Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1935, Page 28

‘B—12 WOMEN'’S FEATURES. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1935. WOMEN'’S FEATURES, Protect Other Mothers’ Children and You Will Be Protecting Your Own Parent’s Indifference Proves Real Crime By Spreading Disease Youngters Who Are Not Quite Up to Par Physically Should Not Be Allowed in Crowded Places. BY BETSY CASWELL. ‘ fi ZHAT are you doing about your children this Sum- mer? Have you & house in the Country or at the seashore where they may be out in the open, gaining health and strength al' day, or must you, due to force of circumstances, keep them here .. 4 in Washington during the “dog days”? It the Ilatter : situation is the case, and you are worried about it, but can't see any elternative, such as country-dwell- ing relutives or friends whowould take the child for an indefinite visit ¢ —then you must gy, cagwen really give some thought to to the child's welfare for the next two months. Illness seems particularly near our children in Summer. The milder in- fectious diseases usually run their course in the Spring, leaving the child & bit rundown and ready to fall an e prey to the ravages of the more serious sicknesses. The youngster who can get away from town and have a complete change to build him up stands a far better chance of weathering the hot months without trouble than the one who must “stay put” and further use up reserve en- ergy in withstanding the heat. * X X x 'HERE is not a mother in the world whose heart does not con- tract with dread at the bare mention of typhoid, infantile paralysis or mas- toid. There are also certain very con- tagious skin diseases that may tor- ture the child during their acute stage and leave permanent scars after they are over. The city health authorities do a splendid job. Their care of pools, water supply and other possible sources of infection is unfailing and beautifully efficient. But they are constantly battling an unseen enemy that perpetually threatens them with disaster—the dragon of the careless mother. * X * ¥ ‘A CHILD may wake in the morning with a slight headache, and a faint distaste for breakfast—perhaps complaining of & sore throat. Mother Cook’s Corner BY MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE. A MAN’S DINNER. DINNER SERVING FIVE. Chilled Fruit Juices. Broiled Steak and Onions. Hashed Browned Potatoes. Buttered Asparagus. Rolls. Currant Jelly. Head Lettuce. Russian Dressing. Blueberry Pie. Coffee. BROILED STEAK AND ONIONS. DL 1 R S, Have steak cut two-thirds inch thick. Heat frying pan, add and quickly brown steak on both sides under glowing fire (breiler). Cook seven minutes. Add salt and paprika. Arrange on hot platter and surround with onions. Pour steak stock in pan over top of meat. Serve immediately. ONIONS. spoons but- ¥ teaspoon paprika. € e 14 cup water or meat stock. 2 cups sliced onlons. ‘teaspoon salt. Melt butter in frying pan. -Add and brown onions quickly. Add r_est of ingredients and cook five minutes, stirring frequently. HASHED BROWNED POTATOES. 8 tablespoons fat. Y, teaspoon salt. 2 cups cooks sliced Y teaspoon paprika. Dpotatoes. 2’ tablespoonscream. Melt fat in frying pan. When hot, edd and quickly brown potatoes. Add rest of ingredients, cover and cook two minutes. Leftover gravy or bacon fat can be used for fat called for in recipe. RUSSIAN DRESSING. (Good on Lettuce and Tomatoes, Too.) 15 cup stiff mayon- 2 tablespoons chop- naise ped dill pickies. B tablespoons chilll 2 tablespoon cliop- sauce. er T ¥ teaspoon salt. T ‘ripe - olives. Y% teaspoon pepper. Mix and chill ingredients. Serve fresh fruits daily. They are eooling and easily digested. Have burners on gas stove regu- lated frequently to save fuel. P says, “Oh, you just stayed in the water too long yesterday. I told you to come out sooner.” But the fact remains the child didn’t come out— he wasn't made to. Most children who love the water are regular water rats—and they will never come out, no matter how cold they are, until stern measures are taken. In any event, Mother pays no at- tention to these symptoms of which the child complains. As the day wears on, she becomes preoccupied with something around the house, and when the child comes to her for permission to go swimming she has forgotten the morning conversation, and says, “Certainly, go ahead.” Possibly she never even thinks about it again until the child comes wearily home, a bit earlier than usual, with dull eyes and flushed cheeks. He doesn't eat much supper, and drags himself off to bed without being told— and still Mother notices nothing un- usual. Later in the night—terrifying ill- ness and fever; the doctor, waked from sleep, hurrying in with his black bag; and, with the dawn, the knowl- edge that life itself is at stake. * % * x 'HEN does Mother realize her own sorrow—but, tragically enough, the wrong does not stop there. Her | child may recover; but what of the | dozens of others that have been ex- posed to the germs he spread so lavishly about him on that last day? Some will escape, of course; some may have the disease lightly, and re- cover—but there will be other moth- ers, watching by other beds, who will see their best beloveds slipping from them—snatched to death by the care- lessness of another woman. The staying overlong in the water didn’t produce the disease, of course. But it did lower the child’s resist- ance, so that it was easy for the first germ that contacted him to get in its deadly work then and there. The real crux of the situation is that the mother did not pay. immediate attention to the child’s complaints in the morning—take his temperature, keep him quietly in tne house and watch him closely during the day. Then she would have been alert to notice any further disturbing symp- toms, a doctor would uave been called promptly and, most important of all, | other innocent little children would not have been exposed to infection. Mothers who take ‘heir children to theaters, stores or anywhere else apt to be crowded with ckildren, .when their own child is not up te par, per- petrate a real crime on childhood. One case of whooping cough in a crowded inclosure may iay dozens low. Just because one child has a disease mildly is no reason to assume that those who catch it from him will have it mildly, too. * ox ox % HALP' the time mothers don't re- alize that anything is the matter with the child. They don't pay enough attention to small signs and illness before they go iutc action. The same thing holds true in the Winter, at school. If every mother would really check up on her child’s health thoroughly every morning before he less spread of colds and minor con- tagious diseases to upset the school year. Careful mothers protect their own children, and others also, by being alert and having a tendency to err on the too-cautious side But their efforts are hopelessly clieckmated by any one careless mother who lets her sick child loose to spread sorrow and disaster in his wake. Keep your child out of all crowds when he is not absolutely “top hole.” Rest and quiet will help him to with- stand any sickness that may be com- ing. 1If there is nothing the matter, the rest and quiet won't have harmed him in the least. Watch him intel- ligently, so that you may be able to detect the slightest symptom of any- thing wrong. Protect other children and you will protect your own. - Jewels to t}le Back. PARIS (#).—A plaque of emeralds held the straps of the back decollete of a black satin evening gown which Princess Jean Louis de Faucigny Lucinge wore at a recent soiree. The gown, designed by Lelong on long, sinuous lines, was caught at the front of the decollete with a diamond brooch. The hand-crocheted glove is the high note of fashion this Summer— without it your wardrobe is definitely lacking an accessory that can make the plainest clothes attractive. This glove—the hand is in a simple mesh with the cuff in an effective design that is quickly made—will be the envy of your friends. Aside fiom its beauty, it has the advantage of laundering so well that it will wear indefinitely. & In pattern 5191 you will shown in a small, medium and the large size gloves and send 15 cent find detailed instructions for msking the gloves all in one pattern); material re- all stitches used. stamps or coin to the Woman's have to be confronted with a major | leaves the house, there would be far | Entrance Hall Should Be Kept Formal Because of its acczas;b”;ty to strangers, the foyer should be 'Jr'gm'fiml and restrained in tone. This is not the place for the expression of personality, and the decoration and furnishing should be chosen with this thought in mind. —S8tar Staff Photo. Oourtesy Bigss Antique Co., Inc. In-Between Model Dress Fills Gap Between Sportswear and Formal Afternoon Gown. BY NATALIE AYMAR GODWIN. As THE hall is the formal introduc- tion to the house, it should be made as interesting and inviting as | possible, radiating an atmosphere of | cordiality long before the hostess bids | the guest welcome. In addition to the sense of hospitality, a slightly | formal note is demanded because of its accessibility to strangers. | One of the foremos requisites in a | hall is light, for there is nothing more discouraging than to be greeted by a dim, shadowy interior, emphasized by the contrast of the brightness out- doors; an effect of light can be cre- ated by color schemes, light tinted | walls, mellow floors and turniture of | delicate proportions, t> carry out the impression. When ariificial lighting is necessary, care should be taken to have it placed so the light is dis- tributed evenly. The wall covering saould be gov- erned by the batkgrouad represented by the architecture and the furnish- ings of the rest of the house, as well as by the decorations of the adjoining rooms, stressing the same color when a sense of spaciousness is needed. When wall paper is an appropriate choice, an attractive, washable one is practical, remaining fresh in spite of the hard wear required of it. Many new floor treatments have been used effectively, but in the majority of homes the predominating style .calls for polished floors, covered with rugs —in plain coloring when the walls are decorative, or the Oriental type lending an air of distinction when the neutral tone has been used on the walls. It is interesting to trace the prac- tical influence that has been a govern- ing factor in the choice of furniture, in the past as well as 1n the present day. In the early days spaciousness was often sacrificed for the greater comfort of increased warmth, bring- ing the vogue of small, finely propor- tioned furniture. Today our modern background demands the conservation of space, and' the same type of light, graceful furniture best flils our needs. The Georgian period in England saw the development of the style of furniture depicted above—one of the most interesting periods in the his- tory of furniture making, marking the introduction of comfortable do- mestic pieces and the use of mahog- any for the first vime under the craftsmanship of some of the world’s outstanding cabinetmakers. Chippendale, considered by many as the greatest of this time, so changed and improved the existing styles that many became distinctly his own and are credited to him, contributing a more graceful development through fine proportions, lighter construction and beautiful carving. The love seat in the above picture, an authentic re- production of Chippendale, with the characteristic serpentine back and seat, and curved legs with claw and ball feet, is slightly longer than the usual one. Covered in a rich rose uncut frieze, it is trimmed in brass nail heads, used so extensively in this style. The half-round Heppelwhite table at the foot of the stairs is a modern reproduction of this great cabinet- maker’s work, with many of the dis- tinctive touches that are associated with this style, including the tapered square leg and inlay, which he used profusely. Used originally solely as a card table, it now is popular as a con- sole or as a side or serving table. ‘The mirror above the table is copled from an old one produced in the “States” period, of dull gold, with rope-turned column, and balls fre- quently used symbolically to repre- sent the number of Union. Its interest hanced by a picture of ican war vessel, adding a note of ments of a successful hall. Mock Pate De Foie Grass Canape. 3 tablespoonfuls mayonnaise. 1 cup bolled calves liver, finely ground. % cup boiled mushrooms, finely < BY BARBARA BELL. T IS sometimes difficult to find & dress that is simple, yet not of the sports variety. And yet it is the type of frock that is needed very often to fill out a well-considered wardrobe. One that will do for lunch, or tea, or an afternoon of bridge, where just a suggestion of formality soft and supple materials—would be very nice for this costume. Pale blue is outranking all other colors where smart women are observed. It is so universally becoming, to both young and old. Pink is a favorite, although some women have the feeling that it belongs to youth. Dark sheers with accents of white are in demand for frocks to be worn for days in town, 80 the smart shops report. Barbara Bell pattern, No. 1723-B, is designed in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20, 40 and 42. Corresponding bust meas« urements 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42. Size 16 (34) requires about 3% yards of 39-inch material. Every Barbara Bell pattern includes an {llustrated instruction guide, which derstand. the | 4 easy to un: Barbara Eell Pattern Book avail- able at 15 cents. Address orders to ‘The Evening Star. The importance of flowers in the mode cannot be overemphasized. appear in almost every known variety, and are placed here and there on the season’s smartest frocks. Sometimes are bunched waistline, or are lu:'d s [ £ i i : £ ié?Eg BARBARA BELL, Inclose 25 cents in coins for Pattern No. 1723-B. Size. Name .. " (Copyright, 1935 Sewing Tip. Real Things Important In Behavior |Troublesome Spirit| Should Be Studied to Assist Child. BY ANGELO PATRL omt first impulse, when something annoys or hurts us, is to get rid | has of it at once, destroy it, put it out of vur lives. It is & good impulse and serves us well most of the time. But when we allow it to enter a fleld where impulse has no place it is un- fortunate. Where children are under consideration the impulse to send them away is out of place. It is our duty as parents and teachers to stand by our assignment. Once a child is in our care we have no right to wish to escape duty, human as that wish may be. ‘When a child starts trouble in the home we cannot put him out. Even if that were not forbidden in social practice, it would be forbidden by the consequences. You cannot get rid of a troublesome child by ridding yourself of his presence. The thought of him will be there just the same and you still will have to do some- thing about him, something truly helpful before you can rest. Troublesome children need to be studied. When one of them is impu+ dent, disobedient, idle, careless or fails to adapt himself no good will come of anger and loud talk and threats and exclusion. No good will come of anything you do until you know why you do it and what effect it is likely to have on the character and behavior of this troublesome child. Suppose he is failing in school. Get the teacher's view of the failure. Not the report card, but her personal, private opinion of the cause. The marks that the child did not learn his lesson 50 he could recite it or write it. It is not a report of the child as he lives day by day in the class room. Get that. Then see the child specialist who has devoted his life to children’s difficulties. Then, in conference and agreement with the teacher, the spe- cialist and yourself, plan a new pro- gram of home and school work. Un- less you change the conditions for the child the result must be the same. Sending the troublesome child off to a school in the hope of curing him is not going to work. He will carry his weakness, his habits, his attitude | along with him, and unless the cause of the troublesome expressions has been found and steps have been taken | to remedy it, he will continue to ex- press the error that is at work in him. Sending him away may give you @ recess and rest him up a bit, but it will not cure him. A change of environment is oiten helpful to children who have failed. It offers them a new start. It changes the associations. This is an important factor in changing the children’s be- havior. It removes some of the in- fluences that have been working against their good. But it will not | cure them. Spelling that is poor because of bad eyesight improves when the poor vision is corrected. Irritable be- havior, temper tantrums, disobedience amounting to defiance caused by indi- gestion, vanish when the diet is changed. Whining and tears and nagging for attention caused by a feeling of neglect disappear when the child is given acceptable occupation and assurances of affection. Only when the difficulty is traced to its roots can you send & child away with any hope of & cure. Change of place helps the treatment, but it is useless when there is a cause at work. Find the cause and it may not be neces- sary to send him away. are a statement of the fact | Dorothy Dix Says No Disgrace to a Husband if His Wife Has a Job. dearest boy in the world. We expect to be married soon, with the understanding that I will continue working for a year or two until he is earning enough to support us both. Recently a man has warned me against my marriage. He says that & man who will get married without being able to support a wife no backbone and will never amount fo anything. Do you think that my working after marriage will injure the morale of my flance? Do you think it will be right for us to marry while we are still madly in love and get along on our combined sal- arles, or will it be wiser for us to wait for several years until he is earning enough for us both? Neither of us are afraid. We won’t live in poverty if we get married now, but we will be dependent upon my salary, as well as his. G. R. B. EAR DOROTHY DIX—I am D engaged to be married to the Answer: My advice is to take your courage and your two pay enve- lopes in both hands and go along and get married while you are still young and your love is fresh and ardent. There is no other more foolish thinking than that which makes peo- ple believe, as many do who have not rightly considered the subject, that it shows a man is lacking in strength of character for him to per- mit his wife to continue on with her job after marriage. Every man ex- pects his wife to be a helpmeet. That is what the Bible adjures a woman to be, and every woman who is wort her salt expects and desires to help her husband. If she can do this bet- ter by earning money than she can | by cooking and scrubbing for him, certainly it is the most sensible thing to do. Why it should weaken a hus- band’s morale for his wife to work outside of the home any more than in it, nobody can explain, yet those | who criticize a wife for helping her husband by working at a mahogany- topped desk would applaud her slav- ing over a gas range. * x x % F course, the ideal order of things is for every man to be able to sup- | port his family in comfort and for the woman to be able to stay at home and devote all of her time and energy to rearing children and running the domestic end of the partnership. But unfortunatély conditions are not ideal in these upset times, and often it takes both the man and the woman, espe- | cially when they are young and be- | fore the man has had time to estab- lish himself, to make enough money | to keep a marriage a going concern. | It is, then, no reflection on either party for the wife to help bring in the bacon. I have always felt that | one of the chief things that the mod- ern girl had to be thankful for was that she was financially independent, | that she could keep on with her job after marriage and so could marry| while she was young and in love, in- stead of having to spend dreary years | waiting for her flance to make enough money to support her. Doubtless there are some men who are lazy and shiftless and who turn | quitters when they find their wives can | support the family, but for most men | the sight of their wives bravely work- ing in order to help them is a spur in the sides of their ambition that makes them put forth every effort to succeed, s0 that the “little woman” can stay in the home they know she pines for. DOROTHY DIX. * *x %X x Dear Dorothy Dix: I am a busi- ness girl, quite attractive and with, a good job. My problem is this: All | my life I have dreamed about a tall, | handsome man whom I expected to | meet some day and marry, but I find | myself engaged to a young man who is | neither tall nor handsome. I must | say that he is everything any one could | want. He is kind, thoughtful, loving. (Copyright. 1935.) Psygli(gogy BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Do You Dream in Vain? Sommm you dream things that you wish might come true. That's why people have always hoped that some one would prove that dreams have a bearing on the future. But when you think back over as much as you can recall of a dream you are struck by your inability to figure it out. The same thing happens when you try to look into the future. In the case of a dream, you can't look back; in the case of the future, you can't look forward. You can envisage the future of only a few things, and then for only a few months at the most. You naturally conclude that every moment spent in the study of your dreams is wasted time. But your time spent on dreams is not all wasted. By no means. Many of your dreams influence your waking thoughts for hours or even days. And any one knows that your thoughts have an influence on the things you attempt to do. Whether you get these things done or not is another matter. 1, for ore, believe that we do not dream in vain, For every dream leaves its feeling, however slight. And these feelings, according to one of the best established laws of mind, must necessarily have something to do with the future. (Copyright, 1935.) ADVERTISEMENT. GRAND AND GLORIOUS l!"l Modess brings com- Fm protection from embarrassing “accidents.” Thissofter sanitary ‘We have more or less the same edu- cation. Like the same books and are quite companionable. But while he is devoted to me, I only care for him i s lukewarm fashion. We are to be married soon, but I hesitate because am wondering if I am going to happy married to & man who isn't m; ideal and who doesn’t thrill me and perhaps, I may meet some one after I ® With the New G-E Range your kitchen will be “air-con- ditioned”— always cool, clean and free from unpleasant air and odors. Cooking the biggest meal will not increase the tem- perature over 2 to 4 degrees. Do see a demonstration, and wou'll appreciate how the am married who will be everything I dreamed about and whom I will fall in love with at first sight, as people do in stories. Is it better to marry & man ‘who loves vou and who would give you & comfortable home than it would be to spend your life looking for some one who may not exist? MAG. Answer: My dear child, don't you know that every girl that ever lived has this same dream of marrying a Pairy Prince who is tall and slim and has golden curls and a Greek profile and a romantic line, who makes vio- lent love and snatches the poor little Dumb Belle up in his arms and carries her off to live in unimaginable splen- dor? A girl begins seeing this vision about the time she becomes boy-conscious, and she goes on thrilling over it until the hero’s picture is obliterated by that of some stocky, freckle-faced, double-fisted lad who hasn't an ounce of sentiment in him, but who some- how is her man whom she marries and lives with happily ever atter. * X x x YOU see, most girls have enough gumption and enough sense of humor to perceive after they are grown up that the figure of their girl- ish dreams was just something they conjured up out of their own fancies, and they laugh at it and get over it and realize that they couldn't have stood to live with a godling even if | they had found him. And so no harm is done, and they have enjoyed h: their bit of romance. But you have taken your adolescent | fancy seriously. You set up an im- possible standard that no mortal man | could possibly measure up to, and if | you are going through the world still | looking for your ideal even after you | are married, you are certainly headed for trouble. For a woman with as much imagi- | nation as you have will always be | thinking that she has found her | hero, and before she finds out that she is mistaken she will have landed in the divorce court. My advice to you is not to marry until you find some man who looks better to you than any other man on earth. There is enough disillusion in marriage even when you start out thinking that you have caught the world’s wonder for a husband. But don’t wait to marry until you experi- ence love at first sight. Once in a blue moon that may happen, but most of us have to get acquainted and ac- climated to strangers before we fall in love with them. DOROTHY DIX. Broiled Tomato and Cheese Sandechel. Toast a slice of bread on one side spread the untoasted side thickly witb | mayonnaise, cover with s thick slice of tomato, then with a slice of Amer- ican cheese. Place two strips of par- tially broiled bacon on the cheese and toast the sandwich under the broiler flame until the cheese i melted. Serve immediately. T}\C Old Gardcner Sflyl H Suburban homemakers like to sprinkle the lawn for half an hour on pleasant evenings. Doubtless they think they are benefiting the grass, but all too often they do more harm than good. If the moisture penetrates only the surface of the ground it will not get down to the deep lying roots. The constant prac- tice of wetting the top soil has & tendency to coax the roots to the surface where they will be baked by the sun. A heavy watering, on the other hand, keeps the roots down where the ground is cool and where they will find an abundance of nourishmeat. To establish deep root sod, the ground should be watered to a depth of three or four inches. ‘This can be done by using a good sprinkler or by allowing the hose to lie on the ground, changing its position from time to time. A good soaking at lcag intervals is better than frequent sprinklings. (Copyright. 1935.) THE GAPRESS - On of Ten G-§ Range Modols | Down Payments ) | as Low as $10.00 | | NATIONAL ‘ELECTRICAL in has tabs that can’t moon fime pins. It can'’t 'strike through. One look at-Modess ‘will tell you why. Get & box today! SUPPLY CO. 1328-1330 New York Ave. Nat. 6800