Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1936, Page 43

WOMEN’S FEATURES. Filling the Lunch Box for the School Child Is a Very Important Task Don’t Cater To Problem Youngster Tantrums May Be Easily Curbed by Discipline. BY ANGELO PATRL are parents who are afraid 1% of their children. They are atraid of what they will do if they are dis- ciplined. It is common to hear & mother say, “But I can’t make him. He will scream 80 that the neighbors will hear him and think that I'm killing him. I don’t dare make him g0 to bed for his nap because he makes such a scene.” Recently a mother said, “She has such tantrums at, the least little thing. I told her to take her hat and coat off and I would get her ready for her supper, and she screamed and kicked and carried on so that I didn’t know what to do. I'm ashamed to have people hear her. She did not want to taff off her things. She wanted to go out again after she had her supper. Of course she couldn't do that. So what was I to do? I have to please her or she will make our lives miserable. “The boy ought not to be allowed to drive the car, but what can I do? If I don't let him have his way he will stop going to school, refuse to study his lessons, cut his classes. That's what he told me he would do if he couldn't have the car when he wanted it. And he would do it, too.” ‘There are teachers who are afraid of certain children. “If I try to make that boy do his work he will make it impossible for me to live in the room, much less get anything done. I just have to Jet him have his way.” Such children are behavior prob- lems. Those who annoy the teacher 80 as to make . er afraid to enforce class room discipline should be taken out of the room and kept out until some way has been found to correct their difficulties and redirect their in- terests. The clinics and special classes should deal with these because the class room teacher has neither the time nor the power to deal with them Justly. Many of these class room problem children have been made the problems | they are by the fear their parents had of them and their demonstrations. | ‘They learned early that all they had t0 do to Win their way was to make a scen , accompanied by as much pub- licity as possible. They learned that this was what their parents dreaded most—publicity—so they yelled to alarm the neighborhood, lay down on the sidewalks and kicked and screamed 80 the crowds would stop to wonder and to rescue. They carried the same antics into the school and found the teacher was afraid of—not the pub- licity nor their powers of disorder, but the waste of precious time and energy that belonged to other children. It is always best to settle any such demonstrations of childish tyranny at the start. A tantrum ought to be met with a cool mind, & sentence of isola- tion and quiet. Pew children will con- tinue to work up a tantrum in the se- clusion of their rooms. An audience is necessary for a real demonstration. | Without the audience, without the| signs of fear and surrender of author- | ity in the face of their demands, the | storm subsides. If the tantrums con- tinue under this treatment, call the specialist. Don't surrender because ‘the neighbors m~y hear the child’s de- | flance. They know all about that| child. He is tellinz no secrets. Just go ehead and attend to him. | Problem children in school need skilled supervision. No class room teacher should be called upon to deal ‘with such pupils in the routined order ©f a class room. (Copyright, 1036.) Transparent Hats Sponsored | for Evening. PARIS.—A new material has en- tered the formal millinery mode. It is reported that Jean Gabriel Domergue will collaborate this Win- ter with the famous milliner, Rose Descat, to design hats and toques in transparent acetate plastic material, in various colors, for formal wear. Domergue has been experimenting with this medium during the Sum- mer, making transparent evening coif- fures and hats in blue, white and red, the French national colors. Shopping in Washington Velvet, Importa{nt Fall Fabric, Has Vari- ations for Each Hour of Day and Night. . From upper left: Wine red velveteen for | spectator sports. Fish- | tail jacket ensemble for afternoon with metallic blouse. For dinner, em- broidered net tunic over black velvet, and, top right, for evening, wine velvet with Venetian lace. —=8ketched in Washington Shops. BY MARGARET WARNER. 'HE new season's trend toward ele: gance in fashions has placed portant fabrics. In its many varia- is rapidly becoming a favorite for morning, noon and night. Velvet is | the most feminine and flattering fab- ric in the world, and with the added advantage of crush-resistance ‘and water repellance, as well as a re- markably wide price range, it seems tailored sports to formal evening. Orush-resistant velvets span the wardrobe because of their practical qualities as well as their appeal. Hats, gloves and bags .employ this material for their more important expressions. Blouses or waistcoats in deep evergreen, bright blue, or wine shades will add chic to the dark suit. The dinner tailleur on slim, youthful lines, with long tails or a short pep- lum, is best in black velvet. Reach- ing its climax in the evening mode, crush-resistant velvet will be found, not only in the gown with slender clinging lines, but also in the picture gown. The richness of the colors adds glamour to even the most in- expensive velvet gown. ‘The transparent velvets lend ,them- selves to all sorts of lovely draping Great-Aunt Nellie has a small crocheted reticule, old and faded because 4t belonged to her mother. She had a daguerreotype, t00, showing her mother holding the reticule against the folds of a wide, billowy skirt. What has that to do with this motif for a tablecloth? Well, the fact is we borrowed the reticule and worked with the pattern, adapting it to the shape of a hexagon and changing it here and there until we had this lacy bit of crochet. You’ll enjoy making it in your odd moments, for the work goes quickly and before you know it you'll haye enough hexagons to sew together to make & cloth for your table. It is done in mercerized crochet cotton and each hexagon measures 4% inches across, The pattern envelope contains complete, easy-to-understand illustrated directions, with diagrams; also what will need. - crochet hook and what materisl and this pattern, send for No. 364 and inclose 15 cents in stamps postage. to cover service and Star, Address orders to the Woman’s Editor (Copyright, 10863 velvet at the top of .the list of im- | tions of cotton and silk textures it | to fit into every type of dress from | ™ of sleeves and bodices. Many Autumn brides are planning costumes for en- tire bridal parties of transparent vel- vet. Either in pure white or mellow | ivory velvet, the Autumn bride will be | enchanting inscontrast with the rich | coloring of the. bridal attendants in vivid Fall shades, also of velvets. A velvet wedding against a background of chrysanthemuims would be some- thing charmingly “different.” Then there are all the novelty vel- | vets—those with pin dots of white used for little dinner frocks—the crinkled and ribbed surfaces often used for hostess gowns and gay cock- tail tunics. Gold back brocades and metallic novelties give further evi- dence of the versatility of this fabric. * % x FOR spectator-sports wear the vel- veteen frock is shown in a one- piece long sleeved model with center front closing and buttons along a silk-braided edge. Long sleeves and 2 narrow white turnover collar com- plete this dress in one of the new | soft greens. Wine red velveteen is shown in the sketch above at upper left, with its square neck and shorter sleeves. The collar, belt and tiny coachman’s pockets just below the waistline are trimmed in stitching. The skirt is short and smartly flared in swing effect. Other sports dresses combine velvet skirts with plaid woolen blouses to good effect. In fact, the black velveteen skirt will be very useful to wear with sweaters and various shirt blouses. The @ual afternoon frock is just about the most important item of interest at the moment. In black velvet it is at its best, and may be a long tunic effect, or a shorter fitted jacket. We found a particularly ap- penn?g one in a smart shop the other day that has a fishtall back on the little fitted jacket. Silver frogs in a leaf and flower design furnish the front closing to the jacket that fastens high under a narrow collar. Under the jacket is an adorable silver-and-white metallic blouse-top attached to the well-cut velvet skirt. Just the thing for the first afternoon affairs of the season and will con- tinue to be good when worn under & fur coat later. * Xk ¥ % Dmm gowns of velvet are quite irresistible in both long and short sleeved versions. . Sketched at the lower right is a combination of a formal velvet gown under an em- broidered net of black with design of white leaves. It is only necessary to release one hook at the back of { Conte nts Should Vary From One Day to Another To Stimula te Appetite Youngster Should Not Know What Menu Is in Store For Him*—Curiosity is Great BY BETSY L] Spur. CASWELL, OW the school doors are. opening wide and the rattle of the lunch box is heard in' the land. Reluctant scholars leave carefree vaca- tion time behind them, to embark on another year of “book larnin' A great responsibility rests on the mothers of these young stu- dents, to preserve the benefits their health has derived from the Summer of play, fresh air and sunlight. Appetites probably have been sharper, because of the out-door existence, and it didg not matter whether the food was es- pecially tempting or not—just so long as it was nourishing and there was plenty of it! Now, however, the picture has changed. The strain of readjust- ment during the first days of school tends to deaden hunger, and interest in food has to be forced. Later, per- haps, not such infinite care has to be taken to make the lunch box an irresistible temptation—but just in the beginning mother should “do her derndest” to make sure that Johnny or Mary eats every scrap. Too often in the excitement of new surroundings new faces and reunion with old friends a child actually for- gets to eat lunch unless some one is there to see to it—or (and here is the important thing) it is so good that he just can't pass it by. And that, mother, is up to you. * ok x % Fms‘r and foremost, the box itself. If possible, buy & new one this year, in a different color and with a different internal arrangement. Va- rlety is a great spice, as every one knows—last year's lunch box presents no lure with its old familiar hue and layout. Boxes may be very inexpen- sively bought everywhere, and the child’s pleasure in them is well worth the cost. Wask the box well inside with hot water to which a little soda has been added before packing it the first time. And den't forget that scrupulous clean- liness is terribly important in such a container at all times. It should be emptied the moment that it is brought home from school every afternoon; all the inside compartments should be thoroughly washed and wiped dry, and it should be left standing open to air all night. In the morning, when filling it with the day’s lunch, wrap each sandwich, piece of fruit or other article in fresh waxed paper. Be sure that the little thermos has been well washed the night before and left standing open 80 that it will be sweet and clean for the hot soup or milk drink that is going in it. By the way, when pos- sible, I like having two thermos bot- tles—one for the soups and milk com- binations, and another for fruit juices, etc. It is hard to get all trace of fatty liquids out of such a bottle, and the fruit juice seems fresher and tangier when kept cool in a bottle of its own. Dorothy HAT is a wife to do with a philandering husband who is otherwise highly desir- able as a husband—who is kind, generous, pleasant to live with and as fascinating to his wife as he is to other women? That is one of the greatest prob- lems in marriage and it is one with which thousands of women wrestle helplessly, not knowing whether it is better to bear the ills they have than to fly to those they know not of; whether it is better to endure hus- bands who humiliate them and tear their hearts to tatters with jealousy by their infidelities, or to divorce them, and have to make life over again in a world that is hard and lonely for middle-aged women who have always been cared for and pro- tected. Cook’s Corner BY MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE. SUNDAY DINNER MENU Chilled Fruit Salad Baked Ham Ripe Tomato Pickle Cinnamon Apple Garnish Mashed Sweet Potatoes Escalloped Cabbage Biscuits Butter Pinapple Ice Box Cake Coffee RIPE TOMATO PICKLE. 8 cups chopped % cup salt tomatoes 3 cups sugar 4 cups chopped 3 cups vinegar green peppers 1 tablespoon 2 cups chopped white mustard celery seed 1 cup chopped 2 teaspoons onions curry powder Mix vegetables and drain before measuring them. Add rest of ingre- dients, boil quickly 20 minutes. Pour mu:y sterilized jars and seal immedi- ately. CINNAMON APPLES. 8 apples 1% teaspoon pow= 2 cups sugar dered cloves 1%, cups water 1% teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon 1 tablespoon powdered lemon juice cinnamon Red fruit coloring ‘Wash and peel apples. Core, but do not cut into pieces. Boil 3 minutes sugar, water, spices, salt, juice and sufficient coloring. to give red tint. Add apples, cover and boil gently about 15 minutes or until apples are tender when tested with fork. Turn several times to allow even cooking. If preferred, % cup red cinnamon candies can be used in place of spices and red coloring. Serve apples warm | Wun.l the days are still warm, cool milk may take the place of hot soup. Plenty of fruit, a raw tomato or scrubbed raw carrot and a meat or egg sandwich give a nice |balance. If milk appears in the | lunch box in the form of baked cus- /tard or junket in a little jar, then | tomato juice, pineapple juice or or- !ange juice take the lead as liquid re- freshment. A well-buttered sandwich of chopped bacon and lettuce on whole | wheat bread, with a cookie or two and | perhaps some ripe olives would round out a nice and rather unusual meal. It your child gets tired of the ever- lasting sandwich, try making them for him out of buttered, lightly toasted rolls. Scoop out the center of the roll and fill the hollow with chicken salad or with nicely cooked ground round steak mixed with diced cooked carrots and cooked peas. This should be well moistened with a savory gravy so that the mixture will not be too dry. Cottage cheese makes good sand- wiches when spread on whole wheat bread and sprinkled liberally with bits of chopped bacon. This is & good choice when tomato juice is in the thermos. Raw celery hearts (baby ones), some of those famous raw carrots and stewed peaches in the little jar could be used with this com- bination. LA IP YOUR child is one of the nice ones that will eat fish without & how!l (mine won't) make him a tuna or salmon sandwich, moistened with a little mayonnaise and spread be- tween slices of whole wheat bread. Hot, clear consomme in the bottle would do nicely with this, with a few little yellow pear tomatoes, fruit and cookies. Whatever you pack into that little lunch box, do have it a little differ- ent each day if you possibly can. Never tell the child what is going to be in it—the unknown is always more alluring than certainty. the contents of the thermos—one day milk, one day tomato juice, next soup, next orange juice, next malted milk and so on. Of course, you will have to repeat frequently, but by working out a little schedule for the week ahead you will be able to keep each day of that particular five in- dividual and interesting. It is so very important that the school child likes his lunch as well as eats it! Dix Says Divorce Isn’t the Panacea for Unhappi- ness That Women Think. And what makes the matter all the | | more complicated is that these wan- dering husbands seldom want di- | vorces. Most of them don't want to | be involved in a mess of scandal which does them no good at the sions. They don't want their homes broken up. They don't want to be parted from their children. They don’t even want to lose their wives whom they, admire and respect and to whom they fully expect to return when they get tired of chasing every ruffied petticoat that crosses their pathway. * ¥ X % THE other day & woman, married to one of these great and uni- versa] lovers, told me her tale of woe and asked me what she should do. She was good-looking, smart, charm- ing in every way. One could not doubt that she had been a good wife and was a good housekeeper, but she had not been able to hold her hus- band and keep him from having af- fairs with other women. Her un- happiness was almost driving her insane. She said that she and her husband had been married 23 years and had four children; a pretty daughter just finishing college this year, a brilliant son entering college, two younger children in high school. Her hus- band was sweet-tempered, affection- ate, indulgent to her and the chil- dren. He made a good salary and they had a lovely home and a car and all the comforts of life, but they never had accumulated any property, chiefly because he spent so much money on his lady loves. “I feel that I can't stand it any longer,” wailed the woman. “My self-respect won't permit me to live with a husband whom I know to be untrue and who flouts his affairs in my face. What shall I do?” “Do you think that will bring you the greatest happiness,” I replied, “pbut think a long iime and weigh well all the loss and gain before you decide to leave your husband and break up your home. Make certain that you will be happier never seeing your husband, never hearing from him, not knowing whether he is sick or well, than you are now when you are a part of his daily life, and the charm that he radiates on other women shines on you, too, Sometimes half a loaf is better thari no bread at all. You can't pull up s marriage that has lasted for 23 years without leaving your h at its roots. B L ““T'HINK of your children. They love sheir happy-go-lucky father. They won't want to be parted from him. They won't want to be dragged through the scandal of a divorce. 1t won't help the girl's chance to make & good marriage for her parents to be separated. : “Divorce isn’t the panacea for a hurt heart and wounded pride that wives think it is. It is generally just making a bad matter worse, & jumping out of the frying pan into the fire, and they are wise women if they think a long time before buying s ticket to Reno. .| And then don't do it.” DOROTHY (Copyrisht, 1936, Vary | bank or in their business or profes- | | 20. Suavely WOMEN’S FEA ® Tailored Club Style Pajama Set is Essence of Sim- plicity and Chie. 74 BY BARBARA BELL. S EASY to put together as 2 and 2 and requires just that much of your time for the finished picture. ‘Whether your cotton, satin, silk crepe, pongee or rayon is expensive or not you won't -be taking a chance with pat- tern No. 1923-B for step-by-step sew- ing instructions are included and guarantee to guide your every stitch. College girls approve its conserva- tive styling—busy housewives find them adequate to greet the unexpect- ed guest and the business girl revels in their comfort and ease-assuring details. The trousers are amply cut and the soft blouse roomy enough for any 12 to 20's daily dozen. A natty pointed collar, wide cuffs and belt add an air of distinction to your gar- ment. Abandon your fears of an ill- fit, for this clever pajama paftern offers no alternative, it just has to fit right. Barbara Bell pattern No. 1923-B is available for sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and | Corresponding bust measure- ments 30, 32, 34, 36 and 38. Size 14 (32) requires 4l yards of 39-inch material. Every Barbara Bell pattern includes an illustrated instruction guide which is easy to understand. Tips on the BY LUCIE IN SPITE of the waning season we find the stalls and counters of the local markets as colorful as ever, and bountifully stocked with a profusion of tempting fruits aAd vegetables. - * x k% RASPBEREIES and strawberries from nearby everbearing bushes and plants continue to arrive in small but steady lots. They are exception- ally fine and unusually low in price. Blueberries, too, are still available. The mammoth Hale peaches, those luscious belles of the orchards, are hard to find this week and merchants claim that there will be only a few straggly lots from now on. Albertas, on the other hand, are still very plen- tiful and of very good grade. Though they are no longer uniform in size, they are beautifully firm and well- ripened. Damsons, German prune plums, and fancy large President plums from California provide a good representa- tion of the plum family. All are good and reagsonable. Crabapples are seen on every side. Their blushing red cheeks tempt us to put up “just a few more glasses.” The crop was un- usually late this year, but since they have been coming in, merchants are convinced that there must surely have been a “bumper” crop. Never have these little apples been received in so great a quantity! You will find all the stalls featuring them at ridicu- lously low prices. In the eating and cooking apples we find that ‘“Delicious,” “Grimes Golden” and “Smokehouse” are all coming in steadily. If you expect to use a lot, buy them by the bushel. Bartlett pears and tiny, sweet Seckel pears continue to arrive in large lots. Both are unusually fine. Cantaloupes are considerably scarcer. Honeydew, however, are plentiful and of excel- lent quality. A large shipment re- ceived from Texas this week makes it possible for the stores to feature them at special prices for the week end. They are said to be vine-ripened— and these, you know, are always to be preferred. ~Persian melons are vir- tually out of the picture today. The new shipment is not expected until the middle of next week. Citrus fruits improve with every shipment. You will find the grape- fruit greatly improved over thqse of BARBARA BELL, ‘WASHINGTON STAR. Inclose 25 cents in coins for ttern No. 1923-B. Sise...... (Wrap coins securely*in paper.) Send 15 cents for the Fall Barbara Bell pattern book. Make yourself at- tractive, practical and becoming | clothes, selecting designs from the Barbara Bell well-planned, ensy-to-; make patterns. Interesting and ex- clusive fashions for little children and the difficult junior age; slender- izing, well-cut patterns for the ma- ture figure; afternoon dresses for the most particular young women and matrons, and other patterns for spe- cial occasions are all to be found in the Barbara Bell pattern book. (Copyright, 1936.) Food Market EBERLY. HUBBARD SQUASH and pumpkin, the two harvest month specials, are beginning to come in. The pump- kins, are, of course, still small and rather “pale” looking. Baby kale, spinach, escarole, broccoli and cab- bage sprouts are all plentiful and good this week. You will find the spinach especially fine and still selling at Mid- summer prices. Garden beans and the yellow wax variety are still being | received in fairly good lots from near- by. Gresn peas, however, come from | California and Texes. Carrots, tur- nips and red beets, the three favorite root vegetables, are beginning to ar- rive from the West Coast now, too, though good lots are still coming in | from Maryland and Virginia. Home-grown tomatoes continue toj flood the market, but they have/ dropped considerably in quality since | last week. It is apparent that those now being received are about the last of the season’s crop. Lettuce, both the Boston and Iceberg varieties, are selling at Winter prices, with possi< bilities of advancing to new high fig- ures! Celery, they say, will be ad- vancing in price earlier than usual this year, too. New Idaho baking potatoes and sweefs are now at their prime. The “Nancy Halls” are especially fine. * % x x AT THE butcher stalls we find meat prices about the same. Lamb is said to have dropped a few cents, how- ever. Beef, pork and veal lold their own, but are not expected to be higher this Winter than now, according to merchants. Poultry stalls are still doing a rush- ing business. Broilers and late fryers are being featured at special prices at all.stands. The buy-by-the-piece plan continues to be popular, and almost all the stands are willing to sell “cut- up” poultry even if they do not spe- cially feature this service. GoesTwiceasFar asOther Svyeefs PukE TURES. Diet Often Cause of Large Pores Impaired Circulatory System Also Responsible. BY ELSIE PIERCE. JUDGING by the avalanche of mail reaching my desk I should say that the subject of coarse pores is outrunning wrinkles for the honor of “popular dislikes,” if you can call it an honor, Coarse pores, the bane of many & woman's existence, may be a sign of age, neglect, abuse or may be in- herited. Emphasize the last though they may, my answer is: It is true that members of the same family often have a tendency to enlarged skin pores. However, I have never seen a baby with anything but silky skin and fine, imperceptible pores. And what happens to that baby-fine skin as we grow older? Might it not be that the diet and general living habits of these family members being the same, the effect on the skin is the same? Improper cleansing methods, this mad, nervous pace we moderns live in (which has its effect on our cir- culatory system and therefore on the pores), & diet too rich in sweets, starches, olls or fats, constant use of hot water, sluggish circulation or im- paired digestion, any and all of these, may be the underlying causes of enlarged pores. What to do? Obviously, cleanse the skin very thoroughly. Use luke- warm water instead of hot. Use a bland soap and a complexion brush and friction gently but thoroughly. Rinse very carefully, using warm water and then cold. The ice treat- ment is recommended, but wrap ice in gause or soft linen. Do not per- mit the ice itself to touch the skin. If you use cream for cleansing, be sure to remove every bit of it with tissues or a soft cloth and follow by patting with skin tonic and drying gently. The cream throws the pores open; but that is all right, as it is temporary and makes deep pore cleansing possible. But be sure to fol- low with a tonic or mild astringent to close the pores. Then the ice treat- ment, because it helps to whip up the circulation and contracts the pores still further, And now for the more important measures, for the local treatment is not nearly as helpful nor as perma- nent as hygienic living and general care. As the general health is im- proved and the circulation stimulated the skin automatically improves. And I've known exercise to work wonders. I've known women who “went in for sports” and came up smiling and with satin-grained skins. So you see en- larged pores need much more than creams or cosmetic correctives. The treatment should start from within. (Copyright, 1936.) PS}Th.gl—(;gy BY DR. JESSE W. Automatic Movements. 'HE things you do automatically SPROWLS. will tell what you are. For ex- ample, if your arm is suspendec in a sling so that it may move without ¥y.ur noticing its movements, you may learn much about your temperament. Under such experimental conditions, it is found that a pleasant odor will cause the arm to pitch forward. If the odor is unpleasant your arm will dra.. toward you. The same thing happens for all sorts of pleasant and unpleasant stimulations. The mean- ing, of course, is this: Pleasures cause your entire personality to expand. An- noyances cause your personality to withdraw. If we knew all about our automatic movements and how to interpret them, we might read minds without talking to people. Those who are able to size up people at first glance are those who know how to interpret every little ex- pansion and retraction in the hands, feet and voice. Many psychologists are engaged in experimenting with automatic move- ments these days. 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