Evening Star Newspaper, July 3, 1935, Page 16

Avenues of Fashion For the Gentleman JT MAY be true that the glowing descriptions in the travel ads of the cool, starlit nights at various Bummer resorts hold good through- out the Summer. Nevertheless, for most of us even at the Summer re- sorts, a type of lighter weight informal evening attire is not only desirable, but quite imperative for thorough- going comfort. Fortunately, fashion gives its complete approval to several styles contributing to Summer com- fort in evening clothes. * X * x Two dinner coats share equal favor 1% for wear on hot Summer nights— one is conventional black or midnight blue copstructed of light weight worsted or tropical worsted. The smarter version of this dinner jacket is the shawl collar, satin-faced, al- though the peaked lapel is accept- able. The double-breasted is recom- mended since with it no waistcoat need be worn. * x % % THE other authentic Summer din- J ner coat fashion is of pure white or natural linen, Palm Beach cloth or silk. It is both spart or correct in either the shawl collar, single-breast- d model (which is its original form) or the double-breasted variation. With the above single-breasted Sacket of white or natural linen, Palm Beach or silk, the black or wine-col- ored cummerbund is permissible in lieu of the conventional waistcoat of either white or black. * ox o *x JNTELLIGENT and authentic liber- ties have been taken with the formal accessories to be worn with the above mentioned jackets. No longer is the starched winged collar con- sidered alone correct. One may wear & white broadcloth shirt with attached soft collar made with a wide center pleat and with wide side pleats. Or another choice may be a white broad- cloth or silk shirt with or without pleats worn with a turned down Nature’s laundered collar. Both of these shirts were worn during the evening by well turned-od men at smart gathering places such as Palm Beach and Nassau. * o k% FOR evening wear with turned- down collars, the club-shaped bow is favored, rather than the but- terfly. The smarter version of this A tie features somewhat blunt corners rather than those too perfectly squared, and makes a knot as wide as the width of the tie itself. * kX X BECAUSE of the fact that shawl collars on tuxedos carry no but- tanholes, the popular boutonniere of either blue cornflowers or wine col- ored carnation is replaced with plain silk handkerchiefs, producing the same effective touch of color. The preference is for wine-colored plain silk handkerchiefs. * x ¥ X THE problem of the hat to wear with informal Summer clothes presents no difficulty, as only one hat is suitable. This is the fairly fine S ERRESe weave sennit straw, worn either with black band or with a band in one’s club colors. * ok Kk ok ’I‘HE braces recommended for wear with the white or natural colored Summer dinner jackets are prefer- ably all white, sine black or colored braces are apt to show through the light-weight materials. * X X X PARTICULARLY for those who plan an evening of dancing a pump of black patent leather offers the minimum of weight and maxi- mum of comfort. However, the plain toe cap black patent leather oxford is the choice of most men for all eve- ning occasions. The Star, in co-operation with Esquire, will answer all questions on men’s fashions. Write to Man’s Fashion Editor, The Evening Star, and inclose a self - addressed, stamped envelope for reply. Children Mussel. BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. O WHERE you will along the shores of the world, you will see some member of this large family. They hang in masses on piers or wharves. They cover driftwood that is found near low water. They are in mud flats, on rocks and along the coasts where the bottom is pebbly and the water clear. In fact, you may see, when the water is low, acres of mussels. It is interesting to see how cleverly they have fastened themselves to any ’ V149 enchorage at hand. ¢ Vessels at an- chor soon become crusted with them. We have not learned to eat the mussel to any great extent. In the foreign markets they are always in demand. In fact, they are rated as a staple sea food, in the same class @&s our oysters and clams. Mussel farming is a successful busi- ness as conducted by the French. ‘They set tall stakes in the deep, oozy mud, where 6 feet of each stake will be exposed at low tide. netting connects the stakes, and mus- sels cover them both completely. Mussels are not so sensitive as oysters, but a sudden cold gale will kill them. The most important mussel farm has a total mussel-bearing sur- face which amounts to about 100 square miles, The Indians and the colonists gath- ered mussels in great numbers for food, but they found clams and oysters much better. Then mussels ‘were soon, and now are, so plentiful they were dredged and raked from beds along the coasts of Long Island and New England and sold by the scow loads to farmers, who spread them as fertilizer on their fields. The common harse mussel resem- bles the edible mussel in outline, but the shell is more swollen and the beaks are not at the very end. The wvalves are thick and the glossy brown skin wears a shaggy hair coat. The flesh is orange colored, the foot red The favorite habitat is in muddy gravel, from low water to 80 fathoms deep. Probably you may find them in rock crevices, where they are washed by the tide at high water. A mussel stands vertically in mud, ts nose burried, its siphons up in the water. Near Vancouver, the “great horse mussel” has been known to grow to be 9 inches long and 4 inches wide. On the northern coasts of England §t reaches the same size. The size ‘we are used to seeing is § inches long. ‘The favorite habitat is from Cape Basketwork | Hatteras northward, California to Alaska and Northern Europe. In this great order of mollusks, to which the mussel belongs, the shell is divided into two halves, or valves, each half covering a side of the body, while the hinge of the valves extends down the middle of its back. You will find the hinge is an elastic cushion that has a tendency to cause the valves to gape open. There sre two very strong adductor muscles that reach across from one valve to the other to counteract the action of the hinge. The mussel is gaping most of the time, because this is his way of feeding. Prightened, or when the tide goes out, the mussel closes his doors. (Copyright. 1935.) Who Are You? The Romance of Your Name. BY RUBY HASKINS ELLIS. '‘HIS is an ancient personal name, very popular in Staffordshire, England. From the personal name many varieties of names have arisen: Handsworth, Handford, Haudley, Handover and many, many others which have no relation to each other except their similarity. The coat of arms we show was borne to America by~John Hand, who came from Stanstead, County Kent, England. He was one of the nine patentees of East Hampton, Long Island, in 1648. The arms are blazoned, “Argent, a chevron azure between three dexter hands gules. Crest—A stag trippant.” Joseph Hand, another representa- tive of this family, was one of the first settlers in Killingworth, Conn., in 1663. Descendants &f both these colonists are numerous today and are found living in almost every State. (Copyright. 19360 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1935. Sonnysayings * Come on, Baby, you're too little to play wiv hammers 'n’ nails. ‘They're only. for big boys. ¢Copyright. 1935.) New Amsterdam Has 8,000. New Amsterdam is a city of some 8,000 in British Guiana on the north shore of South America. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. T Sl e % ld Mother Nature. HE pond of Paddy and Beaver Hes deep in the Green Forest. Many of the people who live there know that pond. It is visited every day by Lightfoot the Deer. Buster Bear takes a bath and swims there once in & while, Yowler the Bobcat frequently leaves his foot- | prints along the shore at night. Blacky the Crow, Redtail the Hawk, Sammy Jay and others of the feath- ered folk visit that pond often just to see what is going on there. During the long drought that pond had become more popular than ever. It had dropped somewhat, for you know the Laughing Brook had very Jittle water in it, and so, of course, it could not keep up the usual supply for Paddy’s pond. However, there was no cause for worry, and Paddy and Mrs. Paddy minded the drought very little. They are people who are | quite sufficient unto themselves and would just as soon be left alone. 8o they found it a little bit annoying to Like many an American abroad, Christophine had been inclined to belittle her native land. Now, after several years in Paris as secretary to a millionaire motor magnate, she was coming back to America . . . back to learn a thousand thrilling facts about the iand of her birth . .. back (though she never suspected itl) to'the most amazing series of adventures that ever befell a modern young business woman! No sooner had her boat left France than Christo- phine’s thrills began. Within a few short hours, she found herself involved in a sudden, unbelievable ro- Bedtime Stories At Paddy’s Pond. have their pond such s popular place. . “It seems to me,” said Paddy to Mrs. Paddy, “that we no longer have HE KNEW THAT SMELL AND HE DIDN'T LIKE IT. any privacy. I never look out by day or night that I do not see some one at the edge of the T or in it W mance with a young ltalian nobleman —Prince Mario ‘This really is our pond, you know; we made it. However, everybody else seems to think that it is his pond.” “I know, my dear,” replied Mrs. Paddy. “It is annoying. I like to be on friendly terms with my neighbors, but I don't like to have them right under my nose, so to speak, all the time. However, we can be by our- selves inside our house. That is one advantage of having a house well out in the water.” Paddy nodded. “That is true, my Zear. The only thing that worries me is that if this drought continues our pond may grow so small that, in time, the house may not be out in the water, or there will be so little water around it that Buster Bear can wade out and tear it open if he wants to.” “I certainly am sorry for people who live on land all the time,” said Mrs. Paddy. “How uncomfortable they must be this hot weather. I saw Reddy Fox come down for a drink and the poor fellow was panting. Yes, sir, he was panting. We can always be comfortable, no matter what the ‘weather is.” And then one day Paddy, sitting on his dam, lifted nose and sniffed long and carefully. Then he shook his head. He knew that smell and he didn't like it. It was the smell of smoke. He said nothing. Perhaps that didn’t really mean any- thing, after all. But a little later Mrs. Paddy, who had joined him on the dam, noticed it. “The Red Terror is abroad some- where,” said she. “I hope it won't get into the Green Forest. That would be terrible.” “Water will stop it,” said Paddy. “True,” replied Mrs, Paddy, “but it will have burned all our food trees. ‘There will be nothing for us to cut for Winter.” Paddy looked worried. “I hadn't thought of that,” said he. “It would mean that we would have to leave here and find a place somewhere else where we could make a home.” “It seems to me that smoke is get- ting stronger,” said Mrs. Paddy. Paddy slipped into the water and swam about uneasily. He just couldn’t keep still. The smell was growing stronger and that must mean nearer. He swam over to the nearest poplar trees and wondered if, after all, he and Mrs. Paddy would never cut them. He swam over to the food pile. There was some left over from the Winter. If worse came to worst and the Red Terror burned all the food trees, he and Mrs. Paddy and their children still would have food enough to last them a little while. (Copyright. 1935.) Trades Ruhr Coal. Germany has traded Ruhr coal for 1,300 wagon loads of Austrian apples. 1A °,||||flAllAP0l.l$»cm¢m'“" . ¢, that the Red Terror was coming | How It Started BY JEAN NEWTON. Independence. IND!PWDENC!, a word we hear and see much of at this time of the year, has an interesting undere tone and overtone. ‘When the Congress of the 13 United States of America, on the 4th day of July, 1776, formally declared that they were independent States, what they ‘affirmed literally was that they would no longer hang down or be suspended from any support. This strict interpretation is revealed by the derivation of the word inde- pendence, which is in, not; plus de- pendence, hanging; the root is the Latin dependere, to hang. Special significance is thus attached to Benjamin Franklin's classic com- ment at the signing of the Declara- tion of Independence: “We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” Directly, we get the word inde- pendence from the Prench, in which language it acquired the extended application it enjoys in English, that is, freedom from control by others; or, putting it positively, self-direction and self-maintenance. 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