided, half standing in line be- yond the maid of honor and half at the left of the bridegroom. The question of where the bridal party is to stand is naturally decided by | whichever wall of the room has the longest space or is otherwise best for the purpose of decoration. In front of the mantel, for example, is often chosen because easlly decorated with flowers and greens. Or perhaps they stand in front of the heavy curtains drawn across & window, or if possible, double windows, since the wider and higher the drapery back of them, the better. As soon as every one at the re- ception has greeted the bride and bridegroom the bridal party goes into | the dining room and sits down at a | bridal table, or they stand at a buffet, | or perhaps they merely cross the | room to where cake and sandwiches | and punch are spread on a card table. In any event, there is a wedding | BY LOIS LEEDS. EAR MISS LEEDS: I am a girl 17 years old and would like to know how to comb my hair. I have a distinct widow's peak, which is at- tractive. Would parting my hair in the middle spoil this? My face is not exceptionally long. I wore my hair in bangs that were a mass of fluffy ringlets, with my bair behind my ears. This gave my face a long | appearance. I am now wearing my | hair parted in the middle and pushed | behind my ears, which makes my | your jaw bones? Third. I have brown curly hair, brown eyes anc & medium complexion Please suggest some colors for me. am very fond of brown and green. I am five feet four inches tall, weigh 118, LOIS. Answer—Since yours is a very dis- tinct peak, I think a center part would not spoil the effect, but, of course, if you comb your hair back without a part, the peak will be even more evi- dent. The bangs hide the peak entirely. Second. T do not think that chew- ing gum will enlarge your jaw bones, but it will develop the muscles. Third. Browns and greens are your best colors, but you may also wear yellow, rust, brick, medium and dark blues, tan, orange and deep cream. LOIS LEEDS. Dear Miss Leeds: I am & young man of 24 years, six feet one inch tall and weigh 168 pounds. I have very large bones. What should I weigh and how may I gain weight? Second. I used to have thick blond wavy hair, but now it is dull, thin and lifeless. Will lemon juice brighten dull blond hair? There are lines of fatigue written on my face. I work in a dangerous chemical plant. Could this undermine my health? DISCOURAGED. My Neighbor Says: Evergreens should be fertilized with decayed manure and coarse bone meal, dug into the soil to enrich it, Chintz spreads are lovely for the Summer cottage or to give & summery look to the apartment, if you are spending the Summer at home. Gay little flower de- signs are scattered over the sur- face of the chintz. One-third whiting, one-third plaster of paris (poison) and one- third flour, mixed with water into & smooth paste are excellent for filing small cracks in plaster. face look round. | Second. Does chewing gum enlarge | 1| cake, which the bride cuts, and she and the bridegroom share the first plece. After this the others present cut themselves pieces. * x ok % IF THERE Is a bridal table the order of seating is: Bride on right of bridegroom, maid of honor on bridegroom’s lef®, best man on right of bride and ushers and brides- maids alternately aroynd the rest of the table. If the number is uneven, girl friends of the bride make up for lacking bridesmaids, or men friends make up for a lacking number of ushers, ‘Whenever the bride’s or bridegroom’s | attendants are married it is not | necessary that husbands and wives |be included in the bridal party, | though they must, of course, be in- | vited to the ceremony and reception. | In making preparations for & per~ | fect modern wedding the bride’s dress is of the greatest importance, since it creates the bridal picture. The dresses of the bridesmaids are of next importance, next the wedding cake and a certain amount of dec- oration, and the military sameness of the ushers’ clothes; then, after that, music if possible, and, last of all, food. At a big wedding there is often dancing. In this case the bride dances with the bridegroom first and then with others as they ask her. The bfidegroom dances with ‘the bridesmaids and perhaps with a few | other friends. After a little while the bride holds up her bouquet as a signal to her bridesmaids, who stand at the foot of the stairs from which she throws her bouquet as she goes to change into traveling clothes and leave with the bridegroom on their wedding journey. (Copyright, 1935, by Emily Post.) The Old Gardener Says: The growing of alligator pears in the house is becoming popular. The plants are easy to handle, thrive well in a sunny window and grow rapidly. ‘They are started by taking the seeds from an alligator pear purchased for the table, but care must be taken not to cut into the seed when the pear is opened. The best plan to follow is to cut the pear from the top. The seed should be allowed to dry for a.few weeks and then planted in an ordinary flower pot. After that one must wait patiently for the kernel to sprout, which may require three months or even more. One should not be discouraged if no sprout appears before six months, When once started, growth wili be rapid and within a year there will be a window plant of large size. (Copyright, 1035.) Widow’s Peak Technic Young Man Learns How to Restore Hair Health. Answer—The average .weight for your age and height is 170 pounds, but since you are of a large-boned type, 180 would be better in your case. I think it very likely that your work with chemicals may be under- mining your health, making your hair lusterless and causing the facial creases. You should have a physical examination by & doctor and talk over your problems with him. It is possible, of course, that there is some other cause behind your physical de- terioration. Local treatments won't do much for you until you have re- stored the vigorous health natural to your age. Second. If your hair is of the dry type, give it a warm-oil treatment | once a week; leave the oil on at least one hour, then shampoo with a white liquid shampoo soap. Give your scalp a gooll massage while working up the soap lather. Rinse out all the soap, Now add the strained juice of one lemon to a pint of water and pour this over your hair. Catch it in a cup as it runs off and pour it over again unti} all parts of your hair have been reached. Leave the rinse on for 10 minutes, then wash it off in clean, cool water and dry your hair. Mas- sage your scalp for 10 minutes each day; brush it well twice a day. Send me a stamped (3-cent) self- addressed envelope and ask for my leaflet, “Unbealthy Hair; Its Causes and Cure.” Spray a little white bril- liantine on your hair daily to give it a glossy look. Rub some scalp tonic into your scalp several times a week. Third. Be sure to have sufficient fresh air, rest, outdoor exercise and well-balanced meals. 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