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Saucy New Ice-Skating Outfits Prove Both Gay and Appealing This Season
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One and Two Piece Types
Have Long Sleeves and
Short Flared Skirts
Choice of Fabrics and Colors
Enables Every One to Have
Very Becoming Costume
By HELEN VOGT.
If we had to choose one thing that we enjoy shopping for irtore than
others, it might be the grand outfits for skating . . . They’re fun to see
because they're so totally different from ordinary clothes and because
they have all the charm of little girl modes plus the sophistication of
grown-up influences.
One shop is so enthusiastic about them that thev’re advocating you
buy an ice skating costume whether you indulge In the sport or nob
pointing out that you can easily use*:*
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ties . . . We know that if you see
these sport clothes you will be
tempted to buy whether you can
glide along on the ice with ease or
merely look effective and helpless
at the same time.
You have your choice of one or
two piece styles this year in velvet
een, corduroy, flannel, jersey or
wool. You may select a short, short
skirt, several inches above the knee,
and wear it with a gay Tyrolean
sweater, hood and mittens. Or, it’s
possible that you'll prefer a princess
line dress, also in abbreviated length
. . . The only way to find out is to
go and see the outfits for yourself,
but in shopping around we discov
ered some truly outstanding ones
that may give you an idea or two.
Jersey Featured
In One Shop.
One store seems to place the ac
cent on Jersey for this season—wool
jersey, of course. They have a blue
princess dress lined with red rayon
taffeta which is one of the snappiest
we've seen. There are, of course,
matching jersey panties, very tight
fitting. AncLher jersey model is a
one-piece affair with shorts and a
separate skirt to don when going to
and from the ice rink. The one we
saw was wine, with a dirndl effect
of yellow and blue. The matching
skirt was lined with a gay plaid.
A really stunning two-piece out
fit. priced extremely low, is of fire
man's red cotton. Incidentally,
you'll see lots and lots of this color
In skating clothes and it should be
very effective with white touches.
The suit we mentioned, however, has
a short jacket with quilted effect
and a full, short 6kirt lined with
flowered printed cotton. Brass but
tons down the jacket front make
it as jaunty as anything could be.
Velveteen is bling used to best
advantage in these costumes, too.
In one store we saw a quilted vel
veteen Jacket of black embroidered
with white, yellow and green angora
flowers and boasting a white zipper
down the front. You can also get
the combination with a red or white
background. These separate little
jackets are very useful, you know.
You can wear them for daytime
with sport skirts as well as for skat
ing activities. We looked at several
in one store and they varied greatly
in type and price. There are
corduroy ones of forest green lined
with brilliant red and these have
detachable hoods. Of interest to
us, too. were the jackets of a new
water-repellent fabric in red, white
or blue. Lovely shades and beauti
fully styled jackets.
Skirts Are
Very Short.
When it comes to skating skirts,
woe to the girl whose legs are not
quite as lovely as they might be.
Skirts are very short and full, as
they have to be to do Justice to
those twirls and turns you’re sup
posed to be able to execute—and
not murder. Anyway, you have
your choice of black or colored vel
veteens and wools, a few plaids—
but not many, for they're scarce—
and flannels. Gray flannel skirts
are particularly popular this year
and most effective with the Tyrolean
sweaters. They're the rough ones
embroidered with brilliant flowers
or designs, you know. An outstand
ing flannel suit, for our monev, is
the gray skirt and jacket lined with
brilliant red. There’s a hood. too.
But you really don't need us to
tell you how' attractive and out
standing the skating clothes are this
year. All you have to do is go into
any of the shops and see for your
self. Remember, you want some
thing up to the minute, but you
also must be sure th^t it is be
coming and designed to give you
the utmost freedom of action. Re
memoer, too. that in these clothes
there is just as much chance to
minimize your bad features and
emphasize your good qualities as in
any other outfit you select. So
watch color, style, line and all the
other qualities that we spend the
best part of our life screaming
about.
My Neighbor Says:
I In preparing beds for hya
cinth, tulip narcissus, snowdrop
and crocus bulbs mix bonemeal
liberally into the soil, but never
permit manure to come in con
tact with the bulbs. They should
be surrounded only by soil or
sand.
In cooking anything with
cheese, use a low1 temperature
because intense heat makes
cheese tough and stringy.
When washing dishes used for
either raw or cooked fish, about
two heaping teaspoonsful of
baking soda added to the dish
water will deodorize the dishes,
dishwater and dishcloth.
An Attractive Closet Set
Ideal Christmas Gift
By BARBARA BELL.
This generous pattern will get you
off to a fine start with your Christ
mas sewing. Design 1854-B includes
a garment bag, covered hanger, a
hat-box cover and a 12-pocket shoe
bag—complete ana decorative equip
ment for the well-dressed closet, and
a perfect gift for ladies who love to
keep their things in apple pie order.
You’ll notice that each of the four
pieces is prettily befrilled, to har
monize with this season of Victorian
charm in furnishings as well as
fashions.
Choose glazed chintz, cretonne,
calico, percale, gingham or sateen
for this gift set. You'll enjoy mak
ing it. The pattern (including step
by-step sew chart) is very easy to
follow.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1854-B
.is designed in one size. It requires
for shoe bag iy3 yards of 35 or 39
lnch fabric together with % yard
machine-made ruffling. H a t b o x
cover requires 1 Vi yards, together
with 1V4 yards ruffling. Shoulder
cover requires 1 yard, and iy3 yards
ruffling. Garment bag requires 2%
yards and l>/3 yards ruffling.
Send 15 cents touay for your new
Fall Pattern Book with a stunning
selection of a hundred perfect pat
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money and know the keep satisfac
tion of personally-planned, perfect
ly-fitted garments by making your
own frocks with these smart, care
fully-cut designs. You can't go
wrong—every pattern Includes a
step-by-step sew chart to guide be
ginners.
J
BARBARA BELL,
WASHINGTON STAR.
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She Floats Through the Air . . .
And lands, wc hope, squarely on her own two feet. However, whether
the lady is an expert on the ice or not, she is certainly a decorative addition to
any rink in her smart one-piece flannel suit. The tiny collar, long sleeves
and abbreviated flaring skirt arc all features which make for comfort as well
as style, and the embroidered gloves are just as pretty as they are warm.
Dreamy Child
Is a Serious
Problem
Requires Immediate
And Effective Care
From Specialist
By ANGELO PATRI.
When children do not attend to
the lesson the teacher sometimes
calls them dreamy. They seem to be
absent in spirit though present in
body. They never know the place
in reading, never hear the question
the first time, never take an order
with the class. "Always dreaming,”
: says the teacher.
Some day dreams are worth while.
The dreamer is thinking an idea
through to its end and will come
back with something that proves his
dreaming was profitable. He was
i not dreaming in the absent sense
| that the teacher finds so futile. He
j was thinking constructively. Such
j a dreamer is rare in school, but the
other sort, the one who absents him
self and lives in a haze, drifting in a
state of semi-consciousness, is more
common than welcome.
These children have found the
place, or the work, or the conditions
so unpleasant that they have re
treated to as far a country as they
can reach. Once safely closed in
this secret place they are safe from
attack. The teacher can scold,
mother can scold and punish,
schoolmates can hoot and taunt,
there is always the Joy of knowing
the way to the secret place of peace.
That child does not learn his les
sons in school. He does not play
well with the other children. He
does not develop as fast as he should
physically or mentally because he is
absent from life so much of the
time. Experience is what feeds
growth. Muscles grow when they
have a chance to resist and over
come an opposing force. Minds, too.
Dreaming children have escaped the
contest and so cannot grow power
ful. What is to be done about them?
They must be studied by the ex
pt* v icai/uti auu i/iiuu
specialist. The cause of the child’s
fear must be uncovered, and cured
before he can function in life as a
child should. We know that he can
not trust his power to carry him
through his battle with forces he
meets outside his sheltered self. We
need to learn why and what. Then
we can set to work to restore his
faith and confidence.
It is useless to scold and punish
such children. It is dangerous to
neglect them. The teacher cannot
drive them to work, nor hold their
attention by force. Attention is un
der the control of the child, and un
til he has the power of facing his
situation and overcoming whatever
fears he has, he cannot control it.
Sometimes the cause and cure are
simple. The child is suffering from
some easily remedied physical de
fect. Sometimes it is very compli
cated and serious. Nobody knows
until the experts have studied the
child and given their findings.
Please regard this dreamy child
.as a serious problem. He must have
immediate and effective care or he
will be a helpless failure. At best
he will fall in school. At worst
well we won’t say anything about it.
Get him under the care of the spe
cialists and keep after his trouble
until it is cured and he is able to
live with actualities once more.
Flour Types
Two types of flour which are
milled largely for commercial use
are macaroni flour, which is milled
from durum wheats, and bread flour,
which is blends of hard spring and
hard winter wheats.
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; Dorothy Dix Says—
Overlook Faults If You Desire
A Long, Happy Married Life
I A friend of mine who possesses a
sense of humor as well as a grate
ful heart on their silver wedding an
niversary presented her husband
with a large and ornate medal as a
reward for having lived with her
for 25 years.
“It is a feat of heroism,” she said
in placing the decoration about his
neck, “which has seldom been
equalled and never surpassed. When
I think of the reckless courage he
displayed in marrying a spoiled brat
of a girl; when I consider the en
durance he has shown in standing
me; when I remember how he took
i his life in his hands every time
I he ate one of my biscuits when we
| were first married, I realize how
poor and piffling are the achieve
ments for which men are given the
Croix de Guerre and Victoria Cross
es compared to that of a man who
stays married to the same woman
for a quarter of a century.”
Tire gay little stunt made a gay
dinner party go a little gayer, but
it “gave everybody to think,” as the
French say, and especially it must
have made every wife wonder why
she had never realized before that
marriage isn’t altogether a picnic
for men and that undoubtedly her
own husband had had his moments
when he asked himself why he did
it. And, if he had to do it, why he
picked out that particular She?
It virtually never occurs to the
wife that her husband has anything
to stand from her. She has plenty
to say about his faults. She grows
eloquent when she discourses on how
he is often late for dinner; how he
forgets to do errands: hew he scat
ters the newspaper all over the floor
when he reads It and drop6 cigarette
ashes on the rugs. But it never
even crosses her mind to wonder if it
irritates him not to have any place
or privacy in the home he supports,
and if he likes to dig out his clothes
from under party dresses, and to
have his wife throw his cherished
collections in the garbage can be
cause she considers them junk.
Of course it is not to be denied
that husbands are as full of faults
as an egg is of meat. There are
husbands who drink and husbands
who philander. There are husbands
who are too lazy to work and hus
bands who are so busy working they
forget they have wives. There are
husbands who sing in the bath and
husbands who read aloud. There are
husbands who are grouches and hus
bands who are tightwads. There are
husbands who snoop into garbage
cans and husbands who leave wet
towels on the bathroom floor. There
are husbands whose coming home of
an evening is sunshine in the home
and husbands at whose sound of the
key in the lock sends the tempera
ture down to zero, hushes the baby’s
prattle and makes the cat scurry for
the kitchen.
It isn't an easy thing for any two
people to adjust themselves to each
other. Each has individual tastes
and habits and prejudices that must
be modified or sacrificed. And,
though they get scant credit for it,
men do this as often as women. But
perhaps every husband and wife who
live together for 25 years in peace
and hffrmony deserve a medal for
showing conspicuous courage and
gallantry under trying circum
stances. Heroes have been decorated
for less. DOROTHY DIX.
Paint a Picture
By BARONESS PIANTONI.
We know—you sometimes get wonderful artistic ideas, but your
hands can’t carry them out. Don’t fret. Today we bring forth a novel
pattern which will enable every one to paint—with sealing wax. We
provide the charts and color scheme for two lovely groups of flowers—
you do the work. The designs measure 7% inches by 10 inches each, but
after framing the picture is about 14 by 18 inches.
The pattern envelope contains complete, easy-to-understand, illus
trated directions, with diagrams to aid you; also what materials and how
much you will need.
To obtain this pattern, send for No. 1371 and inclose 15 cents in
stamps or coin to cover service and postage. Address orders to the
Needlework Editor of Evening Star.
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Housework
A Way to
Beauty
Daily Tasks Can Be
Aid in Improving
Your Figure
By PATRICIA LINDSAY.
Many of my readers are busy
housewives and even though they
long to exercise out of doors, or
attend salon classes, their duties
keep them pretty close to home most
of the time. Today I write to them.
All household tasks can be made
more pleasureable if they are
thoughtfully scheduled and done
with rhythmical movements. In
fact, every muscle of the body can
have a beneficial workout if you
go about housework as you should.
No athlete, amateur or profession
al could be a winner if he went
about his feats with tensed muscles
and a strained attitude. He must
time his movements and have com
plete co-ordination of his body. He
takes the necessary rest periods,
breathes In fresh air and nourishes
his body with well-balanced meals
eaten at regular hours. Housewives
would do well to copy his tactics.
Take enough time out in the
morning to eat a proper breakfast,
and once the children have been
cared for, sit down for a brief
rest to plan your day. And don’t
say you cannot make plans for a
day because you have too many
interruptions! Plan, and if you
must, count on the interruptions.
Determine just what you are able
to do each day and what must
be put off for the morrow. Then
hold yourself to the schedule. An
orderly mind will make orderly
movements possible. When you
know what you must do, tackle it
willingly and try to get both pleas
ure and exercise from the tasks
which you assumed when you mar
ried and bore children.
If you must sweep, dust, scrub,
wash, cook and make beds, air the
room before you work or keep the
windows open as you work.
Sweeping with a broom is good
for the upper arms, the waist and
shoulders, providing you hold the
broom correctly and sweep in easy,
well-timed movements.
Dusting can slim your hips and
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bend up »and down rhythmically
and dust with alternate hands.
Don't make the mistake of dusting
with right hand only—both arms
need action and both shoulders. See
that your hose are not too taut
so you will be able to bend and
raise easily and gracefully as you
reach low under furniture or around
baseboards.
Providing you wear a well-sup
porting brassiere, scrubbing clothes
on a washboard can Arm and lift
your bust, if you rub up and down
to a "one-two” count and do not
spend too many hours bending over.
Once your washing is finished lie
flat on the floor for 5 minutes in
limp relaxation. When you arise
stretch out your arms sideways,
shoulder level, and rotate them for
ward and backward for a moment or
two. All washing aches will leave
you and you are better for the ex
ercise you had!
Getting down on your hands and
knees to scrub a floor is truly good
for you, even though you may not
like to do it. Keep your back arched
up and your abdomen held in as you
rest on one hand and scrub with the
other. Learn to scrub with both
hands, one at a time, and your
waist will be slimmer and your spine
stronger.
Cooking should give you some time
to sit in the sun when you prepare
fruits and vegetables, either out of
doors or near a sunny window. Hum
to yourself as you peel, scrape and
cut. or do it to radio waltz music.
Pretend you are going through the
exquisite motions of Hawaiian hand
language, which brings grace to fin
gers and consolation to harried spir
its. And more beauty for you!
Use Fresh or Dried Fruits
In Desserts arid Sauces;
Canned Type Also Good
All Compotes Are Made With
A Sugar and Water Sirup
As the Cooking Medium
By Bureau of Home Economic!. United States Derartment of Agriculture.
To most children a cook is as good as the desserts she produces. Not
that children won’t do justice to well-cooked food of any kind. But dishes
such as "mom's pies,” or her shortcakes, or her puddings are the ones
that they boast about to their companions and ask for particularly.
Grown-ups. too. reserve special critical Judgment for desserts. And,
whether they say so or not, most of them are disappointed if the meal ends
without one—or if the dessert turns*-—-——
vui/ iu wc ouiuci'iuuB vuiiuiiuu^iav/C.
Both from the nutritional angle
and from the standpoint of tempt
ing flavor and attractiveness, some
of the best material for desserts Is
fruit. Every one in the family, say
dietitians, might well have five or
more servings of vegetables and
fruit every day—because of the
minerals, vitamins and bulk that
these foods contribute to the diet.
One of these five servings could be
a fruit for breakfast, another could
be a fruit dessert at lunch or din
ner
Fruit desserts may vary with the
tastes of the family and change
with the calendar. Some, of course,
such as fruit sauces, are standard
from January to December. But for
the most part the more filling ones
—puddings, pies, dumplings, hot
stewed fruits and similar dishes—
are more popular now that the
weather is cooler. Now, too, with
fewer fresh fruits available, home
makers are using more of the
canned, dried and frozen kinds.
Be Sparing
Of Water.
No cook can go wrong making
sauce from fresh fruits If she re
members to be sparing with the
water, adds sugar at the right time
and puts in a dash of salt to bring
out the flavor of the fruit. Cook the
fruit until it is soft. And to fruits
such as apples, which are a large
per cent water, add only enough
water in cocking to keep the fruit
from scorching.
Add sugar to taste. Because usu
ally it is not necessary to preserve
the shape of the fruit in a sauce,
the best time to add sugar is dur
ing the last few minutes of cooking.
Fruit compote is something else
again. For in this the fruit must
hold its shape throughout the cook
ing. So when making a pear com
pote, for instance, put the pears in
fairly dilute sugar sirup at the very
beginning. Then the sugar in the
sirup will harden the fruit some
what and help it to hold its shape.
For pear compote, cook pared,
cored fruit in a sirup made from
equal parts of sugar and water with
a bit of salt. When the pears are
tender enough to pierce with a
straw', take them from the sirup,
chill them, and serve with whipped
cream. Or dispense with the chill
ing and serve them at once—hot,
filled with tart Jelly, and topped
with a spoonful of hard sauce,
grated coconut, or chopped nuts.
For a colorful fruit dessert put red
cinnamon candies in the sirup be
fore cooking the fruit.
Two good baking fruits are pears
and apples. Pears are cooked in
a moderate oven, apples in a hot
one. Wash pears, cut them in half,
and core them. Put them in a
baking dish, sprinkle with sugar, a
little salt, and dot with butter.
Add very little water and bake until
soft. Remove the lid, then cook
a little longer to let the sirup cook
down. Serve hot or cold, with or
without cream or other garnish.
Dried Fruits Are
Good in Sauces.
Dried fruits, like fresh ones, are
served most often as sauce. And.
aside from the preliminary soak
ing. their preparation is much the
same. Always wash fruits in hot
water before soaking them. Then
use the soaking water to cook the
fruit, in order to get all of the good
flavor.
Most dried apricots need r.o soak
ing. Put them directly into boil
ing water and simmer for 30 min
utes. Start figs in cold water, sim
mer them 20 to 30 minutes. Dried
peaches are best if soaked in cold
water for half- an hour, then cooked
from 15 to 20 minutes. And prunes
generally are best dropped in boil
ing water, left there for an hour
to become plump, then simmered
for half an hour until they are ten
der. Raisins, which go into any
number of things, may be plumped
up' by putting them in a small
amount of water, then bring them
just to the boiling point.
Either fresh or dried fruits are
good in steamed puddings made
with a butter cake foundation. These
puddings are something like the
well-known plum puddings, but not
quite so rich—and can be made In
less time. Dried apricots and cran
berries are excellent in such a pud
ding, because they are tart enough
to flavor the cake mixture. Chop
the apricots; leave the cranberries
whole. Roll whichever one is used
in fleur, and add at the very last.
Fruits that have been canned
have been cooked in the process.
So they generally are best in dishes
that may be prepared with little
or no cooking. For tapioca pud
dings, gelatin desserts, certain pas
tries, and numerous uncooked des
sets—they are made to order.
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j The Whole Family Will Enjoy j
Southern
l Baked Ham i
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j 1 tablespoon McCormick Pre- I
pared Mustard
j 1 teaspoon McCormick
3 Cinnamon 3
| 1 cup brown sugar |
j M cup vinegar \
■ 2 cup* hot water
Cover him with cold water, bring dowiy te
| boil and simmer 1 hour. Dram off water and |
■ remove rind from ham. Place ham fat aide up I
in a roasting pan. Socra fat and spread with
| mustard. Cover with combined annamon and |
i brown sugar and dot with whole doves. Pour i
* vinegar and water into pan. Cover and eoolr [
| 20 to 25 minulas per pound in a alow oven |
j (325“ F.l. Baste frequently. Bake uncovered j
10 minutea to pamit ham to brown abgbtlv.
HO Til For *i ra good flavor in any 1
I reaps an* those ntr* good whole w»ee>— I
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l
1. Does not roc dresses—doe*
not irritate akin.
3. No waiting to dry. Can be used
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3. Instantly stops perspiration for
r to 3 days. Removes odor
from perspiration.
4. A pure white, greaseless, stain*
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being harmless to fabrics.
16 MILLION Jars ol Arrid
have bean sold. Try a Jar today!
ARRID
HowTo Relieve
Misery of Your
CHEST
spread a thick layer on chest ana
cover with a warmed cloth.
VapoRub’s double action brines
double relief. It acts as a poultice
to penetrate the surface skin; and
its soothing medicinal vapors are
breathed direct to the irritated air
passages.
Try it, to loosen phlegm—to
clear air passages—check tendency
to cough—and also to relieve the
tightness and
soreness of
chest muscles.
A Dinner
From One Cup
of Leftovers!
Imagine making a delicious, satisfy
ing main dish from just one cup of
leftovers! Well, it can be done. Here's
a tempting “budget" meal that will
get a royal reception from the family!
Surprise Noodles
1 pkg. Mueller's Wide Egg Noodles
1 cup leftover meat (or fish)
1 cup milk
1 egg, beaten
3 tablespoons butter
Salt and pepper to taste
Bread crumbs
Cook Mueller's Egg Noodles as di
rected. Place half the noodles In but
tered baking dish. Cover with meat,
cut small. Add remaining noodles.
Mix milk, egg and seasoning, and
pour over contents of baking dish.
Cover with bread crumbs, dot with
butter; bake in moderate oven.
Made with Mueller’s
This dish pleases the most exacting
taste. Mueller’s Egg Noodles are now
perforated. Cook a few minutes and
they separate into convenient 4-inch -
lengths-easier to serve and eat. More
eggs give Mueller’s Egg Noodles their
rich golden color—make them more
delicious, more nutritious!