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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-10
WASHINGTON

movements of grace must suggest curves
with no hint of angles, and that every
motion must carry to the eye OF the OBJ
server an appearance of having force be-
hind it. Uncertainty, jerkiness, these
things betray nervousness.
Start with the shoulders. Allow your
hands to lie relaxed in your lap, then
rotate your shoulders, describing with
them as large circle as possible. Then
rotate the forearpls on the elbows, then
WORK them up and down. Next allow
the arms TO hang at the sides and lift the
hands from the elbows up to the Shout
ders, imagine you have a heavy weight
in the hands.
Now bring the back of the wrist up to
the shoulders and press out as far as pos
sible and with considerable force, first
with one hand, then the other, then with
both at once. Turn the hands outward
as they hang at the sides and, without
bending them at the elbows, bring them
up in a circle high over the head, turn
palms outward and bring them slowly
and forcefully down. Rotate the hands
on the wrists and then turn forearms
and hands together from the elbows. That
hands from the wrists. up and down and
around with the motive power coming
from the elbows
Now for the hands. Hold them palms
upward. spread and stiffen the fingers,
stretching them, then exercise each one
separately from the knuckles, then the
joints. Practice curving the hands.
Raise them from a hanging position at
the Sides and. when hip high slowly
turn them on the wrists and bring them
up. first shoulder high. then way up
over the head. Turning them, bring them
slowly down. This movement is worth
much practice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-10
AMERICAN FASHIONS.
By LILLIAN YOUNG.

American women are much pleased with
the skirt that buttons down the front,
hence 1t is seen in all possible varia-
tons. Then the coats are either one Of
two classes. They are seldom severe,
generally cut away abruptly from the
bust or waist line. and long in back, or
else they suggest Russian influence and
have the upper portion of the back and
fronts gathered little, two or three
inches above the normal waist and
swathed with a wide girdle, below which
the skirt part (of the coat is gathered
a little and hangs below the hips.
Getaway effects are a furore. In fact,
they are SO inordinately popular that the
style Is expected to outlive the entire
winter.
Vests are delightful features this fall.
Seemingly they are responsible many
tune. especially as they always afford
an opportunity for introducing a con-
trasting fabric or color, perhaps in q
At of handsome tapestry or embroidery
that otherwise would be entirely out Of
place.
One Of the very dark browns, any of
the medium blues. or one of the dull.
rich unusual reds are colors that would
work out well in the smartly tailored
model that might readily come under the
head Of tailored as SO few of the
seasons suits really can.
The upper part of the coat-that is, the
body part, Is cut OFF below the bust, run
ming longer down the sides and rounded
below the waist in back The edge is
then given few scant gathers under
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-10
Grandfather Frog Jumps Just
in Time.

Back and forth over the Green Meadows
sailed Whitehall the Marshhawk Like
L,onglegs, the Blue Heron, he was hun
cry. His sharp eyes peered down among
the grasses looking for something to eat
But some good fairy seemed to have
warned the very little people who live
there that Whitehall was out hunting
Perhaps 1t was one Of Old Mother West
Winds children, the Merry Little Breezes
You know they are always fitting about
trying to do some one good turn.
They love to dance and romp and play
From dawn to dusk the livelong day,
But more than this they love to nnd
A chance to do some favor kind.
Anyway. little Mr.. Green Snake seemed
to know that Whitehall was out hunting
and managed to keep out OF sight. Danny
Meadow Mouse wasn't to be found. only
q few foolish grasshoppers rewarded his
patient search, and these only served to
make him feel hungrier than ever. But
old Whitehall has a great deal OF per-
sistence, and in spite Of his bad luck ne
kept at his hunting. back and forth, back
and forth, until he had been all over the
Green Meadows. At last he made up his
mind that he was wasting time there.
''rll just have a look over at. the Smil-
ing Pool. and II there is nothing there
I'll take q turn or two along the Big
River, thought he, and straiehtway
started for the Smiling Pool. Long be-
fore he reached 1t his keen eyes saw
Longlegs the Blue Heron standing mo-
by the looks Of Longlegs that he was
watching something which he hoped to
catch.
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BOTTLES AND BOXES.


The shops are full Of attractive and
useful boxes and bottles in which
everything in house. from -four to
tialcum powder. can be kept. There are
sets of boxes for kitchen supplies
made of white crockery printed with
delft blue or green and red or gold
designs These are sold for various
prices but set Of twelve small boxes
for. spices and seasonings Of various
sorts, and three big boxes for sugar
and flour, and half a dozen In be-
tween for cereals aud tea and coffee.
and couple Of bottles for oil and
vinegar can be bought for Ave or six
dollars. Others cost more and others
cost less.
The woman who wants one OF these
sets of boxes but who cannot anord
to buy 1t can arrange a set of her own
at much less cost. To begin with, II
you would make one. save all the lit
tie screw-top, glass jars in which
candies come. There are certain squat
little jars In which stick candles come
These make perfect receptacles for va
rious sorts Of seasonings-sptces and
the like Label" each neatly with a
little printed paper label pasted on the
inside of the jar IL the thing to be
'-~'a - S'.- Pi,st avfaru"rt fruit f"rc
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-10
.Bodices Without Innings.


1t will be difficult proposition to make
a good-looking evening bodice this win
ter. All the lining has disappeared ex-
cept a straight band OF thin satin that
goes around the figure from waist to
bust The rest is. merely a manipulation
of transparent fabrics, and one may see
at first glance that two or more bodices
will be needed to one skirt when one Is
social butterfly. The modern dances
destroy q tulle bodice in two evenings.
This is not as much of an expense as
one might think, because the bodice Of
today is nothing but shoulder piece;
the skirt and the high belt extend al
most to the bust and the top of tulle or
lace can be easily renewed IL one gets
the hang of how to put the materials
together.
Tulle is used more than lace. The lat
ter is often arranged straight across the
shoulders, covering half Of the decollet-
age formed by the tulle and then hangs
down into points which are weighted by
tassels or caught back to the wrist with
bracelet of seed pearls or a folded
band of tulle.
This kind of sleeve is shown at sew
eral Of the exclusive houses. 1t Is used
for afternoon as well as evening frocks
and is nice touch for the woman who
has thin arm.
One does not see evening bodices made
of white or colored crystals above a
skirt in dark color; the tulle which Is
used matches the skirt fabric, and IL 1t
is white, only the shoulder part Is used
and the belt of the fabric Is carried high
on the figure.
One sees a great many huge Persian
Jewels. The minaret has Influenced this
as we'll as other things. Chains Of crys-
tails and pearls drop down over the hips
from a high girdle of pearls with a huge
cabochon emerald or ruby in the middle.
These jeweled girdles are much the fash
ion; they are often the sole ornament on
a gown or hemstitched white tulle which
/ is mounted over skirt of white satin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-10
BY ANNE RETTENHOUSE.
.c,a, Correspondence Of The Star.


PARIS, October D. 1918.
If any one can find bodice in the new
evening gowns. one is lucky, for it is a
pleasant thing to analyze.
1t is wisp of tuile, a jewel and a bit
of lace, but it is cunningly contrived and
alluringly carried out. The thin woman
can wear 1t as we'll as the woman who
has flesh. 1t looks its worst on the stout
figure, as do all the clothes of today.
1t is intended primarily for the young
and the slim, which is now thread
bare phrase but one that it is impossi-
BILE to avoid because 1t Is an omnipresent
truth.
The amateur dressmaker who surveys
these various bodices attached to artis-
tic and complicated skirts has the feel
ing that she can go home and do like
wise in an hours time. After three days
of work she is apt to give up the task
and is willing to admit that 1t takes
slice of talent. unusual talent, to so ar
range a wisp Of tulle and jewel that
it looks like a bodice.
The way the French dressmakers man
ipulate these soft materials Is little
short of genius; they have the art OF
the decolletage better than the women
of any nation, and yet the Anglo-Saxon
women have the best necks and Shout
ders on which to put the French INES
AS a nation, we are not apt to make
a satisfying decolletage. Why? No one
can tell Even when our evening bodices
were lined and the outer material at
tached to them they were apt to gap
in the front or curve up over the
shoulders, or rest awkwardiy along the
back.
The average American woman looks
her worst in the average decollete gown
cut by an American dressmaker, just
as she looks her best in coat tha'
comes from an American tailor.
No French dressmaker gets that hang
of a coat as does an American, and the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-10
CUlTlVATlNG GRACEFUL
WAYS WITH THE HANDS
BY ABIGAIL MOORE.

1T IS not so much in the structure and
appearance OF the hands that ones re-
finement, or lack of ii. is betrayed, as it
Is in their usage. gesture" says Mar
guerite Clark, whose pretty hands have
always been remarked an important fea-
tur'e of her stage success.
IL is necessary to consider the whole
arm from shoulder to finger tips. Each
part, upper arm. forearm. elbows. wrist
and the separate sections of the hand and
fingers must be exercised I'm order to rem
der them flexible. and then they must be
exercised some more with view TO using
the arm and hand as one member. Only
in this way can the two things actually
required by grace, freedom and direction
be obtained.
Remember In this connection that all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-10
Persian and Mexican.

The trouble in Mexico has turned the
attention of dressmakers and decorators
to that country for inspiration. The
Partisan dressmakers also frankly ac-
knowledge their Indebtedness to Persia
for much that is interesting in the new
fashions.
So any one who has any Mexican or
Persian possessions will find herself the
owner of treasure. Mexican rugs and
pottery, Persian shawls and hangings
and rugs-all these will put the house
into fitting shape to serve as a back
ground for the fashionably dressed
vyas-au
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-10
Little Girls in Velvet.

Little girls. apparently, will not be
outdone by their mammas. They have
taken to velvet frocks with much liking.
and net is also In good taste for their
afternoon frocks. One charming frock
OF this material is made with a plated
skirt edged with an applied hem OF
fiowered-fgured silk. There Is a loose,
bagging bolero jacket OF the silk, edged
with net plated ruching, under which
there is plain little bodice Of the net.
Some interesting velvet frocks for lit
tie girls are made OF dark brown and
dark blue and dark green velvet. In one
piece fashion. with sashes Of satin and
sailor collars and cuff pipings OF satin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-10

When the air gets frosty mullins
mount q high pedestal in the estimation
Of breakfasters. and there they stay un-
til spring. Here are some recipes Of
good old-weather mullins:
Rub a tablespoonful of butter in cup
full of cornmeal and a cupful of white
wheat -four for delicious corn mullins
Then add a teaspoonful of sugar. half a
teaspoonful of salt and a teaspoonful OF
baking powder. Break an egg into three
quarters of cupful of milk, and then fill
the cup with milk il necessary to make 1t
full Pour this into the flour and mix
it thoroughly. Bake quickly in hot
oven. -
Make rye puffs in this way: Mix two
thirds of a cupful of rye meal and a
third of a cupful of white wheat flour.
Add a quarter of a teaspoonful of salt
| and sift Then add two well beaten eggs
mixed with a cupful of milk, and beat for
three minutes. Add two teaspoonfuls of
butter, melted. and mix. Bake in hot
muffin tins.
Here is a recipe for graham mullins
that always turns out well: MIX cuplul
of graham flour and the same amount OF
wheat -four with quarter OF a cupful OF
salt. Sift them and add cupful OF milk,
tablespoonful of butter, ana one egg.
Beat well and bake Tor ABOUT twehty-hVe
minutes in a hot oven.
These English buns are favorite with
those who like slightly sweet breakfast
breads. To make them rub half cupful
of butter with three tablespoonfuls or
sugar and a pinch of salt Add two we'll
beaten eggs and then add. alternately,
two cupfuls of flour sifted with two tea
spoonfuls OF baking powder and milk to
make stiff dough. Add at the same
time half a cupful of currants. Roll out
about an inch thick, cut with biscuit
cutter and bake in a slow oven.
Sally Lunn is tempting muffin: Sift
a pint of -four. two teaspoonfuls OF bak-
and add half cupful of milk. half cup
full of melted butter and two beaten egg
yolks Mix thoroughly. Then add two
egg whites beaten stin Drop the butter
i'm muffin tins and bake. 1t is a stiff bat.
49, e-d r,heu the egg wh'fe~ a~p fc','@d
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MUFFINS FOR COLD MORNINGS

in they do not mix completely with the
mullins are somewhat irregular.
Oatmeal mullins require fine meal. not
the coarst sort used as cereal Mix a
cupful of it with three cupfuls OF white
wheat -four, two teaspoonfuls OF BAKING
powder and a liberal teaspoonful of salt.
Rub in tablespoonful and a half of but
ter and lard mixed. Beat two eggs and
add them to pint of milk and pour this
gradually into the dry. ingredients. MIX
thoroughly and bake quickly in q hot
oven in muffin tins
Copyright 1913 by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate, New York City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-10

that way danger was very near indeed
With a frightened "chugarum!" Grand
father Frog dived head first into the Smil-
ing Pool, and so close was old Whitehall
that the water was splashed right in his
face. He cutched frantically with his
great claws, but all he got was a piece
of the big. green lily-pad on which Grand
father Frog had been sitting, and. OF
course, this was Of no use for an empty
stomach.
With a scream OF disappointment ana
anger he whirled in the air and made
straight for Jerry Muskrat But Jerry
just laughed in the most provoking way
and ducked under water.
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the bust on either side and across the
middle of the back and stitched down
under a shaped band OF self-naterial, deep
enough to complete the coat length to
the waist in front and running consid-
erably longer in back, to comply with
the prescribed lines of the modish cut
away. ~
There are deep cuffs and a high rolling
collar of self material. The sleeves are
cut in one with the body and two but
tons set at the waist form the lines OF
closing. Brocade, tapestry or mateiasse
may be used for the broad revered waist
coat. It is made as part of the coat
and Is not separate.
The skirt is quite straight and plain.
with a row of gathers across the back
and buttoned slash from the knee down
to the left foot.
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tail had failed to see some one else who
was sitting right in plain sight. He had
failed because his mind was SO full OF
Grandfather Frog and Longiegs that he
forgot to look around, as he usually
does. Just skirnming the tops Of the bull
rushes he sailed swiftly out over the
Smiling Pool and reached down with his
great, cruel claws. to clutch Grandfather
Frog. There he sat. pretending to be
asleep. but all the time watching Long
legs, and deep down inside chuckling to
think how. he was fooling Longlegs and
all ready to Jump the minute Longlegs
tried to get nearer Just teeny. weeny
second more and the Smiling Pool would
never again see Grandfather Frog.
Slap! That was the tail Of Jerry Musk
rat hitting the water. Grandfather Frog
knew what that meant-danger. He
didn't know what the danger was and he
didn't wait to find. out. There would be
time enough for that later. When Jerry
Muskrat slammed the water with hts tail
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-10

make good receptacles for cereals and
different sorts of esugar-powdered,
brown and confectioners' or any other
sort that is not kept in large quantities.
Glass shoppers for kitchen bottles are
a neat sort Of thing to use. Put them
in vinegar bottles and ammonia bot
ties These things eat and rot corks
and rubber shoppers.
Keep all cereals that must be kept
for a long time in glass or tin, SO that
mice and other pests. such as ants,
cannot get at them. Wooden or paste
board boxes should never be used for
anything that may prove temptation
to mice.
Bird seed should be kept in tin or
glass receptacle. Bird fanciers say that
paeteboard or wood absorbs, the oil In
the seed and dries them to such an ex
tent that they are not palatable or
nourishing to the birds that eat them.
A pint fruit jar Is good sort Of
thing to keep bird seed in.
Copyright, 1913, by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate. New York City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-10
Yellow Tomatoes.

The large yellow tomatoes. which look
somewhat like faded prototypes OF
their red brethren. can be made into
very good salad II they are diced ana
mixed with an equal amount of diced cold
boiled sweet potatoes. They should be
served In neat spoonfuls on white let
tuce leaves and spread with mayonnaise
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NEW FRENCH EVENING GOWNS

same Is true the other way round con-
corning the decolletage Of an evening
bodice.
Evening star., 1913-11-29
GOLF faaH'z zois sdecaz4t9 ;s s'zF OF

premium is placed upon putting. and
that some kind of remedy is necessary
to make putting easier My idea is that
the hole at present is too small and
should be one-quarter or one-haif inch
larger.
From a missed drive. brassey. or iron
recovery is always possible. but a
missed putt is absolutely fatal. If the
size of the hole was made larger it would
reduce the advantage of q good putter
to certain extent. 1t happens over ana
over again that one player will complete
ly outplay another at one hole right up
to the green. yet will only halve or per-
haps even lose the hole by reason OF a
long putt on the one hand a bad putt
on the other The only skill on the putt
ing green. TO my mind comes with the
negotiation of curly putt or of a
stymie
The great test in golf seems to me
the delicate pitch. the pitch and run. and
run up, and all the nicetieS of the game
which are wanted when using the cleek.
heavy iron and light iron for a multitude
of strokes. Again. the man who can
hook and slice of the tee at will, and
TO whom cupped or hanging lie or "a
the brassey. is he who can truthfully be
termed golfer. But the man who relies
entirely for mis- success on his work on
the green's decline to regard as en-
titled to equality with the man who is
his superior in ali other departments
OF the game. ] commend this idea to
the serious considerable of golfers gen.
orally. and ! am certain they will come
10 agree with me that better test of the
game would be provided if putting was
ealsier. STRAIGHT DRIVE.
Evening star., 1913-11-29
GOLF AT LAKEWOOD.
Travis and Marston the Winners in
Country Club Tourney.

NEW YORK. November 23.--Fayo..tes
survived the first and second rounds of
match play in the annual fall golf tour
nament of the Country Club OF Lake
wood yesterday when Walter j. Travis
Of Garden City and Max r. Marston OF
Baitusrol won both the contests in which
they We're engaged
Travis had little difficulty in first dis-
posing of the aspirations of Harold A.
Steiner. the champion of the Inwood and
Hollywood clubs, and 3 and then the
veteran put out c. T. Richardson of
the home club with even greater ease.
the score being 6 and 4. Travis always
had his last match well in halid. In
fact. the Garden City man stood up
at the turn and was ne-er in danger.
Marston's first opponent was Garfield
Scott of Philadelphia. and the last named
gave his man a few uncomfortable mo-
ments. 1t was a nip-and-tuck race to
the turn. all holes but two being halved,
and each won one of these, SO the con-
test was level. On the tenth and
eleventh.. both short. Marston failed to
get the green's on his tee shots. and
needed four for each hole. Scott. on the
other hand. got par threes. and became
two up. The Philadelphian, however.
could not keep UP the pace and the in
terscholastic title holder annexed four
cut of the remaining five holes. and the
match. by and L.
Later in the day Marston encountered
+. c. Jennings of Nassau and elminat-
ed him by {, and l margin They were
even at the turn. and stood that way
the lead through Jennings missing a
short putt. Another of these at the next
cost the Nassau man the hole and the
match was over.
Evening star., 1913-11-29

From time to time ever since golf has
existed there have sprung UP agitations
or rather suggestions from poor putters
that the size of the golf hole should be
enlarged from four and a quarter inches
to four and half. to five and even
six iuches OF course. such change
would be suicidal to the chief interest
In the game between real golfers. for
most important matches between players
Of the same class usually turn on. the
question of which of the two players is
the best putter This was notably so in
the victory Walter j. Travis achieved in
the British championship. which he won
in 1904 Many of the players We're long
er from the tee and through the green,
but Travis putted throughout up to a
standard probably never equaled before.
AS a matter of fact it probably was
due to practice on holes one-third smaller
than the regulation size that has helped
Mr., Travis and others to look upon the
regular cups as easy when they get out
in match. The size of all things is
relative. II golfers practiced on holes of
four and one-quarter inches and played
i've with holes on the course Il would
seem an easy trick to hole long ami short
ones.
Contrary to this line OF thought the
following from the Liverpool Courier ma
prove interesting:
Il have lately become a convert to
the theory which has been brought for
ward in certain quarters that too great