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Evening star., 1936-08-08
Sun Good
FOrR0uting
Blackheads
Simple Home Treat
ment Also Enlists
Brush and Cream.
BY ELSIE PIERCE.

WELL, there Is bit of balance in
everything. The sun Is bane
to the dry skin, but a boon to the
oily; it makes wrinkles, but it helps
to rout blackheads. AS a matter of
fact, it's good for all that ails you if
you know just how to take it.
The very drying effect of the sun
is just what the oily skin needs, and
the skin peppered with blackheads,
for, as a rule, it is the oily type that
Is prone to these blemishes.
What's more, summing stimulates
the circulation and the activity of the
sweat glands. And did you know
that perSpiration is Natures pet
cleansing process, deep pore cleanser
If ever there was one?
If you happen to have a more or
less private back yard, sunbath ter
race or roof, here's splendid routine:
Use complexion brush, warm water
and mild, bland soap for the facial
treatment and body brush, If you
have blackheads on your back. Fric-
ton with the soap and water. Then
rinse very thoroughly in warm and
finally in cold water. Blot dry.
Now 60 outdoors and let the sun
stream down and stimulate perspira-
ton. When you return indoors repeat
the cleansing process.
Several times a week, before taking
your sun bath, apply cleansing cream
quite generously, then let the sun do
its work. 1t will help the cream to
penetrate, softening the skin and the
Impurities. It will help make even
stubborn blackheads yield readily. =,
Indoors, remove the cream with
tissues. Sponge with skin tonic or
boric acid solution. Cover the finger
tips with tissues and very gently press
out the blackheads, being careful not
to press too firmly or to treat the
skin harshly lest you bruise or break
it. Any blackheads that seem stub
bornly imbedded should be left for an
other day. Apply an antiseptic lotion
or skin tonic over the areas where
the blackheads were. Then sponge
with cold water or go over the skin
quickly with ice covered with soft
linen.
tcepyrisht. 1936)
Evening star., 1936-08-08
BY MARY ALLEN HOOD.
~ PEND your vacation at Chesa-
peake Beach,"

peake Beach,"
Come down to Bay Shore
- for few weeks!"
Atlantic City calls you'll"
"Washingtonians heed the call, pick
out the spot and rush away for we'll
earned vacations. If Pups, Bingo and
Kitty could read these same folders
that cause the human element so much
happiness, they would often be plunged
into the deepest gloom. Holidays sell
dom work out well for them. Few
lucky pets get taken for romps on
beaches and through the mountains.
Lots of them are left to the kind mercy
of neighbors. Others are taken out
somewhere and dropped. Still more
are put out to board in badly-equipped
kennels and catteries.
Probably about the saddest of all
Summer tragedies is the pet who Is
merely Summer love-" Baby sees
the pretty kitty. He wants the kitty.
He yells! Mamma hastily adopts the
small cat and retreats with it to the
cottage that the family has taken for
the Summer. Once there she promptly
forgets that she mas two babies on her
hands. Kitty is just a live play toy.
Some times Baby pulls its tail or ears.
Maybe its whiskers get clipped but it
stays around where the food is. Sum-
ner passes. The family gather them
selves up to leave. Kitty is forgotten
ALI 1t has left is deserted cottage and
the very real possibility Of starving.
Dogs and cats are domestic animals.
Who ever deserts or drops one y not
Evening star., 1936-08-08

and have seen enough Of other peo-
pies experiences to know that it takes
many other things besides sentiment
to make a happy marriage. A wife
must be first with her husband, for
one thing. She must be able to re-
spect him as a man with strength of
character, for another thing, and she
must be able to depend upon him for
financial help and security, for still
another thing.
All of these ingredients to happy
marriage will be lacking. apparently,
in your proposed union with this man.
If it takes all of the money that he
makes to supply his parents de-
mands upon him, you will have an
endless waiting for a wedding day.
For fathers and mothers can be
leeches that suck the very life blood
out of their children. AS a matter
of fact, you will never be able to
marry unless you get able to sup
port the family.
EVEN If you marry this man, he
will always belong more to his
mother than he does to you. You will
always run bad second to mother
She has had him for 80 years and
she has riveted the chains of slavery
on him too firmly for him ever to
break them. Mother will always be
first with him and you will always
be sacrificed to her. Mother will al
ways know best and you will always be
made to kowtow to her. No other
woman in the world is a more deadly
rival of a wife than a possessive
mother.
And it isn't in any woman not to feel
contempt for grown man who still
stays tied to his mothers apron
strings. can see no happiness in such
marriage unless you love him enough
to be willing to take just scraps Of
his time and affection and money
that are left over from what he gives
his mother. DOROTHY DIX.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
BY LuCIE EBERLY.

rs THERE a house that could not
always use another chest of
drawers? According to our ex-
should never go begging from any
door! Good chests are very useful
things-and they are always decora-
tive, no matter where they are placed.
This is particularly true of the low
chest.
Aside from being indigenous" to
the boudoir, this adapts itself as a
console in the hall. in the living room,
in pairs as wall pieces, in the small
dining room as a substitute for
sideboard or serving table.
Local antiquarians, it would seem,
think they are among the most de-
sirable pieces to collect. Dealers are
kept busy scouting around the coun-
tryside, combing the backwoods for
odd chests that stand in attics or hay
lofts, shopping around country Sec
ond-hand shops for those that have
been ignoran:ly sold for a dollar or
two as Junk" Every once in a while
a rare find causes much excitement.
Word is passed along the collectors
grapevine" that genuine piece has
been discovered-bids are made, and
connoisseur becomes the proud pos
SCISSOR of a long-sought piece!
The finds" are generally covered
with several coats of black or green
paint, minus few mounts-perhaps
even drawer. Taken to a cabinet
maker, they undergo a rejuvenating
treatment. Stripped of thick layers
of paint. carefully refinished and re-
paired, they stand at last in renewed
splendor-fine old mahogany. rose
wood. pine or curled maple, with shin
ing brass mounts! The drawers of all
genuinely old pieces are, of course,
always dovetailed-and that is one
way a buyer may determine if the
piece in question has any pedigree
whatever!
nURING the Chippendale era of
period furniture - 1705-1779-
chests of drawers were of two va
rieties-high and low. The low ones
were supported on short cabriole legs
with claw-and-ball feet. The base
plinth was usually straight, sometimes
with splayed gadroon edge There
were generally four drawers. The
fronts of the drawers either overlapped
the rails slightly and were edged with
small ovolo moulding or else were
cockbeaded. The fronts were straight
or shaped. Shaped fronts were mostly
serpentine type.
Mounts on the Chippendale chests
Evening star., 1936-08-08

busy-body and is out to put me very
definitely in my place. The fact that
I am married, with large and de-
manding family to look after, some
what takes the sting out OF her
remarks!
Dear Miss CasWell-
"I don't agree with anything you
aid in your column about deserted
Husbands. Being an old maid, with
a cranky disposition, it is obvious
that you couldn't know anything
about the problems of men who are
trying to work and keep house at the
same time. while their wives are at
the seashore or some place enjoying
the rest their husbands have sacrl-
feed themselves to give them.
The men who send their wives
away for a holiday only do it be-
cause they love them so much that
they want them to be cool and COM
Portable. This kind of man would
not think of running around enjoying
his freedom as you suggest. He
stays home. tries to keep house as best
he can, and spends his evenings alone
listening to the radio. Saturdays he
mows the grass, and Sundays he plays
q little golf with a man friend. He
works harder than ever to provide
weeks of comfort for his wife, and
with the thought of her always be-
fore him, and missing her like he
does, he hasn't any heart to play
around with anybody.
Il speak from experience, where
you are only guessing. I KNOW. My
husband wouldn't think of racketing
around while I am away because he
misses me too much. And when I
do go home he is glad to see me, and
everything looks as nice and neat as
when I am there.
He even has the telephone dis
connected, because. he says he is al
ways so tempted to call me by long
distance that he would be broke if
he kept it going!
so you see, Miss Caswell, that you
are entirely wrong in your ideas. It
seems a pity that you should make
such wicked inSinuationS against the
fine, splendid men who are willing to
let their wives leave them because
they want them to have cool holi-
day, in spite of the fact that their
lives are miserable without the women
they adore"
It is of interest to note that the
postmark on this letter was that of
Vell-known seashore resort. "Indig-
hant" evidently has a remarkable
husband-in one way or another!
Evening star., 1936-08-08
Chests of Drawers Nav
Be Used to Advantage
In Large or Small Home
Equally Charming When Placed in Bed
Room, Hall, or in the Formality
of the Living Room.

varied. 1t was theory of the design
erS that the brass mounts, handles
and key plates. should add to the dec
orative effect and general appearance
Of the piece of furniture to which they
were attached. On most of the fur
niture of the ordinary or inexpensive"
type the handles, scutcheons and key
plates were of the plain type that had
been in use for some time. They we're
either pieced and fretted or else alto
gether plain, as those on the chest
portrayed on this page. However, in
the more elaborate pieces Chippendale
used fanciful mounts after the French
and Rocco patterns. While wood used
by this designer was generally ma
hogany (because it could be carved to
such an advantage) other woods were
favored, too. The chest pictured, for
example, happens to be of curled
maple.
Chests of the Heppelwhite style
usually had serpentine front, most
Of them having shaped apron, French
feet and cockbeaded drawers. Shera-
ton, on the other hand, preferred swell
or bow fronts, French feet, shaped
apron and much satinwood inlay.
BEFORE the Queen Anne and early
Georgian period chests of drawers
were made in two sections. The most
usual form had but one section and
was low enough to use conveniently
as dressing stand. They had three
to five drawers. These continued to be
made during the aforementioned
periods, but the chests in two sec
tions, though still fashioned with the
upper portion slightly smaller than
the lower. were practically displaced
by the highboy, which was far more
graceful article of furniture.
During the empire period chests of
drawers of ample proportions were
made in large numbers. They were of
the three and four drawer variety in
one piece, and were perfectly rectilinear
in structure. Serpentine fronts and
sprung fronts had entirely disap-
peared. Double chests of drawers, or
chests on chests" we're no longer
used. but were supplanteu by the large
wardrobes, which had come into
fashion.
The empire period saw the begin
ming of the piece of furniture We call
a bureau. The origin of the term is
to be found in the fact that the chest
of drawers. which afterward were
fitted with mirrors, we're the first
place made with the top drawers
fitted as a desk. or with pigeonholes
and drawers with a front that pulled
down supported by quadrants.
Evening star., 1936-08-08

GreaAunt Nellie had this simple motif in her collection and we
asked about it. She she time for the bottom OF
curtain that hung against the small window in the hall door She maae
the the curtain tne
motif in along the bottom She also had used strip of the oa
hall
with just three of the motifs needing curtain
could
Wes motif and added
the mesh for the table runner, well
The pattern envelope contains illustrated
and
obtain this pattern,
Of The Evening Star.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
Letters From Readers
On the Subject Prove
Of Amusing Interest
Feminine Writer Takes Us Severely to Task
for Our Former Remarks About
Deserted Husbands.

A MOTHER letter comes from a
\ man, and makes me feel that I
have only scratched the surface of the
problems confronting housekeeping
males:
Dear Miss Caswell: You over
looked several items.
"Swell-elegant light housekeeping
northumberland on one foor-no
sun porch on front apartment-so
what in-er-Tophet do you do with
the mop? You can't put it in the bed
during the day. and you can't set 1t
in the hallway. One bath on each
floor, so you can't leave it there.
I'm not an abandoned husband.
but I want to know. and plenty soon.
too, why toast burns just as soon as
you turn your back, and why apple
sauce invariably sticks to the bottom
of the pan. If you don't spill any
thing in it, how often must you wash
out the ice box? I'll go up to the
library and find out for myself why
ice melts, and milk sours-and oh,
yes, here's serious one. Is it safe
to leave condensed milk in the can
after you've punched the two holes?
People do it, I know, but how am I
to know if they know what they're
dom? If the lining of the can has
been properly treated by the new
method, why shouldn't I be the one
to get the can that they forgot to
treat? Should a condensed milk can
be contented, or should you own a
COW?
How many pages of Huxley are
you s'posed to read before corn-on-
the-cob is done? If you stick a fork
in it before you put it on. the fire it
is soft; if you repeat after 20 minutes
of boiling, it is still soft. How soft
is corn when it's done? Should the
water be furious or should it be mildly
agitated?
IT can put a pillow into a pillow
slip with the utmost ease-but what
do you do about these two bars across
the center of compact bed? They
feel like coupla railroad ties"
X X X X
T HAVE answered this gem person.
ally, as the writer gave his name
and address like an honest man-but
could do little about replying to an
addressless Abandoned:
Dear Mrs. Caswell:
There is question that has been
bothering me for long time. After
seeing your column in Saturdays Star
I feel perhaps you can answer it for
me-
why is it that my wife can keep
flowers strong, healthy and blooming
in pots and window boxes all the year
through, but the minute that she goes
away, leaving me to take care of them,
they die practically overnight? have
watched her looking after them, she
has given me detailed Instruction.
and in spite of following her program
to the letter, the blamed things up
and whittier away. am beginning to
think they do it to spite me, because
they know I'll catch plenty when my
wife comes home. What on earth can
I do with the pesky things, anyhow"
Poor Abandoned" know how try
ing plants are that way. They always
die for me, too! The only solution ]
can think Of would be to board the
boxes and pots of blooms out at a
good greenhouse during your wife's
absence. Then, at least, the response
bility won't be yours!
There are dozens more, but no more
space left in which to discuss them.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
BY BETSY CASWELL.

n AST SaturdayS artlcIe, coHlaHl-
ing a few suggestions destined
to be helpful to the husbands
IL who are Summer bachelors,
has produced such a little furry of
comment on the subject that once
Evening star., 1936-08-08
IMPLE as A-B-C, yet trim an,

- IMPLE as A-B-C, yet trim and
- trig. this clever combination of
utility frock and apron will
- solve that eternal problem of
what to wear on busy mornings.
Added to that, the frock will serve
beautifully on the tennis court or
accompany you on hasty errand to
the grocer.
The apron is extra measure to give
protection in the kitchen and save
the surface of the frock underneath.
Thus designed for double duty and
world of service, this generous pat
tern, so simple and comely, will answer
your call for morning frock, q sport
frock, an apron frock and a general
all-around utility frock-almost a
wardrobe in itself. The button trim
Is effective and the full length Of the
paneled front Is smart and slimming.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 194l-B
Evening star., 1936-08-08

more We Will
have to let down
the bars of the
columns princi-
pies, and re-
print one or two
of the letters re-
ceived.
The first one
Is from a very
trate feminine
re a d er W h o
signs h herself e f
Indignant" and
tears into me in
a big way. She
assumes that I
am an unmarried
Evening star., 1936-08-08
Dorothy Dix Says
A Man With Mother-C Complex Never
Will Belong to His Wife,

~ EAR MISS DIX-We are both
/ 80 years old and have been
engaged two years He has
a fine moderately navinp mo-
Evening star., 1936-08-08

80 years old and have been
engaged two years He has
fine moderately paying po-
sition, but his parents are entirely
dependent upon him. His mother is
extremely domineering and considers
that he owes her lifelong debt for
bearing and rearing him. She is
violently opposed to his marriage
because, she says, that all of her
love has gone to him and it has al
ways been her plan that he and she
should be the two closest persons in
the world to each other. His mother
demands virtually all of his money,
just leaving him enough to live on.
He rarely has any money to spend
for our amusement. but I do not mind
this for love him dearly. I would
be happy If he would assert himself
in order that he could save some
money for our marriage and be able
to plan on our future, but during the
years We have gone together he has
not been able to save a dollar. I am
naturally thrifty by nature and this
is source of worry to me constantly.
If marry this man, am I letting my
self in for a life of unhappiness and
insecurity for my later life? And will
this eventually kill my love for the
man whom now adore? This is the
picture What about it?
TRYING TO BE SENSIBLE.
Answer: 1t is a dark picture and
think you will be wise If you turn
1t to the wall. I can see no happi-
ness for you in marriage to a man
who is completely under the thumb
OF a dominating mother.
X y X
IF YOU were young and silly girl,
you might delude yourself into
thinking that love is enough and that
just to be married to your sweet
heart would insure your happiness.
But you are a 30-year-old business
woman. You know enough of life
Evening star., 1936-08-08
PROBLEMS OF "SUMMER BACHELORS" ON INCREASE
NV Neighbor Saws:

WY lNci&I1OOE 0dySs
Stiffiy beaten egg whites when
added to whipped cream will
double amount of cream and
add to flavor.
Late Autumn is the best time
to buy phlox plants Old plants
should be divided every three
years.
When stockings grow thin at
the heel patch the inside with q
small piece of stocking the same
color and darn carefully. The
darning need not show and the
stockings will wear much longer.
When making French dressing
put the ingredients in a small,
clean jar and shake it vigorous
ly. You will find this much
easier than stirring the dressing
with a fork.
When threading your sewing
machine needle, turn the fash
light on the opposite side from
the thread and the eye will show
up plainly.
(Copyright, 193b)
Evening star., 1936-08-08
l94l-B

Is designed for sizes IA, l6, 18, 20
80, "a, 36, 38, 40 and AZ. Size II
requires 81 yards of 39-inch fabric
for the dress, 1l2 yards for the apron
The Washington times., 1936-04-22
Closet and Chest
6sc.7sc Seamless Sheets

Made of heavy I'M
bleached muslin; for
single, y or double
bed sizes: to be
The Washington times., 1936-04-22
MISSING Girl
FOUND ASLEEP

CANTON, Mass, April az
UN.S0 Glad in an old dress and
robe, 10-year-old Marylin Miller.
feared the victim of o demented
kidnaper after she disappeared
from her bedroom, was found
asleep today in an outbuilding 20
feet from her home.
The girl was found as q pos =
Of so State, and local police and
volunteers began searching the
woodlands surrounding her home.
Mystery still shrouded the cir
cumstances Of her disappearance,
however. Police said the girl did
not know what happened after she
had undressed for bed last night.
The girls mother told police she
never saw the dress the girl wore.
Marylin dist ppeared shortly
after retiring. Her mother heard
q noise and when she went to in
vestigate the girl was gone. The
girls clothes were on a chair, and
her bahamas were lying across the
bed.
The Washington times., 1936-04-22
REARNING TAX.
STUNS BRITISH

LONDON, April % G.N.SJ
A run on tea stores by house
wives racing to beat the Accent
price increase expected this week
end to help pay the cost OF Brit
iSh rearmament was the first
quick reaction Of q country dis
mayed by the levying of E21,'
100000 ($105, 000.000) in new
taxes to fill out the &797, 000, 900
.($3, 985, 000, 00O budget.
Stock markets openeu cauti-
ously as brokers digested the
probable effect Of income tax
increases of 8 cents on the pound,
bringing the basic rate up to
2S.75 per cent.
Most issues were marked down
especially British government
stocks and industrial shares-as
q precautionary step until the
situation becomes more settled.
Already the budget that shocked
. nation heavily burdened
throughout the depression by
heavy taxation is being known
a. the budget of fear" but a
majority are becoming reconciled
under the persuasion of the slo-
gan given by Neville Chamber
lain, chancellor of the Exchequer::
"Our safety is more to US
than our comfort"
The Washington times., 1936-04-22
Fine RatIste Gowns

Figured batiste: -
tucked and tie back;
contrast trim regu- ~
lar sizes.
The Washington times., 1936-04-22
SCHOOL BURNS
AT FARkV|LLE

FARMVILLE, Va, April ~
Damage amounting to more than
$45, 900 was done by a fire which
destroyed the school and library
here yesterday.
Firemen battled the flames for
more than three hours but were
unable to save the building due to
low pressure. All Of the books in
the library and all the school ath-
letiU equipment were lost.
School officials said the stu
dents would be transferred to class
rooms at the State Teachers Col
lege pending construction of a new
school. The loss is partly covered
by insurance.
The Washington times., 1936-04-22
HueY's Successors
Certified By State

NEW ORLEANS, La, April %.
Louisiana certified new set OF
State officials yesterday at a
general election. They will take
over the late Huey Longs dictator
ship for q four-year term. Practi.
cally all were Longs followers and
are amicable now, despite quarrels
over jobs Immediately after Longs
death. It was the first general
election in two years
The Washington times., 1936-04-22

Ideal for the warmer days New
checks, pleated sleeves, button trim
med and pocket trimmed; new peggy
collars all beautiful shades ).
Sizes IL to 20.
The Washington times., 1936-04-22
To Play at Drill

The student band of the Linton
Hall Military School, Bristow, Va,
will play during the drill Of the
r. o. T. c. tomorrow afternoon
at Georgetown University. The
drill begins at 3 o'clock.
The Washington times., 1936-04-22

Gowns and Slips

Bias cut slips in
broadcloth; ere ne
and h an d. m a d 9
gowns; slips - to
a; gowns reg. sizes.
The Washington times., 1936-04-22
36x50 jacquard Blankets

Beacon crib blankets:
Pink and blue with
n rsery designs;
stitched edge; special.
The Washington times., 1936-04-22
$50 Hall Runner

"a and 81 inch
widths; rose. tan or
green figured. GEN.
tiers with neat Dor
derS,