Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1937, Page 38

g C—+4 Try Picking Cotton for Cool WOMEN'’S FEATURES. New Processing Makes Modern Wash Dresses Entirely Practical Well-Tailored Frocks Are Smart for Day-| long Wear, Both in Town and in the Country. BY MARGARET WARNER. witnessed an increasing use of it and a very decided advance in making its upkeep easy and practical. Modern science has taken the Co'n’oN is really an ideal fabric for Summer, and each season has work and worry out of washi ing by means of protective processes. ‘Vat dyes keep the original colors in the fabric for an indefinite period. You find this in the ever-fast dimities and piques. Sanforized-shrunk processing {5 now so important that we almoste: take it for granted, but it is always wisest to inquire about this feature. Some fabrics are pre-shrunk, but this does not mean that there will not be a further slight shrinkage: san- forized-shrunk means a complete job of shrinking with no fear of losing an inch at the hemline unexpectedly after the first tubbing. Then there is the process called “Belmanizing,” which insures lovely permanent starchless finishes to voile and muslin so that they come out of the laundry with exactly their original texture quality. Linens have been rendered crease resisting, if not ab- solutely crush proof, with a “vitaliz- ing" process, making them more useful for commuting to town and week-end traveling. Water repellency is still an- other feature that enters into some of the sport clothes, and is used on sail cloth, for instance. Then there s “air conditioning,” which removes the fuzzy lint from cottons, allowing the air to pass through more easily. | This process is used extensively in cotton nightgowns and pajamas, * x % ‘VKTH all these things going on be- i hind the scenes, we are bound to have better and more practical cot- tons, and this does not take into ac- count the eye-appeal that comes from good designing and lovely colors added to the present tendency to- ward odd and unusual color combi- Manners of the Some girls never learn how to open milk bottles. I'I‘ REALLY doesn't pay to stand near certain people when they open'milk bottles. You either have to be sure you have on your raincoat or else you must be preparded to get milk in your eye. These people go at milk bottles as though they were thumb tacks. They press down hard on the paner cover, and then when the thing goes bop! they're terribly surprised. ‘We didn't learn our physics very well when we were in school. But after we ®ot out we did discover that plenty of pressure is what makes things spurt. Look at geysers. Look at soda foun- tains. Look at weighing machines. Press down one place and something shoots up somewhere else. Surely a girl ought to be able to figure that out. But if the girl who opens milk bot- fles in your house hasn't figured it out yet, we advise you to take your umbrella with you every time you go into the kitchen. JEAN. [ nations. So—we do think that cot- | ton has a lot of points in its favor, | and that is why all the cotton shops | in town are such beehives of activity. tween the gaiety of the dresses themselves and the attractive back- grounds of trellises and garden fur- niture that many stores use in their cotton shops, it is practically impos- ! sible to pass them by, even if your original shopping errand was for something quite different. And if you are one of those fortunate people who are able to be at the door on the stroke of 9:30 these mornings, when the store opens, you will probably find several adorable frocks that are just exactly what you want, and you will call it a lucky day—with your shop- ping done in a jiffy. Take a look at the plain and printed shantungs. They are very good this vear. London tan with white collar | and braid trim, or the same model in postman blue is nice. All white. with tiny ricrac edging in brown or navy, in two-piece street dresses is good. 8Small, odd printed designs in pleas- ing colors on white. turquoise and yellow make nice every-day choices. | For sports there's the good-looking | striped dress on the girl shown above picking flowers in the rock garden. The stripes go various ways, to break the monotony and keep things cheer- | ful. The colors ame brown and white, | or navy and white in pique, and a very | similar frock comes in broadcloth striped in green and yellow on white. * x ok % HE printed dress on the figure at the right is typical of the many casual prints to be found. Some of these little cottons are very inexpensive, but if you have a good supply, so that there is always a fresh one ready to jump into in the morning, you won't have to worry about the price. There's a darling little cotton. imported from Austria from the house that is responsible for so many fascinating sports clothes. This one is called “loop the loop™ be- cause it is trimmed with white loop brald around the neck and sleeves and has a little flaring peplum around the waist. The print is a tiny one of conventionalized hearts and flowers, in blue on white, with a red straw belt. It also comes in green and white with a yellow belt. Some of the daintiest dancing dresses are all white mousseline and organza with wide gathered skirts and old-fashioned square or fischu necklines. They are made quite plain with interest at the hemline as, for instance, one :that has four rows of ruching arourid the bottom in white, Yellow, fuchsia and green. The same | colors appear in a tight round bouquet of flowers at the point of the V-neck | where it is met by the high waistline. Of course there are tiny puff sleeves on this youthful frock. Pale dove gray is lovely in marqui- | sette with a folded fischu making the | bodice and an old-fashioned bouquet | with a lace edge to accent the front | crossing of the fischu. The very full {skin is finished at the hem with four | wide tucks. The present popularity | of pale purply pinks is responsible for | & charming pastel floral spray pattern {on white mousseline which has four [tlers of gathered fullness in the skirt, | outlined with light, pansy-purple | grosgrain ribbon. This one has a | bolero jacket that makes it nice for supper dancing. For information concerning items mentioned in this column call Na- tional 5000, Extension 395, between 10 and 12 a.m. INiEepLewoRis ARTs| In spite of all we can do, Summer will come, and will take all the joy out of housework (if there is any joy in how enormous some of our tasks are. it). But there are ways of forgetting One of these ways is to have your dish towels so attractive that you'll forget how many dishes there are to be wiped. ‘With a design as simple as this one, you can embroider a whole set of them in an afternoon, and you'll like them all your friends, too. 30 well, you'll want to make them for The pattern envelope contains genuine hot iron transfers for seven motifs, averaging 6x8 inches each; also complete, easy-to-understand illustrated directions, with diagrams to aid you; will need. also what material and how much you To obtain this pattern, send for No. 375 and enclose 15 cents in stamps or coin to cover service and postage. Address orders to the Needlework Editor of The Evening Star. (Coprrisht, 1087.) THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, '‘Advantage Of Wearing Sandals Foot Comfort Helps to Keep Lines Out of the Face. BY ELSIE PIERCE. ELESS sandals, free feet, lined faces. In just that se- quence you have a happy circle, a | fine state of affairs. Which is just what fashion is achieving these days. The other day I overheard a woman say: *"You can't tell which are the bedroom slippers and which the walk- ing shoes-these days.” - - S I couldn’t help thinking: When you can combine the comfort and freedom of bedroom slippers' and the style value of sandals, you're achieving an ideal set-up. Personally, I don't think that for out-andeowt walking the hegiless,.t08- less sarial is the proper support. The typical, sturdy, walking shoe seems more sensible for the purpose. But, for general wear the peekaboo sandal has its advantages. It's a splendid style for Spring and Summer first—because it permits the feet to get some measure of ventilation and the hot, sticky, cramped, shut-in feeling is thus avoided. Second—it is making women more foot conscious which is a step in the right direction. Third—the vogue encourages the pedicure. And when a woman attends her toes week after week, when she is reminded of her feet, from a beauty standpoint she soon locks to their health. After all, the average woman today is sensible enough to realize that feet are literally the foundation of bodily health and beauty. A shoe stylist told me recently that in the past 10 years the average size of women's shoes has increased by a size to a size and a half. Greater comfort in women'’s clothing has much to do with this increase. The feet of the present generation have grown larger because modern women were better fitted as children and as a result their feet have developed more natur- ally and are better formed than their mothers’ and grandmothers’. In spite of the increase in size the differ- ence is not really perceptible, because shoes are so cleverly styled that they look small and dainty. In purchasing shoes today women very wisely worry about whether the shoe fits, not about the size. . You can do much for foot beauty at home. While taking the warm tub bath scrub feet and toes with a good, fairly stiff nail brush using plenty of soapy water. Work around the cuticle of the toes with a cotton-tipped orangewood stick. My directions for the home pedicure may be had for a self-addressed, stamped (3-cent) envelope. un- Cook’s Corner BY MRS ALEXANDER GEORGE. SUNDAY BUFFET SUPPER Sandwich Loaf Deviled Eggs Sliced Tongue Lemon Garnish Radishes Olives Pickles Hot Rolls Peach Conserve Cherry Ice Cream Angel Food Cake Coffee SANDWICH LOAF. Large loaf sand- 1 cup #hite cream wich bread cheese (white) Pimiento strips ¥ cup soft but- Stuffed olive slices ter Pecans Discarded crusts from loa: of bread, which should be a day old. Cut into 4 lengthwise slices. Spread each with butter and add the different fillings. Replace the slices to form a whole loaf of bread. Soften the cheese with a fork and add 2 tablespoons of cream. Cover or “frost” the loaf and garnish with the rest of the ingredients. Cover with waxed paper and chill one hour. Remove to a serving platter and serve cut into 1-inch slices. Lengthy Veils NEW YORK (#).—Veils reaching to the waist or even to the hem are the Iatest in hat trimming. Worn mainly with tailored suits, and dotted and checked, they stream over the wearer’s should JUNE 2, 1937. Fresh, Dainty, No Matter How High the Mercury Goes .Le!t: vSports cotton in'piqur sets its stripes at various angles just to be different. At right: A casual print typical of the season’s offerings in gay cottons. —Photo from Wide World. N. Y. Commencement Frock Graduation Dress That Will Be Remem- bered for Years. ® 11y BY BARBARA BELL. HE graduation dress which you will cherish in your memory for years to come should be as picturesque and as flattering as this one is. This dress has all the coquetry of a southern belle plus the sophistication necessary to smart dress. Voluminous skirt, fitted basque and brief peplum make this the per- fect graduation dress. Particularly if you choose sheer organza, organdy, net or fine voile. Barbara Bell pattern 1291-B fis available in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Corresponding bust measurements 30, 32, 34, 36 and 38. Size 14 (32) requires 6 yards of 35 or 39 inch material, plus 133 yards of ribbon for the bows. Every Barbara Bell pattern in- cludes 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 designs from the Barbara Bell well-planned easy-to-make patterns. Interesting and exclusive fashions for little chil- dren and the difficult junior age; BARBARA BELL, ‘The Washington Star. Inclose 25 cents in coins for Pattern No. 1291-B. Size...... (Wrap c#ns securely in paper.) slendering wefl-cut patterns for the mature figure, afternoon dresses for the most particular young women and matrons, and other patterns for special occasions are all to be found in the Barbara Bell pattern book. (Copyright, 1937.) Know-It-All Scarfs. NEW YORK (#)—You can learn a lot from scarfs these days. On some of them are sprawled the name of almost every large city in the world. Others tell all about the best-known cocktail bars in New York. “Shop-Wise” By B. D. Allen ' n X ] NO ARTICLE VARIES MORE IN PRICE THAN THE PANAMA HAT. PRICES RANGE FROM 50 CENTS TO HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS.. A GOOD PANAMA W/LL LAST IN - DEFINITELY .(WRITTEN GUARAN= TEES USUALLY GO WITH THE- . HIGH=PRICED WA ! — | see why he can't stay at Give Every Child His Chance Don’'t Sacrifice One Member of the Family. BY ANGELO PATRI “ ALICE, take your little brother along. Aren't you ashamed to have him cry like that? Of course, | you can take him." “I'd like to go some place without him tagging along. I haven't to have a little fun together. I can't home and play with his things.” “You're selfish. The little fellow looks forward to your coming home all afternoon, and when you get here you won't play with him. You're his big sister and you must look after him. Poor little thing. for can't be so selfish.” “We can't talk with him around. Tl have to watch him every minute. Let him stay home and I'll take him | out tomorrow, when I'm home all day.” “Tomorrow I want you to take him to the dentist. I'm——" “To the dentist? Why he kicks and cries and makes such a fuss. I can't take him to the dentist.” “He behaves better for you than for anybody else. I'm going over to see Aunt Hattie. T haven't been out for a long time. It won't hurt you to look after your little brother and give me a few hours’ rest.” “All right. Come along, Rickie.” That is not fair. No child ought to be made a family sacrifice. It is all very well to teach the children to share with each other, to co-operate in the work and with the plans of the family, but it is not right to make one child give up everything under the pressure of family duty. There seems to be one such sacri- fice in every family of any size. One son or one daughter is expected to tend the sick, supply any and all vacancies in time of need. If there is not money enough to go round this one shoulders the responsibilities and the others take all they can get of education, pleasure and comfort. In the end this son or daughter stays at home to care for the old folk and the others say, “O, father and mother always look to him (or her). They couldn’t get along with any of the rest of us.” By and by some one wonders why it was that John, or Mary did not marry and make a home for them- selves, and the rest of the family say, “He (or she) never thought of marry- in. Just stayed at home with the folks.” Maybe they did not know that John or Mary wanted to go to college, too; wanted good clothes, wanted friends and a home and family, but gave them up because of family duty so clearly put before them by their brothers and sisters and their parents. Perhaps John and Mary shed rebel- lious tears in secret, hid their griefs and longing so that these others might go their way rejoicing in the fullness of their lives. In any case it is not fair. All the children should share the family re- sponsibilily. As each advances he should do more for the others, so that soon there will be a partnership, a go- ing concern, not a one-man, one-wom-= an scheme. And when father and mother need the help of their grown children all of them should tax them- selves for their support, not just the one who stayed close to hand and car- ried the burden most of the time. Don't set the stage for that sort of thing. Give every child his chance. Mr. Patri has prepared a leaflet entitled “Lying,” in which he tells parents the causes of this habit and how to help children to overcome it. Send for it, addressing your request to Mr. Angelo Patri, Child Psychology Department of this paper. Inclose & self-addressed, stamped (3-cent) en- 'velope. (Copyright, 1937.). Overalls Go Wading. NEW YORK (#)—Summer overalls have cuffs that can be turned up for wading in the surf. The newest adap- tation of last year's popular fashion barely reaches the knee, and is very baggy. The characteristic overall straps remain the same, seen | | Crissy for a week now, and we want WOMEN'S FEATURES. Comfort on Torrid Summer Days to Come Good Refrig Especially eration Important In Preventing Waste Basic Principles offi’i‘hié?'rl‘ypéiof Food Stor- age Should Be Thoroughly Understood. BY BETSY CASWELL. it behooves every housekeeper to make sure that no item in her list of provisions goes to waste because of spoilage. Very often some one WITH rising food prices and increasingly hot weather confronting us, who is wonderfully efficient and budget-wise about running her household, meets defeat in the form of a misunderstood refrigerator. Food spoils—nothing tastes right—and the ‘There are certain scientific facts must be taken into guardian of the foodstuffs is to do its best. The Bureau of Home Economics of the United States Department of Agriculture, in a recent release, " 1 haspresented these facts in termssimple enough for the layman to under- stand. Before em- barking on an- other long hot Summer, I would advise giving this matter a little careful study for the good of all concerned. Here is what the bu- reau has to say on the subject: “Milk and cream bottles shouid be kept covered, because milk is by nature too hospitable to passing odors and bacteria for its own good. Desserts made of milk or cream, and creamed vegetable and meat dishes require the same treatment as the milk itself. All should be in the refrigerator's coldest area, and all should be covered. But- ter should be kept in its oiled paper covering inside its box—or better yet in a covered butter dish. All fats should, of course, be kept covered be- cause of their way of taking up odors. Lard and ofls, however, needn't be in an especially cold place. * % X x "lN SOME ice refrigerators you can find butter and milk bottles nestling against the block of ice—a practice frowned upon both by engineers and by home economists; the engineers, because the presence of any food in with the ice interferes with the free circulation of air along all sides of the ice, and may raise the temperature of the cabinet; the home economists, for this same reason and also because it puts butter, the very product that is most easily contaminated by odors, in the most odorous spot. You see, as the warmer air currents return to the block of ice they carry with them a load of odors from the various foods. These collect in the film of melting ice and run down the drain and are car- ried away. True, the milk bottle may be well capped and the butter in a covered dish so as not to take up odors. But too many times a house- wife sets the butter in its thin oiled paper right on the ice cake, where it is in that odor laden film of moisture. “In the case of the mechanical re- frigerator, odors collect in the frost on the evaporator, 50 that when the machine is defrosted they are carried along with the water into the de- frosting pen. = “Occasionally a ‘thrifty’ housewife wraps the ice for her refrigerator in newspapers. If all she wants is to have ice to put into drinks, this is legitimate. But if her wish is to keep food in the cabinet in good condition she is work- ing against that end. In an ice re- frigerator you can't get a cool cabinet without melting ice, and heat in the food and in the cabinet cannot be so Betsy Caswell, account if thes budget whimpers. about storing edibles in ice boxes that easily transferred to wrapped ice. Also vagrant cdors cannot then be readily absorbed ‘‘Meats require as much care as does milk. Before they are put into the refrigerator the wrapping paper should be removed. as a possible sourc contamination in the ca o0, it ahsorbs meat juices § 50 tightly to the meat surface that air cannot get at it so that the meat will spoil more quickly * * "FRESH meat should never be tightly covered in storage. Home econo= mists advise putting it onto a shallow dish and setting 1t into the refrigers ator, with &t most no more than a piece of oiled paper laid on top, not wrapped around it. The cut surface of fresh meat is already so moist it | is particularly susceptible to cone tamination. A little drying out doesn't especially affect palatability and does | slow up spoilage. “A good rule is to buy meat as near as possible to the time it is to be pree pared. There may be as much as 6 per cent loss in meat w in some types of home refrigerators in 24 hours. It depends upon the refrigerator you have, as well as upon the size of the meat piece, the extent of the ure face exposed and the amount of fat on it. | “With chopped or ground meats, like hamburger and fresh sausage, good refrigeration is doubly important. Such | meats are usually made from small | pieces, and as such have had greater | chances of cont ion in the meat | market. And act of grinding | & meat means eased possibility of inding releases meat juices. butes w ver bac- teria may be prese It gives bacteria a larger surface to grow upon. Hence | such meats should be cooked soon. | * x "ONCE meat has been cooked it | more easily stored. It, too. must be kept cold and used soon, but 1t mav be covered to prevent d: g out. If you have left-over meat pieces and plan to dice or grind them for dinner the next day. put them into a covered dish and cut or grind them shortly before they are needed. If the ground | or diced meat is not to be reheated | this is especially important. Diced and ground meats spoil more quickly than do large sections of meat | “Cured meat won't spoil easily, but the fat in it can get rancid and it can become a medium for growth of molds. Bacon gets soft and flabby and de- velops an undesirable flavor and odor if it is kept in too warm a place. It may even become moldy. Bacon mold, how= ever, is not toxic, so that it can be scraped off and the bacon used. Sliced | bacon deteriorates in palatability if it | is kept too long in the ordinary ree frigerator. “In arranging food containers avoid | having them so close together that air | can'y circulate between them. A shelf crowded with sacks and other con- tainers can block the passage of cold | air to the sections below." Dorothy Dix Says Modern Education Does Not Teach Children to HERE is nothing for which I am so thankful,” said an elderly woman the other day, “as that I was born and reared before parents took their children as seriously as they do now. In my day people regarded babies as the gift of God or the act of Nature. They fed and clothed them, Kissed them when they were good and spanked them when they were bad. And that was all there was to it. “Nobody had discovered then that a child was a problem; dreamed that Mary needed to be psychoanalyzed; that Tommy had complexes; that it was dangerous for mother to kiss little Johnny, or that spinach was the source of all virtue. ~We youngsters just tumbled up with a lot of brothers and sisters who taught us to take it and like it and who beat a respect Tor other people’s right into us with their fists. Our parents didn't worry them- selves sick hunting for hidden motives in everything we did. They just set it down to our being boys and girls and made that way. “Now my daughter and her husband fairly make martyrs of themselves to give their children what they call ‘advantages’ They deny themselves things they want and need in order to send their children to schools where everything is made ‘interesting’ and where predigested knowledge is poked down their unsuspecting little throat | in such sugar-coated pills that they never know they are taking it. My daughter is so afraid she is not doing her duty that she does all of her children’s thinking for them, watches over them and guards them so inces- santly that the poor little tikes never have a chance to stand on their own feet, or develop any sense of responsi- bility or initiative. “It makes me wonder if the ad- vantages of modern education haven't & good many strings to them. I look at the long rows of automobiles drawn up before every school waiting to take home children who don't live a half dozen blocks away, and I think of the 2 miles each way I walked twice a day to the little red school house. Nobody there tried to make going to school & picnic. It was work. Nobody tried to make getting an edu- cation easy for us. We were given hard lessons and made to learn them. x kX % L] ANOTHER advantage that I had | as & child was plenty of whole- some neglect, and that's something that the poor, unfortunate children of conscientious modern mothers miss. Children were expected in my day to keep:in the background and not occupy the center of the stage, and “Take It.” that taught me a proper place in the scheme of things that has stood me in good stead all of my life. “I often wonder how my grandchile dren are going to stand the shock of | inding out that they are not the transcendant geniuses that their pare ents have taught them they are, and that the world is going to give them bumps.instead of the glad hand when they go up against it “I was taught responsibility by be- ing given duties that I had to per- form. I learned to stand on my own feet early because nobody ever thought of holding my hand I learned initiative because I had to devise my own games and amuse= ments, for children had few toys then. And I learned courage and en= durance by being ridiculed, for no- body pitied my sensitive soul when I howled, but called me a cry-baby. “True, we didn't have the advan- tages of modern education in the past. but we missed a lot of its disad= vantages, too.” DOROTHY DIX. '—SHE PAID *$10 FOR A PERMANENT PL A, i ...BUT “AGING HAIR"* ROBBED HER OF HER BEAUTY ONEY ean't buy back besuty lost throuch “Aging Hair"—But RAP-1. DOL. the marvelous. new hair coloring, returns It to you as a «ift! That's why today. women are shampooing youthful looking color and beauty back into their hair with RAP-I-DOL! Graving faded. lifeless “hair fast becomes colorful . . . Vibrant .. . Lifelike in one simple ap< RAP-I-DOL_not only recolors the hair to its natural-looking shade—it recon- ditions as well—Leaves the hair full of Glistening hizh Ii . Sparkling lustre! t_affe Why wait? Stop ing Hair’ N Ask your favorite beautieian to RAP-I-DOL your hair today . - And you will be at vour beautiful tonight. 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