Evening Star Newspaper, April 23, 1940, Page 28

B—10 WOMEN’S FEATURES. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGION, D. C, Sleek New Foundations Perfectly Adaptable With Summer Wear Attractive Closet Fine Bridal Shower Presents; Report on Fashion By HELEN VOGT. At American notion counters, every use is to be found. In fact, recent visits to the shops have convinced us that there are so many possibilities among the fascinating, well-stocked dispiays that one could easily spend that, incidentally, is a fine idea. improve your appearance. Into the latter category falls one of the newest gadgets, a sleek form- fitting girdle of smooth liquid latex. there are no seams or bones, it really feels as snug and molded as a second skin. In delicate tones of pink, blue or white, it is sure to be a pop- ular feature this summer, for under costumes, it will give the desired line The notion departments, contrary to opinion, contain far more in- teresting things than pins, needles are dress shields permanently attached to brassieres. These eliminate the fuss and bother of sewing in shields—and insure ing. Another new item is the “gar- ment gripper,” a band with stippled rubber surface which pins inside the skirt band and keeps blouse and skirt from pulling apart. Still another aid is the rubberized skirt shield, which prevents wrinkles and keeps pleats firmly in place. Wear and tear on Jacket linings is eliminated by the use of a sport shield. Some time ago, we mentioned those wonderful capes that are de- signed to be worn when applying make-up, in order to keep powder, stray hairs and the like off your clothes. Well, they're still selling like mad, in all colors, but they've been “dressed up” in many in- stances. Recently we saw some that had a contrasting flower ruffie around the neckline, and not only was it useful, but very smart looking in- deed. Transparent, mesh-like fab- ric called Koroseal was seen not long ago in umbrellas, and we notice that it is now being used for at- tractive little kitchen aprons. It's crisp and fresh looking, as well as an excellent protection for your frocks. Among our favorites at the hotion counter are the quilted boxes My Neighbor Says: Want to help keep your strawberries piump and red when they are cooked? Add a teaspoon of vinegar to each 2 cups of berries. But remember, prolonged cooking will destroy color, flavor and texture of berries whatever you do. Add diced celery to your next dish of macaroni and cheese. A third of a cup of celery will be enough for three cups of macaroni and cheese. English muffins may be made into clever cases for creamea foods. Scoop out the centers of the muffins. Fill the cases with creamed mixture. Then bake them 10 minutes in a moderate oven. Why not devote an hour or two to browsing around? We are quite sure that you will find any number of time-saving, labor-saving devices, as well as those articles designed to Accessories Displays an astounding number of items for a day in that lone department. And It weighs only 5 ounces, and because play suits, swim suits or other scanty with no bulge or discomfort. and shoe laces. For instance, there = more frequent launder- | which make for more efficiency in the arrangement of your clothes. These come in sizes for hose, gloves, handkerchiefs, lingerie and all the other accessories. Transparent hat boxes are a real help and very decorative in the cupboard. Velvet- | covered garment hangers and hat | stands are other useful pieces. In | matching closet accessories, you'll find garment bags, hat and blouse | boxes, shoe racks, hangers, shoe trees and any number of other articles that make for a really } convenient cupboard. Incidentally, these make very fine bridal shower gifts. It would even be fun to give an entire shower devoted to no- tions! f‘ So, don't overlook the possibili- | ties here. Maybe you've never | really investigated the mysteries of this department, and if you haven't you don’t know what you're missing. On the local fashion front, lunch- eon style shows are still the order | of the day. One of the most dis- | Wear Your Dinnerware. .. cussed was held at the Shoreham on last Thursday for the benefit of | | charity cases in our local hospitals. | A group of Washington's loveliest | | ladies arranged it all, modeled the | clothes from a New York shop and | | deserve the credit for one of the | most outstanding displays of the | spring and summer season. At the same hotel on the follow- | ing Saturday, the regular luncheon | | fashion show featured summer at- tire from Sak’s. Clothes of all types included the high lights of fashion | for the days ahead, and additional interest was given by the display of summer furs—a most important part of our warm weather ward-| | robe today. | E Luncheon at the Raleigh was| | to the interest in wedding clothes | as featured by Jelleff’s. Four com- | plete bridal parties made up the | show and included the strictly in-| | formal costume as well as the ivory- satin-and-orange-blossom variety. | | Floral decorations made the scene | | seem almost real—except for the ' absence of a groom! Simple Slenderizing Model For Thrifty Housewives By BARBARA BELL. Simple, smart, slenderizing, this dress is practically a must for your wardrobes from now on. Gathers beneath the shoulder yoke, tailored notched collar (which can be ac- cented with its double in white, if you like) and slim-hipped, paneled skirt make it supremely becoming to the woman who has size to con- BARBARA BELL, ‘Washington Star. Inclose 25 cents in coins for sider. Youll be a lot happier and better dressed if you have several dresses in this casual, tailored style always ready to put on. It's an ideal pattern for polka-dot silk, and also makes up smartly in flat crepe and spun rayon. Later, of course, you'll repeat it in street cotton. It's so easy to make that even beginners can finish it quickly. Step-by-step sew chart included in pattern. Barbara Bell pattern No. 1905-B is designed for sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50 and 52. Size 38 requires 4% yards of 39-inch material with- out nap; three-eights yard for extra collar. It's’ ready! Barbara Bell's new Fashion Book, with almost - 100 sparkling new designs for afternoon, daytime- and sports! Lovely things for you and the children, all smarter than smart, exclusively designed for you! Send 15 cents for it today! Spend less, and still have all the clothes you want. £ | almost, but not quite, forgotten, due | { You can’t set a table with these reproductions of old china, but they are ideal to lend charm and interest to your simple frocks. The gayly patterned miniature dishes are interspersed with gold-colored knives, forks and spoons to form jewelry that is new and different. Created by an American designer, it carries out the novelty theme so important in costume pieces this season. By FRANCESCA McKENNEY. OUR SCOUTS SUGGEST: > The newest silver candlesticks, of simple but graceful lines, are equipped with adjustable tops, so that any size of candle will fit into them. Much neater and easier than the old twist-cf-paper method. . . A huntsman’s household would welcome the round bone china dish, designed to hold cocktail olives, cherries or onions, about whose lid sly Reynard lies curled. The lids may be had in red, black or yellow. On each side of the dish a metal |, bar holds six little spears, each topped with an enameled hound'’s head. ... Useful and attractive gadgets are the animal strike lighters. As these come in a wide assortment of ani- mals, you may place one on every table in the house and still ind no duplicates. . . . For His Majesty, The Baby, there's a silver tray, with Mother Goose figures scampering across its sur- face. But the best of it is that the tray may be clamped tightly to the chalr or table so that it cannot be sent crashing to the floor by a sweeping infantile arm. . . . To be used in making cookies (or they may be eaten just like candy, too) are little nuggets of semisweet chocolate. Mixed into cookie bat- ter, these will not melt, so that when the cakes emerge from the oven, every one may enjoy the whole bits of crunchy chocolate. . . . A bar of music for a centerpiece is something definitely new, and, we may add, especially lovely. This is made of lucite and glass, and is so designed that each note on the bar is a tiny vase which will hold water and a few short-stemmed flowers. There’'s an old-fashioried garden gate along the same lines.... Dish towels have gone glamorous. The prettiest seen in a long time boasted appliqued figures, such as & maid and butler at work in a pantry; a waitress trying to handle a stack of dishes (in a fearsome manner); a string of gourds and many other patterns. . . . Have you seen the Lazy Susans made of mirror glass? They are pretty enough to be used alone as a centerpiece for the table, even when there is no food to be set on them at the time. The base is so close to the table top that they may be placed under bowls of flowers if you wish. . . . To add a dash of color to a room, there’s nothing better than an ash- tray of Venetian blue glass with a red bird perched on the very edge. .. . Bread Rings Crispness and smoothness contrast in a serving of bread rings with smooth creamed ham or eggs. The rings are made out of bread slices that have been cut with a scalloped or plain round cookie cutter brushed with melted butter and toasted. A doughnut cutter forms an attractive toast-round for the top of each in- dividual serving. . . Garnish for Soups A lemon garnish for soups. That's a new idea, but a good one. Float & slice of lemon on each bowl the next time you serve bouillon or consomme. Decorative and good, too, on bean or lentil soup and such cream soups as tomato, asparagus, spinach or green pea, Lemon is especially good with iced or jellicd consomme. A * | think? DEAR MISS DIX—What qualities should a girl look for in a husband? My ideal used to be a man who was tall, slim, with dark hair and eyes | and romantic-looking. I have out- | grown that childish dream and am not seeking a pretty boy as a hus- band any more. But I am wonder- ing what traits of character a man should possess that would make him a desirable husband? What do you Answer—Well, I think that the one quality, above all others, that a girl should look for in the man to who she is going to intrust her life’s happiness is dependability. Just plain, old-fashioned reliability. The thing in & man that makes him accept his responsibilities and stick to his bargains. The something that makes him trustworthy and that en- 1 ables his wife to go along and enjoy | marriage, instead of living on tenter | hooks, wondering where is my wan- | dering boy tonight? Don’t marry a man until he has shown that he can stand on his own feet. Don’t marry a weakling. Don't marry a dreamer. Don’t marry a near-genius who is always going to set the world afire, but who has never made enough money to buy even a scuttle of coal. This doesn’t mean that you must marry & rich man in order to be happy through married. Quite the contrary. No marriages are more successful than those in which a poor girl and boy marry and work together. But it does mean that the husband must have enough energy and industry to provide for his fam- ily. ‘ Dorothy Dix Says - - - Dependability a Very Important | | Quality in Every Husband | | Watch how a man spends his | money. That will give you & pretty | good line on whether, if you marry | him, you will have to get up in the night and go through his pockets to | get the price of a hair wave. If a man has a padlock on his pocketbook and haggles over every | But equally undesirable is the man who spends more than he can afford, who is always in debt and whose wife and children go shabby and half starved while he heads the subscription for testimonial dinners and silver services for the boss. has a sense of humor. Jjolly man, one whose laugh is hung on a hairtrigger. There are many things in marriage that are either | comedies or tragedies, according to | the way you take them. | Don't marry a critical man. He will eat 364 dinners without a word of praise and raise ructions because the 365th isn’t quite up to the mark. Marry an entertaining man. One who is a good talker. Orie who picks up interesting bits of gossip and retails them to you. One who will talk to you about his hopes and plans and business. Being bored to death is such a lingering and un- pleasant way to die. And, above all, never, never, never marry & man who is a mamma’s darling. He will never be anything but a spoiled baby if he lives to be hundred, and no matter what you do you will never be able to give satisfaction as a wife because you will never be the slave to him that mother was. DOROTHY DIX. Most of us are attracted by certainly unusual, yet inexpensive Fruit Mats for Hot Plates By BARONESS PIANTONI. the unusual. And for our homes especially do we want lovely things that will draw attention and admira- tion. Here is a set of hot-plate mats that is attractive, imaginative, and easy to make. The mats are crocheted in the_form of a lusclous bunch of grapes, an inviting apple and a juicy pineapple. Two of each will make a wonderful set of six for a gift! To obtain this pattern, send for No. 1459 and inclose 15 cents m or coin to cover service and postage. Address orders to the N Editor of The Evening Star. v cent that he spends, pass him up. | Choose a man for a husband who | Pick out a| TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1940. Roundup of Notion Covuntérs Reveals Wealth of Useful Articles When Guest |[Prom Time Is Just Ahead And It Is None Too Soon Breaks an Article Damage Should Be . Repaired if at All Possible By EMILY POST. It is true that guest can not actually be held responsible for what they break in other people’s houses, and for this very reafon the least they can do is to show they are sorry about what they have done. In most cases when it is possible to repair the damage, they should do s0. In other cases, there is nothing that can be doné beyond showing their regret. But before going fur- ther let me quote part of a letter: “Recently we had guests to dinner and during the dinner the husband leaned back too hard on his chair and the back snapped. I felt bad of course, as I love these chairs and they are irreplacable, but I tried very hard not to show just how bad I did feel. I'm not a very good actor however. Neither the man nor his wife said a thing about how sorry they were, but instead they offered all sorts of suggestions as to how the chair could be fixed. ‘When they left the husband insisted that my husband take $2 to have the chair repaired. I knew nothing about this until later. The fact ¢ that $2 can not fix the chair is less annoying than this man’s perfectly self-satisfled attitude in not having the slightest impulse to say a word akout being sorry. “Will you give me your opinion of this situation and of what can properly be done when something unfortunate like this happens in another person’s house? My hus- band says that guests are not liable for accidents like this.” ‘What one should do when one damages something belonging to another depends upon a number of circumstances. In this particular instance, let us suppose that the chair was a valuable antique—a Ppossession remaining from more af- fluent days—and that repairing it would be a difficult process, and re- placing it, impossible. The guest should, I think, have made some attempt to do his part toward its repair, but certainly not in the way he went about it. He could at least haveé shown concern and he might have asked, “Do you know any one who can mend it?” If his hostess said she did, he could then have urged her to give him the address and let him have it sent for. (An intimate friend would have asked the hostess to have it repaired at his expense.) I suggest this because there is a good deal of responsibility in ordering something done for some one else. On the other hand, if she hadn't known of any particular place, he could have suggested that she let him look into the matter and have the chair sent for as soon as he learned the name of an expert cabinet worker. In a situation where the hostess is obviously very well-off, and the guest of very moderate means, an expression of sincere regret would be sufficient. In fact | I think it would be embarrassing to both and therefore in bad taste to mention the question of payment. Dear Mrs. Post: At a large public dinner, on which side of a man should his wife be seated? Answer: Neither, because a wife is not supposed to sit next to her own husband at a dinner—unless you mean that this husband and wife have bought two tickets and are going alone? In this case, they would of course sit together, she on. his right if this is possible. At the head table—or any other seated with place cards—married people | are always, according to etiquette, separated. Let me again remind certain wives | who occasionally protest against this separating of wife and husband rule that it does not mean a hus- band may not even prefer to sit next to his own wife. It merely means that, according to best social practice, it is considered much more encouraging to the exchange of ideas—in other words, conversation —if two people sit next to each other who see each other less frequently than it is quite naturally taken for granted that a husband and wife do. Mrs. Post is sorry she can ne longer answer personal letters. She is glad however to have many printed slips on a variety of sub- jects to offer to her readers. Today’s slip is “What Shall I Wear?” _Be sure to send a 3-cent stamped, self-addressed envelepe with your request to Mrs. Post, in care of The Evening Star. WASHINGTON DRANK BERKELEY SPRINGS MINERAL WATER r 200 years to be beneficial for | D certain Skin Diseases | Known Arthritis, and Rheu: Boitled Only at Berkeley Spring, W. 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The same material can be used for a picket fence and artificial flowers can be strewn about in profusion. Also, garden furniture may be placed around the dance floor instead A terrace of make-believe grass can even be constructed in front of the orchestra platform, sloping down to And a dark blue false ceiling, sprinkled with stars and a full spring moon, will help create the glamorous atmosphere of a night in of the usual undertaker’s chairs. the floor. the old South. But perhaps the “Gone With the Wind” theme doesn't appeal to you and you're looking for another idea for your final dance of the school year, honoring the seniors who are about to world. So we're bursting into thed— for It high And the decorating be launched into the cold, cruel breach and suggesting a “Life Be- gins in Forty” party. The idea, of course, is a takeoff on Walter Pitkin’s famous book of encouragement to middle-agers. But no matter what Mr. Pitkin thought, young people who are graduating this year certainly realize that life, for them, is beginning in 1940. A| prom built around that theme is therefore & “natural.” It’s not too early to begin plan- ning your decorations. They can be simple and inexpensive, yet clever and effective. Carry them out in the senior class colors and make the feature of the scheme large “40s” at intervals all around the gymnasium or hall. For instance, festoons of crepe paper in your chosen colors might be draped from a center point in the ceiling to the side walls, each one terminating in a big “40.” If you are dancing in a gymnasium, cover the basket ball goals with more numerals. And across the top of the orchestra platform, or on a bal- cony, have a huge rolled diploma tied with ribbons in the class colors and bearing the words “Life Begins in 40" You can carry out this idea as elaborately as your budget will per-| mit, depending, of course, on the hall and wiat it requires in the way of decoration. Generally, however, | we think it's a good idea not to bite | off more than your decorating com= mittee is able, or willing, to chew. Young people are busy around the| end of the school year and there's | nothing more dismal than a compli- | cated scheme that flops because the | committee is too rushed to carry it out. If you don't have much time or| money to spend on decorations it's well to concentrate on the orches- tra platform. Often by handling it effectively, you can ignore the| rest of the hall. And don’t forget| the usefulness of ferns, greenery and flowers banked in front of this platform. They are especially nice for a spring dance. 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