Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1935, Page 27

WOMEN'S FEATURES. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ® Even the Impression Given Arriving Guest At Door Is Important Custom of Delaying Apertifs Until Entire Company Has Assembled Is to Be Deplored. BY BETSY CASWELL. would have had if they had come HERE are several very impor- | earlier! tant things for the hostess to| remember when entertaining * x x X question that frequent- I at even the most informal of parties. Small details, well attended | ANOTHER ‘ ly arises is that of smoking during dinner. Varfous hostesses cope to, are mainly what helps a party to | With this in different ways. Some “go” with real zest and pleasure—if | have no cigarettes passed before the they are neglected, that no amount of | salad course, and at that time sllver butlers, lace ta- | ash trays are placed on the table. blecloth and mas- | Others have ash trays and matches sive silver will | ready at each place, but do not pass save the situa- | cigarettes until late in the meal. tion. These two methods have some seri- The very first | ous disadvantages, I have found. One thing that should | is, that in the first case, guests, espe- | | come under the | clally masculine, are apt to start | smoking anyway, using their own cigarettes, and, if no ash tray is handy, having a dreadful time dispos- | ing of the ashes, to the great risk of | the tablecloth, and in the second in- stance, encouraged by the presence | of ash trays and matches, they will | start in at once on their own supplies, ( and those of their neighbors, creating great confusion by swapping pack- ages and cases around the table. After much thought and several experiments I have decided that the best system is this: Have an ash tray | | and matches in front of each plate, | | and on them two or three cigarettes, | of various popular brands—three to | each ash tray offers a fair choice. | Then smcking may take place in peace and orderliness, and, when salad comes, if more smokes are needed, | additional cigarettes may be passed by | the butler. Cigars, of course, may | never be smoked as long as ladies are | present at the table. They are re- served for the library or the dining | room after the ladies have gone to the | | drawing room for cofTee. | R ‘LATER in the evening, after the gentlemen have rejoined the ladies, a tray of glasses filled with ice | | water or chilled orange juice, may be | passed by the butler or maid, and at | that time the gentlemen may be asked | | which more potent beverage they pre- | fer. This is then mixed and brought to them. At less formal parties, all | the ingredients and glasses with ice may be set on a low table in a cor- ner, and the host himself then min- isters to the wants of the guests. hostess’ watchful eye is the de- meanor and ap- pearance of the butler or maid who opens the front door for the guests. First impressions are vastly important, and the guest’s initial wel- come necessarily comes from this in- dividual. If one is met with a scowl and a sullen attempt to take wraps off, without a word—then one's pleas- antly anticipatory spirit gets quite a jolt. It doesn't matter, actually, of course, but it dashes a little cold wa- ter on the feelings, just the same. A pleasantly smiling mald or butler, who opens the door with a welcoming ges- ture and who says nicely, “May I have your coat, sir?” makes for a much more pleasing atmosphere. If the guest is feminine, and all the lady's wraps are to go upstairs to a bed room, the maid either says, politely, “Will you go upstairs, madam, just to the left—" or she takes the wrap her- self, then and there, and later madam finds it, neatly placed with the others, on the bed upstairs. Of course, in those houses where there is a cloak room next to the front door, the mat- ter is simple. Here may be a dressing table, with all the necessary equipment, and the guest simply leaves her coat there in the hands of the maid, takes a peep at herself in the mirror and rejoins her escort in the hallway, where he has left his own coat. Incidentally, do train your maid in the daily rite of never admitting You are at home to any one unexpected Who rings the doorbell. Much unde—r s'(‘ Betsy Caswell. sirable salestalk, and many to-be- avoided visitations may be dispensed with in this way. Of course, if you | are expecting some one, you inform the maid beforehand, and that per- | son is admitted at once. But to others she should say, discreetly, “I will see if madam is at home” and depart | with the visitor's name or card, for further instructions from headquar- | ters. ®here is nothing in the world | that spoils a peaceful afternoon like an unwanted and unexpected caller. And usually, I think, most of the callers are just as chagrined as the callee to find the latter at home! That is, naturally, when the calls are of a formal or semi-official nature. * x * ok BUT to get back to our entertaining problems. There is one custom in America which I sadly deplore. It is that of waiting until all the guests are assembled before any aperi- tifs are served. - If you are giving a fairly large party—perhaps 10 or 12—to which the guests are bidden at 8 o'clock, the chances are, in this age of slack manners, that at least 6 out of 10 will be late in varying degrees. Therfore, the four first-com- ers, who have been courteous enough | to arrive on time, must wait, in desul- tory fashion in the drawing room, | chatting in a rather hit-and-miss | manner with the host and hostess, | who are obviously a little annoyed at | having such delay. A much more congenial and pleasant period may be passed by having the apertifs served | , at once to those guests who have al- | ready arrived, and to the host and hostess. I know that the question | comes up—"but this is not polite— no hostess would think of starting | dinner itself until every one was| there, and this is just the same.” All | very well—but I do know several hostesses who have become so fed | up on casually late guests, that, 15| minutes ater the appointed hour, din- | ner is announced, and those present | are seated. It makes it embarrassing | for the later arrivals, I know, but| after all, they were the ones who | were inconsiderate in the first in-| ; stance, and the other members of | the party should not suffer because | of their bad manners! When they‘ do arrive, they may have their round | of aperitifs, too, though—not so many as they would wish, perhaps, and | and boiling water. Cook’sCorner BY MRS. ALEXANDER GEOR MENU FOR DINNER. (Serving Eight.) Shrimp Cocktail. Sauce. Cheesed Wafers. | Baked Ham. Sweet Potato Souffle. | Buttered Asparagus. | Rolls. Plum Jam. | Spiced Pear Salad. { Vanilla Ice Cream. Cherry Sauce.| White Cake. | Coffee. SHRIMP COCKTAIL. Pound shrimps 15 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon s teaspoon paprika lemon Juice Parsley Carefully clean shrimps and chill. Arrange shrimp in small cups lined with lettuce. Top with rest of in- gredients. Add sauce. SAUCE. (For shell fish.) 3 tablespoons 1 tablespoon chilll sauce. A radish 2 tablespoons 14 teaspoon salt catsup 14 teaspoon 1 tablespoon paprika lime Juice % teaspoon onion Juice. Mix and chill ingredients and serve on fish. This sauce will keep several days if stored in refrigerator. SPICED PEAR SALAD. R halves pears 2 tablespoons 24 whole_cloves ated T4 cup bark gelatin cup cold water 1 tablespoon lemon Juice cinnamon % cup vinegar. 1"cup susar 1 cup water, boiling Mix pears, spices, vinegar, sugar Simmer 20 min- utes. Remove pears and strain juice. Heat to boiling and add to gelatin which has soaked five minutes in cold water. Stir until gelatin has dis- solved. Add lemon juice and pour 4- inch layer in shallow pan. Reserve rest of gelatin mixture. Chill until gelatin has set a little. Press pears into gelatin and cover them with reserved gelatin mixture. Chill until stiff. Cut portions allowing pear for each serving. Top with salad dress- ing and serve on crisp lettuce. Add one tablespoon vinegar to each quart water required for poaching eggs and this will ald in keeping| edges firm. | has been so treated with dye that its | “Grown-Up” TUESDAY, D. ;L Small Details Should Be Carefully Considered When Entertaining The Newly JULY 23, 1935. Girl Desires a Modern Room Claret, green and gray form a sophisticated color scheme for the budding debutante. The chemically treated Zmrewoofl furniture presents an unusual surface in jts shadings of light and dark gray. and the accents of color in curtains, carpets and accessories contrast pleasingly with the delicately patterned wall paper. BY NATALIE AGMAR GODWIN. | F YOU hope to avold discord when furnishing your “newly grown-up” daughter’s room, I suggest first of all that you banish from your mind any | fond hope that her taste will conform to the ideals reminiscent of your girl- hood—it is best to realize once and for all that her ambition is to be “modern.” The swift changes that the young people of today have witnessed have made them eager for everything that savors of the new. | Often a girl's idea of decoration has been gleaned from attending the “movies” and she pictures her new room as not unlike the exotic chamber where she has watched her favorite star lounging in sumptuous negligees. As a result, she is striving to capture | some of that glamorous background. | When this situation exists, all you can do is to suggest that she ponder | well before making her selection, choosing furniture with enduring charm rather than merely a passing note of appeal. The wave of strictly “modern” style | which threatened to engulf us has| fortunately been tempered in the later | introduction of the “modern classic"— a style trend that is in accord with the spirit of the times and lends ltself | admirably to the furnishing of a zlrl'x) bed room. 2 The choice of wall covering was im- | portant in planning the room pictured above, since the background must necessarily be delicate in a room of this type. With this thought in mind. | & paper was selected that had a soft | gray background, featuring a dainty curled plume in white, combined with | & decorated jewel medallion. Delicate | black tracings provide the note of contrast. The deep soft rug in a rich shade of claret harmonizes with the neu- tral tone of the walls and gives the color accent, carried out in various shades in 'the accessories. We find the delicate spirit of the Empire style in the softly draped curtains of ivory, which let the sunlight filter through trimmings of green laurel leaves, sug- gestive of the classical influence. The furniture is exceptionally in- teresting, not only because of its lines and color, but also because of the wood itself. The English sycamore | coloring shades from pale gray to a | deep, smoky shade, yet retains the grain and texture of the natural wood: known as harewood, it first came | into prominence when displayed at the | Century of Progress Exposition. | A vanity is of paramount importance | to a young girl, and here is placed between the two windows, where its mirror gives the room an added spa- ciousness; the classic influence is shown in the unfluted columns and simple lines, with a touch of the Empire in the gilt motifs in popular lyre design. This same feeling 1s car- ried out in the attractive lamps, with their slender pedestals of crystal, set in square white base§, surmounted with pleated shade, trimmed with PATTERN 5250 Dress up your kitchen so you will be proud of it! with these effective mammy towels. You'll love embroidering th motif is & different household task—each lends itself of colors—and there's one for each day of the bazaar—for a bridgc prize—a shower them welcome aaywhere. In pattern 5250 you will find week. gift. Their a transfer pattern of seven motifs sveraging 5%x7% inches; material requirements and color schemes. 4 To obtain this pattern send Editor of The Evening Star. 188 cents in stamps Or coln to the Woman's claret ribbon. Toilet articles in crys- tal and black give a sophisticated touch and add character to the pic- tures. The matching bench is up- holstered in a green satin-finished fabric with a striking design of diag- onal squares in white. The bed is low, with simple grace- ful lines, unornamenied except for the small gilt motif, and is covered with a spread of soft, lustrous silk of the same ivory shade used so effec- tively in the curtain. The plain spread proved a wise choice with the shaded gray coloring of the bed, serving to keep it from assuminZ too great a prominence in the room. The night table is just large enough to hold the lamp, with its gay dancing figure and shade of pale green. On the opposite side of the room is the everr necessary dresser, pirovided with roomy drawers, topped with lamps | similar to those used on the vanity. A livable quality is iniroduced in the pleasing grouping of chair, table and lamp; the chair, covered in green poplin, is outlined with moss fringe, in the claret tone, with deep soft cushions that invite relaxation. | Close by, the small table is sufficiently different from the rest of the furni- ture to give an added interest, with the lamp strategically placed for reading, with shade in a ceeper claret tone. The up-to-date girl is sccenful of banal color combinations, and will appreciate that in this scheme of claret, green and gray it is an easy matter to wear negligees and pajamas that will At charmingly into the picture. ‘The room derives much of its charm from the combination of simplicity and sophistication, with the slightly formal feeling happily offset by its livableness and the nicely. balanced --8ta r Staff Photo. Courtesy Palais Roval. Smart éfternoon Frocks Gracious, Feminine Costumes for Summer Days. Al67)-B LIMINATING all fussy details, this first frock is designed es- I pecially for the woman who appreciates gracious, feminine costumes for Summer afternoons. The silhouette has undergone some radical changes in the past season. Gone are the pencil-like figure, straight skirts and fitted blouses of yesteryear. Instead, there is a defi- nite tendency toward softened con- tours, and an effect of width has heen achieved by the introduction of ia- serts, godets, or pleats in skirts, and capes, or cape sleeves, in the blouses worn by smart women in the curr:_t season. The pointed yoke in front nd back of this frock is very veccming to the mature figure, and especially as the front is draped ‘htly, being care- lessly held by » simple tie. Sleeves are circular, ‘quite full, where they leave off. ai the elbow. You've no idea how becoming this type of sleeve is to women who have not eliminated hips and waistlines to the vanishing point. The skirt fits smoothly over the hips, inserts at the sides produc- ing the flaring effect so much in vogue. Chiffons, printed sheers, or ex- quisitely dainty cottons make this dress very wearable, and very flater- ing for warm days. Barbara Bell pattern No. 1671-B is designed in sizes 34, 35, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 36 requires 44 yards of 36-inch material. * % ¥ * FTERNOON frocks often take unto themselves the little Jfailored de- talls usually found in sports dresses 816688 of the better kind. The set-on band, with buttons starting at the neckline and proceeding below the waist in the dress illustrated, has been borrowed from the beloved shirt waist frock, and the effect is quite dashing. A short capelet disavows the intention of this design to be too much of the tailored genre, and s particulatly interesting, being cut out in back and front to give an irregular line. The skirt ripples below the knees, the seam in front continuing the illusion of front closing. Barbara Bell pattern No. 1668-B is designed in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 40 and 42. Corresponding pust measure- ments, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 (34) requires 3!; yards of 36-inch material for dress wita cape. Every Barbara Bell paitern includes an illustrated instruction guide which is easy to understand. Barbara Bell pattern book available at 15 cents. Address orders to The Evening Star. BARBARA'BELL, ‘WASHINGTON STAR. Inclose 25 cents in coins for Pattern No. 1671-B. Inclose 25 cents in coins for Pattern No. 1668-B. " Size. Name Address (Wrap colns securely in paper.) Study Need In Student ‘Mind Is Aim ‘Truant Squad Lacks | Means of Providing Real Incentive. BY ANGELO PATRIL | T}{ERE is great demand for compul- | sory education. The adolescent | boys and girls must go to school. There is no other place for them ex- cept the street. To school they must go. But they don't go? Then send | the truant officers after them. Haul | them to court. Hector their dis- tressed fathers and mothers into hys- | terics. Make them go to school no matter what. A group of people are kept busy 1 from morning until night chasing | these rebellious truants who remain | rebellious truants still. I have an idea about all this. It seems to me that instead of putting wll the power of our intelligence and time and money into the truancy de- | partments of our schools throughout the land, it would be better to make the schools sufficiently attractive to | these young people to make them want to attend. | Would you invite about twice as many guests if you had room and service for dinner? Would you invite them and make no provision for their | entertainment? Insist that they come, | compel them to come, but offer them nothing but the bare bones of & meal, | & makeshift chair and a hostile greet- | ing: “You've got to stay here?” You would not. But that is pre- cisely what many & community is doing today. Conscience, social ex- pediency even, forces us to gather in he young men and women and make n attempt to keep them growing in mind as well as body, in character as | well as stature. But nothing forces us to provide for them once they ap- pear in the schools. There is no money, says one in au- hority, and that seems to settle that, but the truant officer does not know anything has been settled and keeps | on chasing young people about the town, hounding distracted parents, courts. If a department of the com- munity was engaged in policing its citizens and doing nothing else you would begin to think that something was wrong. Well, something is. These young people need activities that have an appeal to such maturity as they have reached. It is idle to offer them book lessons they feel no need of studying. We must begin with their preesnt interests and work on from there. It is true we need more money. It is also true that we can make better use of what we have. We need to let go of certain traditional ideas and adopt those that the present day de- mands. These boys and girls need to have a course of study adapted to their stage of growth. They need op- portunity for choice in the subjects offered. ‘They need and must have the discipline of a well-routined day within the scheme of these activities. We need money. But we need above all else intelligent thought and ad- ministration in our schcols. Other- wise we give unusual exercise to the truancy squad. I do hate to spend time and energy and money that way. (Copyright. 1935.) _— Pointed Paragraphs Truth is so much stranger nowadays than fiction that it takes a clever man to get himself believed. A woman always makes up her mind about a thing before she asks a man’s advice, and if he happens to agree with her, his reputation for wisdom is forever established. WOMEN’S FEATURES. EAR DOROTHY DIX —In re- | gard to your recent article D about husbands telling their wives about their business affairs T desire more light. It was my idea when I married to make my wife a real partner in my business and tell her all about my affairs, but within three years she began being bored and lost all interest in the subject. Purther- more she blamed me for all un- profitable investments, even though we had previously talked it all over and agreed upon what to do, and she | twitted me with every mistake. Also | she confided all my business secrets | to her friends. Necessarily, and much against my heart's desire, I had to quit telling her anything about my affairs, 50 I have concluded that the | more a wife knows about her husband’s business, the more harm she can do. But I am very anxious to train my | wife to cope with the glib swindler 'And the “dear praying deacon” who will be after what money I leave her | B-1I Dorothy Dix Says How Can Man Discuss Business Secrets With Gossipy Wife? on, and seeing no hope of establishing our own homes. The Government is pouring out money like water for this and that project. Why doesn't it give us a break and endow marriage? What cause could be more worthy? After all, on our generation depends the citizenship of the country. We are the future fathers and mothers—if we are ever given a chance to be. A DISILLUSIONED BOY AND GIRL. Answer—I agree with you that no phase of the depression has been more tragic than the crimp it has put in | love’s young dream, and with all my heart I sympathize with the boys and girls who have had to defer their mar- riages because they could not afford the price of a wedding ring. Theirs has been the long-drawn-out waiting that makes the heart sick, that turns hope into a mockery and that robs love of its fulfiliment, and it is no wonder that under the strain of it love has so often been killed and should T die first. How can I do itp | desecrated, that many sweethearts Give her a few hundred dollars and | DaVe quarreled and parted. try to teach her how to handle it, or | INATURE never intended that love shall I try to protect her with an an- should be nuity over which she can have no | £hiow dependent on such a control? ‘sortd ;t;x;sldex;at‘mn ast grl)lls;]stut;d cents 80 it is inevitable thaf e A BEWILDERED HUBBAND. young people who want to set up their Answer.—You have to deal with a | OWn homes and rear their families are wife according to her folly and if you | bitter over a condition of affairs that have one who has no real interest in | denies them these normal pleasures business, no sense of values and no | beécause they have no way of feeding discretion you cannot treat her as a | themselves, much less the children reasonable human being and make her | they might bring into the world. a partner. | 1 wish I might say some word of When I advocated husbands telling | cheer to these youngsters, but 1 know their wives about their business affairs | N0 more than they do when we will and discussing their hopes and plans | S¥Wing back into normalcy. nor can I with them, I had in mind the practical, | Suggest any remedy for their plight. | commonsense, ambitious woman who We are all the victims of a misfortune | is just as anxious for her husband to | that has spared none, and all that we | succeed as he is himself and who | c2n do is to endure our lot with what could be & very real help to him if he | fortitude we may. would let her. I felt that the man I do not believe that the solutlon of was depriving himself of something of | the problem is in Government-endowed | value that he might get out of his marriage. It would take more billlons | wife's co-operation, and that they | than even Santa Claus possesses to fuould both bé drawn closer together | Fing the wedding bells for every love- by having a mutual interest and striv- | 1orn boy and girl, and the subsequent ing for the same end, and that a | divorces if they found out they had | closer companionship would come from | been mistaken in their feelings. Nor their talking over all their problems A Can I believe that many young Ameri- together. cans would want a dole marriage, or to ! _ | have a family that they had to bring BUT there are no hard and fast rules | up on the dole. That is not the spirit for running marriage and mak- | of our pioneer grandparents. They The best theories are married on a shoestring. But they furnished their own shoestring. DOROTHY DIX. ing it work. wrecked against individual tempera- ments and limitations, and while, as a general proposition, it is a good making work for the clerks and the | thing for & husband to tell his wife about his business, there are many times when it simply can’t be done. | | There are women who seem unable to grasp the simplest business propo- | sition. There are others whose knowl- edge of their husbands’ affairs furnish them with subjects for nagging. | There are still others who blab every- {thing. Plenty of women have lost their husbands good jobs by telling ioffice secrets. Plenty of others have ruined their husbands’ credit by telling that their husbands were in financial straits. ©bviously a man is a fool to con- fide his business affairs to a wife, who 1s loose-tongued or who does not take | & real heart interest in what he is | telling her. Also mary men refrain from talking over their business affairs | at home because it brings up all the unpleasant incidents of the day and makes them relive all of its worries | | and anxieties, and they want to forget them in order that they may go back the next day with their minds re- | freshed and rested so that they may be | better able to grapple with their problems. I THINK your idea of teaching your wife to handle money by giving her a small amount to invest is a good | one. I have known many extravagant | wives who became penurious widows as soon as the money became their own individual property. | But unless a woman is a natural | born business woman, the wise thing | for her husband to do is to leave her | whatever money he is going to be- | queath her in trust so that she cannot | be cheated out of it, or throw it away. | | Such a woman should have her income in a monthly check, with the principal | safe from the wolves that feast on | widows. *x x % i * ok x % ’ EAR MISS DIX—Nobody has been | harder hit in this depression than | the boys and girls of marriageable age. The older people have had their time, their marriages, their homes, their | children. We younger ones have been | denied this. We are merely holding | hands in the parlor when we should be raising babies, with the years going Cleaning day is Dethol DEATH TO ALL BUGS The Old Gardener Says: After the delphiniums have passed their first blooming sea- son they may be cut down to within 6 inches of the ground and fed heavily with some quick acting fertilizer like nitrate of soda or ammonium sulphate. Then they will usually produce a good second crop. If the stalks are hollow, the openings may be plugged with mud or perhaps with a little chewing gum to pre- vent the entrance of water, which would be likely to induce decay. It is only fair to say that some growers do not force a sec- ond flowering because they be- lieve it weakens the plants. How- ever, it is wise to keep starting new plants from seed, in any event. (Copyright. 1935.) ADVERTISEMENT. DOROTHY DIX. | ISN'T IT WONDERFUL! Now there’s a really-safe sanitary napkin. Its longer tabs can’t pull loose from the pins. It can’t strike through. 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