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Frog Fasteners for Pajamas BY MARY MARSHALL. MRS. JONES is making pajamas for her 8-year-old son, not be cause she cannot afford to buy them ready made or because she has a conviction that the sort she makes will be superior to the kind she could buy. But some of her j good friends have daughters, and when thev get together for a sociable after noon this Winter, they bring their dress making with them. Mrs. Jones realizes naturally that an 8-year-oid boy would not care especially for a home-made suit, even if she had the ambition to make one. but she wants to join the game of home sewing. So she has cut out half a dozen pairs of pajamas for young Bob. and now she has written for help. Everything is easy enough, but the frog fasteners. It would perhaps have been the better plan to cut the pajamas after a pull-on pattern, so that the tops would need no fastenings at all.' Buttons and but tonholes have the serious drawback that they are likely to become broken and torn in the wash. Frog fasteners really are better, and in many of the stores braid frogs may be bought ready made —simplv needing to be sewn into posi tion. But making frogs yourself is an interesting bit of handwork and not at all difficult. You may use white cord or tape, or you may cut bias strips of the material about an inch wide. Fold them over so that the edges meet in the center and then fold again toward the center and whip the edges together with coarse thread so that you have a neat cord of the material. This is then ready to use to make the frog which is sewn to the pajama top at the de sired position. To make the frog, curve the tape or bias strip in a continuous design something like a four-leafed clover. Three of the loops are fastened flat to one side of the pajama front, the other is useiJ in place of a button hole to loop over the button on the other side. i.m ll; hknny BV LEE PArE. Tonite after supper I said, Hay ma, j hay pop, can I go out for about 20 minnits and digest my supper before I do my homewerk? Youll do your lessons immeeditly and! get them over with, thats what lessons are for, ma said, and pop said, 2nd the motion, the motion has been seconded and carried, now go and do your lessons. Wich I started to do. ony I couldent find my books in the hall rack, and I yelled back, Hay ma, I cant find my books, did you see my books any wheres? O for goodness sakes dont you know where you put them? ma said, and I said. Sure, I put them rite here in this hall rack. Wt'll nil'll ill 'll Mill uirir, uum , be so helpless, ma said. And she came i out to help me look, saying. Look at this mess, no wonder you cant find anything, it looks like the last days of Pompay after a cyclone. I thawt you were sippose to keep this hall rack in some remote semblants of order? she said. Well so I do. ma. I mean I was just waiting for it to get a little bit werse, I said, and ma said. Well then youre waiting for the impossible. I dont see any sine of any books in here, are you sure you put them here? she said. Yes, mam. or if I dident 1m sure I put them in the dining room closit, I said, and ma said. How can you be sure of 2 distinct and opposite things at the same time, its a fizzical impos sibility. G, I remember, ma, I put them in Lew Davises vesterbu’e after school, I said. Aw heck, now I cant do my homewerk, I said. Making me feel lucky, and ma said, Well now thats just too bad. and pop said. Its one of the saddest cases I ever heard of. now you make a B line for that vesterbule and get those books. And if youre one second longer than 3 minnits youll hear from me, ma said, and poo said. And immeditly after that your hear frem me. ony more so. Havent you started yet? he said. Yes, sir. I said. Wich I did, feeling werse instead of better. Auto Show Contest PL'ZZLE NO. 21. This is a concealed name puzzle. The inscription on the school-room black board hides the name of a make of automobile. The name is there, with its letters in their proper order. Give the words your close attention and find the name of the car. Name of car ... Above is the 21st puzzle in the contest now being conducted by the Wash ington Automotive Trade Association in co-operation with The Star. Solve it and fill in the correct name of the automobile in the line provided under the drawing. Keep them until the other four appear. When you have satisfied your self that you have the correct answers, mail them in all together with a reason, not to exceed 25 words, “Why the automobile show should be held annually in Washington," to the Washington Automotive Trade Association, suite 1002 Chandler Building, 1427 I street. No reply received after 10 a.m. Tuesday. Feb ruary 2. will be considered. ..... Remember, the first prize is $50 and six tickets to the show. Altogether $100 in cash will be awarded and 100 tickets. You may be the lucky one. The judges are Fred L. Haller and Joe B Tiew, president and vice president, re spectively. of the Washington Automotive Trade Association, and G. Adams Howard, automobile editor of The Star. Following is the list of cars to be in the show. One of these is the correct answer to today’s puzzle. Auburn Buick Cadillac Chevrolet Chrysler Cord De Soto Dodge Essex Fora Franklin Graham Hudson Hupmobile La Salle Lincoln Marmon isasn Oldsmobile Packard Pierce-Arrow Plymouth Pontiac Studebaker Willy s. It is not necessary to purcnase copies oi tnis paper to compete m tiie contest. Answers to ail solut^ns may be written on ordinary writing paper. Files of The Star may be examined at any time during the day and up to 10:3C at night. The last puzzle (No. 25) will appear Saturday, January 30. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. i I promised my Muvver I would only frow soft snowballs. I wist her could get ’ese uwer fellers to promise it, too. (Copyright, 1932.) THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN | SERVICE Jacket dresses approve smart con- , trast. And a lovely idea for early Spring is this soft diagonal tweed effect woelen in light navy blue mix ture. The light grayish-blue canton faille crepe silk trim creates rather dainty effect. It is exceedingly easy to fashion it. Style No. 2666 may be had in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38 and 40 inches bust. For sports it is decidedly youthful with the dress of wool crepe in lovely rose-red shade, with the jacket of navy blue wool crepe. Size 16 requires 4% yards of 39-inch material, with 1 yard of 39-inch con trasting. For a pattern of this style send 15 cents in stamps or coin directly to The Washington Star’s New York ' Fashion Bureau. Fifth avenue and 1 Twenty-ninth street, New York. Our new Spring Fashion Magazine is cut! Every page from cover to covei is in color. Beautiful styles covering the com plete range for the woman, miss, child and the stout: articles showing what hats will be worn, hairdressing hints, afternoon wear, subdeb frocks, etc. It points the way to better dress and will help you economize. Price of book, 10 cents. Price of pattern, 15 cents. DAILY DIET RECIPE CARAWAY PINEAPPLE COLE SLAW. Shredded young cabbage, two cupfuls; sour cream, one-half cupful; drained crushed pineap ple, one cupful; vinegar, four tablespoonfuls; salt, one tea spoonful; caraway seed, on-half teaspoonful, and lettuce leaves, six. Serves six portions. Have cabbage crisp and cold. Combine sour cream, pineapple, vinegar and salt. Mix cabbage with this, tossing it all well to gether. Add caraway seeds and serve on a lettuce leaf. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes fiber, a little fat and protein. Rich in lime, iron, vitamins A, B and C. Can be eaten by children 12 years and over. Can be eaten by normal adults of average or under weight. Three Countries Ceylon, India and Java contribute to the twenty selected teas in every blend of sst .;S \DorothyDix\ it (Continued from Monday.) ^ IXXH she must establish her own home as far removed as possible from P the snhere $ influence of in-laws. Don't go to live with your husbana s family and don't have yours come to live with you unless you are out hunt k J ing for trouble, which you are sure to find. SEVENTH. Use as much tact in handling your husband after marriage as you S hofnre Rpfnrp marriage vou never dreamed of telling Tom of his faults mcr^ci2fng any?hing h”d d Yoyu laughed at his jokes and listened with bated ^P«th to his stories no matter if you had heard them a dozen times before, your chfef come-on was leading him to believe that if he married you he would nave an admiring audience in you and get a wife who appreciated what a re narkable man he was. The same technique that caught a man will hold him. IJTGHTH Don't argue. Nine-tenths of the family rows start in a perfectly senseless argument over something that neither party really cares a rap the husband isn't going to let the wife think she can lay down the law to him” and the wife is determined to have the last word, and so they go at it hammer’and tongs and before they know it they are shouting insults at each other neither ever forgives. An argument never does any good. Nobody is ever convmcea uiao ne - 5he is wrong and the other is right. The only purpose it serves is to make dis cord in the home and hard feelings between those who really love each other. NINTH. Make a cheerful and a comfortable home. That is just as much your part of the business of marriage as making a living is your husband’s, and he has just as much right to expect a pleasant and an efficiently run home as you have a right to expect to be supported. In these days of fierce competition in business every man’s life is a hard one, full of strain and anxiety and nerve-rack and worry. Every wife should realize that and t.iat i* is up to her to make hei home a place of rest and peace and brightness in which her man can relax and from which he will go forth refreshed to the battle again next day. 'T'ENTH. Don't cut out the romance. Don’t cease to be a lady love. Don’t ■*- quit making a fuss over your husband Don’t give all of your time and thoughts and attentions to the children. Don't let your husband feel that the baby has put Itfs nose out of joint If you forget all the other rules for being happy though married, remember this. It is the most Important (Copyright, 1932.) PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY', M. D. Streptococcus at Play. Tonsillitis, simple sore throat, with ! s ght feverishness, and scarlet fever, j according to the investigations of Grif- j fith and Glover, English physicians, who j reported their studies in the British Medical Journal recently, may all be caused by the same germ—a hemolytic j streptococcus. Now. please don't think 1 I am fond of prying these imposing terms off my teeth. I’ll explain w^hat hemolytic means and then drop it for the rest of the game. It means blood destroying, or. more specifically, the dis- j solving of red blood corpuscles. Some j germs have the faculty of doing that, notably the notorious streptococcus. While we're explaining, let as explain what streptococcus means. It means a coccus that occurs in the form of chains, j like strings of beads. That character- i istic readily distinguishes this species or kind of germ from, say, the staphy lococcus. which occurs in the form of bunches, like bunches of grapes, or the diplococcus, which occurs in pairs. , WTe have long known that some of the very worst cases of acute sore throat of very infectious character are caused bv the streptococcus strains, both he molytic and others. We have known that this same germ is responsible for manv cases of acute tonsillitis, and the famous Drs. Dirk in this country, au thors of the Dick test for scarlet fever, have shown by actual experiment on volunteer subjects that inoculation with the same strain of streptococcus will produce simple sore throat in cne per son. scarlet fever with no rash in a second person, scarlet fever with typi cal rash in a third person, and perhaps erysipelas in a fourth person. IXir HiilfcilCMl All v con&avuj o ia.uv»c vnav any such acute sore throat of the strep tococcus class may be followed or com plicated by what in quaint- Albion they still call “acute rheumatism." or by acute inflammation in the ear, just as so often happens in cases of scarlet fever. They find that there are at least four groups or classes of hemolytic streptococci which cause scarlet fever, group I being highlv virulent and group IV least virulent—that is. the former produces severe scarlet fever, the latter onlv mild illness, if any. There is a popular notion that “scaf letina” is a milder illness than scarlet fever. Perhaps “scarletina" is the name people give to cases of scarlet fever due to group III or group IV streptococcus. So it is necessary to recognize that in any epidemic of scarlet fever or of sore throat the virus may be spread by per sons who purport to have nothing but a slight “cold” or a simple sore throat. This is just one more good scientific reason why people who value their own health and respect the rights of others should accept and practice my teach ings about “cri.” Even if you are not willing to do unto others as you expect them to do unto you. at any rate it can never harm your own health to beware of what you catch in polite conversa tional sprav. whether the epidemic is a large one or ,iust a little household, office or shop outbreak. Use Your Diaphragm. One of the characteristic symptoms of shock, perhaps the most obvious in dicated in the eyes of the casual ob server, is the shallow breathing of the victim. At first sight it almost seems breathing has ceased until perhaps a feeble sigh gives evidence that there is still life. As significant as the failing pulse and the sinking consciousness toward the end of any exhausting illness is the depression or lowering of the breathing. It is a well known fact that a form of "pneumonia” is likely to develop and carry the victim off after rescue from submersion, from exposure to cold or from prolonged deprivation—all of which ordinarily produce extreme ex haustion or vital depression. The popu lar explanation of this, based on an tiquated medical theories, is that thf victim has "taken cold” and developed pneumonia. But such a notion does not suffice for the scientific investigator, fo: the "pneumonia” in such cases is not an inflammatory condition at all. but rather a mechanical one, practically mere congestion or stagnation of blooc in the lower portions of the lungs. Pre cisely the same mechanical stagnatior of blood in the bases or deepest portion; of the chest cavity, called by physician; "hypostatic congestion” is the usua terminal condition noted by examina tion in mast prolonged fatal illnesses. Physiologists ascribe this stagnatior of blood in the lower chest region t( weakening of the force which drives thf blood from the veins back into the righ: side of the heart and on through thf lungs to the left side of the heart. Thi: ~ 11 . j_.... m.a«»iii.a It ream - 1VJIC.C 10 tautu * viivuo K ^ --- — to be chiefly the effect of the pressuri or squeezing of the muscles throughou the body on the veins which convey thi blood back toward the heart. Hence thi general muscular “tone'' or vigor anc resiliency determines the state of th. circulation. Particularly important i the tone of the muscles of the front ab dominal wall and the diaphragm. Physicians have always relied ot strychnine to serve as a stimulant li these conditions of great vital depres sicn. Strychnine is a powerful stimu lant to the contraction of muse! through jut the body. But even more ef fective in such emergencies is the re cently developed remedy, carboxygen tliat is, a mixture of 5 to 10 per cent o carbon dioxid with oxygen, administers by inhalation. Carbon dioxid stimulate deep and forceful breathing, even ii the unconscious; this deeper and mor vigorous action of the muscles and dia phragm pumps more blood back fron the veins into the right side of th heart and the heart itself responds b the increased volume of return flow b pumping the blood more vigorous! through the lungs. Thus congestion o stagnation or “hypostatic pneumonia may be warded off until the patient’ normal strength is in part restorec when the danger will be over. Take a hint from the lesson in physi ology. Give your own circulation a boos by practicing breathing excercises. NANCY PAGE Here's a Good Luncheon for Bridge Club. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. "What can we have for a bridge luncheon, Nancy, that won’t cost too much, won’t be too much work and won’t add too many calories to the day’s meals?” "That’s a large order. Tell me, are you limited as to the number of courses you may serve?” "No, except by our pocketbooks. I wanted to have a hot dish, a simple salad and a dessert.” "Well, let's see. We might have a hot meat loaf baked in a crust, mush room gravy, toasted rolls and stuffed \ celery, orange gelatin with chocolate wafers. How does that sound?” "Grand, just grand. But tell^me, how do you make all those dishes?” "The orange gelatin may be made with a ready-flavored gelatin or with a plain one flavored to taste with fresh orange and lemon juice. When it haf started to congeal add sections ol orange freed from white tissue. I’d buy chocolate wafers, although you could use a homemade brownie cookie if you wanted to.” "The stuffed celery takes the place of a salad. Mix cottage cheese with a little Philadelphia cream cheese and a small amount of mayonnaise. Adc pepper and cayenne. Wash stalks ol celery and stuff grooves with mixture Do not smooth over top. "The meat loaf is mixed in the usua fashion, having it well seasoned anc somewhat drier than usual. Have a yeast dcugh which has risen and beer kneaded Roll out about one-quartei inch thick. Wrap around meat loa: and bake for an hour. The dougt should be so w'ell joined that little i: any juice can seep out as the loal cooks. When baked cut in slices anc serve with a gravy made from cannec consomme, thickened and enriched witl canned mushrooms sauted in buttei before adding to thickened gravy.” The W oman W ho Makes Good BY HELEN WOODWARD Whose uniquely successful career, both in business and private life, enables her to speak with authority on problems of the modern womifn. A Hole in Her Shoe. Jerrie is an actress and hasn't had much luck for over a year. So now she has no money. One nignt iast week she was going out to a . ——i pre' ly mie unmet party. She put on her old black lace dress. “It’s lace,” she said, "so the holes don't show.” The dress would pass. Bat when she looked down at her shoes and dis covered a badly -’ HELEN WWUnjinu a hole, In the satin she dropped into a chair ready to give up. "I just can’t go through with it-—I can’t," she said to herself. But Jerrie had been poor so much and had squeezed herself through so many tight places that she did not know how to surrender. Looking care fully at the shoes, she made up her mind that by walking with her foot on one side she could cover up the hole. So she jumped up buoyantly and took from her dresser three magnificant orchids. Not one—three. The boy who w^as taking her to the dinner had sent them. She pinned them onto her old lace dress. Then she set out. But the j dinner party was no fun for her. She ! looked around the table at the beauti j ful gowns. Inwardly she made faces at ! the champagne—but outwardly she sat smiling and charming. The worst of it came afterward when, going on somewhere else, they came across a slot machine. Boo, in ; .113 man who had sent her the orchids, lib's j to gamble, and he wanted Jerrie to have some fun. So he handed ner five dol lars’ worth of quarters and she was forced to stand there and ronchalontly drop one quarter after another into the machine Nothing came out. of course. "But I was supposed to laugh gayly with the rest, and enjoy the fun," says Jerrie. "Later on Bob handed me an other five dollars’ worth of quarters which followed the first into the greedy mouth Of that wretched machine. In the course of the evening Bob must have dropped another twenty dollars himself. The machine swallowed it all. i but not once did it choke on one of my j quarters. “Imagine how I felt. Each five dol lars would have bought me a pair of shoes—and each quarter a lunch. I give you my word I’m an honest girl, but believe me, if I could have done it with . out being caught, I would have slipped , a few of those quarters into my purse, i I wanted them dreadfully—but I had ■. 1 "■■■ .... ' .. ' I to go home *n the torn dress and worn shoes—and with not a penny to mj name. “The next morning I had indigestion because my dinner had been poisoned by my bitter thoughts—and I had a slightly lame ankle from having walked for hours on the side of my foot.” "But Jerrie, you didn’t have to go to that party.” I looked at her fragile face, her smiling eyes, and the mouth set a little too tightly. "Oil yes, I did,” she said. "I’m an actress, and you often get parts through meeting people socially. I shouldn’t be surprised if I get a job from that eve ning of misery..’’ (Copyright, 1931 > “BONERS” Humorous Tid-Bits From School Papers. CHARLES THE SECOND REALLY POUND OUT ABOUT GRAVITY. BE CAUSE AN ACORN FELL ON HIM HE TOLD NEWTON, WHO GOT ALL THE CREDIT. The earth is composed of one quart of land and three quarts of water. A street is a road that has a very good class of people on it. The Greenwich meridian is the largest telescope in Greenwich Observatory. Alfred the Great started a Chronicle and this still exists as a morning news paper. _ The Immortal William is a name ap plied to the German Emperor. Robert Louis Stevenson's father was an engineer so Robert became a well known author. He traveled all through life after his health. He used to sit by a tree and pick up many poems and stories. He died in 1879. Later he mar ried a very nice lady and lived hap pily after that. The Pastorial Age was when every body kept their cows in the same pas ture. (Copyright. 1932.) p— \ \ ^c’h»e v i CHOW i i . MEIN ] * «d Home 1 1 Chow Mem always makes an enjoy- X | able luncheon. Oriental Show-You • Jr ChoW Mein noodles are made of die X finest quality noodles, fried a rich | V brown, kept crisp and crunchy in u 1 Vacuum cans. You can also buy \ I Oriental Show-You Chop Suey in \ cans - just heat and serve. No bother, X I quick and not expensive. ® Jf Ask your grocer. ~~ X t < * i \ You Will be delighted wid> dte X . secrets o) Oriental cookery revealed I y in die Oriental Show-You cook L book. Write for copy. \ Oriental Shoxtf-You Co. X V Columbia City, Indiana X w&r A’ pX* g^r eXl SCREEN ODDITIES --- BY CAPT. ROSCOE FAYCETT. = Bebe e Daniels - DROPPED HER MIDDLE NAME - Of VIRGINIA BECAUSE SHE ' DIDN'T LINE THE INITIALS e.v.D L--Sr-1 l! L l r l > 1 l % mL- * ten taxicabs were 1||^_ DEMOLISHED To complete A COLLISION SCENE FOR |.^7 (Copyright. 19jj?. by The Bell Syndicate.Inc > *TAXl* ^ 5 ■■ - ------ .<■«, GRETA GARBO IS GRETA GUSTAFFSON RAMC$N NOVARRO is RAMON GIL SAIAANiEGOS \ PEG: Imagine it! A nice girl I like Anne wearing her under things a second day. FRAN: And she’s so dainty in other ways... PEG: Of course, she’s awfully busy— FRAN: But our way is so quick and easy! 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If it’s safe in water alone, it's just as safe in Lux. Don't use too-warm water. Lux gives instant suds in lukewarm water, won't fade colors or shrink fabrics. j 1