Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1937, Page 32

B—12 WOMEN’S FEATURES. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1937. WOMEN’'S- FEATURES. — Cast Sales Resistance to the Winds When Marketing for Leafy Greens The Shirtwaist Frock Training Child to Be Useful HighI. Q. Not Always Indicative of Real Efficiency. BY ANGELO PATRI N OUR school we have opportu- nities for learning many things outside the books. We have many shops, many activities in which chil- dren experiment, feel themselves out. One of these activities is the office work of the school. Children are as- signed in pairs to the different offices to learn the routine of the work done there. Two little girls of the highest| 1. Q's was assigned to my office one | day. They serve 40 minutes daily for | some weeks. They take care of peo- | ple who come to the office, escort visi- | tors, attend to little details that keep | things moving smoothly. I noticed | that the little girls were very polite, very studious, anxious to do the right thing and afraid of making a mistake. There was a duster in a case in the cabinet, but they never touched | it. though the dust lay thick on their | table. Somebody had to show them | the duster and the dust. They sat in their chairs and studied, but they made no effort to do anything else of their own initiative. One morning a boy left a package. “What shall we do with this package, | Mr. Patri?” “What is it?" “We don't know."” “Better open it and see.” Silence for a moment while they studied the package, neatly wrapped and securely tied. It was clearly labeled with a publisher's name and carried a large red label that shouted “Books", “We'll have to have a pair of scis- | gors." Silence. “Mr. Patrl, do you know where we eould get a peir of scissors?” “Where would you think you might find them?” A long pause. “Maybe up on the top floor in the millinery room." “Not nearer?"” An embarrassed silence. “Suppose you pull out the drawer of your table.” “Oh, we didn't know there was a drawer. Oh, here they are. And lots of things we need, too.” These were bright children. They wanted to be useful. One said she thought she wanted to be a prl\'ald secretary to a business executive, and | the other thought she was going to be @ librarian. But neither of them had ever been trained to do the simple ordinary things of every day like opening a package of books. We trained them to be useful in the office. They learned to receive wvisitors, escort them to the room they wanted to visit and leave them there. They learned to take telephone calls and send them out. They began to take responsibility for what went on | within their range of duties I knew they had traveled far when one afternoon a boy came into the office with a couple of letters for me to read and sign. One of the little girls took the letters, looked at them, and then, with great severity, said to the waiting boy: “Where are the stamped and addressed envelopes for these? You forgot them? My boy, let your head save your heels here- Go and get them before we | offer these to the principal.” That | was a different child from the one | who said, “We need scissors.” Mr. Patri has prepared a leaflet | entitled “A Parent's Prayer,” which | Is an inspiring example for parents | to follow in bringing up children. It | is suitable for framing. Send for it, | addressing your request to Mr. An- gelo Patri, Child Psychology Depart- ment of this paper. Inclose a self- | Shopping in Washington Crisp Organdy, Frilly Chiffon, Lace and Tailored Tucks Give Blouses Variety. 1. White organdy with pin tucks and lace jabot. 2. A novel collar arrangement on powder blue | crepe. 3. Dainty pastel c ring. 4. Candy-striped sheer. 5. Shadow organdy with pleating. hiffon with lace and shir- Bketched in Washington shops. BY MARGARET WARNER. OW that every one has gone in for suits in such a big way, it only follows that a good sup- ply of blouses is the next in- | terest. Blouses for business and sports, | and blouses for afternoon, are as dif- ferent as the occasions for which they are worn. Candy stripes in vivid colors give a dash of pleasant gayety to cotton tai- | lored shirts and to more fllmy sheers with pleated jabots. Organdies are very popular either in plain textures with lace trim or the shadow prints which are so effective with plain- colored suits. The sheer blouse with lace-edged or finely tucked jabot is | one of the most effective ways of making a quick change from a morn- | ing into an aftetnoon ensemble. Checked sport blouses that button up the front like waistcoats, with notched collars, ascots and mannish pockets at the waistline, are smart. They come in combinations of black, white and red, and black, white and blue, with tricky buttons of the pre- dominating color. The blouse of crepe with tucked front panel looks neat | and trim with the tailored suit. It may have either a straight collar band that fastens in the back or standing collar with tabs in the front, | as the one shown in the sketch. This | blouse comes in a lovely delphinium blue crepe and in other colors. Of course the beige blouse is enjoying great popularity, as it is such an ex- cellent companion for most colors and addressed, stamped (3-cent) envelope. | (Copyright, 1937.) Tt is remarkabie how easy it is to make a delicate luncheon set in filet ‘erochet. This attractive design is made in knitting and crochet cotton so it smartest of all with black. White seems to be selling in greater | never fails to make an appeal to peo- ple who have ideas of their own. | volume than colors at the moment.: despite the wide range of beautiful | | pastel and bright shades. * ok ok % | THE white organdy blouse sketched ! at the upper left is a cunning | little affair, with its rows of val in- | sertion and pin tucks and the tab | ends at front that are not belted. In | the center is one of the loveliest of | the dainty petal pink chiffons with | lace insertion. Its upstanding neck white crepe blouse has a trimming of bands of cording outlining the V neck and through the widest part of the short puff sleeves. One shop has a group of blouses | that are softly tailored with narrow | in combination with tucks and a small | amount of hand detailing on white | silk crepe. often are equally interested in “false | | fronts” to wear when you are wearing vyour suit like a dress and do not ex- | pect to remove the jacket. These | “topettes” are very clever deceivers and make your friends think that you have an unlimited supply of blouses. | They come in tailored tucked vest fronts and softly draped affairs that | fasten with pearl clasps at the front. | A much more pretentious waistcoat is | made on regulation mannish lines, and is not only a complete garment, but is reversible as well. It is a bright pinky red satin lined with white, and even has pockets carefully tailored on its reverse side. This would make an | excellent contrast color with a suit of royal blue, or black. It also comes in black and white for more conservative wear. One shop is showing a lot of fig- ured linens and plain handkerchief linens in an array of colors with a display of skirts, jackets and sweaters, and suggests the many possibilities of mixing your own sports outfits, that * ok K X A ND speaking of skirts, first it was | “swing,” then it was “urbrella” | and now it is piles of pleats that will continue the outward movement at the lower edge. This all-around pleated silhouette, varying from knife to accordion pleating, is the result of the skirts that smart women wore in Palm Beach this Winter and is now finding its way further north- ward. We will be seeing these all-around pleats in flannels, linens, crepes and novelty cotton, many of them printed. Stripes are particularly effective in pleats, and plaid ginghams are also interesting. Smooth hiplines are achieved by vertical stitching, and there are built-up waistlines, with buttons in back, that are very new looking. Shirred hiplines are good in @ Home Economics Bureau Discusses Food Valuesi Mature ‘And How to Retaip Them! Possible to Detect Relative Quantity of Iron and Vitamin A Present by Color of Vegetable. BY BETSY YHAT early morning marketer CASWELL. can resist the vivid colors of the fresh vegetables displayed so temptingly at the stalls—often dewy from the last fine spray of water to keep them cool and unwilted? thrown upon them by the market man Indeed, this is one time when sales resistance should be thrown to the four winds, for every balanced diet demands that plenty of green leafy The Bureau of Home Economics Agriculture recommends that persons. should eat, at the minimum, one green or yellow vegetable a day—and they also insist that some of them be eaten raw. Val- uable vitamins and other im- portant elements may be found in these foods, and it is well to un- derstand how they are best ob- tained and pre- served. Here is what the bureau | has to say on the subject: “Greens have a secure place in the diet, both for esthetic and for health reasons. They are especially important as a source of minerals and vitamins. Most of them have a liberal amount of the two minerals most often slighted in American diets: calcium and iron. And vitamin A is usually present in abundance. Many of the greens are excellent sources also of vitamin C, good sources of vitamin B and good to excellent in vitamin G content, “The greener the leafy vegetable, the higher is its iron and vitamin A content. The more blanched the leaf the poorer it is in these two dietary essentials. Turnip tops for instance Betsy Caswell, |are much more nutritious than head lettuce. “When the average person hears the word greens he usually thinks first of spinach. And spinach is a good leafy vegetable. But scientists say greens are quite as good chard, dandelion’ greens, mustard greens, turnip tops and watercress are often richer than spinach both in cal- cium and in iron and quite as good for the vitamins, “‘So if Junior or his father have de- veloped an aversion for spinach there's no point to precipitating a family crisis over it. There are plenty of equally good greens to turn to * ok ¥ % “]N SHOPPING for any of the lealy vegetables, of course, you look for fresh, young, green, tender leaves. If leavex are very dirty, or are dry, or yellow, or have coarse seams, you'll look for a better buy. Such leaves probably will not be palatable or nu- tritious and will mean considerable waste. frill and shirred front fullness are |give the head a little hand pressure | > | 3 % particularly good details. A smart |to find how firm it is. And you'll look |and giving it a few minutes head |a comfort during warm weather that | for signs of tip-burn, the tell-tale brown edging the leaves, particularly in the innermost parts of the head. 2 7 fr | stalks into lengthwise quarters so that Summer events. r They Jould bave to be trimmed off |each one will have & tuft of the buds. | laundered cottons, linen or shantung, | and so mean waste. by unfavorable growing conditions and pipings of color used advantageously | M8y later become slimy areas—and | then, of course, you have decay and an unusable head. “Occasionally you'll buy a head out- When you think of blouses, you | Wardly in prime condition. But as you | prepare your leaves for a salad you find the midribs or even some of the rest of the leaf streaked with red- brown. These red-brown streakings even be cut out of the leaf unless they make the salad look too unattractive. “The red that develops on cut sur- faces of lettuce is something else again. If you cut a head across and put part of it back into the refriger- ator to serve later, don't be too dis- turbed on returning to it to find that the cut edges have developed this red- dish-brown color. Actually there's nothing harmful about it. The juice in lettuce has in it a latex—similar to Dorothy other | Beet tops, | ‘foods be added to the daily menus. of the United States Department of that in the milkweed. And the latex turns a brown-red when the air gets | at it. * ok % % N SHOPPING for broccoli, try to | discover if the stalks are tender and firm. See that the buds in the head are compact and that not more | than an occasional one has opened | enough to show the full yellow or pur- | Wilted or | ple color of the blossoms flabby stalks are wasteful and often tough. “As to serving your vegetables, many of them can be eaten raw as | And that goes for | well as cooked. spinach as well as for the dandelions | and cress. Whoever has never tasted | spinach in any form except cooked | might try its tender leaves served just | like lettuce or cress—with a good salad | dressing. “For the cooked greens many people like some of the nippy leaves mixed in with the milder ones—for instance field cress or dandelion or dock worked in | a delicious dish of cooked greens | “Though even the most careful | cooking results in some nutritive loss, | much of the minerals and vitamins | | may be conserved. Heat is an enemy both of color and of vitamin C; so greens should be subjected to it for as short a time as possible. And since some of the mineral salts are easily dissolved in the water, | leaves should be cooked in only enough | | water to prevent scorching. With | spinach, just the water that is left | |on the leaves after they are washed will be sufficient. * ox % X "PLAN'I‘ acids are among the worst enemies of the green coloring matter of the leaves. Heat frees those | | break it down into ugly brown com- | pounds. Some of the acids, howev moments of the cooking. is on the kettle the acids in the steam | Just collect on the lid and drop back | onto the leaves to attack the green | coloring matter. So, to keep the | leaves as green as possible, cook them .‘m an uncovered utensil | “To cut down on cooking time and | thus save more nutrients, it's a good | idea to snip off the stems of spinach and discard them if they're tough, or |if they're not, start them cooking <@ the | | with spinach. Sweet potato tops make | Women Benefit Especially From Its Simplicity of Line. Brushing Splendid Exercise 'Unexcelled Beauty | Treatment for Hair and Arms. BY ELSIE PIERCE. ERE'S something that you may have thought of yourself, and that may encourage you to brush your hair & full 100 strokes every night and again every morning. Lotte Leh= mann, tall, regal, Austrian soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Co., keeps the gloss in her lovely auburn hair by brushing it. She uses two brushes, | one in each hand, so as not to break | the rhythm and so as to stimulate | the scalp more quickly. She finds | the rhythmic brushing good exercise as well, helping to keep her lovely | arms well rounded | Lustrous hair . beautifully con- toured arms. Where can you find a better double-header reason for brush- ing, or for any beauty treatment? | From her native Vienna Mme. Lehe | mann brings a unique hair wash for- | mula which she has found extremely 19?{(‘5[‘\!4 She uses marine soap, rec- tified spirit of wine and rosewater in a rinse to cleanse the hair thore oughly and impart a brilliant luster. Another Viennese beauty recipe which Mme. Lehmann recommends is a fragrant herb drink which she takes every night upon retiring. Ver= bena, essence of lemon, mint and sage leaves are brewed together in hoiling water for this wonder-working beverage Her graceful silhouette is in direct contrast to the old tradition that | prima donnas must be plump. Every morning Mme. Lehmann takes an “air bath.” She says she finds the air bath effective in speeding meta= bolism because it supplies extra oxygen for the food-burning process, directly through the skin. Instead of counting her calories, Mme. Lehmann walks 2 miles each day to preserve her fig= ure, During the Winter opera season | | acids, lets them attack the green and | | | g0 off with the seam during the first | But if a lid | | BY BARBARA BELL. F COURSE, anybody can wear a shirtwaist frock of such | clear design as today’s model. | But the mature woman bene- | fits especially from its simplicity of | line and absence of fussy detail. This | |is an orthodox shirtwaister, with man- | | before adding the leaves. With chard | nish yoke and collar, pleat in the | “When you're buying lettuce youll | YOU might use your Kitchen scissors | back, button trim and a leather belt. | | start of the thinner part of the leaf. | “To speed the cooking of broccoli, | discard the, woody ends and split the “If you add vinegar or lemon juice |to your greens, do so after cooking | them. It's that old feud between the | acids and green coloring again. They soon turn the cheerful green of the leaves to a drab olive cast. You might mix the vinegar in just before you bring the dish to the table. Or, better yet, just pass the vinegar cruet and let everyone at the table use as much | don't make the leaf inedible—need not |OF as little as he pleases | “Butter gives a pleasing flavor to any | dish of greens—say about 1!, table- | spoons of it for each two-cup quan- | | tity. Or bacon fat with bits of crisp bacon. “Whatever your pet way of prepar- ing greens, by all means get them into the menu somehow. In the | Spring wild varieties are so easily available and cultivated kinds so ‘reasonable that one can fairly revel in them.” Dig( WSWays Behavior of Girl in Own Home Gives Hint of Conduct After Marriage. man goes to pick out a wife he so rarely tries to get a picture of her against the background of her own home. In fact, in these days when girls so generally meet their dates with their hats on ready to go out to some place of amusement, many a man marries a young woman without having penetrated further into the house in which she lives than the front hall, or sampled her mother’s cooking. That is a pity, because it keeps the man from getting any line upon the girl and what kind of a wife she is likely to make as he would if he had seen her in her family circle, noted her attitude to her parents and her sisters and brothers, and theirs to her. Every girl is glamorous when she has on her party clothes and her party disposition and is surrounded by an silk crepes. washable fabrics, Since so many of the skirts are in the question of laundering is bound to arise. It seems that the sponsors of these pleated styles at Palm Beach did not worry too much about their pleats, but wore their skirts almost completely ironed out, a point wich should add greatly to the Summer acceptance of this peasant mode. The pleated skirt and atmosphere of flowers and lights and music. But not every girl is a peach when she has on her home clothes and her home manners and is en- veloped in an aroma of fried liver and onions. * ok ok ok ND, alas, there are so few parties in marriage and such a super- abundance of family life! Hence the importance of a young man trying to T IS a queer thing that when a |anything, and if Mother thought that | | the whole world should sacrifice itself for Lulu's pleasure, he would be a wise youth and save himself much grief and alimony if he would beat a retreat on the safe side of the altar. For Mother's petted darlings are the yellow wives who throw up their jobs and quit when they find that their husbands won't make doormats of themselves, as Mother did, for them to trample over. * ok ok % OBSERVING Arabella in her home circle, the young man could note whether or not her parents, sisters and brothers were afraid of her. means he could figure out just about have to stand for if he married her. He would know that if father didn't dare sit around in his house slippers when his feet hurt him after a hard day’s work; if mother hesitated to speak lest Arabella criticize her gram- mar or pronunciation, and if the chil- dren knew better than to touch any of Arabella’s belongings, it would be the part of prudence to leave Arabella for a better man than he. But on the other hand, if the young man saw that Arabella was at her best in her family circle; if she was her father's chum and her mother’s helper By that | how much temper and tongue he would | | cloth. Properly, howeve dignitary of the church. * to advantage, cutting the midrib out | It practically sews itself, and is such | several editions would not be a bad | thing! Then, too, it's in good taste |any time and anywhere for most | Make it in easily ; | Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1976-B | is available for sizes 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, | 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50. Size 34 re- | quires 41, yards 35-inch material. | Every Barbara Bell Pattern includes an illustrated instruction guide which is easy to understand | Send 15 cents for the Barbara Bell Spring and Summer Pattern Book. Make yourself attractive, practical and becoming clothes, selecting de- signs from the Barbara Bell well-! BARBARA BELL, The Washington Star. Inclose 25 cents in coins for Pattern No. 1976-B. Size.... Address (Wrap coins securely in paper.) planned, easy-to-make patterns. In- teresting and exclusive fashions for little children and the difficult junior age; slenderizing, well-cut patterns for the mature figure, afternoon dresses for the most particular young women and matrons, and other pat- terns for special occasions are all to be found in the Barbara Bell Pattern Book. (Copyright, 1837.) Etiquette On Table Service |High Dignitary of the Church Would Be Served First. BY EMILY POST. EAR MRS. POST: After reading your recent article pointing out | your objections to the practice of the | hostess having herself served first, I think I must have felt overself-con- scious about my own thoughtlessness in having always done just this, be- cause when our clergyman had din- ner with us a little later I had him served not only before myself but be- fore a woman friend who comes in so frequently that she seems like one of the family. I'm afraid perhaps he thought me terrible at having him served before her because I noticed that he hesitated and seemed confused when dishes were presented to him first. Under the circumstances, wasn't it all right to have him served before her? Answer: I wouldn't worry about this since it is more than a reasonable im- pulse to show respect for a clergyman’s your woman guest should have been served first and then either yourself or he, depending upon how you were seated. If he had been dining at your table with you and your family alone, you should have been served first and he next, unless he were a bishop or other very high * K x EAR MRS. POST: What is the butler's pantry used for in houses that have service and those that have none? The Old Gardener Says: Sea lavenders, members of the statice family, may easily be dried for Winter decoration and make a good addition to the fam- ily of everlastings. The one known as statice suworowi is a particularly good kind, with long plume-like flowers, the shape of which has led some garden makers to call it the Russian rat- tail. The sea lavenders are best started by sowing the seeds in boxes of earth in a cold-frame instead of in the open ground. Other everlastings which may be grown readily include acroclinium roseum, the globe amaranth and the rhodanthe. (Copyright, 1937.) while in New York she is often seen | with her two dogs walking through | Central Park in the early morning. She believes that walking in the open air and at a fairly rapid pace is far healthier than strenuous reducing | exercise and that it can be quite as effective My bulletin containing complete in- structions for brushing the hair and caring for the brush may be had for a self-addressed, stamped (3-cent) envelope with request (Copyrizht, 1937.) Manners of the Moment F YOU have to step out on a Sun= | * day afternoon, when all the lingerie shops are closed, with one stocking of | 8 Scotch mist shade and one of | golden sun, do you want to know how to get by with it? All right. We're an expert. First, never, never tell any one that your stockings don't match. Not, that is, if you really want to get by with it. Of course, if you want to look sort of unconventional, then telling is the best possible way to manage. Every one laughs, and the whole thing is passed over as one of those crazy | things that you are likely to do. But | youll have to judge for yourself | whether or not that is your type. If | it isn't— Tuck one foot under you the mine ute you are ushered to a chair. Do it naturally, and cozily, with no apology. | And immediately start off with your | best anecdote. If you get tired of | your position, change legs. But never | have them both showing at once. | When you have to stand up, draw at- | tention to your new hair-do, or your | new clip. | No one will ever notice about the | stockings. JEAN. Duck-Cooking Hints. Domestic duck requires nearly twice as long to cook as wild duck. A po- | tato or apple stuffing is excellent for filling domestic duck. Although wild duck should not be stuffed. an apple | or an onion may be added to the cav= ity to lend savor. These should be dis- carded when the duck is served. 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This process removes the surplus starch and allows the rice grains to separate. Afterward pour the rice into a shallow or coin to cover service and postage. Address orders to the Needlework Editor of The Evening Star. A (Copyright, 1937.) pan, cover it with a damp cloth and bake it for five minutes in & moderate oven to make it flufty. il a learn all he can about the sort of people a girl's father and mother are, how she has been reared, how she treats her family and what sort of a home she has, before he pops the question, for that will tell him the kind of a wife she will make. There would be virtually no divorces if every man proposed in the cold, hard light of a girl's own parlor at 11 am. in- stead of in the moonlight at 11 p.m. with the saxophone sobbing hot music in the distance. Now among the things that a man would have a chance to find out about a girl if he saw her at home instead of at night clubs would be whether or not she was Mother's spoiled darling. If from the time Lulu was born Mother had adored her, petted her and indulged her every whim and had never crossed her will or denied her and sisters; if she was sweet and gay and unselfish in her everyday life and particularly if he noted that her home was a place of peace and rest and comfort and that her parents treated 2ach other with affection and consider- ation, then he would make no misake if he rushed such a girl to the altar as quickly as he could get her there. For wives are homemade. Ninety- nine girls out of a hundred follow the pattern their mothers set them. They treat their husbands as they have seen their mothers treat their fathers. They are thrifty or wasteful, neat or slovenly, good cooks or bad, good- natured or nagging, just as their mothers were before them. That is why it is so important for a man to get a girl's background before he mar- ries her. 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