The Washington times., 1936-12-28
NOW
NeU Almanac
For Women
WRAPPINGS
BY HELEN EsSARY

By HELEN ESSARY
About this time you begin quiz
ering over What The New Year
Will Bring"
You begin thinking Of the calen-
dar and what it is doing to you.
You wish there weren't days In
the week, or the month or the
year to come hurdling over your
|. aging head.
But cheer up sisters, today I
bring you news to tighten such
melancholy. A book is about to
be issued that will help any
woman, good or bad, to smack
down an advancing father time.
The book, The Annual Woman's
Almanac will make it's first ap-
pearance most any day now. 1t
is dedicated to American Women
and is prepared to Guido the
World Almanac, the Hagerstown
Almanac and the Almanac de
Gotha.
For the Woman's Almanac will
not only be full of worthy refer
ences to politics, sports, the
theater, motion pictures and the
professions women prefer, but II
will contain in words of one Sylla-
BILE, wisdom that every defer OF
the calendar should know.
If, for instance, you can't run
without painting, if your waistllne
is spreading and your jaw line
slipping, if you are slowing down
mentally and are too tired to
get ready to go places, if the dow
ayers hump is beginning to show,
The Almanac will tell the cause
and cure of such disasters.
In addition to the themes al
ready mentioned, the volume will
have dozens of stunning photo
graphs of the right people and OF
choice household interiors. Like
wise, it will contain astrological
charts, menus, diets, the language
of flowers, weather forcasting,
fashions, the correct proceeding
for weddings and divorces and
several million other items.
The editors of this volume, Miss
Alice Archibald, a leader in
women's activities in this country
and abroad, and Miss AntolneCIe
Donnelly, editor Of a syndicated
woman'S page, insists that Is per
cent Of feminine beauty is self
made. It was Miss Donnelly who
was responsible for the reducing
craze which swept the country In
1917.
And now a few lines about
some, people you and I know who
seem able to cope with Time
without an Almanac.
Clever Madame Jarnefelt, wife
of the Finnish Minister, has most
intellingent relatives. Her father
speaks Is languages, has written
a Korean dictionary and is now
doing a history of the Helmuks'
an almost extinct tribe OF Rus
SLAMS.
Gastone Rossi Longhi has come
to spend the Christmas Holidays
with his brother, the Marquis
Rossi Longhi, the counselor Of the
italian Embassy. Sener RosSl
Longhi is in the diplomatic service
and is on his way to his new post
In Central America. o.,,,
Mrs. Benton McMlllln, civil
Service Commissioner, learns
about life from taxi drivers. Not
long after the election, one OF
those twenty-cent chauffeurs said
to her: s.
years now and I've seen lot
of big people but there's one
HOnest-tO-GOd person I've never
had any lucq in meeting.
Mrs. McMillin, who has defin-
ftely New Deal enthusiasm, even
If she is a Civil Service Commls-
Sioner. was certain the taxl-n1an
was talking of the President. she
leaned over and said eagerly:
ooh, / know whom you mean.
Maybe can help arrange the
meeting. Tell me who it is so
can be sure"
Said the driver:
"It'S Mae West"
I want to make one more re-
mark about Christmas. And then
change the subject until next
year.
Most Christmas packages are
overwrapped. And I'll swear that
the wrappings often cost more
than the present.
Some years back, as an elderly
relative says, when you wanted to
wrap a holiday package, you tied
it up with piece of white tissue
paper and narrow red ribbon. If
you were feeling rash you stuck
O few seals here and there.
BY the glorious days of 1929
the ribbon had grown wide and
was found in rosettes in the center
of a package. During depression
days, tissue paper and tinsel cord
from the dime store gave the
shrunken Christmas note. But the
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