Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1936, Page 34

B—12 WOMEN’ S FEATURES. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D, C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1936. WOMEN’S FEATURES. Remember the Days When Oranges Ranked High on the List of Gifts? Dress Has Novel Jabot . Feminine Touch Lends Charm and Ap- peal to Smart Frock. L Presence of OlderWomat Comforting Teach Children to, Love and Cherish Grandmother. BY ANGELO PATRI. THE home that has no loving grand- mother misses one of the best experiences of family life. Every fam- ily needs a grandmother. It takes a long, long time and a “lot of living” to take life eastly enough to soften its bumps, to keep & sense of proportion in relation to its happenings. Even middle age does not always bring ripeness of body and spirit that mean tolerance and acceptance as well as sturdy resistance. Grandmothers us- ually have that power of understand- ing that sorts out essentials, disregards unessentials and laughs at the sur- prising developments of the daily round. Grandmothers have reared one set of children, and they know now that many things that excited them might well have been taken calmly. Mary outgrew her period of imaginative lying. Thomas grew out of his lazi- ness and took or consistent activity when the time came. The children stopped quarreling and helped each| other by and by. They survived ill- ness, naughtiness, temptation and danger. What one generation did another can do better, is usually what grandmother thinks as she watches the children repeat the struggles for growth their parents made before them, Grandmother’s presence in the house s in itself a stabilizing influence. She is at hand in emergencies. It is she who finds the bandage; she who says, “There, now, it is all over. You're all right.” It is she who maintains the balance when there is a family upset by maintaining a calm and telling silence. It is grandmother who has time to listen to the troubles and the triumphs of school life and who puts in a sage word of caution or encour- agement at the right time. ‘Mother is not always able to carry the burden of the family routine. There are times when she is tired, or sick, or worried into confusion by the warring youngsters. Nobody except grandmother can slip into the situa- tion and take hold while mother gets a little relief. She can stand between the warring factions, bring order out of the mixture of feelings, actions and genuine characteristics. She knows where Jimmie got his sharp tongue, Dollie her slack ways; and because of that knowledge she has assurance and power. She can manage when nobody else can. She can take over the fam- ily because she has had a lifetime experience with them, and always because she loves them. Only grandmother knows how she foves each member of the family from ‘the oldest to the last new baby. The days bring understanding and with it deepening affection. Grandmother never holds a child’s behavior against hig, but forgives him before he knows | he needs iforgiveness. That is why her room is a shrine, her smile a bene- diction and her approval a jeweled order of merit. Cherish the grandmother in your house. Let the children know and love her. She cannot stay with them long, and they are going to need the memory of her love and wisdom all the days of their lives. (Copyright, 1836.) —_— Flower Fancies. A general rule, which has many ex- eeptions, is that the dainty and fragile flowers look best with flimsy and deli- Lingerie! £ her on Christmas morn. cate gowns, while the more sturdy flowers look best with the tailored | outfit and sports wear. BY MARGARET WARNER. HAT a sea of lingerie there is at Christmas time, and never too much of it to please the feminine heart! Mountains of silk and billowy lace that still fill the counters are wait- ing to be packed in special boxes to make some one happy on Christ- mas. A slip, a dance set, a nightie and a score of other items that you will find can usually be squeezed out of a fast- shrinking budget. Even the handker- chief counter provides generously for last-minute remembrances that may have been overlooked earlier. Slips are wonderfully practical gifts and may suit any purse and any taste. For the business girl who wears a lot of tailored clothes the well-cut tailored slip of satin or crepe is the best choice. The college girl was probably well sup- plied with the practical kind of slip before she left home in the Fall and would now enjoy something more fancy and lace-trimmed. Give her a lace-trimmed petti-skirt to wear with low-cut evening dresses, and dance sets in satin are adorable. Shopping in Washington | |Presen Last Call for Gifts—Let’s Make Them No Ore Has Enough. In her holly-berry red velvet robe she is already hoping to see alarge supply of lingerie floating about Sketehed in Washington Shops. \ SAT!N pajamas come in this group also. There is a darling set that we saw in robin’s-egg blue that com- bines both the tailored and frilly ideas in a pleasing way. It has a shirt- waist collar and closing band of satin with a bosom front of lace, edged with insertion, and the small puff sleeves are gathered into bands of. insertion. Any girl would love it. Another pale blue satin is a Princess gown with lace-trimmed V-neck and shoulder yoke and puff sleeves made entirely of lace. It fits beautifully and is most flattering. Lovely enough for a bride’s trousseau is a crea white satin Princess model with a wide hand of lace across the top which continues over the shoulders like an evening decollette. Two lace shoulder straps hold it in place. Also in the luxury class is the white chiffon with small velvet brocaded flowers. The simply made gown has a matching jacket that ties at the neck. This sophisticated ensemble also comes in powder blue. A cute little pair of pajamas comes in tea rose satin with tiny white stars sprinkled over the surface. The round yoke is outlined in white cording. A good gift for $3. A thick-and-thin striped black chiffon chemise makes & snappy gift for the person who is fond of black evening clothes. Then there is a whole regiment of interest- ing bras, many of which would make inexpensive and acceptable gifts, espe- clally those backless types designed for evening use, with various uplift features, * x % % LACEY wool bed jacket made of sheer zephyr is fine for reading in bed. In pastel colors, at $1.95, it is not a luxury, yet will give an im- mense amount of comfort. More ideas for solid comfort are those balbriggan pajamas at $1 that are so cozy and warm. They come in adorable colors and are among the particular bedtime preferences of the girls attending Northern schools and colleges. They are easily laundered, as there is no ironing required; just swish them around, rinse and squeeze out the water, and hang them on the radiator to dry! They also come in & slip-stitch knitted effect, if you prefer. Lingerie shops usually have s few other helpful suggestions scattered about. One of these is & mirror-cov- ered box for your facial tissues. They have-an expensive look, but are only $1. Two or three pairs of hoslery at- tractively boxed makes one of the nicest gifts, even if it isn't terribly different. Supersheers, chiffons and service weight, besides at least three price levels, make hose selection a very personal matter. Stretchy lastex , that prevent garter runs, are t Abundance and General Use of Fruit Have Lessened Glamour {The Christmas Stocking Was Never Com- plete Without a Golden’ Globe in Its Toe. BY BETSY D true “Golden apples of the nectar of the gods. some one came into my office saying “How good and Christmasy it smells in here,” I knew exactly why—I had Just peeled a tan- gerine for my luncH! We never dresmed, on those special mornings when we were allowed the great priv- ilege of half an orange for break- fast, that before many years had passed oranges would become as commonplace and ; plentiful as they gy, coywell. are now. In mem- ory of the dear departed days when the orange was high on our list of gifts, it seems fitting to quote for you the following release from the Bureau of Home Economics of the United States Department of Agriculture: “In Riverside, Calif, there is a bronze tablet by an interesting old orange tree, which tells part of the story of the orange abundance of the present. The tree is one of the two ‘parent’ Washington navel orange trees from which have descended most of the trees in the navel orange orchards of the Southwest. These experimental trees were sent to a Mrs. Tibbets, in Riverside, in 1873, by the United States Department of Agricul- ture. When they fruited, in 1878, a new era in California’s economic his- tory began. (People visiting the Na- tion's Capital can see a sister tree of the Riverside Washington orange trees in the greenhouse of the depart- ment.) 3 *xx 'THBE trees were propagated by the department from stock sent from Bahia, Brazl, a few years earlier. They were tried in various orange- growing sections of the country. In Florida the variety failed to develop well. But in California it was found to be so much superior to any previ- ously grown types that it was soon adopted for commercial culture. “The growing of Valencia oranges in California was a later and compara- | tively recent development. It supple- ments the Washington navel crop to make a continuous year-around supply of oranges from this State. This year about 15 million 70-pound boxes of oranges (exclusive of Valencias) will be harvested in California, and most of these will be of the Washington navel variety, all propagated from the two famous Riverside trees in about 60 years. California produces more Valencia-type oranges than navels, but they come on the market later in the year, and production figures for 1937 are not yet available. Last sea- son there were more than 18,000,000 boxes of Valencias grown in Cali- fornia. “Meantime, orange growing has been flourishing in Florida since the 60s, when the railroads entered into the commercial development of the indus- try, as they did some years later in California. Although oranges were planted by the Spaniards three cen- turies ago in the St. Augustine area, they remained a door-yard fruit as long as the only way of transporting them was by river boats. We shall have more oranges from Florida this season than last—21,000,000 boxes, as compared with 18,000,000 in the 1935- 36 season. They will be packed 90 pounds to the box. The Parson Brown variety came on the market in Octo- ber and November, and now we are * Dorothy CASWELL. O YOU remember the Christmas oranges ot. your youth? In those days the finding of one in the toe of your stocking on Christmas morning was & real treat, for then we looked upon oranges as the Hesperides” and orange juice as the ‘The smell of the thick peel is perpetually associated with Christmas time— 80 much so that, the other day, when | getting the midseason variety, the Pineapple, which continues until about the middle of March. The Valencia is | the late Florida orange, in season from early March through May. About the |t1me its season is over, the California 1Vlhnchl come on the market. | * X * x | "’I‘IXAB also will market more than 1,400,000 boxes this year of the | 90-pound size. Arizona grows oranges, too, and Alabama and Mississippi have | the hardy Satsuma type in the Fall, all adding to the grand total produced. So we are assured of our oranges one way and another throughout the year, and at prices most of us consider moderate in relation to the rest of the budget. “In addition to the nutritionists who have acquainted people with the great value of oranges in the diet and the plant scientists who introduced the popular Washington navel variety, the United States Department of Agricul- ture has other workers who have played a part in the tremendous growth of the orange industry. Plant sctentists have studied the diseases of orange trees and fruit. They have helped perfect refrigeration in transit and methods of handling oranges at the orchards. Entomologists have studied the control of insect pests of citrus fruit. Market specialists have encouraged sorting and grading fruit for quality and size. The Weather Bureau furnishes growers with special frost warnings to enable them to safe- guard their fruit in the groves with heaters. “Chemists have given attention to by-products which might be salvaged from low-grade but wholesome fruit— for example, the marmalades, pectin, cordials and wines. They have studied problems incidental to the canned orange juice industry, working to- ward improvement of flavor, color and keeping quality. * * ¥ ¥ "WHEN the housewife goes to buy oranges she has her choice of smaller or larger ones, running from 126 to 216 to the box. Those that pack 176 to 200 to the box are good family sizes, but sometimes the small, thin- skinned oranges contain plenty of Jjuice and are good bargains. Oranges sold in colored net bags are usually marked as to size by the box designa- tions, as 150s or 216s, or the number of fruit in the bag is given. “The best quality oranges are firm, heavy with juice and have a fine-tex- tured skin Yor the variety. Florida and Texas oranges are sometimes russet in color. This does not affect the flavor, nor do surface blemishes like slight scars or scratches. Soft, wet spots mean decay, which cannot be cut away as in some fruits. Puffy, spongy, light-weight round oranges should be avoided, as they are likely to be deficient in juice and flavor. The kid-glove types, however, like tange- rines, Satsumas, King and mandarin a loose, puffy skin, but the juciest ones will be fairly heavy for their size. “One often sees the words color added stamped on an orange. This means that the orange has gone through a dye bath to give it more orange color., When this trade prac- tice is applied to fully mature oranges of varieties that may not be as highly colored as people seem to demand, it is permissible, for the present. The dye is harmless, but the customer has a right to know what she is buy- ing. Another permissible treatment for oranges is by ethylene gas, which reveals the natural yellow color of ripe fruit.” Dix Says Changing Conditions Have Brought Equal Changes GROUP of eminent sociologists are trying to find out what is causing the breaking up of family life as it used to exist. They say that the old-fashioned home, in which devoted parents and dutiful children, loving brothers and sisters formed & close-knit family circle is as extinct as the dodo. That if you could find & home in which the father and mother and children gathered about the lamp to spend & happy evening to- gether you could sell it to any museum for a curiosity. And they want to know why this is thus. Many explanations may be offered for the decline and fall-off of home life. Onme is that a home feeling has necessarily to be built about one's abiding place, and when we gave up Hiving permanently in houses and be- gan migrating from flat to flat we broke the tie that bound us to any one spot. You can't form any deep attachment for & place that you leave before you ever really get its street number fixed in your memory. Nor can you sing “There Is No Place Like Home” about a cubicle that is an exact in Family Life. and become a little bent and lopsided, but it hasn’t been broken. Blood is still thicker than water. Brothers and sisters have stood shoulder to shoul- der during the depression and divided their last penny with each other. Boys and girls who call their parents “the old man” and “the old woman,” and flout their authority and mock their opinions, sacrifice their desires for love and marriage and homes of their own in order to support their fathers and mothers. * x x % AND parents never turn a deaf ear to their children’s cry for help. No matter how small their house, it is always big enough to take in the homeless. No matter how thin their purse, there is always something in it to divide with the needy. No mat- ter how bent the back, it can always take on the burden of the son or daughter in trouble. And so the eter- nal family tie still holds, no matter how widely a family scatters. Furthermore, we musf, remember be- fore we get out the tear jug that, while family life can be the most beautiful thing in the world, it can also be the most hideous and cruel. There were homes that were prisons and in which every joy and hope and ambition was crushed out of the 89| inmates. There were parents who were grinding tyrants and who ruined the lives of their children by forcing g i ] Ef?!fiifiz ‘Egfiss < oranges, are exceptions in respect to| ! BY BARBARA BELL. | OR the woman in size range 34 | to 44 this daytime frock has| definite distinction in the stand-up collar and dainty rufled jabot that is sewn in like a vestee. The sleeves use a flattering cut, fastening close at the wrist and left open above the buttons to fall gracefully with a suggestion of kimono sleeve. Two pleats front and back give easy walking room. Manners 1953-B A striped cloth such as a p!n-, stripe, can be used with great success | by alternating the direction of the | stripes in accordance with directions given on the pattern. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1955-B l&‘ available for sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44. Size 40 requires just 5 yards 35-inch fabric, plus contrasting for jabot #; yard. Every Barbara Bell pattern includes an illustrated instruction guide which is easy to understand. 8end 15 cents for the Barbara Bell Pattern Book. Make yourself attrac- tive, practical and becoming clothes, selecting designs from the Barbara Bell well-planned, easy-to-make pat- terns. Interesting and exclusive fash- ions for little children and the difficult junior age; slenderizing well-cut pat- terns for the mature figure, after- noon dresses for the most particular young women and matrons and other Laughing out loud over a book is a sure way to create enemies. SOME people seem fo think it's cute to laugh out loud when they read something funny in a book. Maybe they think it will make people see that they appreciate literatvre, But maybe they think wrong. ‘What it really does is to put every one else in their vicinity into a pother. No one likes to be left out on a joke. And if the reader doesn't leave them out, and reads the item out loud, it won't be funny, so every one’s in & pother anyhow. Whether this book cackler is a stranger in a bus, or a member of your own family, there’s only one way to cope with her. That is to outcackle her. As soon as she begins to chuckle, you begin to chuckle. Give your laugh a good crescendo. Give it everything you've got. Pretty soon she’ll look up, a little annoyed, wondering what you can find that's so funny. If she happens to think that it might be herself, you're all right. She'll go back to her book with an offended air—but in silence. If she doesn't happen to think that way, you're sunk. You might just as weil go out and buy a book yourself, (Copyright, 1036.) ~ New Center Market S5th St. N.W. K to L Streets [J Everything for Your Xmas Table [ ] Open Xmas Eve Until 9 P.M. Closed X:mas Day Sat. Open Until 6 P.M. patterns for spacial occasions are all to be found in the Barbara Bell Pat- tern Book. BARBARA BELL, Washington Star. Inclose 25 cents in coins for Pattern No. 1955-B. Size. Name ... UL RN ———— (Wrap coins securely in paper.) (Copyright, 1936,) Paper Lamp Shades. Som> paper lamp shades may be washed. Quickly scrub the shade with a stiff brush which is frequently dipped in warm, soapy water. Then rinse it well with clear water and wipe | it dry with a soft cloth. The shade should not be touched afterward until Beauty for Eyes, Brows And Lashes Few ItemsWhich May Be Placed on Gift List. BY ELSIE PIERCE. ERHAPS it is a way for the most charming man in the world to tell the loveliest lady that she has the most beautiful eyes. It is in order, particularly if the man happens to be the lady’s husband, or brother, or dad. But, furthermore, why must it be a man at all, why can’t it be your own gift to yourself or to your sister or mother. If our eyes are our most potent feas ture pictorially speaking, then cer- tainly beauty aids that flatter the eyes should be among the most welcome cosmetics. The famous little curler that looks like a scissors and makes luscious arcs of lashes is a flatterer, indeed. Re- member that the eye frame (meaning its brows and lashes) are very impor- tant in picturing the eyes at their best. An eye shadow, an unusual new tone, perhaps gold or silver in it, and a little eye brush to paint the shadow on subtly, smoothly, is another way to enhance the beauty of the eyes. Many women prefer to save the shadow for evening wear only, but this is the sea« son of evening parties and what with Christmas and New Year in the offing such a gift is very timely. There's a liquid lash tint that doesn't flake off. It's waterproof and comes in a modern bottle that makes & nice note for the dressing table. Then there's the mascara compact with a convenient little sponge that stays moist. A tweezer isn't entirely on the ro- mantic side, but then it does help to keep the eyes gromed. and how can eyes look their loveliest under shaggy brows? She who would invite eye flattery must give her eyes infinite care. We'll pass over the necessity of sufficient sleep. We'll take that for granted. And we all know, don't we, that eyes should be treated gently, that they should not be abused or strained. I hope we all have in our medicine chest good eye bath or eye wash, I don't see how any woman can live through a windy Winter without one. Eye cup or dropper—it doesn't matter which you use; but do use an eye wash every time a particle gets into the eyes. It's really a much more effi- cient way to float out the unwelcome visitor than attempting to rub it out. Rubbing will only cause inflammation. (Copyright, 1936.) “Sweeten it with Domino’ Refined in USA. for zestful cocktail canapes for the perfect last course Guaranteed genuine by the Red Sheep it is perfectly dry if it is to retain its shape. stCoLDS ...Yield quicker to the 4 Poultice-Vapor action of I, <\ Z VAPORUS PROVED BY GENERATIONS 2 FOR PARTIES....PUTS A NEW TASTE THRILL IN SANDWICHES AND CANAPES.. oo+ ADDS TANG EE’S LOUS (VESNTH DURK elid M MAKE IT 8 erner The home-like atmos- phere of a real Christ= mas dinner is not complete without cranberry sauce. Eatmor Cranberries