Evening Star Newspaper, July 27, 1937, Page 26

B—S8 WO ML Elodern Stockings Do Not Live Children Need Good | Educationj Preparation Enables Youngster to Meet Life’s Problems. BY ANGELO PATRI. EVER\' once in a year somebody rises to say that children ought to be taught onlv useful knowledge, that is, taught the things they can use. It is silly to teach them to solve problems in arithmetic because they will never have use for them. It is wasteful to teach them to use color and line to express their moods. It is idle to teach them world history when | they know so little of their own. | Why should & boy or girl learn to swim when there is no ocean handy? I always long to ask such people how they know that the child is not going to use this knowledge. Who knows where a child is going and what roads he will take to get there? Not I. Nor his parents. Nor his teachers. Nor anybodv else. That seccret is locked tightly in the bosom | of time. | One day this past week four boys who were graduated from our school came in to visit me. They had grown ! into manhood and were at work in their chosen fields. Ome was a teacher of descriptive geometry in a college: one was A grain broker; one was an artist engaged painting murals in A big public building; one was a nat- wralist engaged in collecting and mounting specimens of reptiles for a ereat museum As I listened to them talking about thelr business, I remembered them as grubby little boys making their way through school. I thought of the day that I found one crying in the corner of the vard because the teacher had made him stay in to work the prob- lem he had not brought in. “Why should I have to do examples? I'm EOINg to be a contractor that makes cement like my father.” He was the broker. And I thought of the day & father came into the office and begged me not to let his bov paint pic- tures but to make him learn his les- €eons for he was to be a doctor. He rals, that verv same v. and having the time of his life And his father was precious proud, he said | Who knows? Childhood was given | the race as a time for experimenting. | Children have to try themselves out | in many fields. Growth is not an| even process that comes along on echeduled time according to a plain | pattern. Most of it is hidden in its beginnings and showe only when it has formed stout roots and stored | great power. “All of a sudden he began.” No he didn't. He had been growing underneath, in hidden ways, bv nibbling at history, at science, at music, at literature, at the bench, in €ilent contemplation of nature and the neighbors. You cannot tell what is going on inside a child's nature You have to wait until it overflows and begins to express f{tseif in defi- nite ways, “These are changing times and the old ways will not serve. &0 how can you tell what children will need and krain them for it>” These are chang- ing times but human needs and de- | sires are not changing. Only & new direction is to be given their think- ng, and that isn’t going to hurt any- body and it will do lots of them a great deal of good. People are alwavs going to need lood, shelter, clothes, fire and water and light. Theyv are always going to need beauty, and more of it. They | sre alwavs going to need help from each other, and that help will be more and more specific and more and more to the point. The best thing for us % do is to offer every child in the | eountry as rich an experience in edu- cation as he can take and let him do the rest. He will anyway. But let’s @ive him the best possible chance. (Copyright, 1037.) Use Soap Jelly. Never rub soap directly ontn blan- keta in laundering them. Use a soap Jeily. After the blankets have been | Tinsed. dry them in the shade—to prevent them from turning vellow. | Press satin or silk bindings with a | warm, rather than a hot, iron. ‘ | of | saw. S FEATURES.: “BEIT EVE RS BY MARGARET NOWELL THE EVENING' O HUMBLE® OW many times a day do you say, “Please pick up your toys and put And about 4:30 in the afternoon you are no longer in the mood to say in the back of your mind that a house where children cannot play How to keep intact both the happy days and the house them where they belong”? 1s a dreary place. at the same time is a problem. As I look back upon it my grandmother must have had & wonderfu always looked spick-and-{- 2 span. but the most miraculous things | house. It would appear from just the right places. In the living room was a tiny close;, about 2 feet wide, 3 feet deep and 4 feet high. It had one shelf about 12 inches from the top. On the shelf | °f the same sort of a party in the same were checkerboards and dominoes, games of all kinds. paper dolls, crayons scissors and paste. plush carpet—so that it would not leave marks when it bumped, I sup- pose. It moved on rollers so that any of us could get it out without help. It held blocks, tin soldiers, small wagons and animals, all in a nice jumbled pile. We were allowed to dump them all out on the living room floor and play to our hearts' content, but we had to put them back every time. Grandmother also had an old cutting table with the legs sawed off, which was exactly the right height. Many rainy days and early Winter evenings we cut and pasted paper dolls on it. I distinctly re- | member that the room was not large— though grandpa had his chair and his The lower part| color scheme that will be a gay back- held & wooden box covered with old red | ground for all parties? L “please,” though there is the thought year do not decorate the whole room to look like & circus tent or a night club or the inside of a boat. You | and your friends will get very tired | setting. Why not finish the room in a happy Father and mother may use it for a quiet bridge party. The oldest daughter may use | it for a dancing party with many flowers and tiny tables for four around the room, “soft lights and sweet music” and every one in their best bib and tucker. Then the younger children might have a rowdy Halloween party with & pile of hay in one corner the only place to sit, every one in gingham and overalls, food coming hot out of the fireplace and prizes given for the one who can “bob” for the most apples In a large house the children may have a combination bed-and-play room, but when the children sleep and play in the same place it is some- Ty v y ¢, S R DN space, 10 jeet by 12 feet. | dresses STAR, WASHINGTON 'One Is Incline D. C, TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1937. £ 4 d to Make Comparison Between \ Cobweb and Cast Iron Hosiery of Mother’s Day Was Still Wearable Although Broken Darns. BY BETSY CASWELL. ROM a lady who signs herself appeal that some one should do something about getting bigger and She claims that they don't wear worth better stockings for “us gals.” & whoop, and that they are a she says that long-legged ladies are completely out of luck—that there is always s (Ug of war going on between the stoc warfare that the garters invariably# win. It is true that the gossamer sheaths for feminine underpinnings don't stand up well under general wear and tear these days. When § one thinks back to the stockings of mother’s youth, one is tempted to draw a compari- son between cob- webs and cast jron. I can re- member my very first pair of silk stockings — they % were a Christmas present, they cost five whole dollars, and they were so and black that they cl the silk jersey which fashions modish of today. At that time, a stocking that could be seen through was considered cheap and sleazy—only | fit for cheap and sleazy people The mark of good hosiery lay in its opacity, its weight, and its wearing qualities. For great daring, and lux- ury, some evening stockings had dash- ing inserts of real lace up the shin- bone—&nd I remember one pair of my aunt’s that sported tin hine- stones sewed in sunburst fashion be- tween the ankle and the instep. They were considered jist about the extreme in sophistication * ok ow o Belsy Caswell, thick and heavy resembled ‘()NE of the things we were taught | hardly | vears' t Sketch plan for built-in beds in a room for two boys. Floor | 1 lcases. air circulation. books there and grandmother chair and her tatting. The room was not beautiful from an interior deco- rator's point of view, but in it were all the things dear to the heart of all us which still exist in happy memories. * x k ¥ '\'O\VADAYS grandmothers do not © ¥ have time to teach the children |to sew a fine seam or play dominoes, so we build a play room and enuip it with all the latest gadgets recommend- ed by the recreation expert and turn the youngsters loose in it. Very few things are necessary to make a plav room complete. sized room-—good ventilation, a lino- leum floor that is soft to fall on and easy to clean. A big work bench for the hundreds of things children “have to do.” A tier of shelves for books, and another of open shelves for the | half completed models and the ivory soap statues. A cabinet for games and crayons and the odds and ends. For the littlest ones a big box of blocks. A word about blocks: If you have ever had a carpenter at the house you have seen your son drop his beautiful painted non-poisonous blocks and go for the sawed-off ends that the car- penter leaves. Any lumber supply house will love to sell you short ends which they will cut to size for you or you may do it yourself if you like to Sandpaper the rough edges and paint or shellac them if you They will be real blocks and you will have evervthing from castles to gas | stations set up for your inspection. * % ¥ x AS THE family grows older, redec- orate the play room or recreation room for “teen-age” parties. Unless you have the wherewithal and the en- thusiasm to do the room over every No matter how nice your guest towels appear, they would be improved even more by the Rddition of some delicately embroidered sprays of flowers. ‘These, averaging about 3x!4 inches each, will be charming on your fine linen towels, and equally attractive on your best pillow slips. The pattern includes two transfer patterns of each motif iliustrated. ‘The pattern envelope contains genuine hot iron transfer pattern for six motifs averaging 3x14 inches; also complete, easy to understand illustrated directions, with diagrams to aid you; also what material and how much you will need. To obtain thix pattern, send for No. 500 and inclose 15 cents in stamps or coin to cover servicg and of The Evening surx postage. Address (Coprright. 1887, orders to the ‘eed.lmrk Editor ) P wish. | her | A good- | | other end have shelves | down the things your house needs this Other side of room has built-in work Space at head and foot of bed is open for Drop-front cabinet under beds for blankets. times difficult to arrange it so that bed room furniture does not take up all the play space. Two-tier beds or bunks may be bought now in all the furniture stores, or they may be built into one end of the room. They solve the problem very nicely, provid- ing comfortable, compact sleeping space with room left over for play and work. A room 12 by 14 feet is | ample for two children. At one end of the room build in the double-deck beds with a chest of drawers built on each side for clothing. Do not box the beds in; arrange it so that | there is good ventilation at the head and foot. ok % X A CROSS the room where there is “ ™ good light build a shelf 18 inches wide that extends the full width of | the room. Have this a comfortable teble height. At one end have cabinets with doors for toys. I suggest a cabinet, as drawers large enough to hold toys are too awkward for little | children to open and close. At the for books For a perfect working surface have light-weight linoleum cemented onto the top of the table. Let the chairs be sturdy and the right size for the child. Let the floor be linoleum, the walls & scrubbable surface, bedspreads, | curtains and all fabrics the sort that improve with many washings. Give | your children a room to stand the “wear and tear” and they will natur- | ally prefer it. 1 wish there might be a room in all | our houses where we might go to be beautifully alone—to work or think | or cry or just sit. Occasionally you find & house with such a room half way up the stairs. In many old New | England houses it often was just off the dining room, usually filled with | sunshine and called the “morning | room.” Wherever you find this little | spot about 8 feet square (some onez said it is hard to collect one’s thoughts in a large room) line the walls with books, place a winged chair and a | footstool in the sunny window, & tiny | writing table at the other end, be sure that no one has a telnphnm} placed near—and this little room will become the favorite spot in all the house. Every inch of your house costs money—if you are not getting some use or pleasure from each square foot of it you are not on your toes as a modern economical housewife. ~ Jot | year—work toward them—and see what fun it is to have what you want where you want it. Manners of the Moment AMATCH-'MAKING mother is sometimes pretty hard on her daughters. She has a way of being overcordial to the boys, and the boys, after their first call, get cold feet. You can’t blame the boys. They grow tired, after a while, of being| shoved into chairs and stuffed with cake and lemonade. And they may even grow a bit suspicious that the daughter on whom they're calling hag confessed to a great yen for them. The only thing a girl can do with a mother like this is to tell her mother | that the boys she's crazy about are those she doesn’t care for and vice versa. Then when mother thinks she’s being cordial to one of Mary's favorites, she is really doing a good job of dis- couraging one of Mary's antipathies. And when one of Mary's favorites ap- pears, Mother will turn a fairly cold shoulder to him, which is fine. It will make him all the more ardent. It's either that, or reform mother. And reforming mother is something we wouldn't suggest that any one try. It's best to take her as she is and enjoy her. 4Mfla\. 1937.) | telligent and good natured. but she | | every way in the world to rouse my | has married a lazy man, all she can most carefully was to darn silk stockings o minutely that the stitches showed at all. Holes—that inevitably came after two or three wearing. usually from dry rot because the silk hose were only worn on state occasions—were painstakingiy worked over and over—whether thay were n full view or not. It didn't matter in the least whether a pair of stockings broke out in a rash of darns all over the place —we had to wear them anyhow, and when some rich auntie or uncle benevolently donated a new pair the old ones became second best and were worn at less grand festivities, Cotton and lisle, however, usually did sturdv day duty. Lisle, if one was well-to-do; cotton (ribbed), if one was just average. White or black was the rule, although some brown stockings were seen here and there. T'll never forget the torture of dressing in cold rooms, in the morning. and trying to make “long woolies” fit smoothly at the ankle under those black ribbed tockings with white toes and heels! When T was about 10 years old, very fashionable ladies took up the fad of buving heavy white silkk stockings— still at $5 a pair—and having them dyed to match their gowns. That was Dorothy Dix Says | stockings in this modern age! | ending in a fly-away bow behind, and | and Out in a Rash of “Antoinette” comes a heartrending constant strain on the budget. Also, kings and the garters—a pretty impressive, and once when a | rich relative handed down to me a | sage green suit, resplendent with fur— | and hideous from today's point of view—I was overcome to receive the stockings to match—which she had worn so little that they only had eight darns! Imagine “handing down" Those first black silk treasures of | mine were worn with & white embroid- ered muslin dress, short and full as to skirt—I was 8—strapped black slip- pers, an enormous blue sash with but- terflies wrapped around my tummy. a matching hair ribbon bow of equally colossal proportions. 1 shudder to think what a guy I must have looked— vet my dancing school partner gave me a drooping bouquet of six pale pink carnations tied with pink ribbon | as a tribute to my charms! ook ok ’IHE descendants of the stockings of my youth have certainly blk.\‘-‘ tradition. The era of short just after the war, helped to| put the quietus on darning holes be- tween knee and instep. Thinner hosiery became popular overnight along with the flesh tones that stiil| hold the spotlight in fashion’s world. | We still paid fairly high for even the | cheapest stockings, and discovered the unhappy fact of dye-rings that aj peared in the darker colors. We darned toes and heels, but bravely gave otherwise mangled pairs to the | cook 1o clean the kitchen stove with. | And this was the beginning of our downfall. Now we buy “three-pairs-at-a-time” | because we get a reduction In price. and we know that in a little whi we'll be matching up odd mates be- cause the other ha of the team has had (0 go in the waste basket. There- fore 1t is only wise to have the three pairs all the same color. for fill-in purposes. We wash stockings care- fully, after every wearing. trving to !'keep them with us a little longer, and we coddle them in every that | we possibly can. And still they fail us. Runs. rips, cross-runs, catches and general de- bility seem to be their natural fate One little snag—and it is all over Garters pull and stockings rebel—re- sult, a Jacob’s ladder. If round gar- ters are used—then, inevitably, it's a fingernail that does the damage dur- ing the rolling process. And the tem- per suffers, the budget howls and only the stocking manufacturers rejoice. I agree with “Antoinette” 1 wish something could be done, too, If only some kind person would take pity on us gals and make stockings that are long, strong and handsome! Then we might have extra cash to feed the family better! way Slovenly Housekeeping Should Be Grounds for Divorce. EAR MISS DIX: What can ' a man do with & wife who is a good woman, but the world's worst housekeeper? My wife has all of the conventional virtues. She s virtuous, kind, genesous, in- | is incorrigibly lazy and slovenly. She never gets up for breakfast, lounging around all day in a kimono, and we | have never had a meal in the house that was fit to eat. The house is so dirty I am ashamed to ask any one into it. I make a good salary, but everything is wasted so that I can never get ahead. I am a domestic man, who craves a neat and orderly and thrifsily run house, like the one I was brought up in. I have tried wife into making some effort to be a better housekeeper, but without | avail. Is there any way I can change | her into making me the home I long | for? And if so0, how? DISGRUNTLED HUSBAND. Answer—T believe laziness to be an | incurable vice. Possibly people who are just %o inert that they cannot bring themselves to make any effort, either mental or physical, have some disease. Hookworm or something that makes them that way. At any rate, I| have never seen any of these Weary Willies or Wilhelminas who was ever galvanized into action or who ever rolled up their sleeves and went to work. * ok % % EY were just born tired. They love their ease better than any- thing else on earth, and they take it, regardless of the hardships it inflicts or. other people. No use in appealing to the affection, or the sense of duty of these sit-down strikers, or to try to shame them by showing them what contemptible figures they cut in the public eye. Nothing can move them out of their comfortable chairs. The energetic and the industrious beat themselves up against their flabbiness with as little results as if they wore themselves out pounding a feather bed. When a woman finds out, that she | do is to go to work and support him ‘When a man finds out he has married a lazy woman, all he can do is just break up his home and go to live in some good boarding house or hotel, where he can have proper food and decent surroundings, or hire a house- keeper to run his house. This will save wear and tear on his temper, nerves and stomach, and be money in his pocket in the long run. For a man’s efficiency in business depends upon his being well fed and upon his being able to maintain a peaceful state of mind, which he cannot do if he is continually irritated by his wife's triflingness. | The law permits a woman to divorce the husband who does not support her. It n&m make bad housekeep- | one of the many | What was finest and most beautiful ing equally & cause for divorce. It is just as much & woman's obligation to make her husband a comfortable home as it is his to make her a decent living. % ox % EAR MISS DIX: When a man is unfaithful to his wife he is sup- pased to go scotfree and she to be the one whose heart is broken. but I am thousands of hus- bands who pay with a broken heart for having betraved their wives in a moment of weakness. My wife was | the best and most loving wife a man could have had, and she adored me. Always met me in the evenings with a smile and a kiss, and we were as happy as two people could be. With- out any excuse whatever, I got into a sordid affair with a woman, and when my wife found it out she asked | for a divorce. But I loved her and begged her to forgive me. She did, and she has been a good sport. She has never nagged me or reproached me or mentioned the matter since, but while she did not leave me | physically she left me spiritually. I killed her love for me and her faith in me. There are no more caresses | or loving words, and I would give | my soul to be back where we were. I am not asking for help for myself. There is none. This is just & warning to the men who have loving wives to hold onto them with both hands. A LONELY MAN. Answer—A great many men have had this husband's experience. They have had loving wives and peaceful homes that they threw away for a thrill of a little adventure with some woman for whom they really did not care in the least, which is about as | bad a bargain as if one traded off the Kohinoor diamond for a pinch- beck bit of glass. Of course, the men who make this | losing trade never intend it to turn out that way. They think that they can dance without paying the piper. They delude themselves with the | illusion that no matter what they do their wives will still go on loving them because they can't help it, and that when they tire of philandering they can come back to their wives and confess, say they are sorry, and all will be forgiven and forgotten. But things don’t happen that way in real life. Wives' love is killed by disillusion and neglect and by the realization that the men they love are not worthy of their affection. Even when they forgive they never forget. No woman ever trusts again the man who betrays her, and even if they patch up a reconciliation the marriage is never the same again in it and made it most worth while has gone out of it, never to be re- gained. is easy to understand. | recently, when my husband graduated | gesture, Up to Their Stern and Rugged Smart Sports Ensemble WOMEN‘'S FEATURES. Ancestry 2 Include This Stunning Outfit in Your Vacation Wardrobe. ;Overweight Harmful To Health | Exercises for Limber- | ing Up the Muscles Generally. BY ELSIE PIERCE "JHE woman who is generally weight has infinitely less WOrTY about than the woman whose weight is not distributed properly . . ., who is, perhaps, just right here and | too overweight there. One of tha | most difficuit problems of redueing “reducing in spots.” Not only are superfluous “spots™ unwelcome, from an aesthetic paint of view; they are often harmful tn health. And more than often they are associated with age. So that even | if FPather Time himself is over- tn is are his mar The thickel | diaphragm, the the bunching the dowager'’s hump at the back of the neck—none of these belong to youth There's another problem of “spots.” Very often they result in stiffness, in a dragging gait, awkward | movements, in an obvious eff get aro Then, indeed come signs of age One of the first series of exercises | in our reducing cises to limber up | erally Remember sign age and a make Your movements painful, slothful. Siug very antithesis of youth. If you want to look young. spry, agile, lithesome— bend, stretch, sway, loosen that spine Stretch bending, twisting and | swaying e perfect foursome. It molds the waist, firms the bust, re- | duces the abdomen and makes the spine limber. Have you ever | waves so that not | has not felt the motion? Have you tried standing barefonted, the feet a few inches apart, soles fia on the floor and imagined t soles were glued to the floor let the rest of the body go limp, swaying it this wav and that on the | supporting soles. That's an exercise worth trying. You lean over, letting the head and arms hang | fingers touching the floor as ne: as pos- sible. Sway the limp body in everv direction, then stand erect. Bend | forward. sway body forward about spread of waist of and ind tr stiffness is a iff spine will look siow, hness is tha of tried wiggling in a singie verteora BY BARBARA BFLL. ' you are not going on your vacation September include this in your wardrobe. And © going back to college don't ok the possibilities in this ensemble. Grand for lounging, for tennis and general sports wear. With the wide ac- ceptance of slacks as a daytime cos- tume this Summer, vou're sure to see them gain in popularity for the Fall This pattern includes slacks, halter and bolero jacket Barbara Bell pattern No. 1332-B is designed for sizes 12. 14, 16. 18 and 20. Corresponding bust measurements 30, 32, 34, 36 and 38 14 (32) requires 3% yards of 39-inch magerial | for the bolero and slacks and 34-yard | of 39-inch material for the halter. | Every Barbara Bell pattern includes an illustrated instruction guide, which | outfit | Send 15c for the Barbara Bell | | Summer pattern book. Make vourself attractive, clothes practical selecting designs and becoming from the How to Wash Berries. Never allow a strong flow of water to pass through berries to clean them. The water is to brutse t Place them in a colander a light stream of water. Or vet, lift the colander up and down several times in a pan of cold water. Do not over-wash berries or let them soak too long. They will lose much of their flavor. Barbara Bell make patterns well-planned. easy-to- Interesting and ex- clusive fashions for little children and the difficult junior age. slenderiz- ing well-cut patterns for the mature figure, afternoon dresses for the most particular young women and matrons and other patterns for special occa- sions are all to be found in the Barbara Bell pattern book. held BARBARA BELL, To Cut Hard-boiled Eggs. To eut hard-cooked eggs evenlv, use a silver knife frequently dipped in cold water. A steel knife may dis- color the egg white Ivory Shoulders Are Fascinating. . . WASHINGTON STAR Inclose 25 cents in coins for pattern No. 1332-B. Name .. Address . (Wrap coins securely in paper.) 'Answers to Problems Concerning Weddings BY EMILY POST. EAR MRS. POST: When giving a shower for a bride-to-be, is it necessary to include her two future sisters-in-law when I don't know them? Answer—The fact that vou don't know them is unimportant. The main consideration is how the guest of honor feels about them. If she likes them very much and feels sure that they like her, then ask them, of course. But if she knows them scarcely at all, and if they happen furthermore to be strangers to all the others you are asking, it might be better not to invite them. * ok % % AR MRS. POST: I was married | several months ago but the mar- | riage was kept a secret until just from college. He is now working out of town and I am to join him soon Meanwhile my friends here would like to give parties for me even though unfortunately the bridegroom cannot | be present. Will it be proper for | me to let them give these parties for | me alone? Answer—There s no reason why | your friends should not give parties for you if they would like to—but they would be farewell parties rather than engagement parties. * ok K % DEAR MRS. POST: My husband and I received a dinner dance invitation in the names of father and mother and daughter. We believe the daughter's engagement is to be ln-‘ nounced at this party, although we don’t know positively. Do you think we should send flowers to her, and if you think it would be a nice would you suggest sending these to the hotel or to their house? Answer—Flowers are always re- ceived with pleasure, no matter what the occasion. I think it would be better to send them to the house an hour or two before the dinner so that she would have plenty of time to enjoy them. At the hotel there may be so much confusion she might not even see them at all. Sweeten it with Domino Refined in US.A. Quick icings Fruits cereals k and filli iced drinks, | given in a big hotel. | 8 big general party to which many hand, if it is a small dinner, it might JDFEAR MRS. POST: We are invited to a silver wedding party to be Several of us are buving a piece of silver for the anniversary couple but | we don't know whether this should be | sent to their house or be sent or taken to the hotel on the night of the party. | Answer—If the invitation implies together evening, as i * on the cloth: + and Oriental-Tan. ORIENTAL CREAM ouraud | Send Se. for Purie Sise. Stare Bhade people Are gOINZ | Ferd. T. Hopkins & Son, New York R e LR less than intimate friends of the bride and groom™ are undoubtedly invited, I think it would be better to send your present to their house on the day of the party. On the other be better to present it personally. I think the best thing to do is to find out what other to do. \/acation Specia[ Family-Size Jar Tussy L[cansing Cream A light, fluffy cream specially made for Summer use—in a 13-ounce jar to see you through vacation days. TorueTares, Alsir 13, Prmst FLOOR. WOODWARD & LOTHROP 0™ II™F Avo G StreETS Puowe Dismicr 5100