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Evening star., 1937-09-27
A Brunette
Must Hold
Her Own
Harmless Rinses
Give Dark Hair
Lovely Sheen.
BY ELSIE PIERCE.

IRON all sides We hear that the
blond is the darling of fashion
once more. But. brunettes will not
be outdone not if We know our
women and the competitive urge for
gentlemen's preferences.
1t is true that golden glints warm
the heart as much as the sun itself.
But the brunette in her deep, dark
way, can be just as dazzling.
Let the very contrast be your weapon
of competition. Keep your hair as
sleek and dark and highly polished as
possible.
This means plenty of brushing for
dark hair. even more than light. needs
sheen for beauty. Brushing cleanses
the scalp stimulates the circulation,
polishes every hair. To be of maximum
value brushing must be done properly,
and with a clean, clean brush.
This also means proper shampooing
to remove every bit of surface dust,
CRIME, dirt, for coating of dust makes
dark hair look drab and grayish, de-
tracing from brunette beauty.
BY the same token dandruff DESTROYS
dark-haired loveliness. Brushing and
shampooing will help and a special
tonic or oil treatments or pomade
usually puts an end to an ordinary
case of dandruff. The brunette does
not have to worry about oil treatments
darkening the color of the hair, as is
the case with her fair-haired cousin,
nor about certain hair tonics or sui
phur ointments or tar >shampoos. Ite
darkness and sheen that characterize
the beauty of the brunette.
For the finishing touch there are
rinses for the brunette. just as there
are rinses for the blond For the
latin brunette with black hair there S
bluing rinse to make the hair almost
jet black. or blue black-dazzling in
deed. For the dark brown head with
reddish lights there's the camomile
rinse to emphasize the titan tones in
dark sea. There are any number of
ready-prepared vegetable rinses, harm
less ones too. that add gloss and sheen
and are by no means of dye nature,
because they come OF in the next
shampoo.
(Copyright, 1879
Evening star., 1937-09-27
Dorothy Dix Says
Nothing as Important to Child
AS Its Fathers Friendship.

In the meantime. he doesn't even
feel that he has to get acquainted
with them. He doesn't bother to try
to find out what they are thinking.
along what lines they are develop
ing; what talents they possess; with
whom they associate; what sort of
characters they are forming. In reality,
the children in the Antipodes are no
greater strangers to him than are
his own sons and daughters. Many
father never does get sufficiently in
innate with his children to have a
real heart-to-heart talk with them,
or to inspire in them any real warm
personal affection.
And this is terribly hard on the
fathers because, after all, the life
of the average man with children
is one of heroic self-a abnegation. He
literally offers himself up as a sacri-
flee upon the altar of his family. He
tolls harder than any slave in order
that his children may be fed and
clothed. educated and given luxuries
and advantages that he never had in
his youth. He goes shabby that they
may be dressed as we'll as the young
sters with whom they associate. He
walks that they may ride. He tolls
in his office through hot Summers
and cold Winters that they may 20
to pleasure resorts.
OF all the money he makes, of all
the results of his labor he gets prac-
tically nothing. Everything goes to
the children. The only pay he can
get for all he gives them is their love
and appreciation. If he fails to re-
ceive this, all his work. all his sac
riflces have been in vain so far as
he is concerned.
Perhaps no other one thing would
save so many tragedies in life as for
fathers to be friends with their chill
dren. For the youngsters are not the
conceited. cocksure egotists they affect
to be. Their self-assurance is just =
pose, a bluff. Underneath they are
terribly afraid of life and uncertain
of their own judgment. They would
like to lean on father. They would
like to ask his advice. They would
like to look to him for guidance
They would like to go to him as q
friend.
What pity that fathers do not
realize that it is far more important
for them to give themselves to theiI
children than it is to give them
money; that nothing Is as valuable
to 4 boy and girl as their fathers
friendship. DOROTHY DIX.
Evening star., 1937-09-27

Winter-long supply for school lunch
use East and West.
In communities where market milk
is too expensive to use freely IN the
school lunch room or where quality
is questionable, canned evaporated
milk or dried skim milk have been
found good substitute.
'One scant cupful of dried skim
milk diluted with 34 cups of water
equals about / quart of fresh skim
milk in solids. Used with lla ounces
Of butter the food value is about equi-
valent to a quart Of whole fresh milk.
The dried skim milk in powdered
form can also be mixed with potatoes
as they are mashed or sifted with
the other dry ingredients in making
bread, cookies and baked goods. Used
in a -than-fluid-m milk ratio, it
supplies to children more of the CAL
cium they need for building of bones
and teeth without adding to the bulk
of the meal.
Children with small stomach
capacity find it difficult sometimes to
take all the milk they need in fluid
form and yet have room for the fruits.
vegetables and other foods needed to
round out their diet. These concen-
trated forms of milk are therefore
convenience on the school pantry
shelf and may be the means of forth
lying the diet with food substances
in which it tends to be on the low
side.
HOMOGENIZED milk is another
recent development in the milk
supply for school children A study
of the near-empty milk bottles left
by school children after they had
drunk their milk through straWs.
showed that the half inch or so left
III the bottom sometimes contained a
sixth of the milk fat from the whole
bottle. BY failing to shake the bottle
and merely inserting the straw and
beginning to drink from the bottom,
the cream remained on top and was
left to be thrown away.
Since the vitamin A of milk is as
sociated with the fat, waste of cream
means waste Of food element that
plays conspicuous part in the growth
and we'll being of young children.
Modern dairies are now putting their
milk through homogenizer that di-
vides the fat globules into such fine
particles and mixes them Sc thor
oughly through the milk that they
cannot tnf
Where homogenized milk is not
available, those in charge of the school
lunch can at least take precautions to
see that the cream is we'll mixed with
the rest of the milk, so that every
child will get all the food value that
is coming to him.
FOR use in nursery school groups
the home economics specialists of the
United States Department of Agri-
culture have also worked UP sample
menus for two-week's period. These
two sets of school lunch menus for
the very young and for Older children
are printed as Miscellaneous Publica-
ton 246: Menus and Recipes for
Lunches at School,
"A copy of this pamphlet may be
obtained by any teacher, school lunch
manager or parent-teacher group
from the United States Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. c. Be-
gun as an emergency measure. many
communities are planning to make
the hot school lunch permanent
institution"
Evening star., 1937-09-27
Hot Lunches Replace Dinner Pa Increasing Number of Schools
Teach Child
The Value
OF Books
Cultivate Taste
For Right Sort
Of Reading.
BY ANGELO PATRI.

u EADING for children Is about as
important to mental growth and
development, the quality of mental
health and power, as food Is for the
growth Of the body. We are too
casual about it, too neglectful OF its
quality and quantity.
In the first grades of the elementary
schools children learn to read. They
master the mechanics of reading;
learn the form and the sounds Of
words; learn to string them together
as the eye sweeps across the printed
page; learn to accent the words so
as to make them take on meaning
and color. But they do not really
read.
Reading is the power to get the
meaning of the words printed on the
pages. The beginners get the name
words and the verbs clearly enough,
but when the rest of the sentence is
woven about those words the beginner
Is likely to lose his way. He keeps
on reading mechanically, but the best
of the meaning escapes him. That
is why so many children cannot study
their lessons economically, as to time
and energy; why so many children
have difficulty in working out prob
lens in arithmetic that are mimeo-
graphed or printed for them; why
many a child who might otherwise
get good mark gets low one on
written tests. They lack the power
TO read for the meaning. That sort
of reading comes only after long prac-
tice.
This practice We hope 10 give the
children by offering them reading
for their leisure time. We hope that
after learning to read they will learn
TO read to learn, the real object of
reading. The books we offer the chill
dren then must attract them. must
be easy to read, not written in in
volved sentences, in long and un-
usual words. The book that a child
reads, and this means high school
students, too, should be easier to read
than the text used in class In class
the teacher and the group are at
nanu 10 nelp, Dut IN practlCe reddlng
the reader is on his own.
The selection Of books for leisure
reading is a nice matter to be man.
aged by the discreet teacher or
parent. 1t will not do to push the
classics. The child must begin on
the books that his stage of growth
can digest. and if that means the
Rollo books, Henty, the Cowboy
stories and the deadly series, We must
be still and hope that this stage of
growth will soon pass. We have to
keep slipping in a better book, and
here, again. much discretion is needed.
What an adult thinks is better may
not be what the child's mind thinks
good at all.
Reading the right sort Of books
oneself, leaving them around, read
ing bits from good book occa-
sionally, praising a fine story, talking
about a good book at table---all these
are good ways of creating q child's
interest and furthering his taste for
good reading.
(Copyrisht. 1872
Evening star., 1937-09-27
Manners
Of the
Moment
YOU know, you shouldn't break into

YOU know, you shouldn't break into
shag or Indy hop Just any
where. There are times and places.
We're told by our college friends that
in some collegiate circles a shaggy
dancer is anathema. The girls Just
hate to be made conspicuous by
being hoped all over the floor, when
every one else is doing a slow truck.
To say nothing of how a boy feels
when he suddenly finds himself en-
tangled with bouncing Betty.
On the other hand, take small
group of intimate friends in some
ones living room. and if one person
starts the hopping sort of dance, every
one will think it fun and follow suit.
OF course, then the thing to worry
about is the neighbors.
But on the whole the best rule to
follow in dancing is mob rule Watch
the others and do We likewise For if
you don't you'll be considered an
exhibitionist before you know it, And
you wouldn't like that. would you?
JEAN.
(Copyright, 1937O
Evening star., 1937-09-27

In some places All Club girls of teen
age organized, cooked and served the
lunch with only little adult super
vision and help. A few rural school
officials. slow to catch the point at
first, responded whole -heartedly once
1t was pointed out that Just as they
give the chickens hot mash at noon
in cold weather and warm the milk for
the calf at each feeding. so children
need warm. appetizing, well-balanced
noon meal each day Of the school week
to help them reach their maximum in
physical and mental development.
4*
HTO AID leaders Of school lunch
projects where funds are limited
and equipment must be of the simplest
the Bureau of Home Economics has
prepared three weeks menus and ac-
companying recipes to serve so chill
dren. The school lunch menu. OF
course, needs to dovetail smoothly into
the home bill of fare SO that the child S
diet as whole provides him with the
right amount of protein, minerals,
vitamins and calories. In some schools
the lunch room leaders urge children
to take the menu home so their moth
ers can plan other meals in harmony
with the weeks schedule.
Each of the weekly menus sug-
gested by the home economists and
built on the Ave school days as the
unit, follows this general pattern:
First, for the hearty hot dish once
a week eggs in some form. creamed
scrambled, orr combined with cheese.
rice or vegetables. On the other days
meat or fish and vegetable chowder
or stew; or dried beans or peas in
appetizing form; or a substantial milk
soup
Twice each week tomatoes come
into the menu, for their good flavor
and color and their high vitamin value
Milk is always present, as milk to
drink and doubling some days as one
Of the chief ingredients in soup, sauce
or hot beverage.
"ERUIT likewise appears daily as
the dessert. now and then plus
a cookie. The emphasis, however, is
on the fruit, whatever is fresh and
seasonable. Local merchants often CO.
operate with school lunch managers
in quoting wholesale prices on oranges
by crate or bushel: Local communities
band together and can fruit and vege-
tables for the school pantry, thus
utilizing surplus products from home
gardens and orchards. The bumper
crop of apples this year assures 9
Evening star., 1937-09-27
A Novel Idea
For Double
Weddings
Have Refreshments
At One Apartment;
Receive at Other.
BY EMILY POST.

DEAR MRS. POST: My sister and
are having a double wedding in
the Sunday school room of our church
and we want to keep the ceremony
just as simple as possible. In your
book We notice that you say it is
necessary that the bridegroom have
a best man. (a) Is 1t possible, and
please explain the arrangement II it
is, in our case, for each couple to be
the others attendants? Also. since
mothers house is doll-sized there Is
no space to display the wedding gifts.
tb) Could these be displayed on ths
day of the wedding in our own apart
ments? And as We are to live Just
around the corner from each other.
could We give part of the reception at
my sisters apartment and the other
part at mine? In this way every one
could see both apartments and both
sets of gifts. We have no idea, of
course, how this could be arranged.
Answer-It would be entirely proper
as we'll as possible for each couple to
serve as the others attendants The
procedure would have TO vary slightly
from that usually followed at double
wedding, where the two couples stand
side by side at the altar rail and the
service is read to them together. In
your particular case, you, who are
the older sister, would go up the aisle
first on the arm of your father, and
your sister would follow on the arm
Of your nearest male relative. Since
you speak only of your mother, it may
be possible that you have no father,
and in this case you and your sister
could walk up the aisle together. if
you prefer. In either case, your BRIDE
groom would meet you at the impro-
vised altar. but your sister, as maid
of honor, would take her place slightly
behind you at your left, and her
flance would take his place behind and
at the right of your bridegroom during
your ceremony. At the conclusion of
your marriage you and your husband
would stand aside and while your
sister and her fiaf1ce go forward YOU
move into their places and serve as
their attendants. At the conclusion of
their ceremony you and your husband
go down the aisle. followed by your
sister and her husband. tb) 1t would
be novelty. but it might be very
attractive one Just how to divide
the reception would be difficult, but
perhaps you might receive at one
apartment and then tell every one
that refreshments are being served at
the other one. After all. this would
be just as practical as going from the
living room, where people receive to
the dining room for refreshments IN
the same house.
(Copyrieht. 1887
Evening star., 1937-09-27
Spice Seckel Pears
For Winter Use.

DRESERVING for the Winter
months the sweetness of the tiny
seckel pears is easily done. The fruit
especially lends itself TO spicing and
picking: when left whole. with the
stem on. the pears become a decora-
ton as we'll as a delicious accompani-
ment to meats.
Here are some tried and truo o.
fashioned recipes that will prove II .
full in putting up the fruit.
BAKED PEAR PRESERVES.
l.. peck seckel pears.
pounds sugar.
tablespoon water
Wash and wipe the pears t.
move the blossom ends. Pour water III
the bottom of covered dish or jar
and place in alternate layers OF pears
and sugar. ending with the sugar on
top. Cover and bake for three hours
in a SLOW oven, baSting three or four
times with the hot sirup. Pack i'll
hot, sterilized jars and seal.
SPICED SECKEL PEARS.
Wash the pears and peel them, leav-
ing the stems on. Boil six cups vine-
gar with eight cups brown sugar. two
teaspoons cloves and stick of CHINA
mon. Add the pears to the boiling
sirup and let them cook until tender.
but do not let them lose shape Pack
in jars. cover them with the sirup and
seal Immediately.
PICKLED PEARS.
Wipe one peck small, firm pears and
stick each with four to six cloves
Cook IN sirup made of one pint
vinegar, two pounds brown sugar and
one ounce stick cinnamon, until soft,
using half of the pears at time.
Pour into sterilized jars and seal.
Evening star., 1937-09-27

" Qulsite toiletries-and what
woman doesn't?-is the visit
to Washington last week of M. Lu-
cien Lelong, the French designer and
perfume creator, who is touring the
United States making an intensive
survey of our larger cities.
Mr.. Lelong with two studios in
Paris, and so big name in the fash
ion world on both sides of the At
lantic, is a slender man with a genial
smile, winning personality and a
typically American mania for speed
He loves fast automobiles and fast
racing boats. He possesses one of
the worlds best collections of white
china of the sixteenth to eighteenth
centuries. as well as an outstanding
collection OF Russian glasses from the
seventeenth century. He loves to
work on modelling in his leisure time.
He thinks his 17-year-old daughter.
with the lovely green eyes. is marvel
Gus. He is an enthusiast about every
thing he undertakes.
At luncheon party which Mr.. Le-
long gave during his stay in Wash
ington it was rather expected that
he might say something about his
work. but instead he admired our
beautiful city. told of his visit to
Mount Vernon, spoke of the strong
friendship between his country and
ours, with never word about his new
perfume. But, of course, he knows
that that will speak for itself.
This fragrance is utterly new and
different, and yet there is a definite
connection between it and the court
of Louis XIV. the King who estab-
hshed Versailles in all its magnifi-
cence. His court boasted a galaxy
OF talent which outshone every other
court in Europe. Louis XIV sur
rounded himself with the most bril-
liant minds who lived in his time,
and some of them including the
famous playwright, Moliere) would
engage in sparkling repartee or write
witty playlets to amuse the court
Everything was impromptu-and the
splendor, the beauty and the romance
OF that day have been captured in the
name Of this modern perfume
The flowers of France have been
Evening star., 1937-09-27

gathered into bouquet that is charm
ingly French, yet very modern in
manner, because of some new perfume
ingredients which have been discov.
cred only in the last year or so.
|
NEXT, We want you to know abou,
one Of the very exclusive aids
to beauty that has the double pur-
pose of giving the skin of the face
an immediate freshness, and, wher
used with regularity is said to grad
ually tighten the muscles of the face
and throat.
This product. compounded of nour-
ishing oils, blended so as to be oi
unusual benefit to the skin. is consid-
cred the greatest achievement of its
producer. Its intent is to stimulate
cell activity and improve the circu-
lation. and. of course, that takes us
back to the old problem of a sluggish
blood condition that causes so much
trouble.
The treatment takes only 90 min.
utes. and is recommended for day.
time use once week or more often
if desired. This costly cream. in its
alabasterlike box, is priced at s25 dur
ing the entire year. with the excep.
ton of one week, when it is presented
in two smaller sizes. at much more
interesting prices. Women who neec
new supply of this expensive cream
will be eager to take advantage oil
this offer, for this is the very week
to do 1t, The older woman will fint
the cream particularly helpful.
THERE'S new makeup that W,
want to tell you about that il
just the thing for skins that are be.
ginning to lose their Summer tan
The powder has glowing. rosy quail.
ity that keeps you looking radian
even when your tan is fading. Tht
cake rouge is fiattering color ane
the lipstick is equally good, coming
in two sizes, subdeb, and the regular
size with the tricky snap-up top. 1t i.
pure red without blue or orange tones
and In the stick looks very dark. How.
ever. it hghtens on the lips. makins
nice medium red. This makeup en-.
semble is particularly good for blond.
and light brunets.
Autumn brides take note! There l.
perfectly enchanting bouquet o1
bridal perfumes-five to be exact
in triangular bottles with filagret
metal shoppers, all set on a white
pedestal and tied with white ribbon!
and spray of orange blossoms. It..
fascinating, and sure to please. There
is orange blossom, the traditional
flower and perfume of the bride; white
orchid. rare and exotic; the delicate
old-fashioned scent of lily of the val.
ley; jasmin, the Intoxicating fragrance
OF Southern garden, and the always
beloved gardenia-five exquisite white
flower fragrances, any one of which
may also be obtained separately in 8
dainty gray, white and green box
Each of these perfumes is perfect
for a bride to use not only on hel
wedding day, but afterwards in re.
membrance of the happy occasion
The single bottle may be used as 9
bridesmaids gift, or reversing the pro.
dure, the bouquet makes an ideal gift
to the bride from her attendants Of
friends. And what wife wouldn't adore
to be so remembered on her wedding
anniversary! There's a thought to b<
passed on to friend husband.
For information concerning item.
mentioned in this column, call Ma.
tional 5000. Extension 395. between
10 and IL am.
Evening star., 1937-09-27
YOUNG girl said to me the
other day: Il have one of the
finest fathers in the world.

4 A He is gentle, tender, consider
ate, generous and does everything he
can to make us happy at home.
When he comes into the house it is
just as if all the electric lights had
suddenly been turned on and every
thing is gay and peppy.
He chucks the baby under the
chin, jollies mother and leases us
girls, and honestly he has line that
makes all the boys seem dull and
stupid. Perhaps it is because he is
so good that We never get enough of
him. For that is our trouble. Father
is one of the hard-worked BUSINESS
men who never have time to give their
families any time. He is always off on
trips. or in conference, or having
to meet a man from somewhere. or
90 over papers or something, so that
he is more like delightful visitor to
us than member of the household.
None of us children is well
enough acquainted with him to talk
over our little problems with him,
dllu WOulOll lldNC IlllIC W llolCll
to us even If We screwed up the cour-
age to try to tell him what We are
thinking and feeling. Sometimes 1t
makes me feel as If were sort Of
half-orphan, and 1 wish I had a
father who would give me fewer of
the things that money buys and more
of himself. would just love to oe
friends with father
There are hundreds of thousands OF
other youngsters who echo this girls
longing to be friends with their fathers.
and there are millions Of fathers
who would give their very hearts
blood to be friends with their chill
dren. 1t is one of the ironies Of fate
that neither knows how to 60 about
bringing about the relationship that
they so ardently desire and that
would bring SO much happiness to
both.
lOF course, the estrangement is pri-
marily the fault of the fathers
and their mistaken theory that the
only duty Of the male parent is to
feed and clothe his offspring; that
after he has done that and thrown In
. college education and q few sport
cars and trips to Europe, that he has
fulfilled all of its obligations to them
they will automatically love him, be
| grateful and pal up with him when
they are grown.