Evening Star Newspaper, July 28, 1937, Page 15

WOMEN S FEATURES. - THE:- EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1937. WOMEN‘'S FEATURES. A—I15 Cool Black the Sophisticated Choice for the Between-Season Frock L3 Silk Jersey Favored By Discern From Coasfc to Coast, ing Women Forecast for Fall Stre sses Velvet Flowers in Brilliant Colors to Brighten Somber Costumes. BY MARGARET WARNER. LACK is booming as & popula r midseason choice for dresses at the moment, and seems to be destined to continue with us into the next season. Black in codl sheers, sleek silk jersey and satin, is out our old favorites in colored cottons. know what to get, the answer is ‘bl vacation trip, black will make smartest sort of a traveling ensemble. It is already lauded as the outstand- ing favorite of smart young women who spend their Summers in town, and this news comes from Paris, Ne York and Los Angeles. The fever tor slim molded, cool black frocks in. Jjects a sharp accent into Summer fashions. Notice the display windows of the shops, how the blacks predom- inate and point the way to new chic. Above are shown two of the new dresses designed for immediate town wear. At the left, the white embroid- red daisy motifs outlining the neck, rled to the short puff sleeves, sug- gest a very youthful type. The chief feature of the frock at the right is its simplicity combined with beautiful fabric and interesting detail of :atin piping. This all-black dress may be varied with white or colored zcces- sories to insure against monotony. x x K HE silk jersey frock that uses soft drapery below the V-neck of the bodice with elbow-length sleeves and front skirt fullness gives the new silhouette in a very delightful form. Jersey lends it-elf especially to this molded treatment. But be sure that your figure is good, and that your foundation garment is perfect, before you get into one of them, or you will be disappointed, for they reveal every defect! Black sheer with & cape fleeve Jacket is good for the matronly figure and is nicelv done with the top part of the dress of contrasting satin. Manners of the Moment F YOU have a pet fern, or & window box you've sat up with at night, you'd better just make up your mind to put it on the running board and take it with you during vacation. For if you farm it out to one of your friends you'll inevitably find when you get back that she thinks you gave it to her for keeps. Once she gets that notion under her wave there's not a polite thing you can do about fit. It happened once to a friend of ours. She came back to find her precious butter tub painted a different eolor and her red geraniums changed into vellow pansies, and the caretaker acting definitely like a proud owner. All our friend could do was to take one last look at her handiwork and set out in search of another butter tub and another batch of earth. Maybe by being terribly firm in the rst place that this is but a loan, it would work out all right. You might | try labelmg the plant, too, as you | would a painting: “Loaned from the collection of Mrs. B."” But probably you'd better just strap your window box to your back and be off. JEAN. thess in thin crepes and especially black in carrying off the honors and crowding If you need one more frock and don't ack.” If you are still planning your | There are matching satin bindings on the jacket to catch the light and give further interest. An all-over tucked and pleated black ! chiffon afternoon frock is interesting and useful. The slightest breeze fans out the skirt and the elbow-length pleated sleeves. A starched black mus- lin with bolero in severe plainness is another version of the craze for Sum- mer black. But in order that the out- look may not become too dark, let us talk about some other things of gen- eral fashion interest. In Paris the jewelry pavilion has just opened at the exposition. Exquisite | diamonds and other precious gems were displayed in new and intriguing | designs. Baguettes were cut square and facets round. Clips were gener- ally large and showy. One platinum and diamond clip is made to open and shut in different shapes and sizes. | There was a spray of life-size forget- | me-nots. Necklaces are demountable | and may be separated intc bracelets and clips. Clusters of pear] and emer- {ald currants are featured in large cli Life-size flowers as large as | chrysanthemums are done in precious | stones. | L IILOV\'ERS that bloom in the Fall are already being mentioned for freshening up the “not-new” frock as well as for use on the new Fall suit. Conspicuous among these are nastur- tiums, edelweiss, geraniums—all with distinctive colors and all with rather prim and trim outlines. They will be used in medium and natural size flowers, worked in moderate size bou- quets and worn at the necklines of black frocks, or on the lapels of tweed suits. They will be done in velvet. The nasturtiums are favored in or- angy and coppery tones, the geraniums {in the true bright brick shades or the strong pinks of natural flowers. Edelweiss will be in white velvet with green velvet leaves. Roses, violets, chrysanthemums and gardenias will continue to be worn and liked, as al- Ways. London continues to become more { and more important as a source of | fashion interest to American buyers. | Their dinner clothes, golf and tennis dresses, in addition to the usual run of English tweed sports suits, will find regular places among the American | offerings in the best shops. This is quite interesting in view of the opin- ion prevalent some years back that English women were not particularly well dressed. But times do change. We now read that the well-dressed Londoners, this Summer, are wearing both full-skirted and molded evening gowns, but in all formal frocks the necklines are low and the shoulders uncovered. The off-the-shoulder gown is a great favorite in all materials, as well as the straight-across “bra” top with shoulder straps. Among London novelties are rubber raincoats with hand-painted animal designs. Typical are those in white with painted dogs in black and gray. Novel decorations for the necklines of evening frocks are motifs of white cupids and white harps. For information concerning items mentioned in this column, eall Na- | tional 5000, Extension 395, between 10 and 12 am. . Serve Fruit Platter. A fruit plate is a colorful Summer dessert. It may be made by adding small bunches of grapes to cherries (on stems), pineapple slices and sliced peaches. Attractively arranged on a shallow glass dish these fruits have a cooling appearance. They may be garnished with grape leaves and (Copyright, 1037.) There are innumerable times and should be served cold. places when a dainty cloth like this is Just what you need and want. When you realize how easily such a lovely piece can be crocheted, you'll begin it immediately. The center part is made up of & number of small motifs. The lacy edge is extremely simple to make. With seven motifs to the side, as here, the finished cloth measures about 34 by 38 ches. - i The pattern envelope contains complete, easy-to-understand illustrated directions, with diagrams to aid you; also what crochet hook and what ma- terial and how much you will need. To obtain this pattern, send for No. 348 and inclose 15 cents in stamps or coln to cover service and postage. Address order to the Needlework Editor of The Evening Star. (Copyrisht, 1037.) L4 The white embroider Holding Fashion’s Spotlight ed flower motifs at the neckline of the dress at left provide a summery accent, while the black frock at the right gains distinc- tion from its smart simplicity. Exercises For Slim Waistline Fall Fashion Taboos Any Excess Weight or Thickness. BY ELSIE PIERCE. THE wedding dress of her grace, the Duchess of Windsor, started this country but the world. It has inspired girdle manufacturers to create new undergarments, it has been reproduced in any number of versions, it is definitely a youthful vogue and it taboos any thickness around the waist. You've seen it, of course. You know how svelte it looks. A straight, firm line at abdomen, diaphragm and waist; ne thickness, no bunching, just youthful firmness, and an up- lifted bustline. Youth and beauty in every inch of the long line. One may, by clever corseting, achieve that line and conceal an un- welcome spare tire beneath. But what satisfaction it must be to know that the slim silhouette is you, yourself and not the corset camouflage. The small waistline has always been & mark of feminine beauty. Today it remains the envy of moderns. To be sure we don't have to achieve hour- glass proportions, but for beauty's sake the waistline must be small, molded, controlled. Try a daily diet of trunk twisting and bending exer- cises on a waist that threatens to thicken. By the end of the Summer there won't be a sign of a spare tire and you'll be all set for that girdled, corseted look that Dame Fashion fore- casts for Fall. The exercise is at least as old as you are, but it has remained a winner for whittling down the waistline. The trick is not to bend the knees, but to bend from waist and touch finger- tips to toes. Then, fingertips of one hand to opposite toe. You raise arms overhead, feeling quite a pull through the waist. At the same time the left arm comes down to shoulder level, palm facing wackward. Do this vigor- ously. Notice the pull through the waist and the twist-bend movement. Do it just a few times at first, then gradually more and more. Another: Lie face downward, prefer- ably on floor, arms stretched. Try raising upper part of body. Back to position. Now try raising legs. When you can do both of these well, try raising both upper part of body and legs at the same time. You should feel a definite strain through the waist, flashing & message of ‘“‘con- trolled waist and flattened abdomen.” (Copyrisht, 19837.) Keep Qils Chilled. Store oils, such as olive or vegetable, in the refrigerator. They are likely to become rancid when opened unless they are kept chilled. Garnish Should Flavor. A true garnish supplies flavor and appeals to the eye. Serve slices of lemon with fish, slices of lemon or orange with iced tea, chopped parsley as a topping for cooked potatoes, rice or macaroni and green pepper or pi- mento strips on the tep of potato salad. A a new vogue that has swept not only | ~—Star Staft Photo From a Washington Shop. 3 anna. austere, grim-faced feminine saints and martyrs. 1 make causes and lost hopes. and the women warrfors and students and scientists Give me the woman who wears the smile that won't come off and who always looks on the bright side of things. Pollyanna, but when you come right down to brass tacks can you think of another woman in the world who does s0 much good and who helps so many people as the one who scatters rays of sunshine wherever she goes, whose mere presence brightens everybody up and puts fresh hope and courage into them? Pollyanna will never have any monu- ment built to her, nor any day named after her, for her work is mostly done in secret and dark places, but some- where, where the great record is kept, is set down the stories of the men and women she has rescued from despair; the quitters she has braced up to make the effort that carried them on to success; the fires that she has rekindled that were about to die out on s0 many hearthstones; the joy she has brought to so many little children; the tears she has quenched; the laughter that she has made bubble over so many lips that were stiff with pet: " "R MAYBK Pollyanna isn't spectacu- lar. Maybe she isn't any Miss America as to looks. Generally she is & little on the roly-poly side, as the English would say, and the only thing that you notice particularly about her is that her eyes have such & kind look, as if they only saw the good in people. She is seldom bril- liant or learned. She never made a wisecrack in her life, but she has given the soft answer that turns away wrath a million times. And, although Pollyanna is neither intellectually nor socially important, she is always the most popular woman in any group. And she never figures in the divorce court. Sometimes when I look at Pollyanna I think that she has all the virtues that most become her sex. She has, to begin with, unselfishness. Being thuman and sharing the common lot, she has her own cross to bear, her own disappointments, her own griefs, her own worries, but she locks her own sorrows in her breast. If she weeps, she does it in private. She bears her own burden without laying it on the shoulders of all who come in contact with her. Pollyanna never indulges in the Jux- ury of grief as so many women do. She never salts her friends down with her tears. She never goes about beat- ing upon her breast and telling hard- luck tales. She figures that there is gloom enough in the world without her adding her bit of blackness to it. * kX % POLLYANNA has courage, the kind of courage that enables one to fight alone with deadly fear in one's heart, but still to fight on until cns wins out. < Dorotl}[ As far as I am con- | with medals for deeds of less valor cerned you may have all your | than she did when she stood behind you|and bucked him up when he was welcome to all the leaders of forlorn beaten and ready to surrender. | the bedside of a frightened sick child [ and literally kept it alive by the gay I know it is the fashion to sneer at | Dix Says The World Needs More Pollyannas to Spread Cheer and Sunshine. Y FAVORITE heroine s Polly- | Many a soldier has his breast covered her husband through the depression or when she sat for days and days by | act she put on, while her very soul was fainting with dread. Pollyanna does her part in the sta- tion of life to which it has pleased God to call her. And that is the best that any of us can do. She is the daughter that her old parents choose to live with because she makes bright | and jolly the last lap of the long journey for them. Her home is always cheerful, no matter how humble it is, and her husband comes to it joyously of an evening, sure of being met by a smiling face and a loving welcome from a wife who will have a funny story to tell him and a new joke, and make him forget the cares and worries of the day. Maybe the family will be poor, but Pollyanna will take the sting out of poverty for her children by making home gay and jolly, by giving them her own brave outlook on life, by teaching them to laugh instead of cry. And so she will send them out into the world to be the optimistic go-getters who inherit the earth and the fullness thereof. That is why Pollyanna is my favorite heroine. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright Ledger Syndicate.) Cottage Cheese Notes. Cottage cheese may be mixed with sweet, sour or whipped cream, with chopped pimientos, green peppers, chives, olives, onions or parsley. Balls of cheese may be made to surround diced vegetables or fruits in salad combinations, Chili sauce, catsup, mustard pickles, chopped ripe olives or chutney also blend nicely. New...a Cream Deodorant which safely Stops Perspiration 1. Cannot rot dresses — cannot irritate skin. 2. No waiting to dry. 3. Can be used after shaving. 4. Instantly stops perspira- tion 1 to 3 days—removes odor from perspiration. 8. A pure, white, greaseles: stainless vanishing cream. _ARRID 39F @ lor et drug and dept. siores The Old Gardener Says: Transplanting can be accom- plished at almost any season of the year, even during the hot days of Midsummer, if proper care is taken. Of course, Summer trans- planting is not to be recom- mended, but there are times when it seems necessary. In prepara- tion, soak a supply of peat moss in water for several hours until it becomes saturated. Dig the holes into which the plant is to be set several inches deeper than would ordinarly be required. In the bottom place 2 inches or more of the saturated peat moss and cover it with an inch or two of & good compost or enriched garden soil. The plant is then set and thoroughly watered. It should also be shaded from the bright sun for a few days. (Copyright, 1937.) One Child Should Not Do flr_l ate Leadership in Group Must Be Taken in Turns. BY ANGELO PATRIL. (CHARLES was big brother, aged 6, Betty was little sister, aged 4. They played together very well but that was because Charles always had the dominant position. Whatever the game he was the head, the important personality. He gave the orders, he planned the scheme, directed every movement and Betty took orders with bland indifference. Until yesterday. Yesterday Charles charged into the house, blazing with righteous anger, crying with pain and humiliation. Beity followed him in with her usual calmness. There was, however, an un- accustomed light in her eye that did not fail to attract her mother's at- tention. “What's the trouble, Charles? it easy. Don't shout s0.” “Betty bit me. She bit me on the arm. Look. I'm getting black and blue.” Mother looked at Betty but there was no sign of self reproach in the serene face of the culprit “Betty, did you really bite big brother?” “Yes, I did bite him,” said Betty, with unruffled calm. “Why, dear? What made you do such a thing?” “She’s a bad sister, that's why,” moaned outraged Charles, holding his arm as though in fear it might be voured by the enemy any instant. “No, I'm not bad. Brother said he was Chief How How and I must be his little dog so I said, ‘All right,’ and he said, ‘Now I must tie you to the tree’ and so I said, ‘All right,” and when he went to tie me to the tree then I did bite him. 'Cause I was the dog and I didn’t want to be a dog. I wanted to be big squaw. I did not like to be the dog. And so I did bite him.” “Hm-m-m,” said mother. the witch hazel bottle, Charles. And while you bathe your arm, Betty and I will get something good for the Indian's supper and you can eat it in the tent.” “Aren’t you going to punish her?” demanded the astounded Charles. “You'd better get the witch hazel, son.” ‘When Charles was quite out of hear- ing mother said, “If you didn't like ‘Take | being @ dog, Betty. you needn't have | acted like a bad dog. Rover would not bite you, you know.” “He wouldn't tie me to a tree, either, mother. Can we have chocolates, too? I like chocolates.” That night mother told father the story after the two children were in their beds asleep. He's been dominat- ing her ever since she was born and Itwas glad she showed the will and the power to assert herself. But to bite him—" “Every dog is allowed his one bite,” “Maybe Charles will | chusetts be willing to take turns in being big | trifie wistfully, chuckled father. chief after this. I hope so.” One member of the group is always dominant. Train the others to be- come proficient in some one way so that they at least can take a turn at leadership. “Go get | Trailer Housewives Find Life on the Road Has Charm All Its Own ton Tourist Camp. While varying widely in ages and home, sweet home, they mostly re-| peated that hallowed name absent- mindedly. “Home. Yes, we plan to go home but first—" And then a far-away look would come in their eyes as they enumerated all the dots on the map that they | were first going to explore before go- | ing back where they started. “Home?” one smartly dressed way- farer countered a shade coolly. “This is our home Relenting at the interviewer's dis- comfiture, this firmly established trailer resident smiled forgivingly and explained that her husband’s business forced him to travel, For 12 years, ever since their marriage, the couple | had moved from town to town and ho- tel to hotel, often not spending two | nights in succession under the same | roof, until the advent of the traller provided them a home they could take along on their journeys. “This is the only home we have, but we couldn't he more comfortable in a 10-room house,” she concluded, | adding quickly, “but, of course, ours isn't & re nice trailer as trailers go nowadays, for we have had it a | long time now and they are eonstantly being improved. We plan to buy a | new model next year.” ® o % X IO LESS enthusiastic about trail- | * Y ing was a grandmother from | Texas who had “just turned the key | in the door” before cruising away on | | a brief trailer journey that has already | extended for months. In the de luxe | trailer, designed and built by her | husband, a retired architect, she has | | running water, electric lights and a | multitude of gadgets to make light | of light housekeeping | Returning from a Winter in Florida, | these ultra - modern grandparents planned to spend the two-week parking | | privilege permitted trailers at the | Washington Tourist Camp. then to | | move t0 & nearby Maryland parking | grounds before going to Long Island to | visit a daughter and on to the Midwest | for a visit with some newly acquired | trailer acquaintances. | Making new friends, seeing the | country and attaining a carefree sense of freedom from routine chores and duties are among the advantages | | of trailer life that keep addicts post- | poning their scheduled return home by | | days, weeks and finally months, ac- | | cording to this genial grandmother. | She and her husband plan eventually to go back to Texas, see their friends | and settle down again for a while— | but never for long. | To a woman the trailer housewives belied the dark suspicions of their timid stay-at-home sisters, who inti- mate that all females cruising the country in trailers must ipso facto have been inviegled, kidnaped and | held captive in a rolling cage by some footloose male desiring home-cooked | dinners along with his selfish, un- | trammelled wanderings. % x % | E nearest case to a trailer “kid- | * naping” uncovered at the tourist | camp was a stately, white-haired New | | England housewife, whose son snatched | { her away from a 16-room home and | installed her in a trailer before she | could catch her breath to protest | As she sat with a fiv-swatter care- fully aimed to discourage any impu- | dent flies that might dare to enter | | the glistening portals of her spotless | trailer abode, this erstwhile Massa- | housekeeper explained a I'm a person who likes to dig into & house and have everything clean and in order.” An obviously expensive “job,” finished throughout the interior with genuine mahogany panelling, this rolling substitute for a mansion tele- Not to Be Lightly Swapped for Stationary Home Is Consensus of Opinion. BY ELIZABETH STAFFORD. HE life of a trailer housewife is a gay one, not to be traded lightly for a home anchored to a basement and a city lot, according to a recent poll of women whose “homes on wheels” were parked at the Washing- types, the women were unanimous in indorsing the trailer existence in small or large doses to suit the individual tastes and circumstances. Asked about< scoped kitchen, dining room, living room and bath into trailer dimensions while maintaining an appearance of luxurious simplicity. A trailer it re- mained, just the same, with little space for extensive housecleaning operations by even the most ambitious of Yankee housekeepers. “I didn’t like it at first,” confessed the New Englander. “Everything seemed so cramped after a large house.” Mother and son started on their wanderings on the twenty-third of December last. That both forgot the calendar and did not realize two days later that Christmas had arrived until they heard children tooting their horns suggests that the carefree spirit of the road was already beginning to infect the reluctant New England ex- patriate. Arriving in Florida on New Year day, the Massachusetts housewife was surprised to be greeted with a hearty “Good morning” from fellow campers, strangers she had never seen. “It was always ‘Good morning.' whether they knew us or not,” re= called the Bay State traveler. I was surprised at first by the friendliness of the tourists, particularly the West- erners, but I learned to like it. I made more new friends in a few months in a trailer than I would in years at home. Any they were high-type people, to0.” * k% % ’I‘HIS observation concerning the friendliness and substantial char= acter of the trailer citizenry was borne out by the appearance and manners of the families parked at the tourist camp. Camp officials confirmed the impression that the modern trailer travelers as a rule belong to the upper middle class groups, the day of the “tin can tourist” having waned. And there are those who could travel with the four hundred who prefer traveling in trailers, notably Cornelius Vander- bilt, jr., who visited Washington in & trailer after bidding farewell to Fifth avenue. Attendants at the Washington Tourist Camp report that an ever increasing number of trailers are bringing sightseers into Washington. Forty were registered on the afternoon this survey was made, but the number is often greater and does not take into account the trailers parked in private camps in Maryland and Virginia. Trailer-visitors like the Capital and aften ask to have the two-week privie leges allowed to trailers extended. As the camp is restricted to transients, such extensions are allowed only when good reasons are demonstrated. On one occasion a tourist was in the midst of an extensive dental treatment when his parking permit terminated. His pleas for an extension were reason- ably granted, the while his new set of teeth was in the making! My Neighbor Says: Fall is the best time to scatter lime over the soil in your garden. As it requires several months for lime to be beneficial to soil, if well raked into gardens now they will be enriched for early planting in the Spring. To soften shoes that have be-. come stiff when dried after hav- ing been water-soaked, wash them first with warm water and rub petroleum ointment into them. A teaspoon of vinegar added to the fat in which doughnuts are fried prevents their absorbing too much fat (Copyright. 1987.) "OH, IF | ONLY HAD FIGURE LIKE THAT! > THEN WHY DON'T YOU TRY THE WONDER WHEAT WAY? TAND SEVERE UT | CANT YOU DON'T HAVE TO. JUST TAKE A MODERATE AMOUNT OF EXERCISE. THE DIETS ! WRONG AGAIN! EAT WONDER WHEAT BREAD! YOU'LL LOVE IT... 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