Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1937, Page 22

B—10 Vacation May Be Over, But Its Impressions Pleasa{ltl y Linger On High Lights of a Holiday Keep Coming Be- tween the Woman’s Editor and Her Trusty Typewriter. BY BETSY CASWELL. ACATION Kaleidoscope— Morro Castle, glinting in of the rising sun— V pinky beige curve of the Malecon— the dawn, tipped rosy red by the rays The unutterably blue water of the Gulf Stream framed in the Slow passage into the harbor, between grim forts, with a sleeping city lying beneath tropic skies, bedecked<¢ with palm trees and a riot of flowers. The sudden malestrom of porters, eustoms, Spanish and all the hurly- « burly of disem- barkation, and therealizationofa foreign land— Living in the eool of marble floors, high ceil- ings and vine- shaded win- dows—— Little green liz- ards in the trees in the garden basking like jew- els in the noon- day warmth—— Stimulating swims in water so clear that the sand at the bottom looks deceptively near until one tries to stand on it, only to discover it is 12 or more feet deep—— Lazy hours on the beach reading Jetters from home about snowstorms ~—"“Gosh, I'm hot, let’s go in for an- other swim"— Driving about the clean, white streets, where the only unpleasant note is furnished by the poor, thin horses, cows and goats that seek their escanty nourishment from the grass and weeds along the pavements— Luncheons featuring marvelous hard srabs, boiled lobster pink, with black elaws, the meat in which is unexcelled in delicacy of texture and flavor, perved cold with green mayonnaise mixed with minced cucumber—— The American dime store that has everything in it but the kitchen stove (and maybe that), but whose sales- girls apparently have been selected for their looks; (try and get your man out of the place and youll know I'm tight)— The bewildering array of shops under the arcades that hold tempta- tion for tourists in the form of alli- gator leather pieces, French and Span- ish perfumes, baskets, hats, and so on— Twelve new baby bottles for that famous collection that has had me at my wits' end for the past year or 0— Seeing cigars made by hand in a great factory, where the rows and rows of busy workmen are entertained by & man sitting in a pulpit, who reads the daily papers to them while they roll the pungent leaves— Dancing under tall palms, beneath starry skies, in the cool of the coun- try; the beat of the Cuban music vestless and unceasing in the back- ground— Clawless Southern lobster, so big and firm that the meat may be cut in fillets, served deliciously cold with & sauce that the chef defied all my attempts to analyze— Betsy Caswell. The sudden, violent rains that descend without warning, as though the heavens were hurling tons of water at the ground— Click of the balls, in the middle of a swift jai a’lal game, where the in- | credible accuracy and grace of the players leave one open-mouthed with | astonishment— | An all-night contretemps with | Mamma, Papa and several junior fleas | brought home from said game, all of the insects being stimulated by the players’ activities to equal speed and | endurance— Watching the enormous number of cruise-tourists in the various night clubs and restaurants being herded in groups from one show spot to an- other by conductors who bawl their orders for moving on during lulls in the dance music— . Races in the warm blue afternoon, at the beautiful Jockey Club track, with the colored silks flashing in the sun as the horses round the curve into the home stretch—— Dreamy days, that begin late with breakfast out of doors surrounded by roses in full bloom, and end—also Iate—under sapphire skies and bril- liant stars— The complete relaxation that comes from having nothing special to do and all the time in the world to do it T Letters from home that indicate we are not even missed, thank good- ness—— The fear of looking at the scales after the first few days of over- eating— The final scramble to buy presents for those at home, put off, of course, until the very last moment—— The packing of all the extra things in trunks that were too full in the first place— The biting remarks about putting powerful cigars in with feminine silk underwear—— The farewell party that practically makes leaving out of the question— The doleful trip to the boat, the sad good-bys, the marvelous spray of gardenias to sweeten the moment, the discovery that all the details of de- parture, such as declarations, check- ing baggage, etc., have been over- looked, the hurry and scurry to right the wrong, and the frantic scrambling up the gangplank just as it is about to be cast off— The jewel-like beauty of two great cruise ships lying, fully lighted at anchor in the harbor— The majesty of Morro Castle in the beam of the searchlight— The farewell glimpse of the Male- con, studded with lamps, and curv- ing, apparently into infinity—— And the rush of waves as the boat rounds the great fort, and feels the swell of the open sea beneath her northern-pointed bow. The Dog’s Bath Proper and Improper Methods of Wash- ing an Annoyed Canine. BY MARY ALLEN HOOD. HERE are proper and improper ways of shampooing a canine. If the right procedure is fol- Jowed, Pups is more comfort- able, and it would be safer to say that he hates it less rather than he likes it better. To his mind, water exists for the sole purpose of drinking It belong to the region of the in- terior. Item 1 is to bring the bath to the dog, not the dog to the bath. Bingo and Pups are definitely against being placed bodily in & tub of water. There's something about it that they dislike. Maybe it’s the suddenness of the situation. The best plan seems %o be to deposit Pups in the tub, then turn on the water. It's tust as wet, but it gives him time to become recon- ciled. Dogs don’t like cold showers. Hot water has no appeal. If Pups must bathe he wants it warm. The first thing to do is wet the dog. A thor- ough soaping should follow, head last and eyes excluded, Pups must not be mistaken for a pile of shirts or the dinner dishes place in his life. Although his com- plexion is seldom seen, it's there. It oalls for soft soap. Even a Great Dane has a right to bathe with castile. Another tender point is the inner portion of a dog's ears. Water doesn’t belong. All soap must be rinsed out as soon Laundry soap has no | ( A ( l" it has done its work. Pups wants | nothing to do with cold water in the ‘proccss. He's right. It chills him, | delays drying and makes the soap | harder to get out. Warm water is the | thing all through the shampoo, then |a wringing out. That doesn't mean |a laundry wringer. Water can be | pressed out of his coat by running one’s hand over his anatomy. A good { rub with a towel makes him feel more | doggy, also makes shaking safe for | those nearby. It's after the bath that things happen to dogs of the best family. For an hour or 50 he's an open target for a cold. Baths remove dandruff, | dead hair and traces of Pups’ travels. Much skin oil and heat is lost in the process. A member of the human species can dry quickly. Dogs can't! They have a covering of hair. Pups’ personal heating system isn't up to generating heat as fast as his damp coat can take it off. Such being the case, he must be in a warm climate for a couple of hours afterwards. Keep him out of drafts. Floors are full of breezes. Give Pups the best chair | afterward and he’ll forgive all con- cerned. Carrots in Salads. Grated carrots combined with cel- ery and peas and served on lettuce with salad dressing make a refresh- ing Spring salad. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Using Magic on the Easter Bunny If the traditional rabbit won’t s wand, and bring him out i of a hat! being disappointed tomorrow morning! Dorothy Dix Says Long Engagements Are Dangerous, for They Give Love a Chance to Cool. EAR DOROTHY DIX: Iam | a young man 23 years old | and have been going with a girl for about a year and a | half. I have told her that I love her, but I cannot afford to marry for at least three years. I am wondering if my love will last that long. I am afraid that she will become a habit and that I will be s0 used to her that I may marry her without loving her as I should. Is this likely to happen? Am I wrong or foolish in being so doubtful of my feelings? BOB. Answer—I do mnot think & man can be too careful in analyzing his feel- ings about a woman before marrying her and being sure that what he feels for her is really a grand passion in- stead of just a passing fancy. Mar- riage lasts & long, long time and it | seems longer if you get the wrong woman for a wife. ‘Whether your love for this partic- ular girl will last three years, or through all eternity, I cannot pos- sibly tell. Evidently you have mis- givings on the subject yourself. This shows both prudence and wisdom on your part, for none of us know what we are going to want three years hence, nor how any person or thing 15 going to look to us or appeal to us then. ‘We change. Our tastes alter. Our point of view is different. We out- grow people 50 that those whom we once thought alluring we later find commonplace. Those we esteemed brilliant and witty seem dull and stupid to us. Those we regarded as the glass of fashion and the mold of form we look upon as models of bad taste. * ok x * ’I‘Hls is what makes long engage- ments or even the pernicious custom of young people “going steady” with each other to the exclusion of other girls and boys such a bad thing for both parties. It often forces them into marriages for which they have lost all desire because the man feels that he is in honor bound to marry & woman after he has blocked her chances of mayyring any other man, and the girl feels that she has to marry the man whom she has ceased to love and submit to the humiliation of being an unwanted wife because he is her last call to the dining car. Of course, no man can keep up a high-pressure love-making for three years. Romance is bound to get frazzled out by being dragged through the dust of everyday living for that long, but worse things can happen to & man than marrying the girl who has become a habit with him. That means that he must find her congenial, interesting and compan- ionable, or he would have dropped her. There may not be many thrills in such a marriage, but it is as com- fortable as an old shoe. The happiest marriages are those in which husbands and wives have become & habit to each other. They have adjusted themselves so completely to each other that they have no life apart. Each is necessary to complete the other's pleasure in anything. They even love each other’s faults. Ma would rather rub Pa's rheumatism than dance with the handsomest gigolo in the world. Pa thinks Ma's cooking better than that of the most famous chef. But if you have any doubts about your love for this girl lasting three years and whether she will be as glamorous to you then as she is now, why not keep yourself free to pick out the kind of a wife you want when you want her and are able to marry EAR MISS DIX—At what age is a girl considered an old maid and | | at what age is & man considered an old bachelor? THREE OLD MAIDS. Answer: obsolete. Men and women are spoken of as young or old, but they are not put into any particular class because they are not married. The nearest definition that I can give is to say that & woman is an old maid when she gives up hope of marrying, and a man is an old bachelor when he determines not to marry, and these states of mind may be arrived at at any age. * % * % DEAR MISS DIX—Is it better to marry a good-natured, slovenly wife than a neat, cross one? Answer: Give me the good-natured sloven every time in preference to the acid-tempered neat-as-a-pin one. You can always live in a hotel or board, but can’t get away from a vixen. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1937.) ‘The number of places that need | several hundred miles These terms are virtually | how up of his own accord, then wave a This young man is taking no chances on —Photo by F. C. Wilkinson, Star Staff. Mourning Customs For Men BY EMILY POST. EAR MRS. POST: I have only just returned from my mother’s funeral to my business in a big city from where mother lived for many years, and where I was brought up during the earlier years of my life. Mother had visited me here but was never known personally by many of my friends. I know that usual mourning customs do not apply during business hours, but outside of business will people expect me to show any special signs of mourning? Answer—Very few men obey mourn- ing conventions further than putting black bands on their left sleeves. If I were you I would not go to any big formal parties or balls, or frequent night clubs, for six months. But many less conservative people con- sider only half that long adequate and I would suggest that you be governed by your own feeling and by the attitude of others whose respect you value— remembering of course that your be- havior reflects in turn upon your own respect for your mother. In any case, however, no one would expect you not to go to the houses of your friends informally. doilies of this shape is endless. First of all, we had in mind your bread tray for the smallest doily (6% by 9 inches). And then there’s that end table, on which a round doily never looks well; either of these larger ones (13!, by 832 and 16 by 1012) would be just right. Or, use the large and two of the small ones to make a buffet set to match your bread tray doily. cover for the bedside table. For your bed room you can have a vanity set and The pattern envelope contains complete, easy-to-understand illustrated directions, with three block and space diagrams to aid you; also what crochet hook and what material and how much vou will need. To obtain this pattern send for No. 447 and inclose 15 cents in stamps her? Wedding cake is best when eaten fresh. & or coin to cover service and postage. Editor of The Evening Star. Address orders to the Needlework SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1937. My Neighbor Says: Lemon juice may be mixed with cream cheese which is used as & stuffing for green peppers. Store unused silver spoons in glass jars and they will remain bright and untarnished. House paint often peels when paint is applied on wet woodwork. If wood is dry when painted and afterward is wet from the back, paint may peel off. Distinguish between paint that comes off in small chips and that which comes off in long strips. The for- mer may be due to inferior paint, the latter indicates that the paint was good but the foundation poor. (Copyright. 1937.) Healthy Child Will Not Whine But Should He Start After an Illness It Is Fault of Parents. BY ANGELO PATRI F YOU have a child who is forever whining about this and that, he is either too hot or too cold, too feeble to work, afraid of the wind and shun- ning the sunshine, take time to think over his ways. How did he get that way? Why isn't he happy-go-lucky, ready for anything, like the husky youngster down the road? “Oh, he had so many childish ill- nesses. First, he had whooping cough, and he nearly died of it; then he had measles, and just as he was getting over them he got the chicken pox, and then he had to have his tonsils out—always something. We just had to watch every movement he made. Such a delicate child.” That was truly unfortunate, but did you try always to keep him thinking | away from his troubles tcward some- thing brighter and healthier? Did you keep him thinking about how fine it was going to be for him to be well and strong and out playing with the other boys? Or did you keep saying: “Now, remember, your stomach can't stand too much. Don't eat that ap- ple. Don't eat that extra potato. No, no, wait until I fix that banana for you to eat.” Did you say, “No, you'd better not go out to play with those children. They're very rough, and you've been sick such a lot that you can’t do so much. Better lie down on the couch, and T'll read to you” Did you say, “It's too bad, but I can’t let you go to Aunt Lily for the holidays. You wouldn’t get your cereal cooked the way I cook it. And Aunt Lily doesn't know how to measure your spinach. You have to be so careful about your food, you know. You don't want to be sick.” That treatment centers the child’s | mind upon himself. What he eats, what he does, what other people do for him are of the first importance. The life of the household and that of the community, as far as it can be controlled, moves about him. His feet must be kept dry, his smml‘ch‘ must be coddled, his temperature must be considered before anybody or any- thing else. The result is that we have an unhappy, whining, selfish child. No fault of his, but certainly the fault of those who kept calling his atten- tion to his deficiencies, to his weak- nesses and overlooking his strength and his hope completely. When a child is ill, he must have attention and care. But there is a way to give that care and attention without making him feel permanently helpless. We can keep holding out the promise of health, play, fun, hearty iiving even as we administer the med- icine that is going to help him ar- rive at the promised place. We can | keep encouraging him to do what he | can as well as he is able even while he is incapacitated for doing many | things. We can keep him hoping. If we hold out perfect health to the ailing child, as a reward for effort made toward it, if we keep showing | him how to get the better of his| condition, keep him struggling to get | out of it, instead of fastening it | upon him, we will do more for him than we do when we accent his weak- nesses and his temporary needs. We | need not cultivate invalidism. (Copyright, 1937.) Cook’s Corner BY MRS. ALEXANDER GEORGE. DINNER SERVING THREE OR FOUR. Veal Cutlet and Pineapple Buttered Potatoes Mashed Turnips Bread Plum Jam Head Lettuce French Dressing Pear Sauce Caramel Cake Coffee VEAL CUTLET AND PINEAPPLE. 1 pound veal 1 tablespoon cutlet butter V4 cup flour 2 tablespoons 4 tablespoons fat brown sugar or suet 12 cup boiling 1% cup crushed water pineapple Have the cutlet cut about half an inch thick. Sprinkle well with flour and brown quickly in the fat which has been melted in a frying pan. Carefully spread with the pineapple, | butter and sugar. Cover and cook 15 | minutes over a moderate fire. Add | the water and cook slowly about 30 | minutes or until the veal is very | tender when tested with a fork. FRENCH DRESSING. 1 teaspoon salt V¢ teaspoon dry 1teaspoon paprika mustard 1 teaspoon celery 2 teaspoons seed sugar 1 teaspoon onion 3 cup vinegar Juice 345 cup salad oil Mix the ingredients in a small bowl or bottle. Chill. CARAMEL CAKE. (With Mashed Potatoes.) 1, cup butter Y4 teaspoon salt 1% cups dark 1 teaspoon brown sugar vanilla 4 egg yolks 1 cup mashed 1 cup milk potatoes (warm) 2 teaspoons 2 teaspoons baking cinnamon powder | 1 Leaspoon cloves 2 cups flour 15 teaspoon 4 egg white, beaten nutmeg Y2 cup nuts Cream the butter and sugar. Add the yolks and beat 2 minutes. Add the milk, spices, salt, vanilla and potatoes. Beat 2 minutes. Add rest of the ingredients and mix lightly. Pour into a loaf pan and bake 45 minutes in a moderately slow oven. (The cake may be covered with white or caramel frosting. It will also re- main moist as long as a week if prop- erly stored.) Il | nightgown model is in the romantic Pros and Cons of Lacing Occupied Many Pages In Women’s Magazines In the 1800s the Question Was a Burning One Among Both Men and Women. Editor's note: This is the last of @ series of three articles om the Mistory of the corset that has been appearing on this page. BY GAEL RENFREW. [ waists” . . . writes & gallant of 186’ 7. P TWENTIETH century gentlemen prefer blonds, the males of the 1860s certainly wanted their women with hour-glass shapes. much interested by reading the correspondence on the subject of alender “I have been “Now, there can be no doubt that gentlemen admire those figures most which have attained the greatest slenderness (and) really small waist.” felt qualified to express himself on | the subject, for & valid enough reason. | His sisters had not been allowed to | tight lace when young, and their large, clumsy figures were alike a | source of chagrin to themselves and | exasperation to their brother. He sup- ports his argument with the observa- tion, “Doctors seem to think that the dangers of tight lacing have been | much exaggerated, and as I know many ladies with very slender waists enjoy quite as good health as their more strongly built sisters I would urge upon all who wish to have good figures not to be deterred by alarm- ists from endeavoring gradually to attain an elegant shape.” Another gentleman offered the sage | counsel that (the corset) “has been in use for seven or eight hundred | years, and now that its form and con- | struction have been so much modi- fled and improved there need no longer be an outcry against it. In- deed, outcry has for centuries failed to affect it, though other articles of dress have become in their turn obso- lete—a clear proof that there is something more than mere authority of fashion if its hold upon the fair sex.” “A young baronet” puts in his plea | that “ladies who possess that most | elegant attraction, a small walist, | should not hide it completely by shawls or loose paletots when in the promenade or on the street.” * ox ok x ‘HE other side of the case may be | considered as summed up by! Henry Southgate's diatribe against | stays and corsets. In 1877 he pub- | lished in Edinburgh a large volume of “Things a Lady Would Like to | Know"—a compendium of miscellan- | eous information from cosmetic re- | cipes to hints on deportment and | condition in life. “Of all wicked | things,” he declares, “that of wearing too tight corsets is the most wicked. * * * These instruments of mischief wither in the complexion the fresh- ness of health and substitute for it the sallowness of disease. * * * They dapple the cheek with unsightly | blotches, blear the eyes, destroy the | teeth * * * and tip the nose witn | cranberry red!” Like all gratuitous advice, that of- fered sincerely enough by Mr. South- gate was ignored. Indeed, to insure tighter lacing the French had intro- duced a corset in three sections, lacing down both sides as well as in the back. Times was not at a premium in these Nature without assistance from art seldom produces a This gentlemand days and it was the custom of ladies to do their lacing, or have it done for them, in several stretches. They ook little rests in between, having s maid pull the laces still tighter or doing this for themselves. In the latfer half of the nineteenth century the British corset trade reached a million pounds sterling and accounted for more than half the world’s supply of whalebone, as well as large quantities of oxhorn, ebonite, gutta percha and similar queer-sound- ing stuffs. No less than 36,000,000 yards of material went into the mak- ing of corsets. Even the brass for the eyelet holes was no small item, and | the silk laces could have been meas- ured in miles * ok ok % ‘AN internationally famous name was that of “Thompson & Co. of New York, makers of the glove-fitting corset.” As early as 1867 they adver« tised conspicuously in Harper's Ba= zaar. Their immense manufactories in England, America and on the cone tinent turned out “incredible nume bers” of these garments. Sixteen to 23 inches was the popular range of sizes—a marked contrast to today's standard. It was about 1922 that corsets sufe fered their first fall from favor in untold centuries. The arbiters of fashion, affected by the general mania for change, decided to set up a new standard for the female figure. Those of us who lived through hip-line waists and knee-length skirts still shudder at the memory. The vogue wore itself out in about 10 years, but even that was too long. The banishment of the awful boyish form was the occasion for general rejoicing. Yet women had to be wary of wel coming the return of the prodigal— figure—too warmly. After a decade of sloppiness there could not be too great a demand for constriction at first. Each succeeding season, how- ever, has seen today's net and elastic foundations fitting tighter and the dictum for Spring, 1937, is a decidedly more nipped-in appearance around the waist. The flapper figure has “gone with the wind” that blew away the last traces of post-war fever. Emphasize ing slender curving grace, but not in- sisting on any 13-inch standard of measurement, the present mode seems to have achieved that most desirable of all objectives—a balance between two extremes. Pretty Underthings Lovely New Nightgown and Slip Fash- ioned on Empire Lines. BY BARBARA BE"T, i T ISN'T really Spring until you've seen the first robin and decided to rejuvenate yourself from the inside out by making a new night- gown and slip for yourself. Today’s spirit so decidedly stressed this sea- son, with its first empire lines at the square, beribboned neck and slim, high waistline. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1265-B is | designed for sizes 14, 16, 18, 20; 40, 42 and 44. Corresponding bust meas- urements 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44. Size 14 (32) requires 3% yards 35-inch material plus 3% yards ribbon for trimming. Pattern No. 1988-B is de- signed for sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 2 and 46. Size 34 requires 3! yards 35-inch fabric. BARBARA BELL, Barbara Bell Pattern Service, ‘The Washington Star. Inclose 25 cents in coins for each pattern. Pattern No. 1265-B. Sisze Pattern No. 1988-B. Size Address (Wrap coing securely in paper).