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Evening star., 1935-09-09
Sketched in Washington Shops.

ward and Yale wins. 1t is of navy
velour with the shallow crown thai
so many hats boast this season and
with brim turned up in back. This
particular models chief charm lies
in the front treatment of the brim fol
it has wide tuck on either side that
pleasantly relieves the severity of the
face line. A navy ribbon which is
linked with beltlike leather band in
front adds a neat finishing touch.
THE smart sport hat you will notice
in the photograph is interestingly
dubbed the "vagabond.',, It's folded
crown and becoming dropped brim
are sure to make it a Fall favorite
to wear with tweeds and tailored
clothes. You will be glad to know
that 1t comes In all the soft Italian
colors.
For occasions that demand the ultra
sophistication which the winged hats
lend so well We recommend the
sketched model Of black French felt.
It sits far back on the head and
two wide flanges, that look like enor-
nous bats wings, fare out from it on
either side. Not so daring, but quite
as smart as many of similar type,
the hat is also aStonishingly becoming
in its lines.
For the popular halo style we chose
a black chapeaux which fits snugly
on the back of the head. A narrow
band encircles the head and straight
above 1t rises the small, fiat roll Of
the brim. Two little tabs of It's
ribbon trimming hanging down in
back accentuate its youthful style,
which Is saved from being too sweet
and simple-and entirely saved, we
assure you-by long, smooth-looking
black-dotted veil.
Almost all of the dressy hats boast
these wells, which are much longer
than last years, and in many cases
are draped to fall more gracefully,
One model which is particularly en-
hanced by its veil, is the tiny felt
turban you will notice sketched. Just
the thing for tea dance, its swanky
veil and the little tufts Of fringed
felt over the ears are all it needs to
center the attention of the entire
assembly gratifyingly upon its wearer.
For information concerning items
mentioned in this column call Ma
tionaI 5000. extension 342, between 10
and IL am.
Evening star., 1935-09-09
Dorothy Dix Says
Medium Length Engagement Is the
One to Be Preferred.

the bank at Monte Carlo or picked
only winners during racing season
or otherwise had unmistakable proof
given them that they are the white
haired children of Lady Luck are
justified in running the risk of marry
ing after q brief engagement.
THIS being the case, and knowledge
of each others characters and
dispositions being about the best in
surance against failure in marriage
that a man and woman can take ont,
IL would seem that long engagement
should insure domestic felicity. 1t
would prevent, one would think. those
fatal cataStrophes in which the hus-
band and wife fight from the altar to
the grave over smoking or golf or re-
ligion or politics or the use of rouge
and lipstick and the many other
things over which men and women
differ so radically in opinion.
Thus the long engagement should
lead by lengthy road, but sure one,
to successful marriage. but such, un-
fortunately, is rarely the case. There
IS something about long engagement
in which the high contracting parties
are neither bound nor free, neither
fish nor flesh nor good red herring,
which gets on the nerves of even the
most phlegmatic and frets them to
fiddle strings and makes them peevish
and quarrelsome.
FURTHERMORE. long engage
ment Is even more disillusioning
than marriage and offers more
things to scrap over because a couple
see each others faults without any
palliating kindnesses and services to
cover them, and just because they
have no legal right to control each
other it makes them the more tyran-
nical. All of this is death to love
and tears romance to tatters, so that
the long engagement oftener than
not unites two people who are already
tired Of each other and who marry
just because people expect it of them.
All Of which indicates that the
medium length engagement is the
preferred one. 1t should be long
enough for man and woman to get
really acquainted with each other, but
short enough to keep them from get
ting tired of each other.
DOROTHY DIX.
(Copyrignt. 1851
Evening star., 1935-09-09
Find Symbol
For Wedding
Gift in Cash
BY EMILY POST.

DEAR MRS. POST: May include
numerous checks, which have
received as wedding presents from
relatives and old family friends, with
my other wedding gifts, as otherwise
my display will look very meager and
the checks are very substantial ones
each given to me to buy definite items
for our house"
Answer-I'm sorry, but to make a
display Of money is in worst taste
and checks are the same as money.
The only thing you can do is to
explain that Johns or your Aunt
Agatha. or Uncle Tom, or Mrs. Kind
hart gave you a check to buy your
silver, or for your bed room furni-
ture. or for whatever you intend to
use it. Or, if you want to, you might
devise something, such as cutting out
pictures of things similar to those
you intend to get. Mount them on
small cards and write under each
picture From Aunt Mary" From
Mrs. Neighbor," etc.
Dear Mrs. Post: I have been
doing private nursing for a good
many years. In my work have met
great many people, and some of
them have remained very faithfully
my patients I'm going to be mar
ried and leaving my profession. Is
there some way for me to tell these
people personally, as would hate
to have the registry office simply tell
them, should they call for my services,
oh, she's married now'?"
Answer-I know of no better way
to let them know than to send en-
graved wedding announcements to
them.
Dear Mrs. Post: With the high
cost of furniture and the price Of
wedding trip, really cannot afford
to give q bachelor dinner before our
wedding. Is this serious breach Of
custom?"
Answer-Not If you can't afford it
Of course not. In this, as In all
questions of party-giying, the best
rule to follow Is to do whatever you
can, as well as you can, but not TO
worry about whatever you can't do.
(copyytght. 1880
Evening star., 1935-09-09
Spain Was Birthplace
Of First Knitted Hose
Made of Silk Threads
Invention of the Stocking Frame Result of
Romantic Episode in the Life of
England's William Lee

and took on a number Of apprentices
and assistants; his business flourished
for some years.
He is said to have gone to Queen
Elizabeth shortly before her death, to
request some sponsorship or remunera-
ton, but he obtained neither-in fact,
the Queen hindered rather than
helped him in his undertaking. Prob
ably due to this situation, Lee ac-
cepted an invitation from Henry w
of France who had heard Of his in
vention. and promised to give Lee
handsome reward. Lee and nine men
went to Rouen, taking their machines
with them, but the King was assas-
sinated shortly thereafter, and Lee fell
into great distress in Paris, where he
died abandoned. His men returned to
England, where they joined forces with
a man called Aston, and laid the real
foundation Of stocking manufacture
in England.
THE number of frames increased
tremendously; other countries
began importing them, and groups OF
journeymen, to teach their own work.
men the art of making hosiery. In
| 1914 the Venetian Ambassador, An
tonic Correr, lured an apprentice,
Henry Mead. with the bait OF 500
pounds sterling, to take a loom to
Venice for stated time, and there to
teach the use Of it.
Everything went we'll until the loom
suffered some minor mishap that no
one was able to repair. Mead re-
turned to England. the damaged loom
was sent after him, and that ended
that particular attempt.
Some years later one Abraham
Jones, who was both a weaver and a
constructor Of looms, went with some
assistants to Amsterdam, where he
worked on his own account for several
years. Unhappily, he and his COM
panions were all carried off by dis
ease, and, as no one knew how to
use the looms, they were returned TO
London, where they sold for almost
nothing.
IN ENGLAND, however, the industry
continued to boom BY 1869 there
we're TOO stocking frames hard at
work-which was considered a CO.
loSsal achievement. BY the year 17l4
the number Of frames had increased
to 5000. and thc affair was no longer
one of the wonders of the world!
And there you have the history of
those delicate garments that are so
lightly and easily purchased today
One drawback still exists, however,
which must have annoyed even Queen
Elizabeth, with Mrs. Montague's fa-
nous donation. Then and now, stock
ings have had tendency to runs,
and so far, with all our great facto-
ries, and modern chemical treatment,
no really runproof hosiery has been
manufactured. When that is ac-
complished, then a new stocking era
will really dawn.
II you wish advice on your indi-
vidual household problems, write to
Betsy CasweIl, In care of The Star,
inclosing stamped, self-addressed en-
velope for reply.
Evening star., 1935-09-09
Psychology
BY DIR. JESSE W. SPROWLS.
Fatigue.


THE most curious thing about our
civilization Is that it has not
eliminated fatigue. One would sup
pose that with the aid of all sorts
Of machinery and practical labor-sav-
ing devices, fatigue would by now be
eliminated. But it isn't. Rather dc
the masses suffer more today from
fatigue than ever before.
Perhaps there is something psyche
logical rather than physical about IA
tigue. And this seems to be the case.
Modern life is crowded with stimuli
which our forefathers never dreamed
Of. The fact that you may now
travel as far in one hour as your
grandfathers did in q day seems to
offer the key to the situation. Our
minds are reaching for new thrills.
And we 60 after them. The time
our grandfathers spent at rest we
spend in q mad rush for something
new. We have acquired the habit OF
projecting ourselves into the external
world. We have done this so COM
pletely that we cannot rest. Mental
fatigue is the inevitable result.
Another recent discovery: Fatigue
Is the parent Of fear. It's q curious
fact that a tired person is easily
frightened. And so the evidence seems
to be accumulating that most of our
mental diseases nowadays are the
natural results of being constantly
on the lookout for some way to take
In more and more of this external
world.
tcopyrisht. 1889
Evening star., 1935-09-09

Henry VIII ordinarily wore cloth
stockings, except when pair OF knit
ted silk ones could be procured at vast
effort and expense from Spain. His
son. Edward vi, was presented with a
long pair Of knitted silken hose by Sir
Thomas Gresham. The gift. Of Span
ish origin, excited much comment and
admiration. Thus it would appear
that the first ancestors Of the modern
knitted stockings hailed from Spain
and were regarded as clothes only for
royalty.
In 1861 Queen Elizabeth was given
a pair of black silk knit stockings by
her silk woman, a Mrs. Montague.
This so pleased the Queen that hence
forth she refused to wear any but
hosiery OF this type. and Mrs. Mon
tague was undoubtedly hard put to 1t
to keep the royal limbs supplied.
THE first knitted woolen stockings
l. appeared in England in about
1854, being made by one William
Rider, an apprentice in one of the
clothing houses on London Bridge.
He had seen. at the house of an Ital-
ian merchant, a pair Of knit worsted
stockings, which had arrived from
Mantua. Being clever and observing,
he made a pair exactly like them and
presented them to William, Earl Of
Pembroke, much to that nobleman's
pride and pleasure.
1t has been alleged that the original
stocking frame" which lifted the
manufacture of stockings out Of the
laborious handmade class, was in
vented and assembled in England.
About the end of the sixteenth cen
tury, one william Lee. a graduate OF
st. Johns College in Cambridge, fell
in love with o young country girl. so
the story goes. During his calls. she
paid far more attention to her knit
ting than she did to her suitor, and
this drove him to try to find some
thing that would facilitate the hand
work, and give her more time to listen
to his pleas.
william Lee then and there in
vented the stocking frame, which, as
O matter of fact, turned out to be an
excellent thing for him in many ways.
He instructed his brother in its use,
Evening star., 1935-09-09

n lines, When they are, the ma
terial is draped or tucked to pre-
vide interest.
The silhouette is wider, and shorter
than in seasons past, and the waist
line, while much the same, has a
tendency in some of the latest French
models to drop just the tiniest bit.
In the dress illustrated today the belt
is at the normal line, but the inclina-
ton toward the lowering of the line
is also present. in the pointed yoke
like section which apepars to be part
Of the blouse.
This dress is, of course a verstclI
Of the popular shirtwaist style, which
has taken the fashion world by storm.
If you were interested in discovering
from all the models shown in this
varied season the one which seemed
to be most predominant. you would
find that the shirtwaist frock leads
all the rest. It is worn all hours Of
the day, from morning to midnight,
and in all materials. 1t is a good
frock for the mature figure, having
been designed from that point of view.
The long line Of the blouse is par
ticularly good. and the scarf becom-
ing, older women not taking kindly
to the high necklines that are worn
by young things. The blouse is quite
simple, darts at the shoulder inSur-
ing the perfect fit Of the garment
Sleeves are long. and plain, not too
tight, for the skin-tight sleeve is no
longer with US. The skirt has pleats
Evening star., 1935-09-09

you are going to have fun buy
" ing your new Fall hat. You
won't be able to resist trying
on every model in the store,
because each has a particular charm
of its own, and not until the salesgirl
is exhausted will you be convinced
that your choice can possibly be mar
rowed down to anything like rea-
sonable number. Unbeiievably, after
the limited styles of Fall millinery for
the last several years, this seasons
models are as varied as are the types
Of woman who must wear them. Hats
of to the millinery designers. For
instance, you can choose a halo hat
and look for all the world like one
Of Fra Angelicos saints. or you can
don a small, rolled brim pancake and
look saucy enough to shock that
famous painter and all of the lesser
Renaissance artists as we'll. You can
wear shovel -brimmed hat with lines
family reminiscent of a dachshund
(but with undeniable chic) or you can
pick a tiny turban closely nodded to
the head. Flaring winged chapeaux,
up-rolling bretons, down-slouching
berets. or conservatively styled sport
models-they are all yours to choose
from. You can be sanity or sophisti-
Gated this season, but you can't keep
from being smart.
A NEW note in fabrics for Fall is
Austrian velour. Its texture is so
soft and fine that at a distance it
looks like velvet, yet it mercifully will
not spot and is stiff enough to adapt
itself well to sport styles. One stun
ming model which we saw Of this
luxurious velour is of a luscious deep
red, so clear and SO brilliant that it
looks like a color from the palette of
one of the Renaissance artists. Its
medium width brim turns UP in back
and dips slightly over the right eye
in front. its crown is softly crushed.
A matching grosgrain ribbon COM
pletes its simple smartness.
Another spectator sport hat which
you will notice sketched is just the
thing to wear to the first foot ball
game, and will guarantee the success
Of the day even If you root for Har-
Evening star., 1935-09-09
Peach Flower Salad.

8 large peach halves, peeled.
2 packages (6 ounces) cream cheese.
2 tablespoons mayonnaise.
8 short green pepper strips.
Place each peach half, rounded
side up, on crisp lettuce. Thoroughly
blend cheese and real mayonnaiss.
Outline each peach half with cheese
and mayonnaise mixture. forced
through pastry tube. Garnish each
with tiny green pepper strip to rep
resent the stem of flower. Serve
with additional rnayonnaise. thinned
with q little whipped cream and peach
juice. Serves eight.
Evening star., 1935-09-09
HOneHOurS
Register in
Child's Life
Safest Place Among
Those Who Mold
Earliest Days.
RY ANGELO PATRI.

eT~HE best place for a baby is at
home. He needs to be kept quiet
for the greater part of the day. He
needs to sleep. He cannot stand the
pressure of too many people about
him. He needs clean air at an even
temperature. He needs to stay home.
This stands for all children up to the
age of or thereabout.
Street cars and busses are not good
places for little children. The movies
are out of the question. Any place
that exposes the infant to crowds and
noise and jostling is a bad place for
him.
The little ones are susceptible to
contagion and infection. A crowd Is
lust the place for these to flourish at
their worst. Somebody sneezes and
the neighborhood gets whooping
cough, measles and whatnot. Colds
seem to pass with lightning-like speed
through a crowd, and children are the
first victims.
It Is dangerous to expose infants to
contagious diseases. There are still
a few people who think that children
naturally have those diseases and
nothing can be done about 1t. That
is not true A great deal can be done
about it and ought to be done.
First, the children should be guard
ed against exposure by being kept at
home. If there is contagious disease
in the neighborhood the other chill
dren should be allowed no visiting
privileges. Quarantine your home
against disease as you would If there
were disease within 1t. Prevent i'll
ness by timely quarantine.
Don't allow visitors to kiss the little
ones. If fond friends feel hurt about
it you can't help it. Explain, as gently
as you can, the reason for your pre-
caution, and If they have grain of
sense they will agree readily.
Guests are not alike in their inf1u-
enceS on children. There are some
who overstimulate the little ones, set
them to laughing. or jumping about,
or crying. Some make the children
afraid. Either they talk too loudly,
are too silent, too powerful in their
domination, or they are deadly dull
and make the child so uneasy that he
breaks into tears or tantrums.
Children ought not to be left to the
mercy of adults even those who love
them and want to do them good. The
greatest kindness that most people
can bestow upon little children is the
kindness that makes them see that
children need to be let alone. 1t is
not necessary to do something for the
children every minute of the time
Their wants are simple and few. They
need food, rest, fresh air, play and
the normal compapionship found in
the wisely ordered home Not such
hard problem when attacked by COM
mon sense.
There are always emergencies. AL
ways the question of what is to be
done with the baby while this or that
serious situation is cleared away. 1t
may be necessary to take the baby
for a long journey, to carry him into
crowds, to expose him to noise and
fatigue and the pressure of unaccus-
toned surroundings. Then you do
the best you can to help him avoid
the dangers. Get him back to his
home as soon as you can.
Home is the best place for the baby.
because it is quiet. clean, not crowded.
1t is not sterilized, it is not walled
against life, but it is the safest place
you can find for your baby.
(Copyright. 1935)
Evening star., 1935-09-09

The best season of the year
for making lawns, at least in
many parts of the country, Is
now at hand. The cool, moist
weather of the Autumn months
Is ideal for the termination of
grass seed. Lawns planted In
the Autumn are much less likely
to be infested with weeds than
those made in the Spring. 1t is
important to have several inches
of good rich soil for the grass
roots to burrow in, and an ade-
quate amount of fertilizer is ab-
solutely necessary to make strong
growth. Lime is also recon-
mended in sections where acid
soils prevail-about so pounds to
100 square feet of surface. A
balanced fertilizer is best, al
though good results are obtained
by using sheep manure and bone
meal or cottonseed meal.
Copyright. 1889
Evening star., 1935-09-09


ment last? A group Of scien-
fists who have been studying
L 4 the subject have made the
surprising discovery that the too
brief and the too long courtships are
equally dangerous. Both result in
unhappy marriages. In a word, it
seems that it is about as safe to
rush of to the parson from a party
with a perfect stranger as 1t Is to
marry the steady with whom you
have been keeping company for years
and years and years.
At first blush this does not seem
to make sense Heaven knows, we
say to ourselves. it is hard enough
to pick cut husband or wife that
will suit you even after you have
taken your time about it and shopped
all over the place. You are so likely
to want to return your bargain to
the marriage license bureau after you
have got it home and given it the
once-over carefully. You find so
m any defects that you didn't notice
at your first glance The quality isn't
all wool and a yard wide as 1t looked
to be in the shop. and. the color isn't
nearly as rosy by day as it was by
night. 50 many of us get stung
even when we have taken our time
in selecting our mates that to marry
at sight appears to add an unneces-
sary risk to an already hazardous
enterprise.
TT MAY be romantic, 1t Is certainly
adventurous, to marry a man or
woman with whom you are slightly
acquainted and toward whom you
have not even tested your emotions
to find out If what you feel is merely
a passing fancy or the grand pas
sion, but what about the disastrous
revelations that marriage may bring
of faults and foibles you would have
been bound to discover If you had
known him or her better?
Any man and woman can keep up
q pretense Of being q fairy prince or
princess for a while, but sooner or
later they are bound to drop their dis
guise and show themselves in their
true colors. Temper, nerves, selfish
ness, tyranny, stupidity come out and
wigwag q warning to an engaged
couple, which they may or may not
heed, but at least it lets them know
what they are due to get in wife
or husband. But this life-saving serv-
ice Is not offered by the short en-
gagement. That affords no oppor-
tunity for a couple to get q line on
each others little peculiarities. They
take each other ''as is" and If the
"as is" isn't at all what they want
or like, 1t Is just too bad.
A marriage is CLANCY enough when
q man and woman, who have known
each other for years and who have
tested out their congeniality, marry.
It is gambling with loaded dice for
them to marry without knowing
whether they have q single taste or
habit or point of view IN common.
Hence only those who hays broken
Evening star., 1935-09-09

The individuality of this coheted shimak blouse doubles its
charm when find how make you'll
on and crochet plain skirt for it, too (patten $3.50 Then you'll
ensemble
sitch which entire quickly learned
add crochet repertoire The blouse
strands buttons make rin sleeves
be either short
In pattern 5426 will find complete instructions for making the
blouse illustration Of stitches needed material
pattern complete making skirt
stitches
needed; material requirements
To obtain these send Is cents each coin to the
Womans Editor Evening Star.
Evening star., 1935-09-09

and laborious in
vention.
In THE Penny
Magazine" dated
l843, when stock
ings W ere far
from being the
inexpensive and
beautiful affairs
that they n o W
are, there Is a de-
lightful article on
their history and
evolution.
The first hose
were made Of
leather or cloth
Evening star., 1935-09-09
Decoration.

LONDON R-Tall feathery red
and ivory spirea, arranged loosely
In q crystal clear jug, give q charm
ing Victorian air to q room which
suits many preseut-day decoration
schemeS
Evening star., 1935-09-09
Buckles.

PARIS LP).-Silver hemisphere maps
make striking new belt buckles on
Paris Fall models. Marcel Rochas
uses them with telling effect on black
frocks and suits.
Evening star., 1935-09-09
BY BETSY CASWELL.

TINE next time that you take
pair Of brand-new stockings
from their box and slip their
u cobweb sheerness over your
limbs, stop just q moment to realize
that these filny garments are the
result Of centuries Of experImentation
Evening star., 1935-09-09
Chilled BEVERAGE Hint.

Two-inch fingers" of watermelon add
novel touch to chilled beverages served
in tai glasses. Pineapple can be used
the same way.
Evening star., 1935-09-09

Editors Note-During Miss warmers
absence in New York, where she is
viewing the Fall collections. her COL
umn will be conducted by Miss Varela.