Evening Star Newspaper, October 10, 1936, Page 24

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1936. B8 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FIRE PREVENTION WEEK STRESSES AGE-OLD DANGER Care and Forethought Looking for Trouble With a Vengeance! ||Reaping I May Help Considerably Follows In Elfiimip_rating’ Blazes Sowing BY ANGELO PATRI. Open Fireplaces Must Be Adequately Screened and Protected Against EAPING comes a long time after sowing, always. When one sows Danger of Leaping Sparks. BY BETSY CASWELL. Modern-Day Cosmetics Are Only Improvement On Those of Ancients Finishing Artistically What Nature Haé Left Undone Has Been Practiced by Women for Centuries. an idea in & child’s mind one must be willing to wait for the result through long years of watching, cul- tivating, feeding; wait through sun- shine and storm, freshening rains BY GAEL RENFREW. “The colonel’s lady and Judy O'Grady Are sisters under the skin ., .” write a little bit about the matter. " thing to do. With the season of long lamplit hours, open fires, furnaces and THIE has been “Fire-prevention week” and, as usual, I am moved to so on being ushered in, it is really time to stop, look and listen where the possibility of fire is concerned. Too many homes are destroyed, too many people die or are scarred for life because of negligence that seemed minor in the beginning—but certainly ¢ led to major disaster. Too much cannot be said about the | Importance of keeping all lighting | and heating | equipment in top g | condition. Chim- neys should be cleaned before the open fires start, and before the furnace is fired for the first time. Many peo- ple avail them- selves of the ex- cellent service of- fered by most of the furnace and { fuel concerns, which takes care of the entire heating plant by giving it a good “going over” during the Summer months. Wood for the fireplace should be | stored in a proper place, and the furnace room should be kept scrupul- | ously clean and free from rubbish, such as old rags, papers, etc. Be sure that no trash is ever thrown into the ash cans, or that clothes are left hang- ing near the furnace or heating plant. A good, intelligent, reliable furnace man is one of your best bets as an {nvestment, unless you intend to manage the “stoke hole” yourself. * ok K ¥ BE SURE that all the cords of elec- | trical equipment are in good shape—no kinks, knots, cracks or worn insulation. Have your stove checked for any possible leakages or worn heating units. And test lighting fixtures to be sure that there are no weak points that might cause a *ghort” some time in the night. Experts tell us that one of the most | frequent causes of fires in residences 1s the electric flatiron. All too often a careless maid or housekeeper leaves the iron turned on, sitting on the pressing board, while she answers the phone or the doorbell. The iron heats gayly away until the board catches fire and catastrophe possibly follows. There are, of course, new-type irons which automatically cut themselves off at a certain temperature—however, some of us are not fortunate to own one of these treasures, and we must be doubly careful to see that an iron ts always disconnected before it is left | alone in the laundry. | Flexible cords may cause fires if they are run under rugs, or for long | distances behind furniture around the | walls. Proper lamp outlets should be dnstalled, to obviate “the necessity of | the wandering cord that may be | stepped on, damaged and start to | smoulder away unseen until real trou- | ble develops. ’ XX ¥ % FALL open fireplaces should be equipped with an adequate and mot just ornamental screen. Sparks ! fly easily from wood that has dried quickly in heated houses and a child's | light dress or nearby drapery can | tch fire just as quickly as a scrap of | paper. Children especially should b2 warned against playing too close in front of even a protected fireplace— sometimes sparks can jump the bar- rier if the fire is high enough. The youngsters should also be cautioned against trying to light the fire or re- | plenish it alone, and the danger of the kerosene in the Cape Cod lighter | should be thoroughly explained. | Throwing paper into an open fire is to | be avoided—it may set fire to your shimney or roof. FElectrical fuses should be handled | only by some one who understands | them, and care should be taken that the proper fuses are being used, ac- eording to the current consumed by | the household. Rags—especially oily ones—should pot be left in cupboards or drawers. | They may become the victims of | Betsy Caswell Dorothy Dix Says Over-Strict Parents Make the Mistake of Driving With Too Tight a Rein. EAR MISS DIX—I am a girl of 14, but grown in size. I| like to get out and have | some fun, but my parents won't let me go with a boy. There is | a boy of 18, who is very nice, that I lke as a friend. He often asks me to | §o places with him, but my parents won't let me. The other day he asked me to go for a ride with him. I knew if I asked to go I would be forbidden, #o I said I was going to a girl's house to see her. I didn't get home at the appointed time and my father was | #0 angry he threatened to send metoa reform scamei. I don't do nnythlngi wrong ana I don't want to do any- thing wrong, but I'd like to have a little pleasure like the other girls have. My parents and my sisters say that I cause nothing but trouble and . sometimes they say they wish I was .-mot here. I am so miserable I don't want to live any longer. Shall I run away from home where I am not wanted? Please tell me the right You are my last hope. _-1 haven't a mother to look t;lol’ help. W, Answer—At 14 you are still a child, “R. V. W., and you must submit to your parents, even when you think their restrictions age unfair. Don’t think of such a thing as running away from home, because that will put a blot on your name that you would never live # down. 5 * %k ¢ YOU haven't any idea what a home { means until you leave it. You can't even imagine what a horror it would be to tramp a road, footsore and weary; to bé so hungry that you felt that nothing else in the world mat- tered but food, and not to have even & nickel to buy bread with; to have night come with no place to sleep; to be accosted by evil men and hustled |or stubs into waste paper baskets— 'Furnishing | Producing Soft Tones| | describing rooms in your Massachu- | setts house in which you used the “spontaneous combustion,” with dire results. Oil mops should be kept in their containers, carefully away from any chance contact with fire, or heat- ing unit of any kind. And, of course, I suppose it isn't necessary to warn you not to smoke cigarettes in bed—or even on a sofa that is comfortable enough for you to go to sleep on! But, as a matter of fact, statistics show that an ap- palling number of house and apart- ment fires have been caused by just this little habit, so check up on your=- self, and see if you are even occasion- ally guilty! And do, for goodness sake, be careful about throwing matches and be sure that the contents of the ashtrays are completely “dead” be- fore you dispose of them. A little care and a little forethought can so easily prevent that horror of the ages—fire! The Home Colorfully in Paints—Choosing Lamp Bases. BY EMILY POST. DEAR MRS. POST: A long time ago you gave formulas for paint, colors. (1) Will you please tell me These youngsters are enjoying their October party, with apples to roast and corn to pop. But a stray spark from the burning logs might set the little girl’s cotton dress aflame in an instant—the corn might catch ablaze and burn the ardent popper—and tragedy would reign instead of joy. Why not a fender and screen for the open fire—an electric popper for the corn— and be on the safe side? you are right, since it is the place about the kind of paint you used on |of the older residents to call upon the floor of the room where the wood- | the newer. work was smoky rose? (2) What did | you mean by glazing the pea soup green paint with brown? | Answer: (1) The natural wood has a filler and a very light stain of soft | brown like old wood, and then waxed. | (2) Yes, you paint a very thin coat | of brown (almost all turpentine) | over the green, and while it s wet | you take either a special brush and brush it down, or you take a dry clean cheesecloth and wipe it gently, | leaving very little of the brown. | * % Kk X EAR MRS. POST: Will you sug- | gest colors for lamp bases and flower vases in a room that has much | yellow, green and touches of rose? | Answer: If there is other white in | the room, white lamps are among the | prettiest to be found in the stores at present. If your room is modern and | you are using chromium, there are | also may chromium or white glass ' lamps. On the other hand, if yellow is used as a predominating color, then use either brass or caepper, or both. For flowers nothing is more | becoming to them than white or cream china with very small floral design such as that which is typical of Lowestoft and all Chinese pottery. | Otherwise, choose whichever color pottery you think looks well in your room. * x ok X | EAR MRS. POST: The other evening I was rather startled | when my husband announced before | friends, and what's more, strongly | maintained his point, that we should first call on the neighbors. A small | argument followed in which my | friends thought, with me, that the | older residents should call on the | newcomers. Eventually we decided to | ask you to tell us what is customary | in America, since we are all foreign | born. Answer—In Europe your husband would be right, but here in America | feel that your mother's scolding and your sister's gibes and your father's threats, that you know mean nothing, were not even worth considering for the comfort and protection that & home gave you. Of course, at 14 it is natural that you should be hungry for pleasure and want to go about with boys for a bit of fun as the other girls do, but even if your parents deny you that pleasure now you've got a long, long time to | enjoy yourself stretching out before you. A long, long time in which to | have dates and go about with boys. And let this thought comfort you— that when you do come out you will seem years and years younger than the girls of your owe age who went out with boys when they were 14, and you will be fresh while they will seem almost like old maids. * %k X UT I could weep over the mistake that your parents, and all other overly strict parents, make when they try to drive youngsters with too tight a rein. Because they do not keep their children from doing the things they do not want them to do, they make them add lying and disobedience to them. It is far, far better to let even a young girl play about with nice boys in her own home than it is to force her to meet boys on the street or in a corner drug store and go with them heaven knows where. 1 wish I could make all parents un- derstand what a crime they commit when they scar a young girl's mind with the threat of sending her to & reform school, or break her heart by telling her she is not wanted in the home. Of course, the parents don't mean what they say, but it burns in a young girl's soul. It alienates her from her parents and sometimes the about and knocked around by police because you were a tramp. One day's experience of that would make you'! L% suggestion makes her live up to their accusation. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1936, * ok % x JDEAR MRS. POST: Why is it not proper to refuse a gift from some one who gives it simply in expectation of favors? The woman in question tries to ingratiate herself in this way, and I don't want to accept anything, which will place me under obligation to her. I have not received this gift as yet, but have heard from reliable source that it is coming and I don't want to accept it if there is a way out. But how? i Answer: If the gift can in any way | be rated as actually seeking favor ar! | patronage: if, for example, you were | a writer on fashion and a hat were | sent you by a milliner, or if you had the gift of an appointment within your power and the present could possibly be taken as a bid for that ap- | your rights to return it; in fact, you would be obliged to, saying that you | pointment, you would be quite within | could not receive professional pres- | ents. But if a social acquaintance chooses to send you a present, I don't know what you can possibly do except | write a polite but not too personally enthusiastic letter of thanks. My Neighbor Says: Cabbage contains valuable vita- mins and frequently should be eaten raw or cooked until tender. Never cook cabbage until it has changed in color, as it then will be indigestible. If too much baking powder is used in a cake it is likely to be coarse-grained. Strong coffee used instead of milk in rice pudding makes de- licious coffee rice pudding. (Copyright, 1936.) and dreadful droughts of the spirit. After many days comes the harvest. “I've told him again and again that & good boy always tells -the truth. Yet every once in a while he slips. Only this morning I went over that with him again and told him how fine it was for & man to be trusted by other men, to have his word taken as his bond, and here he is. Another lie. What is to become of him? What is the matter with me that I have a child who lies like this?” This is one of the harvests that lie far in the future. Children know nothing of the adult’s fear of a lie, nor of his affection for the truth- teller and the truth. To his mind a lie is & handy way out of a tight place. He has seen it work for others. when they faced an emergency. He tries it when he thinks he needs it. And it does not work; most of the time a lie is detected and nailed to the wall before its creator's troubled gaze. Don't be discouraged. Love of honesty, of truth, for their own sakes, comes only after years of ex- perience have proved their worth and given the instruction meaning. Many of our most earnest sermons, even our cherished maxims, are just words to the children. And words are sounds to them until experience puts meaning into them. If you watch yourself you will find that rereading some familiar book will disclose new meanings in what you once read with shallower thinking. Time and experience working on your thinking have given it a deeper thrust, with added power, and you find new beauties, new values, new ideas in old words. So with the children. our teachings have a meaning that is powerful enough to control actions. Until then we must continue to sow seed in faith. That means to keep | on teaching the idea we want to take root. Keep reinforcing it, strengthening it by whatever experi- ences we can add to it, until it at-| tains sufficient power to stand alone. Refrain from poking about to find how it is doing. Let it rest. Most growth in the beginning is made underground. Roots are first. The top growth comes afterward when the roots are ready to nourish and sustain it. | Sow in faith. Children tend to goodness. The faults of their child- hood fall from them as they grow in understanding. Patient teaching, in faith, cannot fail of its reward. (Copsright. 1936.) WHAT TO WEAR WHEN Qy Udelaide Herr COUNTRY Wool—fleece, tweed or plaid. Colors: browns, rusts, myrtle green, Rebellion red. Design: bulky swagger or straight belted. Collar: Iynx, wolverine or furless. Swagger fur coat of bea- ver, nutria, pony, etc./ Fabric or knitted wool. Color which harmonizes with coat, but often con- trasts with it. Two piece, belted model. Pockets one to er accents. Always simplic- ity and comfort. Tweed, plaid or diagonal wool, casually tailored, not too closely fitted. Bold lapels. Jackets sometimes contrasting with color of skirt. Pockets. Wool blouse or knitted sweater with high neck. Casual felt with brim which can be worn three or four different ways. For spectator sports wear & Scotch beret with feather postilion or Tyrolean felt. TOWN Black, gray, brown; or wine-toned wool. Design: fisted and flared like a Rus- sian Cossack’s coat, or mold- ed on slim princesse profile. Lavishly fur trimmed with big collar, borders, accents. (Youthful models less lux- uriously trimmed.) Fur coat of Persian lamb, seal, broadtail, caracul Swagger, tunic or princesse cut. Wool, crepe or silk jersey in color harmonizing with coat. Newest cuts—trim- waisted with full skirt, prin- cesse, tunic or redingote. Necklines generaliy high. Wide belts. Dress accented with one sudden_stab_of color, - Black broadcloth or rich colored wool. Jacket one of the new slim surrealist (mo- dernistic) models with “bu- reau drawer” pockets, or severe fitted Directoire model. Blouse a modern dark sat- in shirtwaist or Louis XVI waistcoat of brocade or striped satin, Closefitting, sleek, dash- ing, high or medium crowned. Felt or velvet, matching costume or acces- sories. Trimmed with fur, feathers or vélvet ribbon giving splash of color. Point- ed fur toque. Gloves — doeskin, suede exceedingly plain, some- times of color contrasting with costume. Bag—deep, top handled, suede or leather. Occasion- ally jeweled or gold dress Flat, planed, dull, metal cigarette and vanity cases, AFTERNOON Broadcloth or rich wool (preferably black) lavishly fur trimmed. Swagger coat of mink, Persian lamb, seal or caracul. Hemlength fitted coat of broadtail or other flat pelt with huge silver fox collar, Muff. Street length instead of last year's ankle length. Shirtwaist model of shim- mering lame. Princesse or tunic design of black or rich colored velvet, crepe, wool or satin. Neckline some- times lowered to vee, sleeves occasionally short. Trims— embroidery, gold touches, clips. Black broadcloth or vel- vet. Jacket a modern version of the cutaway or a fitted tunic. Luxurious fur bor ders. Gold or sequins em- broidery occasionally used on revers of unfurred mod- els. Lame, satin or chiffon blouse. High crowned and taper- ing or cupped to the head like a skull cap. Pointed crown good. Material vel- vet, velours or fur accented with color splash. Trims ‘may tower taller and follow more extreme lines than on day hats. EVENING Tweed or broadcloth; so= ber fitted silhouette with dtamatic contrast in revers embroidered insequins, stones, gold thread. Princesse or tunic model of velvet or silk ottoman; small coflar. 1’ . Colors: black, flaming danger red, wine, purple. Mink or ermine swagger. Regal velvet, satin, lame, “net, taffeta, crepe. Black, white, rich deep coronation reds, blues, greens, wine, royal purple. Edwardian design with low decollete and puff sleeves inspired by coming coronation; high waisted Empire model, form fitting princesse or flared tunic. Ankle or toe length. Plain black dinner dress topped by sleeveless lame jacket or shortsleeved jacket having brilliant embroidery. i Cutaway or tunic suit of black broadcloth or velvet. Brilliant crepe, lame or chif- fon shirtwaist. ~ . Headdresses with evening clothes—generally near top of head rather than side. Three Prince of Wales plumes, wings, jeweled stars, or flowers. Hat with restaurant din® ner clothes. . Velvet, net.' Generally trimmed to give height. Often dramatic. Gloves—long whitekid or pale toned suede. Large chiffon or velvet handkerchief. Years must pass before many of | adding that, in sharing the sa; sisters through all the centu: “Crowns and thrones may perish,” rise and wane”"—but from the ashes of women of succeeding ages. The burn- | ing wish to be beautiful, the longing | for personal loveliness—this is the ambition that has ruled womankind through thousands of years. | When the older generation—and the one just ahead is always so crushingly superior—deplores the present-day practice of artificial beautifying, there is no point in claiming that the women of this age are different from those who have gone before. The females of Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, Phoe- nicia, Persia, Greece and Rome may not have been concerned with the struggles of these mighty empires for world power and place, but they cer- . tainly paid daily obeisance to the deities of rouge pot, powder jar, eye shadow and hair dye. And we en-| franchised, enlightened moderns have merely improved on their basic beauty recipes. The cosmetics art, in short, | is as old as those arbitrary divisions of that immeasurable immensity we miscall “time.” “Cosmetics are used mainly to finish artistically what nature has left un-| done"—that is the dictum of the| august and authoritative Encyclopedia Britannica on the subject, and certain | it is that women have been trying to improve on nature for as far back as we can find historical records. What does differentiate the present age from its predecessors is the vastly improved status of beautifying prep- arations. After centuries of half- | knowledge the whole question has been brought into the light of science. | Cosmetology has been accepted as a very real and remunerative art. | * x ox X \DEVO’X‘ING considerable space to its article on the subject, the encyclopaedia defines cosmetics as “substances of diverse origin, scien- tifically compounded, and used (1) to cleanse, (2) to allay skin troubles (3) to cover up imperfections, and (4) to beautify.” This century of ours has seen the first two of these pur- poses achieve nodding acquaintnace with the dignified medical profession. All things seem to be moving toward an understanding between the two. | Despite the tremendous strides that medicine has made in the last 200 years it is still an experimental science, and cosmetology, “the out- cast of the medical profession” as it has been aptly styled, is no longer | the step-child it once was. Hence, we find Dr. Koller, declaring in his scholarly “handbook” that “the task (of the cosmetic art) is to assist medi- | cine in a friendly manner and not | As a branch of | to oppose the same. | hygenic science it endeavors to re- | move or frustrate everything that is contrary or injurious to health. The | art of cosmetics, however, will not | attain its full repute and the com- | plete appreciation of its importance until it takes its position as an in- dependent technology and never leaves | out of sight * * * the hygenic mission “Puttin’ me absorbing wish, women have been ries of recorded time and in every KIPL!NG could have strengthened the now celebrated statement by civilization the world has known. as the old hymn says, and “kingdoms every vanished empire the same desire has risen, Phoenix-like, to dominate - with which it is charged. It will then occupy the position of an assistant to medicine * * *” We who are the heirs—or heiresses, if you prefer—of all the ages, litt] realize the debt we owe in this absorb- ing business of being beautiful, to our sisters of long vanished civilizations The debt has been gathering interes: through four or five centuries, for although the word *“cosmetic” comes from the Greek cosmeo, meaning “to adorn, to beautify,” the goddess-like Greeks themselves inherited secrets of beauty lore by legacy from their Egyptian, Assyrian and Babyloni sisters. These nations each lived o a long day of power before Greece earned her undying fame, Ve . HE great majority of twentieth century housewives and office workers do not give the proverbial “hoot” about the cuneiform tablets and related archaeological data found | in King Tut-ankh-Amen's tomb. Such discoveries, however, do take on a vital significance when the average daugh- ter of Eve realizes that from this tomb, as from others discovered in the course of the centuries, “many excel- lent specimens of the early cosme- tician’s art” have been taken. Schol- ars who tag King Tut's reign with 1350 B.C. also teil us that nearly 2,000 years earlier, in the first Thinite Dynasty of around 3500 B.C., it was the custom to bury with the dead the toilet articles and unguents that they had used in life. These ancient people had all our “fixings,” even the lip salves. Ap- | propriately enough, the art of make- up reached its zenith in the time of Cleopatra. Over 30 before she began to wield the full power of her seduc- tive “personality.” this superwoman will always be the epitome of encour- agement to her “older” sisters! And what equipment did these women of Cleopatra’s time, and for long before and after, have at their command? Naturally, they could not “go downtown” and buy manufac- tured products, mystically perfumed and daintily boxed. They had re- course, therefore, to such basic beauty- preserving agents as sesame, olive and almond oils, aromatic plant and root resins, ail the members of the flour family (for powder), and honey, whose astringent properties are as celebrated today. Aware of the soft- ening graces of oils, they kept them in the delicately fashioned vigis and jars of alabaster that have lately been given up by excavated tombs. When unsealed, these containers still give forth a faint fragrance. And it would seem that this essence of sweetness, | bottled up through centuries, whispers | that our sisters of 1936 B.C. answered | the same passionate urge for beauty. | This article is the first in a series on | the history of cosmetics. The others | will follow shortly. on Dog” What the Well-Dressed Canine Will Don for the Coming Season. widle ones round reck s én‘g Heer, BY MARY ALLEN HOOD. ES, sir, Pups is “putting on the to New York to get an idea of would wear for the season, '36, '37. | After his first view of the doggy Fifty-seventh street, he changed his | plaid collar for a solid red one. The change was only temporary. Once a Scotsman, always a Scotsman, so he got back into his plaid, and his High- land soul was at peace. A little Brus- sels Griffon took time enough from her promenade to tell him that he can wear plaid as much as he likes, that's a Scotty's privilege. Now if different! Solid colors are most in demand by New York dogs, who are supposed to know. Pups would have told a wire haired fox terrier a thing or two, but he was struck spellbound by the beautiful green leash, attached to a matching collar that the dog was wearing. A Dobermann told Pups that he !didn't have to bother about solid color leather trappings this Fall either. At lunch he explained that he and his shepherd dog friends were privileged to wear round or chain collars, the dickens with fashion! Once in a while some youngster who wishes to be different will come out in something with stripes or spots, but Dobermanns of the old school avoid such things. - He took time off ¥ dog” this Winter! He went up | what the best-dressed canines | fashions around Central Park and | he was a fox terrier, that would be | Charn collars, For ‘working for smoolh coats Jreces o oo , from his dog biscuit to introduce | Pups to Miss Dachshund. Her wide leather collar of a lovely reddish hue caught his eye. Of course her leash matched. He didn't want to seem in- quisitive as to why her collar was wide, but she, with her feminine in- tuition, knew just what worried him She explained that short-haired dogs of the better set wear wide collars Long-haired canines find round ones more beneficial to their coats. Pups took a look at the blankets, too. Being a rough-coated dog of the old “die hard” school, he doesn’t have an awful lot to do with them general- ly, but he did need a raincoat, and then a blanket coat is always a nice thing to wear when a dog has just had a bath. He found just what he wanted, a raincoat-blanket-coat com- bination, made of waterproof storm cloth. Bearing fashion dictates in mind, he picked out a very quiet plaid. It looked almost like a solid color. Just as he was leaving, the salesman showed him a blanket robe and coat | set. He could wear the coat and put | the blanket over his basket. It came in three colors. There was a solid green edged in buff, a black edged in red and a red one (which Pups pur- chased immediately) trimmed in black. After paying the unemploy- ment tax on his purchases he decided | that he’d better start walking for his hotel. Gripping his package Armly he still had a little of his Scotch thrift | left in his make-up! in his mouth, Pups left the store while *