The evening world. Newspaper, December 10, 1921, Page 11

~~ * children. ’ RRS CREE | . |Year’s Most Daring Book BY PRINCESS BIBESCO “|Real Love Thermometer! Titled: “I Have Only Myself to Blame” Heroines Described by M argot Asquith’s Daughter Never Marry Right Man, but Find Him After- ward—Then Stories Really Begin! By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Copyright, 1921, (New York Evenifiy A of its wil written the wife of the under the title, “ These modern with the right 1 find out he isn’t some one cise is! notable a figure, to the originals and matrons. When they are nbt be- } adly in love they are being bored—all that ever restrains them in the former Mate, is dread of the latter. Frequently the restraint 1s insu cient. There is, for example, the widow of that story wi@eh Princess Bibesco has called “The @ream." This hero- inc has eyes aad frock of Quake! gray, but her dyeams are scarlet. She sat in the garden with a ro- mantically worshiping male. "But h thoughts were fer away from him. She thought of her husband who had kissed her as if she were a crucifix and treated her always as some in- linitely fragile, sacred thing, to be broken by a breath, She thought of the men who had loved her since his death—if the reverent devotion she had inspired could be called love—of how they, too, had aproached her on tiptoe as if her preciousness made her alinyst into an invalid, She remem- bered ‘how pedple said they were frightened of her." Auu the lady was tired of reverent devotion, She yearned for a cave- mun. Probably she had never heard of the tans corps’ ianyutto; never- theless, thut was what she wanted. “She was a great lady,’ of a sort that had beer. suppres: by prog- ress und machinery and competition and she wondered what It would be like to be loved passionately with an animal passion. In her bodily lone- lines she- crgd out for roughness, for a primitive disregard of her fevl- ings. She want«d to be ‘a’ woman to ‘a’ man; to be mastered and per- haps crushed, She imagined herself. being swept off her feet into some fleeting monstrous adventure. She wanted to se. it in all its warm- colored squal.@. The great, big hec- toring man oMtering dinner in the bleak station hotel forcing her to eat and drink and then"”—— Her dream doesn't stop there, but {t is advisable that we should. Our typewriter is not made of asbetos. Anyway, the man beside her proposes —chivalrously, He kisses her hands —romantically. And she shivers! That wasn't the idea at all! ‘Torn by anxiety, he asks her if sho ean ever forgive his “roughness!” She answers, and the story ends, thus: “ wonder, she said bitterly as whe tore her hands away.” Mrs. Asquith disdained social con- ventions in her lterary revelations. In hers, Princess Bibesco scorns the necepted formlilae of sex. She com- “wm pletely reverses that favorite of the old-fashioned novelist—the dictum that all virtue must be kept in the name of the heroine. It's the poor, dear men who are shocked by improper pro- posals in the up-to-the-minute love stories told by Margot Asquith’s ughter, When Luke, in “The Web,” urges Helena to marry him she counters with—well, the sort of suggestion for which a Victorian brother would have considered himself justified in horse- whipping a Victorian lover. “She has keyed herself up to this supreme act of escape,” we read. “If only he lets her do this her sense of honor will be satisfied and she will be free—with no more debts to haunt end entangle her. ‘How can she get him to accept? “*You talk about love,’ she says. "What a strange, restricted growth it 1s with you! You don’t know what the real thing means, you who think passion is bad taste because you are not tempted, you to whom the physi- cal elde is a degrading extra.” Her words are deliberate,and clipped like @ box hedge. She is ashamed—bit- terly ashamed—but what else can she do? “What she has done—or sald— merely pains the incorruptible Luke. He replies, ‘passionately, “'I hate yon when you talk like that. “You don’t think it lke a lady? she. ‘ra, “She .. ~mbers a hundred in- stances of his insolent, moral mag- nificence. ‘You want me to sign your name, to sit at the head of your table, to dazzle your friends, to eclipse your sisters-in-law, to be a mother to your He admits the soft impeachment. But there ts no decision—that cve- ning. The lady develops a headache, and he kisses her hand, trickles her pearls between his fingers, smoothes the creamy velvet of her dress and otherwise shows, in the words of W. §. Gilbert, “what a very singularly pure young man thir pure young man must be.” In still a third sketch, “To-Morrow,” there 1s another Joseph of an insolent, moral magnificence, “He has never kissed her since she married.” we are told, “though he once took her face in his hands and sald; *¥ou make it so difficult for me.’ And, ated, she had wondered how to mako it much more dificult still.” Frank, sophisticated, epigrammatic, gubtle and courageous, Elizobeth As- quith Bibesco is her mother’s own daughter, and “I Have Only Myself to Vlame” may be Almost as successful an Margot Asquith's autobiography in enraging the old ladies of either sex. Those of us unregenerate pg to chuckle ever Margot will smile at Bliz- ceils darting attacks on male emug- just been published. set any literary editor's desk afire if left there over- night, but its serles of erotic, neurotic heroines places it unmistakably among fictional inflammables. World) by the Press Publishing Co. PRINCESS. ‘he daughter of one of England's Prime Ministers and st womun, a social Igader in the world’s capitalg, has season's most daring book. Roumanian daughter of H. H. and Margot Asquith, and her first contribution to literature, a collection of stort stories She is Princess Bibesco, Minister at Washington, 1 Have Only Myself to Blame,” has I hope this Uttle volume will not young women seldom fall in love ) never niarry lim, or if they do, the right man after all—and that Society, in which the author is so must be guessing and gossiping as of_such highly incandescent maids ness and will not take too seriously her Freudian females. Her book is published by George H. Doran Com- Tany, 30S RSE RE EE A eH IE EH Oe i Why Not Look Your Best? By Doris Doscher ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS, EAR MISS DOSCHER: Kindly send me a recipe for a good massage cream or skin food. Please tell how | can reduce my lower lip, it is MISS ® x x PHXEHRE ORM et very thick. There are many excellent bran 5 skin food on the market hone thet contain @ large percentage of almond meal I ha found the best, The lower lip can be reduced by mas- Saging with the finger tips, aiso with the palm of Hand from the centre of the chin outward. Dear Miss Dosch: Would you plea edy for pi and open pores on the face as | am troubled very much with these, also how. to make eyebrows and eyelashes grow? , Olive oil or liquid vaseline ts a great aid in. growing eyebrows and eyelashes. For the pimples and open pores watch the digestion, drink plenty OF watcr and use a non-irri- tant soap and flesh brush, rinsing off with first warm and then cold water. print a rem- Dear Miss Doscher: Every morning when | wake | of am troubled with a heaviness in my ey: ith a film. TI tam up awhile it not interfere with my sight, ves my eyes a very dull @ in the morning. Is there feelin, + ig peara’ anything that can be done to remedy this? J. Upon arising in the morning wash the eyes in an eye cup with a solu- tion of boric acid, One teaspoonful to a pint of water. In youth the cartilage of the sup- porting bridge of the nose is very ceptible to molding into proper shape but nothing but an operation can remedy the condition in maturity. My lips very red. but the bottom one is terribly thick. Can you advise me what to do? ~MLN. Avoid biting the lips and try massaging directly under the lip and around the chin and use an astrin- gent lotion, Dear Mise Doscher Will you kindl, ood way to get rid : JLSK, If the blackheads fall to respond to the treatment of hot water and appli- cation of mild soap with a flesh brush followed by a dash of cold water I think you will fmd that carbonate of magnesia and gino oxide, each one dram; rose water, four ounces, well shaken and applied to the blackheads, will soften the blackheads and make their removal easy. THE EVEN DON'T BE SO GLoomy ! ING WORLD, SAT | KNOW OUR RENT HAS BUT THE FAMILY STILL LOVES YOU URDAY, a | KNOW You Seok Lost By Betty Copyright, 1991, (New York Evening EAR MISS VINCENT: Am a girl of twenty and “D and would appreciate your advice in a little matter which puzzles me. A few weeks ago | met @ young man who seemed refined and intelligent. ! gave him my telephone number on his request and he called up that evening and asked if he might call. | invited him for the following Wednesday, to which he agreed. Later he called and said business would prevent h calling and we set the date for Saturday. Since then | have heard nothing from him. Should 1 drop him or call him up and demand an explanation? ! “PUZZLED.” The young man owes you an apol- ogy. Do not call him up. “Dear Mise Vincent: About a menth ago | met a young man whom I loved at first sight. Then } Copyright, 1971, (New York Brecing ENGLISH PLUM PUDDING. LUM puddings are far better when mellowed by. two weeks’ standing, hence this delicacy should be made now, It requires one pound each of muscate! raisins, sul- tana raisins, currants, beef suet, bread crumbs and brown sugar, three-fourths pound of flour, cix eggs, one small cup of molasses, in which one-fourth teaspoonful of soda has been dissolved; one-fourth pound of citron and one-fourth pound candied orange peel, cut small; grated rind of fresh lemon, one ounce almonds, shredded; half a grated nut- meg, pinch of salt, one teaspoonful cinnamon, half a teaspoonful each of cloves, allspice and ginger and half cup of brandy. Chop the suet; if it is kept very cold it can be chopped fine as flour. Mix the dry ingredients, beat the eggs, add the molasses and brandy and stir the two mixtures together, If the mixture js too firm add a little milk. Pour into moulds, the one-pound baking powder or cnft- fee tins will do nicely, or bowls 4 be used it ‘covered -i cloths whic! e Christmas Puddi By Emilie Hoffman World) by the Press Publishing Co. floured before tying over bowl. Allow for expansion, fill cans three-quarters Tull. Boil about eight hours. This pudding will keep for months, but must be reheated by steaming for an hour before serving. If the pudding is served at the table it is nice to steam {it in an angel cake tin and after removing from the tin stick blanched almonds over top. Fill centre cavity with the hard sauce and if it te to be served with a liquid sauce this can be poured around the bottom. PUDDING SAUCE. Cream one cup powdered sugarand half a cup butter, add one beaten egg and one teaspoonful flour wet with cold water and half a teaspoonful of vanilla, Gradually add a cup of hot milk or water while stirring rapidly over fire, CANDIED ORANGE PEEL. Cut peel into quarters. Cover with cold water and set over fire. Test with fork and when soft drain, re- move the white portion with a fork. Cut peel into strips with scissors. Boil one cup sugar and balf a cup water until if oping a thread. . Cook orange strips in this Cb for five minutes, % roll in granulated sugar, Courtship and arriage Vincent World) by the Press Publishing Co we had a quarrel and | wrote him a letter thoroughly express- ing my anger. | am very sorry now, for I still love him. Can you tell me how I can win him back? | have had a proposal from an- other young man but | do not care for him, Should I continue to go about with him? E, P.’" It 1s always poor policy to write a letter when angry or in an unpleasant mood. You might write him a very cordial little note now inviting him to your pome for a certain evening. I would not advise you to go about with the other young man who has Proposed but for whom you do not care. It is hardly fair to the young ene young woman with whom eccasionally correspond whom 1 rather imagine is interested in me. This girl hae been away for a visit and has just returned home. Do you think it would be appropriate for me to send her box of candy for Christmas? “LAME BOY. I think the young woman would appreciate your kindness, Just try her and see! “Dear Miss Vincent: Am a girl of twenty residing about thirty- five miles from this city. | havi many friends in this town and th most successful young man h asked me to marry him. Since my father is dead, my mother ex- pressed her desire that | marry. | have as yet never failed my mother but | do not love this man. What do you advise? c. A.” This is woman's day to make her own way in life and marry the man ef her heart. Go out and earn your own living and wait until the right man comes along, “Dear Mise Vincent: Recently | worked in a place for about keeper of the concern. | am six- teen and he is twenty-two. How can I gain his friendship, or is he too od for me? ANXIOUS.” I wonder !f you really love this man, or you just have a passing in- fatuation? Love is a big word, and in order to know Its full meaning you ought to know the young man pretty well, Perhaps if you were to talk with him for half an hour you would find you didn’t care a cookie for bim, If the bookkeeper should come court- ing you, that might be another atory; but sixteen is too young to bother its head about “gaining a young DECEMBER 10, HAVE LOST EVERYTHING ! > CHEER UP! THINK OF THE SUSPENDERS THES WILL GIVE 1921. = CAN You Bear iT ! J The art By Caroline Crawford a Girl ‘Copyright, 1921, (New York Evening World) by the Press Publishing Co. ea Which Man Will Peggy The ot @ typical New York Billy Biracton: her own apes bad: Ha years her senlor, The of! Feading this story to-day. A DAY OFF. FTER luncheon Billy returned A to the office and Peggy tried to reach Marion Minton by tele- phone at her place of business. She was told, however, that “Miss Min- ton" was no longer 5 employed there. A second call located Marion at her home. Marion had the habit of work- ing three months and then taking the fourth month off, Peggy told her about the letter of introduction which she had asked Sanford to mail to the Minton home, ‘Then the two girls arranged to take @ day off and celebrate between new positions. “4 cat for you at the regular bus!- ness hour,” said Marton, “so that your parents will not know that you have resigned, and we'll do little old New York from the shops, tea rooms and movies right through. Probably your letter of introduction won't arrive in the first mail and, anyway, what's a day in our young lives?” True to her word, Marion arrived bright and early and started forth in @ rollicking mood. Although the original plan for the morning tour of the shops was to purchase Christ- mas presents, before noon Peggy had bought a new hat, blouse and vanity bag for herself and nothing In the line of Christmas presents with the exception of a pair of gloves for her mother. Marion for her part had merely encouraged Peggy to make her purchases, while a new brand of cold cream was her only expendi- ture. While they were eating brandied peaches and home-made cake tn a tea room on Fifth Avenue Marion announced the afternoon's pro- gramme. “Two chaps L met at my last place of employment are in the same boat as we are, Peggy,” she began. “They just decame sick of the monotony of fieeir wet “Rid sce ao sutung eon ] | rl Peg eighteen, a co jee Opens new experiences, nae Every instalment @ new episode Choose for a Husband? who bas Just lovers, ell-to-do. lor, ten quit, They're hunting another job, but they took this day off. One of them. called me last night and I told him about us. Of course, he thought that was 4 great chance, so he in- vited us to go to the movies with them. They're going to meet us here at 1,30." “You might have consulted mo about this,” sniffed Peggy but she was really yery glad even to meet some of Marion's chums, In a few moments two tail, slendor young men dressed in the latest fashions appeared in the doorway of the tea room and Marion hustled Peggy out to meet them, “This is Oliver Carrington and this Walter Pennington,” said Marion as Peggy held her breath at such splendid names. Marion and Oliver Carrington paired off so there was nothing for Walter Pennington and Peggy to do but to get into step and follow them, "Quite the unusual thing to be strolling down Fifth Avenue at this time of day, Isn't it?” laughed Pen- suppose you're usually this time. I know always up to my head in work." So Marion has told you that we celebrating before we hunt an- job?” laughed Peggy. “Let's put it this way, we're get~ nington. “L at your desk by 1" ting some local color,”” announced Pennington. Peggy couldn't belleve her cars— “local color’—that was the very word sho had used to Billy Bracton just the day before. But Billy sas too practical to appreciate such an expression. Here was & man who was in tune with her thoughts. He was after the very thing she was seeking, The four attended a movie on Broadway. It was not exactly the type of movie their mothers would have been pleased to have them see, but their own plans and what they intended to do in hfe was the sub- ject which they discussed rathor than the things they saw upon the screen. Peggy and Pennington became great friends and planned to meet again after they landed a job, as Peggy unlocked the door that night on time for supper she was whispering “Peggy — Pennington”— what @ wonderful, alliterative, dis- Maguished name that would hel -Alonday—Hunting a Job. lil And the |What Margery Wells Advises: H to stand the burden, But the everything else about her face in proportion cannot only stand the weight She should, by all means, seek them out and wear them in of large hats. preference to any others. A little hat on your head will look like nothing at all—so inconse~ quential In comparison to the standard you have set it. Look at the girl in the pictuce smiling under the bis felt hat, Now, every line and curve of that hat (even the color, which is lignt brown) speaks extra weight and heaviness. But does it feaze the girl whose smiling eyes shine underneath it? Not in the least respect. She smiles so assuredly because she knows that her head Is topped by & hat so suitable that no one with the least taste can criticise anything about it. Her features can set off the broad and turned back brim, The dark brown pompon eniy succeeds in being in key with the rest of her costume and the dark-brown binding and ribbon about the broad crown are mere suggestions of a darker trimming where upon some one whose features were lighter In char- acter they would look like so manby superfluous decorations. This girl has done a clever turn, too, in choosing a round hat for her round face. It gives a certain har- mony of contour that js only good because it is in such perfect propor- tion, Unless her face were large and round she could never stand the strain of the repetition, but because she has repeated the roundness it makes her face small in comparison. That is the great secret, then, for the girl whose features are massive—to surround her face look mall in comparison. most likely, she will have the rare and bea experience (her what a having people tell ately moulded face she has. I love to attain that opposite to our own expressions just once in a while, especially those of us who cannot lay being actual raving But the hat is not alone the frame for the face. There is always the neck fixing to be considered. And there oan be nothing casual about this mt if it is to have any Nege f ne successful. Ri jots of little girls who one little animal about Girl | WITH HEAVY FEATURES : Should Wear Large Hats and Heavy Collars Best : Surround Your Face With a Frame That Is Proportionately So Large That Your Face Will Look Small in Comparison—Coraide Your Neck Also and Choose Ample Furs. By Margery Wells. ‘ Uopyright, 1921, (New York Evening World) by the Press Publisoing Co. AVB you ever seen a girl whose face was swamped by the hat she wore? Well, she was a girl whose features were not heavy epess® girl with a large nose, big eyes and A hat of heavy material and heavy of shape is strict- ly becoming to the girl whose featares are larger than the average. The surrounding collar of fur, as shown at the left, should be ample for the girl with a large face. their throats and look smart. But not you with features more largely sketched in, You—oh, sad, gad news —need two animals or one very large and puffy one which, in the matter of price, can easily equal or excerd two smaller ones, all depending upon the sort of animal in which you are indulging. Before you dgcide to purchase a fur, go into a’shop and try on ever, you can lay hands « considering all the while the of hed face in its surrous rather than the look of the fur, ter have no fur at all than one which looks sadly inadequate in comparison with your face. Bet- ter have a coat with swathi: collar of wool than a fur that though it be of the best quality in the world, is too amall to really good looking on you. The girl in the picture who shows only half of her figure is wearing & fur arrangement consisting of two Russian sable skins. That is ideal, of course, but there are many less @x- pensive furs that will give the same — general effect—some of them an evén better effect, for the puffiness and the — largeness of the design is the es- sensed feature to be considered after all. The girl who is showing her full Ae ene FabriG Goar has ac- com: d her collar fixing In quit ‘Another but none the teas eftectus way. The very largest curve tmag- inable hay been used for the wrapping collar. And does it submerge her - personality shown >y the size of her free? Not by any means. There ghe is as brave and beautiful of expres- sion as though no attempt had. been made to hide her face. And still there is not only the collar, which might ebliterate her, but also the Inrge, drooping hat with fringe of feathered fronds that completely veil her eyes. Now, if one’s personality can e ferth from @ veil of this sort, it ea strong personality indeed. And is usually the case that, along with large features there goes their natural ac: companiment of @ large and viv’), personality. How much better it >!* to dress that personality so tha becomes a trifle restrained, ratser- than to allow # to appear too Bla- ~ tantly lange. You who are strong of personality and of feature are one e@mong the many who can afford to dress in this key. So you should do it, because immediately it marks you as a distinct and outstanding character. The newer coats made of tweed and camel’s hair—those that pro’ with huge, wrapping scarfs for collars—are the coats that suit best the girl whose feas tures are larger than the average. She can twist the scarf up ever her chin, even around her mouth and still run into no danger ef hiding her personality from view, For gowns the girl whose features ere large should choose those lines that are broad across the shoulders and ample in cut. Then, as a natural and efficient accompaniment to her face, she should wear a chain about her neck that is either made up of large beads or is a string of ribbon or cord finished by a heavy orna- ment. And this ornament can be colorful as well carved, It can tn every way express generosity and bigness, for, remember, it Is there be. cause it is to be tn harmony wil the heavy features, which nothing more than help to set it off In fact, to dress yourself we!l woe your features are large, view, clothes though! * net