Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1937, Page 13

. WOMEN'S FEATURES. THE. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1937. WOMEN'S FEATURES. A—13 Long HolidayWee B Market List Becomes Complicated Because Of Varied Activities Well for the Stay-at-Home to Make Use of Some of the Helpful Picnie Items. BY BETSY CASWELL. I problem on her hands when family. T IS hard to know just what to plan for this coming week end. Like the Memorial day holiday this year, it will be a long one, with the stores re- maining closed all day Monday. Therefore the housekeeper has a tougher preparing menus and market lists for the Going out of town on motor trips or picnic jaunts may be the order of the day.Or every day. camp in the mountains. decide to stay quietly at home—but you must be ready for unexpected Fuests. At the same time, you don't want to have too | much cooking ftaring you in the face. All very difficult—just an- other of those difficulties that tend to put gray hairs in the housekeep- er'’s head! If you yield to the call of the great outdoors— then don't forget the number of services and ; Sl eonEsd Betsy Caswell. foods that can help you immeasurably. There are all the people who will pac! box or basket lunches very reasonably; there are the homemade salads and cooked meats to be purchased in the big markets and special delicatessen stores. There are the meat loaves, the peppered beef, the corned beef, the wursts and goose livers, and the cooked, sliced Smithfield ham, to be bought by the pound or less. There are the shoestring potatoes that come Manners of the Moment OME men never really consider & A2 pair-of socks .ditty until they've polished up their shoes with it. And nothing pleases them more than a good, muddy shoe to work on. Then they feel that they've done a fine job on the socks, and that it's all right for once to send them to the laundry. These men were probably brought up on that old tradition about the farmer whose Winter pants stood up by themselves when he *ook them off. A Stiff pair of socks is, they think, proof of the pioneering stock from which they came Maybe it is. But we'd certainly like to see them get beyond the ploneering stage for a change. There's nothing more unpleasant than drop- ping a stiff sock into a laundry bag. | And how many men who polish their ghoes with their dirty socks ever think of that? Perhaps the best cure for them would be to make them do up the laundry themselves for a couple of months. And if you're a housewife who washes her own clothes, how about leaving the socks out and let- ting the old man wash. them him- relf on Sunday afternoon? That ought to show him that the shoe brush is Or there may be a seashore cottage to go to, or a You may« = E in tins; the potato salad also in tins; the “red hot” potato chips in bags of cellulose film; the tinned tomatoes packed in 1jinch slices all ready to lay on lettuce leaves for a cool salad; the fruit nectars in cans—among the new ones, pear, peach and apple juice—and so on and so on. Cakes, candies, breads, pies—and all the be- wildering variety of spreads. Corn to be taken along to roast, if campfire cookery is your dish, and, at the fish markets, big juicy clams for a clam- bake. English muffins, to be split and toasted over the coals, drenched with butter, and topped with a pat of hamburger or a thin slice of crisp ham spread with mustard. And watermelon, cold and luscious, to be cut up, and eaten in great wedges, “Southern style”! * ok K K {OR the stay-at-homes it would be well to remember some of these same items for use in making the week end a little easier for the mem- ber of the family who must spend most of the time in the kitchen. The markets also offer hams and chickens especially for the holiday, and with the “by-the-piece” purchase plan for poultry every one may have the part of the fried chicken that he or she likes the best! In the vegetable line okra seems to be an excellent buy, to- gether with peas, string beans, new limas and fresh, tender spinach. Green June apples are in, for pies and apple sauce; raspberries are selling by the quart box, blackberries are still good, and I am told that a shipment of free- stone peaches will be with us by today or tomorrow. Apricots, currants and cherries, both sweet and sour, continue to be of exceptionally high quality. And don't forget fish—if you pack your purchase well in ice it should keep perfectly over the week end. In Massachusetts the traditional Fourth of July dinner featured boiled salmon with egg sauce and the first green peas of the season. With our year-around supply of fresh vegetables nowadays, that seems almost incredible—and yet was the case up to a very few years ago! Strawberry ice cream from the first strawberries was the gala dessert. So if you want to hark back to an old tried and true custom, you might in- corporate these three in your holiday dinner! * ok x % IM NOT going to give you any hard and fast menu this week—it is really too complicated, for every one will be doing something different, and the menu probably wouldn't fit anywhere! 8o the ideas will just have to be general ones, which might help here and there with that baffling prob- lem of food. As for table decorations on festive occasion—why not have a shallow bowl heaped with big, red cherries? Border the edge of the dish with white carnations and blue corn- flowers; then thrust the flowers, al- ternating the blue and the white, into the mound of cherries, to form a striped design. The advantage of this arrangement is that the cherries may be eaten later! If you really want to go patriotic in a big way, the stores are, of course, full of tablecloths, napkins, favors, etc., stressing the red, white and blue motif. Even your picnic paper equip- ment may follow the same trend And if you possess red glass, or blue, use it with a white cloth or mats—and supply the missing color with paper napkins, or in tiny bouquets of flow- ers tied with red, white and blue ribbon. Little flags also may be ar- ranged charmingly to fill out the the meant for the outside of a shoe and that socks are meant for the inside. table decoration. So—here's to your holiday! NlEEDLEWORI ARTS “Sic 'm, Fido!” And these Scotties comply graciously, thing from the Jaundry to the Sunday funnies. A N ~ j, [ ) attacking every- The attractive towels, embroi- dered in outline stitch—show Fido and his pal in a number of characteristic activities—giving a different pose for each day of the week. set, which can be made up in almost no 2 ‘The complete time, would delight any friend to whom you might give it, er would appear most attractive in your own kitchen, The pattern envelope contains genuine hot-iron transfer pattera for &even motifs, averaging 7x8 inches; also complete, easy-to-understand illustrat- ed dtrections, with diagrams to aid you; wilkneed. als0 what material and how much you To Gbtain this pattern send for No. 428 and inclose 15 cents i.n stamps OF coin to cover service and postage. Address orders to the Needlework Editor o The Evening Star. (Copyright, 1937.) k End Makes Menu Planniq Shopping Around Washington | “Stripes Forever” in Blue and White Rayon Jersey Makes | a Smart Holiday Outfit. BY MARGARET WARNER. OR stepping out over the holiday week end well-shod feet will add enormously to your pleas- ure and to the whole appear- ance of your costume. The new “safety-first” device of scuffiess heels is a grand idea, especially for shoes of white kid which soar and peel so easily at that point. Science, which has been playing such an important part in modern fashions, has perfected a plastic material for the heels of women’s shoes which is hard to dis- tinguish from leather and yet is amaz- ingly resistant to scratches and scuffs. It is used on some of the season's smartest shoe designs, as shown abov Here is a very good-looking 1937 ver- sion of a completely cool and com- fortable Summer shoe, that is air- conditioned and yet not too open, with a firm strap around the instep and just enough cut-out at the sides to give a pleasing line and still hold its shape. The scuffiess heels are of mid-continental height, which is a well-liked average style for general wear. These shoes also come in dark blue and London tan calfskin and are at the present moment enjoying a substantial Summer price reduction that should make them doubly popu- lar. * kK % ’rHE striped frock in navy and white rayon jersey is a splendid holiday choice, with its white accessories of hat and bag with touches of navy blue. Rayon jersey with narrow latticed stripes, like lines of picoting, is very good in tailored frocks and makes nice basic dresses to wear with different colored chiffon scarfs. In fact the all-white basic frock of crepe, or similar materis is an excellent Midsummer filler-in. For the Fourth of July you can add a dash of red or blue or braid the two to- gether if you feel very patriotic. A particularly new looking dress of this type is cne with a narrow shoulder yoke from which the fullness of the surplice-crossed fronts is gathered. The skirt is extended up beyond the waistline to form a slenderizing princess line but is belted. This dress is shown with a mint green chiffon scarf tucked into the front of the neck, but any number of tricks with scarfs and clips readily, suggest them- selves by way of variation. The white crepe dress with bolero jacket is another holiday offering. It has a red zipper closing part way to the waistline from a Peter Pan collar and a narrow belt of bright red leather. * x x % A’I‘ THE Yale-Harvard crew races at New London last week the smartest guests wore linens or prints slimly fitted through the waist, with plenty of flare in the short skirts. One girl wore a gay Indian print of cotton ingeniously cut to emphasize the design of the border. She wore no stockings with her white sandals. One of the princess-styled flowered linens used a border of cut-out flowers around a square neck. Venders did & good business selling bright-colored coolie hats to shade the eyes of girls who came in brimless turbans. A buttoned-on brown pique jacket was worn over a brilliant print of violet and cherry-red, and was topped by a large leghorn hat tied on securely by a coarse fishnet veil tied under the chin. At Newport, unusual prints are also favored, such as white seagulls on a pale green background and big yellow and green sunflowers on' pale yellow. At Bailey's Beach 50 per cent of the bathing suits are of the dressmaker variety. A time-honored custom at Newport is to assemble at Bailey's Beach at noon each day, for an ocean dip, after which luncheon perties are in N The air-conditioned shoes of white kid with scufflass heels are an impor- tant item in the success of this Summer costume. -—Photo by Gabor Eder. New York. order. Many hostesses provide picnic parties at the beach, and the spectator sports clothes are gay and smart. Many luxurious yachts ride at anchor in the harbor and yachting activity is on the increase, although the America's Cup race is not sched- uled until July 31. ® ok ok % FROM Paris we hear that color continues important in acces- sories. Deep dark red is used in quantities for gloves and handbags, and even for shoes to be worn with navy, gray or white and sometimes with light blue. Many blond crocodile handbags and shoes are noted with matching kid gloves, while the newest accent for all black is light blue with Dorothy ’ If Mothers Don’t HEN a young couple get married all of their rela- tives, friends and ac- quaintances load them down with good advice. Doubtless this is well, for the matrimonial road is a difficult and dangerous one to travel, and a bride and bridegroom need plenty of red lights hung out before its pitfalls. Those who need most to be told to watch their steps are not the boy and girl who are starting out on the great adventure, but their mothers. Divorce statistics show that moth- ers-in-law wreck more marriages and break up more homes than drunken- ness, or infidelity, or all the major and minor vices. This is both tragic and pitiful because the mothers love their children and want them to be happy and do not intend to bring upon them all the disaster and the heartache and the misery that follows & marriage that is a failure. They don't deliberately set out to rub the bloom off a marriage and dissatisfy their sons and daughters with their mates. They don't, with malice a forethought, alienate husbands and wives and sow dissension between them. It is just that they can’t bear for their children to love any one else better than they do them, or to have a life apart from them, and because it is constitutionally impossible for them to keep their fingers out of their children’s pies. Now to any mother who desires her children’s marriages to be happy and successful I would humbly offer these suggestions: ok ok % FIRST. Be rational about your children’s marriages. Take them in your stride and as something that was just bound to happen in the course of nature. Don’t weep and lament and beat upon your breast and talk about how lonely you will be when you lose your precious Sally or your darling Tom. And don't act s if the new son-in-law.or daughter- in-law is a kidnaper who has cap- tured your little innocent through nefarious means. Nobody wants to be taken into a family on sufferance. The icy wel- come that mother gives many a bride and. bridegroom chills - their budding affection for her and kills all their desire to be a real daughter or son to her. Never let the bridal couple come to live with you.. Make them set up their own home or go to live among strangers. Every young married cou- ple is bound to have spats while they are adjusting themselves to each other. 1If they are. alone, they fight it out and kiss and make up. Not 8 scratch remains to tell of the fracas. But, if mother sits on the sidelines a greenish tinge, like turquoise. We have seen this color used for a narrow cording around the bottom of & black crepe frock on a new model that will be shown for Fall. The newest novelty hat color is & darker greenish blue which they call “Canard.” Fall felts are going to use one and two color contrasts gros- grain bandings in bright colors against dark hats that will be quite suitable for late Summer travelers. These hatk are high crowned in both tailored sports types and close turbans. For information concerning items mentioned in this column call Na- tional 5000, extension 395, between 10 and 12 am. Dix Says Leave Newlyweds Alone Disaster Will Follow. cheering John on to stand up for his rights and show who is master, or telling Mary not to put up with such talk from any man, wounds are given that never heal. Also there is no human being of whom : young husband is so jealous as he is of his wife’s mother, nor is there any siren whom a young wife views with such a jaundiced eye as she does her husband’s mother. It is natural that a girl who has been brought up to believe that Mother knows best should still regard her as an oracle after marriage, and say: “Mother says we should do so-and-so."” And that & man who has always adored his mother and been chummy with her should still enjoy her com- pany even after he takes unto himself & wife. But honeymooners never un- derstand this, and the mother who doesn’t want to make trouble has to eliminate herself as a rival by fading out of the picture. * ok ok ok NEVER criticize your children's mates to them. If May thinks John a Prince Charming and Tom considers Angelina a Miss America, let it ride. Don't disturb their illu- sions. Pointing out all of John's faults and foibles to Mary merely makes her disgruntled with him and wonder why she ever picked him out for a hus- band. Calling Tom's attention to all of Angelina’s defects and shortcom- ings merely disillusions him and makes him think he has got a bad bargain. Half of thc wives wouldn’t know they had missed their soul mates, half of the husbands would never find out that their wives are extravagant and gad too much if their mothers hadn’t told them. Never let your children come to you with the tales of their husbands’ and wives’ faults and of how discontented they are with their marriages. Talk- ing things over makes them grow and tur.s little faults into major griev- ances and makes peccadilloes a crime. Mother’s sympathy has fanned many 8 misunderstanding into & flame of anger and resentment that burned down a home and half-orphaned little children. ‘When your ehildren are at outs with their mates and /it mar- riage, give them a brace instead of pity. Tell them to be men and wom- en and to stand un and take it instead of coming home to Mother. BEAUTIFUL WOMEN USE ENSEMBLE ALL PURPOSE CREAM $.50, $1.00, $3.00 All Drug and Dept. St-res ‘ Scoldingand Nagging | NolhBtog | Is a Very Bad Habit Won’t Help Search | for the Cause. I BY ANGELO PATRIL AIL-BITING is & mean habit for a child to suffer under, and a very difficult one to remedy. Some- how it gets in down deep and no mat- ter what rewards and punishments are used to destroy it, back it comes at the very first moment of abstraction. The chewed finger ends are painful. That calls the child’s attention to them and once more the abused finger tips go into the mouth for comfort and consolation, and stay there until some irritated grown-up calls out, “Take your fingers out of your mouth. Your hands are a disgrace. How you can bear them is beyond me.” The habit makes keeping the hands in good condition a most trying and difficult task. Bitten finger ends be- come calloused, or rag-nails or hang- nails. The finger ends, on whose sen- sitivity a keen sense of touch depends, become dull and clumsy. All forms of hand work suffers. The effect of all this on the child is to make him fear- ful, shy and backward. He knows his drawing and writing are not as good as they ought to be, and he knows, too, that his hands show to a disadvantage beside those of the other children. It is a bad business, but what can we do about it? First, we can know that the children who bite their nails are suffering from some uneasiness in body and mind. We must bend our efforts toward finding what causes this uneasiness, this worry and discomfort, instead of trying to discipline or bribe the child into saving his nails. A healthy child, heelthy in body and in mind, rarely has this habit. Build up the health of the nail-biter and the habit will be materially reduced. At least it will be | reduced to the place where the (‘On-‘ scious mind can take some control | of it. Worry is at the root of much of this trouble. The mind begins to worry, and the discomfort this sets up all over the body of the child sends his hands to his mouth for comfort. That has been my experience with many of the children so afflicted. When their minds can be assured the habit can be checked. Malnutrition is another cause of the trouble. The undernourished child is likely to bite his nails and chew his fingers. His lowered vitality causes bodily discomfort. That in turn creates worry, and the habit grows strong. Put such a child in the care of & specialist who understands what is needed and he begins to take on weight, begins to play happilv, and ceases to bite his nails, habditually. Now anq then. when the ghost rises, he will take a nibble. Give extra care to bitten nails. Wash the hands with warm water and a pleasant soap. Rub them, especially the finger tips, with some soothing ointment like cold cream. warm olive oil, whatever comforts the tingling finger ends. Remove all ragged edges, all dry ski Polish the nails to a high polish, because teeth dislike pol- ished nails, and that dislike ca'ls the child's conscious mind to the state of affairs. Scolding and nagging won't help Search for th= 100t of the troable and do what is possible to remove it. Care for the finger ends. In time, if you persist, and try to help intelligently, the child will win his freedom. He would be free if he could right now. Mr. Patri will give personal atten- tion to inquiries from parents and achool teachers on the care and de- velopment of children. Write him in care of this paper, inclosing a 3-cent stamped, self-addressed envelope for reply. (Copyright. 1937.) Use Hot Platters. Place omelets on hot platters to g MoreDifficult Than Ever Trim Street Model | Cool Frock That May Be Smartly Worn Throughout the Day. 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