Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1935, Page 10

WOMEN'S FEATURES. Gowns Designed by Prominent Society Women Prove Great Success Costumes From Shop Of Mrs. Gloria Vanderbilt "And Sister Seen Here Smart Washington Women Attend Parade in Large Numbers to View New Styles and Fabrics. | | | | with little Juliet caps. These were presented by a local shop which spon- sored the fashion show. The lovely yellow velvet off-shoul- der gown shown in the photograph was the mascot of the exhibition, as it is the original gown which gave the idea for original designing to Mrs. Vanderbilt when she first de- signed and wore it herself a year ago. The grande finale was all glitter- ing white—a sumptuous silver-thread- ed white matelasse full-length wrap with white fox collar, over a formal gown with myriad gleaming silver pailettes scattered over it like star- dust, but most heavily grouped at the train, which clinked with their weight as the model walked along the Trunway. Many of the smartly gowned and socially prominent women who at- tended the showing could themselves have been chosen as examples of per- fection in dress and grooming. We glimpsed Mrs. Woodrow ¥ Wilson, in smart and soignee black; Mrs. Dem- arest Lloyd in blue, with & party of guests; Mme. Prochnik, wife of the Austrian Minister, in Tyrolean green. Lady Lewis was in black, trimmed with silver lame, and the dark beauty of Mrs. F. Wilkinson Bunker was set off by her choice of a dark brown tailleur. The entire affair was a spectacle of fashion. and style at its very best—reviving a feeling of “elegance” | and luxury that bas been sadly lack- | ing in the world of clothes during re- | cent years. BY MARGARET WARNER. ESTERDAY witnessed a great S/ event for Washington women. Staged in the grand ball room of a local hotel, under the auspices of a Washington shop to the accompaniment of luncheon and music | a fashion show of startling loveli- | ness was given to present original | costume designs by Mrs. Gloria Mor- | gan Vanderbilt and her sister Thelma, Lady Furness. Smart, sophisticated. yet entirely wearable, these costumes for street, | afternoon and evening in every in-| stance showed a careful selection of | handsome materials, an eye for beau- | tiful line and that true artist's gift of exquisite color sense. A series of street costumes with | three-quarter and shorter coats showed | the advantages of fur trimming. Small fur collars, entire fur sleeves and | fur stripping were prominent in the collection yesterday. The cocktail | hour provided a theme for jacket | frocks, such as one of black velvet | with a low and very full cowl neck- | line on the white satin blouse, ac-| cented by a gold ornament and topped | by a close turban with upstanding shirred velvet wings, which was worn | well back on the head. Soft plum- | colored crepe with short-sleeved blouse of self-colored chiffon under the short jacket and hat of plum velvet were smart, 'I‘HE collection showed a profusion of lace—beautiful fine black laces for evening—made on sheath-like lines with long flowing trains. One of these | ‘was shown with a three-quarter length gold metallic coat collared in white fox. An untrimmed gown of mahog- apy satin was unusual. The princess silhouette, so prevalent in the collec- tion of evening clothes, was particu- larly well interpreted in a steel me- tallic with scarlet velvet trim. The use of pleated chiffon and lace petticoats beneath long evening gowns was a new feature. It created a very charming picture as the skirts were raised in order to take care of the trains gracefully. The twinkle of silver and gold slippers through the lace and chiffon is so infinitely more attractive than uncovered limbs, when perhaps the gown has not been carefully gathered up. Fashions for the woman were shown, including & luscious purple velvet, and a black net with interlacing circles of gold which was particularly good with its full train. * ok ¥ % EXQUISITE floating draperies of chiffon, with floor length capes caught at the neck by tiny bands of fur or circlets of jewels were ravishing | Meal Ready On Dot Gives' Family Spirit Time Is Easily Saved | When Dishes Show Forethought. | more mature BY EDITH M. BARBER. LUNCH for the children—or perhaps it will be dinner for them—must | be ready on the dot. As soon as the breakfast dishes are done as many preparations as possible should be made. A golden tapioca cream might be chosen for dessert for the children's | lunch and the grown-ups’ dinner. It takes a short time to make and can | be cooled slightly and then put in the | refrigerator for chilling. “ A fruit jelly is another favorite des- | sert which, if made shortly after breakfast, will be ready to turn out THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Beautiful Creations Seen During Luncheon Showing o< At the top, Mrs. Gloria Vanderbilt, Miss Faber and Thelma b. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1933. il e it ‘f pe s PRI WOMEN’S FEATURES. Dorotny Dix Says Long Courtship Is as Expensive as Maintaining a Home. EAR MISS DIX—My flance | and I cannot settle a ques- tion that has been worrying us. We have been engaged for four years and want to marry, but he owes some money and is afraid that if we get married, he might not be able to pay it and | would lose his business and then what | would he do with me? So he thinks | that perhaps we had better wait | three years more until he pays his debt off. He owns his business and his home, and his business is prosper- ing. I am willing to take a chance and feel that I could help him, as| I've earned my own living. Another | thing is that his mother would have to live with us. She is a fine woman | but bossy and has always run his | home. Shall I let her continue to | do this or take my place as mistress of the house? What should we do? UNHAPPY. Answer— Get married as soon as gou can. Any engagement that has| lasted four years has lasted too long | and if you can add three more years of waiting to it, it will just peter out | through sheer discouragement. bid| everybody waited to marry until| every single circumstance connected | with it was all jake, there would be very few weddings. You have to take a chance on marriage &s you do | on everything else in life. Don't let debt keep you apart, for | you will be a help instead of a hin- drance to your husband in paying it | off. For one reason, your husband will | be able to concentrate upon his job | better than he does now, when his | thoughts are torn between love and longing and his business. He'll feel settled and that he has a wife to work for and it will put fresh strength | | and energy into him. Very few men ever really achieve anything before | marriage, it's after marriage that they become go-getters for the women they love. % E® AISO‘ courtship is a very expensive business and it is money in a man’s pocket when he can cut the high cost of loving and not have to put up for theaters and movies, and flowers and present and the other in- cidentals to taking the girl friend out and giving her a good time. Of course in the old days when girls were helpless little darlings who knew nothing about money except how to spend it, a man did well to consider long and carefuly about the advisability of marrying unless he was sure that he would always be able to support his wife in the style in which she had been accustomed to live, but in these modern times practically every girl has some trade or profession by which she can earn her own bread and butter if nec- essary. The dread of what will be- come of Mary if he should lose his money or if he should die has been lifted from the husband’s mind. He knows that Mary would go back to her old job or would find something else to do and be quite comfortable and happy, thank you. Of course, having to live with your husband’s mother is your real problem and nobody can tell you how to solve that. Having to with a mother- in-law, and especially one who is bossy and who is already installed as the mistress of her son's house, is going to call for the patience of Job, the humility of Griselda and the finesse of a diplomat and. alas. few young women are possessed of these qualities, * % x NE or the other of two courses are open to you. The easiest is not to try to dislodge the autocrat from her throne. Let her go on running the house. The advantage of this pro- cedure is that it will save friction because no old woman who is an ex- pert cook and who has managed a house for thirty years is going to | give way peaceably to any chit of an inexperienced girl, no matter if is her son's wife. Shell fight yo tooth and nail and criticize everything you do, and complain of you to you husband and tell him that you are | ruining his digestion with your cook- ing and bringing him to the poor house by the thickness of your po- tato-parings. But if y vill let her sit at the head | of the table and take the lead in every- | thing, she'll think you are perfectly grand and love you and coddle you and save you from all the hard work And, furthermore, your husband will | feel toward you that inestimable grati- tude that every man feels for a wife who gets along with his mother. R UT don't delude yourself into be- lieving that any two women can keep house together and mot be in each other's hair all the time. It's one of the things that simply can’t be done. It's against nature. The disadvantage to this line of | conduct is that every woman yearns | for her own home and wants to keep it in her own way, and she cuts her- self off from realizing the dream that she has had since childhood when she played keeping house with her dolls, when she steps down and out for mother-in-law. ‘The other line of conduct that she can espouse is just to fight it out with mother-in-law and let the best woman win. And the disadvantage of this is that it makes everybody miser- able and generally lands the wife in | the divorce court Above, right, two models display creations of unusual line | and fabric. All of the gowns designed by the sisters stressed an | DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1935.) Ice Box Delight Beat the yolks of three eggs, add the juice of two lemons and the grated rind of one lemon, then add one cup- ful of mashed stewed apricots or ary other cooked acid fruit. Mix thor- oughly. Arrange half slices of pine- apple around a baking dish, pour in the above custard and top Wwith whipped cream and segments of Lady Furness discuss plans for the opening of the fashion show yesterday, which displayed gowns designed by Mrs. Vanderbilt special feeli or cut and beauti ials. and Lady Furness. Immediately above are two of the gowns o il i i il 1 photograph shows an evening wrap of exotic beauty in white and of a mold by lunch time. Putting these desserts into indi- tangerines, Place in the refrigerator to chill vidual serving dishes cuts down time for serving. Vegetables may be pre- pared, sprinkled and put into the hydrator or wrapped in waxed paper | to remain until time to cook them. A “scalloped” vegetable dish can be made up ready to bake and put in the refrigerator until time for cooking. I wonder if you ever tried the very good mixture of carrots and onions for a dish of this sort? The time-saving housekeeper will always have on hand a bowl of stewed | fruit or apple sauce, chilled and ready | to use for breakfast, lunch or supper dessert. She will also keep one or two cans of fruit in the refrigerator ready for use. While it is not a gbod idea to allow the children free access to the re- frigerator, there may be a corner set mside for fruit and for a sandwich wrapped in waxed paper to keep it from drying for that after-school hungry feeling which may need to be satisfied and which should be planned | for in the same careful way as the | other meals for the children are | considered. Then, if mother is busy or has gone out, the between-meal Junch will be ready for self-service. But be sure that the children are taught that the refrigerator door must be shut tightly. By that way the children who are taught at home to help themselves and actually to aid with easy tasks, such as making the toast at the table, are well prepared to cope with school problems. GOLDEN CREAM TAPIOCA. 2 tablespoonfuls granulated tapioca. 2 cupfuls scalded milk. 14 cupful brown sugar. Salt. 2 eggs. 1 teaspoonful vanilla. Add the tapioca to the milk and eook in a double boiler about 15 minutes until it is transparent. Add the sugar and salt to the egg yolks and to this add slowly some of the hot mixture. When thoroughly mixed add to the mixture in the double boiler and cook three minutes, constantly stirring. Remove the top of the double boiler, set in cold water and fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Add the flavoring and pour into a pudding dish. Serve very cold. . Cooking Hint In making gravy from meat, thin with the water in which vegetables have been cooked. This gives the gravy a better flavor. . shown in the very successful parade. Opinion Is Bulwark - In Raising Children BY ANGELO PATRL PUZZLED mother writes me: “We moved to a new and better neigh- borhood, thinking to give our children more freedom and a better standard of morals and manners. Now we are not sure that we did the right thing. There are children all around us. Some are the same age as ours, some older, some younger. My children have been taught to use clean lan- guage, and now I find them bring- ing in coarse words and coarser thoughts. Their manners are not so | good as they were. Today I was lit- erally shocked to hear my youngest boy swearing like a pirate. When I asked him what made him say such things he answered it was nothing, the other boys talked like that all the time. “And then there is another thing. My children have always gone to bed | at a fixed time. There was never the slightest trouble about it. But now the oldest girl argues about it and says she is the only one that has to go to bed early. The other children can go to movies and stay up as long as their fathers and mothers do. Everything seems to be harder since we came here. What am I to do?” Hold on—that’s what you are going to do. You can do nothing else. It is fine to have the community with you. Public opinion is a great bulwark. But if you haven't it you are not going to surrender. What you do for the children is according to your best be- lief. Stand by your guns. The little boy is not to use bad language simply because some one else does. The young lady is not to keep late hours because some other child is being neglected. You do what is right. I know that all motners want their children to be polite; clean, well-bred. If they don't succeed it may be they don’t know how to train their chil- dren. Set them a good example and they’ll follow you. I can assure you that people are with you when you try to bring up children the right way. Maybe this very migjte you are | lending strength to some other family. Maybe one of your neighbors is say- you must go to bed. Mrs. Wilson's daughter goes to bed regularly every night. She’s getting her beauty sleep; get yours.” The neighbors watch and be looking your way. Give the best you have. Be silent and watch for a chance to help. Actions speak louder than words. ‘When troubled, fall back on your own courage and say: “As for me and my house, we serve the Lord.” When all is said and done home has the last word. I live in New York. All my life I have lived in crowded places, but I have seen children grow into fine men and women in these very places. Why? Because their mothers held fast to what they had proved to be good. What counts is a child’s parents. If they resolve that their household shall stand by the code, come what may, they succeed in sending out sons and daughters who are an honor to their home and their country. It is fine to live in a harmonious neighborhood. It helps lighten the burden, but that isn’t all there is to it. What counts the most is the high character of the mother in the home. (Copyright 1935) The Old Gardener Says: Some forms of the cactus, par- ticularly the Christmas or crab cactus, can be grown in regula- tion pots in & sunny window, like other house plants. The Christ- mas cactus is one of the few kinds to be grown for its flowers, producing & kind of double- decked bloom at the end of flat, claw-like branches. Years ago these plants were much in favor, but lost their popularity for a while. Now they are again being grown rather widely, and are very cheerful in the living room at this time of the year, (Copyright. 1935.) ing to her child right now: “Of course | copy even when they pretend not to| Gourmet’s Guide BY LUCIE EBERLY. WITH the season’s entertaining fairly well under way, the enter- prising hostess may be glad to learn that whole, genuine Smithfield hams may be obtained already cooked at & considerably reasonable price. A good- sized ham, freshly cooked, may be had for around $5.50. When one considers that these hams are the genuine prod- uct, and that they are cooked by one who is well familiar with the compli- cated method of preparation required to bring out the full flavor these hams are famous for, you will agree that the price is sensational! The sliced ham sold by the pound is somewhat higher, but still more reasonable than you would expect. Minced Smithfield in glass jars, freshly ground and pre- served in its own rich natural oil, may also be had, and every refrigerator should be stocked with at least one jar! It may be used in omelets and casserole dishes, as well as a sandwich and canape spread—and we won't have to tell you that it will be the “mid- night prowler’s” delight! * ok K % O TYPICALLY American! Crisp popcorn sprayed with melted cheese! A perfectly delicious complement to salads and beverages—or just to nibble during the bridge game. It is freshly popped and generously sprayed with a piquant cheese. One wonders why it has not been thought of before. Even ordinary buttered popped kernels are so tantalizing—with the new addi- tion this favorite will be even more teasing. Next time friend hubby has the gang in for bridge you will please him no end by providing & mammoth bowl of “o-ke-doke” (yes, that's what they are called), along with other snacks! It is sold by the pound—and unless you want a barrelful, don’t buy s whole pound—you know how light popcorn is! For information concerning items mentioned in this column call Nation- a1 5000, extensiog) 395, Cook’s Corner BY MRS. ALEXANDFR GEORGE. DINNER SERVING FOUR. Baked Ham Loaf. Baked Sweet Potatoes. Baked Apple Sauce. Bread. Butter. Sliced Tomato Salad. French Dressing. Fresh Gingerbread. Coffee. Milk for Children Daily. BAKED HAM LOAF. 2 cups chopped 1 teaspoon chop- smoked ham, ped green pepper uncooked (optional) 1 cup soft bread 1 teaspoon chopped crumbs 1 celery teaspoot 1 tablespoon &/ teaspoca sas % teas] chopped onion /‘papfli(:) ¥ 1 teaspoon chop- 1 egg or 2 yolks ped parsley 23 cup milk Mix ingredients and press into but- tered loaf pan. Bake 50 minutes in moderate oven. BAKED APPLE SAUCE. 4 cups sliced Y, teaspoon cin- peeled apples namon % cup sugar 1 tablespoon lemon juice Mix ingredients and bake 40 min- utes in moderate oven. Stir every 10 minutes. If desired a little red fruit coloring can be added to mixture after it has cooked 20 minutes. FRESH GINGERBREAD, (Soft and Spicy.) Y3 cup fat, melted % teaspoon salt 1 cup sugar 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1 teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon nutmeg 1 teaspoon ginger Mix faf, and sugar. Add rest of in- gredients and beat one minute. Pour into shallow pan lined with waxed paper. Bake fi minutes in moderate o Cheese. 1 cup water oven. silver matelasse, collared with luzurious white fox. Women in Business | Must” Be Attractive BY ELSIE PIERCE. IT SEEMS to me that the women who have the greatest demands made on their time manage some- how to accomplish the most. And without any sacrifice to their health and energy (for that’s nc trick). Take the business woman, for instance. Yesterday we discussed how she should look when looking for a job. Today we presume that she has one. The business woman simply must keep up appearances. The very day that she decides or dares to “let down” the very important though silent partner comes in, or she is asked to sit in on a confidential meeting or interview the most valuable client. If she is perfectly groomed, she starts out with a feeling of complete confidence. On the other hand, if her nail polish is chipped or her hair disarranged or her dress collar soiled or her shoes are run down, her poise is immediately undermined. She starts with a handicap, like as not feels fidgety, and in consequence she may turn out-a “flop.” Yes, I've seen efficient, clever busi- ness women who went to pieces be- cause they weren't groomed for the part. That is why I say to the busi- CRANBERRY TAPIOCA Just add one cup fresh 10 Minule Cranberry Sauce fo japloca or vice pudding. ‘Write for cook book— Dept. N—9C]West Broadwey, New Yerk City Eatmor Cranberries ness woman: “Be prepared to mee anyone, any day.” Keep a beauty kit | and a sewing kit in your drawer, bu | use the contents only when no one is around. From head to toe she is the picture of efficiency. No excess jewelry (a single large costume ring or perhaps & bracelet or broach)— she prefers a | touch of lingerie at the neckline and [this trimming is always spotlessly fresh. She admits that it “lives in the | laundry,” but what of it? | | | YOUNGSTERS BREAD AND HONEY Has twice the food-enerxy value of ordinacy table syrup. 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