Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1937, Page 28

B—10 Impending Loss of W WOMEN’S FEATURES. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, isdom Te Victim Overwhelmed By Awful Possibilities That ‘Are Lying in Wait D. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, eth Brings Out “Horror Story” Complex L3 1937. WOMEN'S FEATURES. L 4 Traveling Problems Solved {Man and Woman Mo- toring Alone Run Risk of Criticism. BY EMILY POST. DEAR MRS. POST: (1) Would § be considered an act of impro- priety for a man and woman—very old friends and neither of us young— to go on a motor trip together? (2) We intend to share expenses but just how is this done? (3) And what about registering in a hotel? I would Manners Must Be Taught They Are Passports to | Sinister Prophecies Seem to Be the Accepted | Pleasant Places the | Order of Things in Such World Over. BYMARGARET NOWELL Cases. BY ANGELO PATRL BY BETSY CASWELL. 'HE living room was bright and in- 'VE GOT to have a wisdom tooth pulled out—in fact, two wisdom teeth. viting. Father sighed blissfully And I'm scared practically to death! . and sank into his chair by the fire- It was bad enmlgh when I heard the verdict—I've never had a tooth side, opening his paper with every pulled, and I regard it as the last word in refined torture and agony— appearance of satisfaction with things but my troubles had only just begun. I staggered, gently moaning, from the as they were. Mother took her place dentist’s chair, stopped to see the fatal day and hour entered in a formidable by the little table and prepared to black book, smiled wanly at the brisk < — = = knit. There was & noise on the stairs young secretary who—I'm sure—never Trim Princess Frock This Simple House Coat Wili Answer Your Needs for Many Months. ERE in Washington, from the time the city was first inhabited up to the beginrning of the nineteenth century, we had two outstanding types of houses—the red brick Georgian, inspired by the lovely homes of Colonial Virginia, and the spacious graystone dwellings, copied from the comfortable farm houses built through the river valleys of Pennsyl- vania by the thrifty, home-loving German settlers. They graystone farm house is uppermost in time, as I have just supervised the< restoration of one of them here in Washington. It holds an interesting my mind at the present huge cooking fireplace, with the iron Now, at last, I could gain peace and and two boys and a dog splashed into the quiet and shattered it completely. Mother, can I—" ow, mother, don't let had the radio all last night gives me a chance.” One at a time, Roger. It seems to me that your brother is entitled to his choice of program once in a ile—-" He can listen ton, can't he?” “I don't want that program. want—-" “What about your lessons?” “They're all done. Did them in school. Well, all right. I'll play the piano. I haven't practiced yet, any- him. He He never I place, in this series on homes for Washington, because it started as the {small home of a young man and his |bride 120 years ago. and was enlarged and developed during their lifetime to be one of the important houses in Washington. It was fun working with |beautifully laid stone walls 2 feet thick, plaster mixed with red cow hair laid on hand-split lath, and still as hard as sheet metal! gThe floor joists were made of white oak, 4 by 12 inch and 30 feet in length. Above them was laid pire flooring, in random widths, 11, inches thick, and finished by hand. wav.” and Roger, the older, began to pound out his “piece.”” Harley lay down on the floor to play with the police dog. He rolled over, calling “Catch me, Watson: catch me,” and Watson obliged, jumping over chairs and squeezing behind or under any obstacle. “Get him good, boy,” urged Roger between thumps. “You leave him alone, can't you?" shouted Harley. “He isn't playing with you, is he?” '}:flr h:;r“!gr:cpe:mout“‘ll t:;r; f-?@".n was staggered by the exquisite work- | thousand times not, to bring him into Manship and the time and material the living room. You, Roger, go up- [that had gone into the construction tairs to your own place and stay of the house, and, consequently, felt there, I'm not obiiged to live in a|Very humble in my efforts to restore | botler factory just yet. I don’t care it {0 its original condition! : about your practice. Practice when| The house is built on the crest of I'm not home. As long as you have & hill. The ground slopes off sharply | no living room manners stay out of |At the rear, leaving the basement here. That's mv last word on it, too.” | With full-height doors and windows After quiet and order had been re- |A!l above ground. The kitchen and stored mother said: “But they will dining room are on this floor, and I have to be trained to behave properly |2M of the impression that this was [bullt and used several years before iving room. Banishing them | ) B T T omn | the rest of the house was constructed. % | The house has a center hall. One Scrhjotiashemethalisill wor lenters the front door on the living “Why not?” asked father. “Why eannot they be taught that there are | T00m floor. On either side of the manners for the playground, other |DAll is & large room. 18 by 24 feet manners for the parlor, still others for [Bach has four windows and a fire- | the kennels and all the other places |Place. On the second floor are two they will discover by and by? ~All T|large bed rooms, and on the third ask of them is that they behave to|tW0 small ones, built under the slope rings which once held a crane in place. To the right of the fireplace opening was a Dutch oven, with grates below to hold hot coals. We had an iron crane made by a blacksmith which now holds cooking pots and a kettle All the flues are in perfect condition, and when we have secured the neces- sary equipment I am going to find out just how difficult it is to cook a dinner in a real Dutch oven! The main floor has a living room and drawing room. The paneling around the doors and windows is very fine. The windows are flush with the outside of the house, which makes a deep window sill the deptt walls. The many layers of varicolored paint had to be removed before the new paint could be applied. The fire- places had all been closed, but when they were opened up and cleaned worked as well as when they were constructed. The floors were covered with layers of black paint. This was removed and the old boards sanded, then finished with a coat of sheliac to harden the surface, sanded again and | waxed. They now have the deep golden tone that pine achieves with vears and care. The living room has a very fine marble fireplace, blue-gray suit the occasion. “And that reminds me. T have to tee Roger again about his church be- havior. I spoke to him about it last Sunday. He kept turning and twist- ing about to see who came in and all sbout them. I have to go over that with him again. He just didn't think. Now we have to teach him to think. “You attend to the living room manners; I'll take over church. Maybe between us we can make some impres- sion on them both. They will never know if they don't learn now.” Manners must be taught. There is a manner suitable for the occasion every time and as fast as the occa- sions come the children ought to be trained to meet them. Good manners | are passports to pleasant places the | wide world over. Home is no excep- tion. of the roof, with gable windows. A great chimney runs up the north and |the south side of the building, with a fireplace on every tloor. The structure is built of gray gtone— a mixture of gray-blue granite, with occasional stretches of sandstone of a reddish color. Though it is generally | supposed that the stone was quarried locally, it does not match anything in the vicinity now. It was necessary to close up a door in the house, and after searching all the local quarries, we finally excavated the foundation of | an old outbuilding to get stone to| match the main house. The bricks used in the house came from a local kiln and are four times as large as modern bricks. It is an interesting building. because it shows its growth from a simple, al- most primitive, little house to a man- | sion, with all the elegance which came after the Civil War Plastered up in the great chimney breast in the old kitchen we found a The Old Gardener Says: The so-called Nankeen lily ffers from most other kinds cept its close cousin, the Ma- lily, in the fact that it should be planted in Summer ead of in late Fall. Bulbs be in the stores and should to the ground either this month or in September-——the earlier the better. Like the bulbs of the Madonna lily, they should be planted rather shallow, not more than four inches under the surface, The flowers are apricot in color, and fragrant. This par- ticular lily has never been very widely planted, but the bulbs are to be found in most of the cata- logues now. possibly under the botanical name of Lilium testa- ceum, (Copyright, 1937.) and white and beautifully designed This was called “blue marble” and was quarried near B: Mawr, Pa The bed rooms have white marbie fire- places which came from a steam mar- ble works in Baltimore about 1840. All the woodwork is now painted gray- white, which shows the beautiful pan- eling and the detail of the stairway to advantage. Some of the walls are painted and others are covered with copies of wall papers used in this coun- try about 1800. We have tried to hold to the spirit of the house in its furnishings. The dining room, with its cooking fire- place, has a pine dresser with open shelves for a collection of white stoneware and blue and white china. The table is a large one of cherry, with drop leaves. It is comfortable for two with the leaves down and will seat 10 if necessary. The chairs are early American slatback ones of | pine. The light fixtures are old | lanterns which have been fitted for | electricity, but they are seldom used, as candlelight reflects beautifully from the uneven surface of the white- washed walls. are made of theatrical gauze sunlight. Upstairs, with its fine paneling and more formal praportions, the neces- sary pieces of furniture are of the Federal or early Victorian period, of | rosewood or mahogany, with an oc- casional painted piece. The windows are treated very simply, with ruffled, very sheer curtains tied back., In each case the curtains are not im- | portant in themselves, but are used to soften the light at the window and | display its very fine proportion and | detail. There are no overdraperies | Used in the house. The floor coverings | are almost entirely hooked rugs, large | If you want to obtain the most attractive runner in the shortest space of time, you should embroider it in cross-stitch. The charming design can be worked out in pastel colors to harmonize with the rest of your furhishings. The runner illustrated was also finished with a very simple crochet edging. The pattern envelope contains genuine hot iron’transfer for 2 motifs %x8 inches: border for a 10x36 inch runner, complete, easy-to-understand Hllustrated directions, with diagrams to aid you; also what crochet hook and what material and how much you will need. To obtain this pattern, send for No. 509 and inclose 15 cents in stamps or eoin to cover service and postage. Address orders to the Needlework Bditor of The Evening Star. A ones, copies of antiques. In the early days Washington had many of these fine homes. Some of them have been pulled down and the | stone used to construct modern houses. Some of them have been stuccoed or | plastered over their beautiful masonry. | Many of them are still standing in | the outlying sections of the city. The Pierce estate, including the mill and even the little spring house, was an outstanding example of this type of architecture. Col. Cary Grayson's home of this type on Wisconsin ave- nue combines the dignity necessary in the house of a man of importance in the Nationa’ Capital with the graciousness and charm of a secluded home. The stone walls of these houses seems to fit perfectly into the land- scape, and their broad roof and large chimney mean shelter and warmth to any one lucky enough to possess such a place. Grenadier Hats Popular. PARIS (#)—Grenadier hats, in- spired by the recent Directoire Ball, are making a big ripple on the fashion sea here. They are chic bicornes with backs of black plush and fronts of black felt crossed with colored rib- bons which end in rosettes. “Dark” Chocolate. For a ‘“dark” chocolate cake use dark brown sugar and add half a teaspoonful of powdered cloves, A [N of the | The straight curtains | in a| deep golden shade, which picks up | had a tooth pulled in her life and isn't going to—and .. made my way to- ward the elevator. And right there the nightmare began. The doors opened, to reveal a large and stoutish lady, evidently on her way down from a den of misery on an upper floor, clutching a swollen jaw with 3 both hands and % moaning loudly. ‘To say that I was shaken would be putting it mildly. “Here,” I said to myself, “go you, come next day after tomorrow.” The lady moaned louder every time the elevator jerked to a landing and large tears squeezed out ran down her puffy cheeks. I began to feel trapped and prayed that the street floor would be reached before she fell in a faint or started bleeding at the mouth, or something. How- ever, the elevator was playing local Betsy Caswell that day and proceeded to make the | When | most of it all the way down escape came I sprinted for the pave- ment as fast as my trembling would carry me ok oxox JJAILING a taxi, I sank gratefully upon the cushions. Hot fanned my face, and the driver cut through traffic with hair-raising dash But I didn't care. I could forget about wisdom teeth for a moment and think of something pleasant instead The driver turned his head and spoke. “That was a dentists’ office build- ing you come out of, wasn't it, lady?” I said yes, it was, with a feeling of | foreboding. “My.” he continued brightly, spit- ting out into the wide world, “Them's terrible feliers! Charge like all get out, and tear you to pieces something awful. My wife went to one of 'em to get a tooth filled and the first thing she knew he'd give her gas and she woke up with all of her front teeth out and sittin’ on the table in front of 1" T gaid. feebly. he continued, avoiding had a terrible time fected, and she had to have the bone scraped for two months. Cost me plenty, you bet!” I thought, privately, that it must but, to my relief, home was in sight and the conversation was happily abandoned. sensitive and e hurt, and when I am wounded I can't keep from crying. This dis- gusts my fiance from crying and when I burst into tears he acts very inconsiderate. I thought if he loved me he would try to comfort me instead of making things harder as he does. So I have resolved never to cry before him again even if I have to leave him abruptly when I feel I am going to weep. I know I up inside of me until I must have a good cry. ward. I think I would be miserable if T couldn't cry sometimes. What do you think about it? D. M. Answer: I am no crier myself, but I know lots of women who are free weepers who seem to get a great deal out of a de bauch of tears looking as refreshed as a flower does after a rain. No doubt a psychologist would say that crying releases some sort of a nervous tension in them and leaves them at peace with themselves and the world, Personally, T have never had the slightest sympathy with the cry-baby woman. She has always seemed to me a weak and contemptible creature, one who sat down and howled for what she wanted until somebody gave it to her to stop her yapping; one who used her tears as a coward's weapon to keep every one around her walking on eggs for fear of her turning on the water works, * ok ok X HY everybody should be so ter- rorized of crying women, I don't know, but they are. There is some- thing in women's tears that just seems to melt down our backbones and make us incapable of dealing with the weep- er as we should. Millions of women have used tears as an excuse for their shiftlessness and laziness. They just sat down before a hard job and cried until somebody did their work for them. Millions of women who are strong and able-bodied are supported by others because they always cry when anybody suggests they get a job. Mil- lions of women have turned their hus- bands into defaulters by crying for diamond bracelets and fine cars until their husband stole to get them. And millions of other women have floated themselves into marriage on their tears by crying on the shoulders of men who didn't want to marry them but who did marry them because they didn't have nerve enough to turn off the tear taps. Taking it all around, tears are prob- ably the best alibi and graft that women have ever discovered. 8o, per- haps, the weeping women know what they are about when they get out their handkerchiets. I of her eyes and | legs | air | a dog by going straight at it, “She | Her jaw got in- | have cost her plenty and then some— | Shed Your Tears in Private. EAR MISS DIX—I am very He says I can keep | am a cry-baby, but things pile up and | I feel so much better after- | of pleasure out of it and who come | forgetfulness. But no. The maid in- quired promptly what the dentist had | said. (Unwisely I had announced my intention of visiting him on my way home from the office.) When I muttered “One out—two out,” she settled herself in the doorway before me, blocking my path, and proceeded | to tell me the horrible story of her sister, who had had her jaw broken when her lower right wisdom tooth was extracted. She left no gruesome detail untold—including the silver wire that still held Queenie’s face together. x ok k% ’l‘HROUGH dinner the man of the house told me all about the time he lost his wisdom teeth. (He didn't have to tell me—I remembered every trying moment just as well as he did. He had, to judge from his behavior, suffered the tortures of Job.) Now, as he told the story, all was sweetness and light, and what little unpleasant- ness there had been e had borne with | noble fortitude and courage. Although I did remember the actual facts, this | little day dream cheered me some- what. At the office the next morning word of my impending doom had, appar- | ently, spread. (That is another funny | | thing I have discovered about having | your wisdom teeth out, everybody | seems to know it as soon as you do, | or before, like Walter Winchell.) One | after another they came tip-toeing in, | with that dreadful expression that is | | 50 peculiar to sick rooms on their | faces—it seems to be compounded of one part sympathy, two parts curios- | ity and one part triumph—and one by one they told me of the awful | fate in store for me. I beheld myself dying of gas (I'm not going to have gas, only novocaine), permanently | | paralyzed by novocaine (I wish I were | going to have gas), suffering months of agony from infected jawbones, hav- ing a disfigured face from shattered bones or paralyzed nerves, looking like a chipmunk with cheeks full of nuts for weeks, going through nervous prostration from shock—everything any one can think of, except that I| might have two troublesome teet nicely out, feel the better for it, with |only a day or so of soreness to re- member the occasion by! | ‘There is something about one’s wis- | dom teeth that makes them anybody's property. As long as they were “a poor thing. but mine own" I was pretty sensible and brave about them. | Now that they have become the talk | of the town, and the instrument of mv destruction. I'm scared to death of them. I think I'll make a will. Be- | | cause I'm sure I'll never live through | | 1osing them! Dorothy Dix Says * Nobody Likes a Cr i yv-Baby Woman, So \ T can but congratulate your fiance though on his farsightedness in put- ting a damper on your tears instead | of encouraging them. It is the only | way he can save himself from a life- time of slavery to a woman who can never be treated like a rational human being and who will always have to be petted and said “there, there, don't cry” to when she is in the wrong, and coddled and spoiled in every way to keep her from dissolving in tears. | | And that gets pretty tiresome as the | years go by. for the weeping woman | as Mr. Mantilini in Dicken’s story used | to say. is “a demmed, mois¢, unpleasant body.” As your boy friend appears to be of this some opinion you are wise to decide to do your crying in private. Only that will take all the pep out of | | it, because weepers weep to be seen | and made much of. | * ¥ % X% 1 DEAR DOROTHY DIX: How ean | a boy acquire the art of keeping a conversation going with a girl who | has almost no conversation when he | 18 not so talkative himself? Is talking | a gift, or is there a way to learn such | A thing? Should one prepare a con- versation before going out? If so, how? And if not, what do you suggest? M. E. C Answer: The gift of gab is something that comes by nature and I doubt if it can be .acquired. There are people who seem to be born with a dic- tionary in their mouths, so to speak. and others out of whom every word has to be drawn with a corkscrew. If you belong to the great silent class you can no more turn yourself into a babbler than you can into an opera singer if you have no voice, or a | cinema beauty if you have a pug nose. It is impossible to prepare a conver- sation in advance because you cannot possibly know what trend the talk is going to take, and the charm of all conversation lies in its spontaneity and freshness. No people are greater bores | than those who memorize jokes that | they muff when they tell, or who study up on some subject upon which they discourse and which they drag in by the head or the heels. ‘The only thing for you to do is to pick your company and associate with people who like to do all the talking and who would be perfectly fascinated with you as a listener. Especially never go with a dumb girl. Get a chatterer who will keep the conversa- | tion going and all that you will have to contribute will be an occasional exclamation of surprise or interest. o To Re-Heat Breads. Breads, rolls and coffee rings may be reheated satisfactorily if they are placed in a paper sack, fastened tightly and warmed for five minutes in a moderate oven. They should be served immediately. 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Dripping with butter, seasoned with | salt and pepper, it would seem that it Every Darbars e e o oudes | had reached the heights of gustatory an illustrated instruction guide which | perfection. is easy to understand. | Fashions of the moment, 32 pages of photographs and sketches are fea- tured in the new Barbara Bell pattern The gourmets, however, ever alert for improvements, have found a new | way to make corn on the cob and | many other corn dishes even more de- | licious. When the corn has been sea- | | soned and buttered as usual, they add | generous quantities of sweet paprika Manners of the Moment | ful, but tastily different. A new way of serving this vege- table is also finding many pleased recruits. Each person at the table is given an individual portion of butter butter and stirring in salt, pepper and paprika to taste. The sauce is served in a miniature gravy boat or any small dish and is poured over a small sec- needed. Paprika also gives added flavor to corn cut from the cob and served either with plain melted butter or with a thin cream sauce. A light sprinkling is good. too, on corn fritters and cream-of-corn soup. He's still trying to get to the sixth floor. 'HESE run-your-own elevators are terribly hard on a man with chivalry in his soul. We met one such the other day. He seemed to come with the elevator. As we stepped in at the ground floor. there he was. We asked him if he wasn't getting out, and he said wearily, “I'm trying to get to the sixth, but people keep call- ing the car back down here.” And then—a gentleman to the bitter end— he asked us which floor we wanted, and punched for us first. ! He was, we thought, the perfect elevator rider. We wouldn't have| blamed him at all if he had refused us admission, or guarded the sixth floor button with his life. Of course, as it was, he won our help. We held the door open until he had the button under control, and we both reached both our floors. We vowed, in fact, that the next time we found ourselves riding up and down between the first and sec- | ond floors in & vain effort to get to the fourth, we would mimic his be-i havior. It's much more effective than freezing the other person out with a scowl. AN, Coprright, 1937, b Send 15 cents for your‘, | The result 1s not only pictorially color- | sauce made by melting one pat of | tion of the ear of corn with a spoon as | feel more than embarrassed were this lady to pay for me—especially in th presence of others—and yet if I ins on taking care of all bills I know shs will resent my officiousness. Answer: (1) Certainly I think you are running a risk of criticism to gn traveling around the country togethe but whether this deters you or not is a question which you and she alone decide. If you are not afraid of gossip and if neither your appear: nor behavior is conspicuous, it doubtful if any one will pay especial attention to you. When you register you let her sign her own name andg then you sign yours. Or probab! you will leave her at the hotel whi you drive the car to a garage. S meanwhile registers and is shown to room. You come in when you hava left your car and register and go to your room. Then at whatever tima you have agreed upon—maybe at onc or maybe later—you meet in the lobb At American plan hotels she receives her whole bill when she “checks out * | At European plan hotels or in rese Jwxaumme where meals are paid for at the table, you pay the bills and she | settles accounts with you at the end | of the day or at the end of ths trip, or however you arrange. | * % | DEAR MRS. POST: I am marr and happily so, with two half- grown children. My husband lost business recently and we are try | very hard to get back on our feet | lieu of this I would like to take position with a Jawyer, to lasy on | about six months while he 15 making | a survey for one of his biggest ciients | I studied law at one time and my eve | slight training makes me well fitted | to help him collect these statis for which he has offered me an al- | tractive salary. This job will, how- ever, necessitate my going w him on trips that will keep us away for perhaps as long as a week at a time and this 1s what bothers me. My hus- band has no objection but tha las thing in the world I would want to do to my children is bring unpleasant criticism upon their mother. Wil you tell me what you thin Answer: If you had always been secretary to this man, it would be entirely conventional to do what requirements of this job call for to take a temporary job that req Rgolng away is not so easily unde Whether it is wise or not depends, I think, upon the likely attitude of neighbors. The fact that your hus- band approves is of course an im- portant factor in favor of your going but most important of all is the rat of your character in your communit | since it is upon this that the question | of propriety really depends. * DEAR MRS. POST: I will soon find myself in a predicam b | don't watch out! I know that I shall receive wedding presents from many of my fiance's aunts and uncles and cousins and ot lesser rela- tives, of whom he speaks often and thinks a great deal, but all of whom I have either never met or know | slightly. How should I write them? Will I seem unnecessari! stff by saying Dear Mrs. Blank when I have only heard him call her “Aunt Mar- tha?” Or on the other h if I write “Dear Aunt Martha,” might she not think I am overeager? Answer. Unless they have asked you to, it would be very premature to call them by the names he does until you are married. Even after wards what you call them depes | somewhat upon them. In most cases |in-laws love to be made real rela- ¢ those who join the family but they like the relationship to be | founded on an impulse of personal appeal and not just a tag put on mechanically. Do you see? * x % % DEAR MRS. POST: Have Initials on the small wedding cake boxes gone out of date? And if not, what initials should be used? Answer—They are marked as alwav with the combined intials of bot bride and bridegroom. a In a d . Sour Milk in Cakes. 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