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Evening star., 1939-03-19

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Evening star., 1939-05-14

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Evening star., 1939-03-28

going to bed at night and going to
sleep. The only variety in it is what
we put in it ourselves. The only
fun we get out Of 1t is the spirit
we put In it. We have to blow up
our own little pink balloons.
The reason you find your work
dull and your Office a prison is be-
cause you are not interested in it..
That is not the fault of the work,
1t Is your fault. You do not try
to excel in your work, so you put no
ambition in it. You do as little as
you can do and you do it as badly
as you can do it and get by with it.
You don't even try to understand
the work you are doing. You think
OF an office as the most boresome
place in the world, yet it is full of
adventure and romance and COM
edy and tragedy if you would only
grasp 1t. You are taking part, with
out realizing it, in big affairs when
you are doing your part in helping
build up great business. You are
fighting battles in which men stake
their all on their judgment and
f1nesse. You are part of the tri-
umph when your employer succeeds
and you share in his bitterness when
he fails. And you call that dull?
Why, girl, use your imagination a
little! DOROTHY DIX.
(Copyright, 1939)
Evening star., 1939-03-28

On the other hand, there are the
classics.
They're the things we never grow
tired Of. They're presented in new
editions every season.
But basically they're the same;
the black dresses that are the back
bone of the Frenchwoman's ward
robe, the tweed suit, the tailleur,
the cape frock in the spring, the
sports shirtmaker frock, the black
compromise evening gown to wear
when you're not sure that your es-
cort is dressing.
The classics are the things we
cant get on without. And you can
wear your classics year after year.
13. Remember that colors, ex-
cept for sports and evening, are for
the rich.
There are three good reasons for
this. Colors are more perishable
than neutral tones. They involve
more changes OF accessories.
They can not be worn as often as
neutrals because everybody re-
members a colorful ensemble.
And you. yourself, get tired Of it
more quickly than of a neutral
color on which you can make
changes.
Anyway you look at it, colors
mean an extensive wardrobe-and
expensive, too-for subtle, pleasing
colors come high.
To be continued.
(Copyright 1890
Evening star., 1939-03-28
The Hot Bath

When you come indoors feeling
thoroughly miserable and chilled, the
bath is an excellent way to ward of
cold. Fill the tub with comfort
ably hot water, hop in, and stay
submerged to the chin for about 10
minutes. Let q thin stream of hot
water flow to keep the water in the
tub good and hot as you slowly work
up a cleansing later of soap.
If you plan to retire directly after
bathing, blot your skin with a clean,
soft bath towel; put on a fresh
nightgown. and get into bed with
warm covers and clean, soothing
sheets.
Otherwise, dash of cold water at
the finish, a brisk massage with the
bath towel, and set of clean un-
derthings and stockings will enable
you, after an hour or so indoors, to
bundle up and brave the winter
winds again.
Evening star., 1939-03-28

NAL, dressy note without detracting
from the slenderizing total.
In georgette, chiffon, fiat crepe
or pure dye silk crepe, this dress
will be your favorite for afternoons
Of bridge and for important lunch
cons.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1613-B
is designed for sizes SO, SO, 40, AZ,
A. 46, 48, so and So. With long
sleeves. size SO requires 5 yards of
39-inch material. With short sleeves
4A yards.
Send Is cents for Barbara Bells
Spring Pattern Book. Make your
own smart new frocks for street,
daytime and afternoon, with these
simple, carefully planned designs.
It's chic, It's easy. it's economical,
to sew your own. Each pattern in
cludes a step-by-step sew chart to
guide beginners.
(CopyEisht, 1o0oJ
Evening star., 1939-03-28

forget-me-nots, yellow and pink tiny
roses and white narcissus all tum-
bling out of an old blue Tole tray.
The glass was blue and the china
cream, with briar design in rose.
1t was one of the loveliest buffet
luncheon tables I have ever seen, its
cost was small and it was a picture
to be remembered.
There are many amusing hand
made pieces being shown in the
shops that can also be copied at
home. A soft apple-green handker-
chief linen had pale yellow border
which was set on with the points of
the yellow coming up onto the green.
The edges were finished with old
fashioned feather stitching and the
effect was delightful.
I saw heavy linen cloths with
bands of the coarse cotton lace that
can be bought for 10 cents a yard
crossing it, and the deeper lace used
for the edge. When the linen is
strong in color use them with peas
ant types of glass and pottery.
Another outdoor" luncheon set
was made of Alice blue linen with a
band of wide white ric-rac around
it; the white, in turn, banded with a
narrow strip of Chinese red bias
tape. This was used with white
plates and bright red glass goblels.
Linens For
Formal Use.
Linen for the dinner table in the
summer time may be as casual and
informal as luncheon, but 1t should
be a bit more effective or dramatic.
In candle light all colors are soft
ened, and for this reason there is
nothing more effective than white.
An appearance of GOODNESS, though
your table may be set indoors is
achieved with white cloth and can
dies. Vivid deep colors in your
flowers help to accent the serene
white surface, or all white flowers
accented with deep, rich, shiny
surface foliage.
If you have a porch or terrace To-
Gated conveniently close to the
kitchen. plan a dinner table for out
door dining this summer. There
are candle lamps with hurricane
shades which hold flowers at the
base and give light without spat-
tering candle wax. These, set on
table with a cross-bar dimity
cloth will give an illusion of COOL
ness on the hottest evening.
To be sure, you will still need
the standard number of napkins
and the indispensable damask cloth
for those occasions when nothing
else is "just right" But even damask
is lovelier now that it is tinted in
soft pastels, and designed less
ornately but with greater elegance.
In addition to these, (and also to
save them) make a collection of
the amusing individual pieces so
that each meal this summer will
be an occasion"
Evening star., 1939-03-28
My Neiehbor Soys:

It pays to sprout seed potatoes
before they are planted, at least
when an early crop is desired.
1t is only necessary to place the
potatoes in shallow boxes and
set the boxes in a sunny cellar
window until the sprouts are
well started. OF course, con-
siderable care must be exercised
at planting time not to break
these sprouts off, but this plan
will give potatoes for the table
two weeks earlier than when
they are planted in the usual
way.
The secrets of washing wool
ems successfully are Cd plenty
Of suds, ca lukewarm water
throughout the washing and
rinsing, 90 no rubbing or
twisting, "a drying at moderate
temperature, avoiding both heat
and intense cold.
(Copyright. 1o3o.)
Evening star., 1939-03-28

"a UoCAAA6 Va AAAoVSAAAAA6 JuoVSA WILL
pletes the picture. If that setup
cannot start your day correctly, you
might just as we'll get up and come
down to the family table!
To get the children nicely in the
mood for school. try one of the
hand-blocked historical cloths and
napkins that will give them a head
start into history long before the
bell rings There is one on Williams
burg, another with New England vii
lagos, including churches with
steeples, as well as some lovely de-
signs of the sea with ships. AS con-
versation pieces they start the brain
working before the coffee arrives,
and their lovely colors will smooth
early morning wrinkles out of every
brow.
There are place doilies which are
whole punches of hand-blocked field
flowers on natural linen, with nap
kins to match. And for that nice
''barnyard" effect, there is delft blue
linen with yellow ric-rac braid edg-
ing which is perfect spring setting
for yellow handmade pottery dishes,
daffodils and butter curls on hot
crescent rolls.
Lace Covers
For Lunche0ns.
If you have lovely dining table,
with a highly polished top, there is
nothing that surpasses exquisite lace
covers for your formal luncheon.
A center flower arrangement of iris,
hyacinth and narcissus brings
springtime indoors.
If you like to whip up original
ideas yourself, here is one saw not
long ago: A strip of pale pink
organdie splashed with garden flow
ers the kind used for summer eve
ming dresseS was the center panel
Of the luncheon cloth. The border
was deep rose plain organdie. The
flower arrangement combined blue
Evening star., 1939-03-28
BY BARBARA BELL.

This gracious, dignified design
shows how beautifully larger women
can wear afternoon dresses done In
the new soft, very feminine manner.
There's nothing fussy or frilly about
it. The lines are lengthening and
slenderizing-notice the almost
straight, paneled skirt. The softness
is introduced by draped jabots,
lengthening in effect, that add for
Evening star., 1939-03-28
Sinplifed 18th
Century Designs

Swedish modern designs in fur
niture follow the simplifled lines of
graceful 18th century furniture and
are mostly GRATED In mahogany wood
In honey tones or harvest finishes.
Homespun upholstery fabrics, dra-
pery materials and rugs 60 with this
Upo Of furniture,
Evening star., 1939-03-28
Refashi0n
Your Figure,
Start Now
Will Power Needed
To Remove Your
Excess Weight
BY PATRICIA LINDSAY.

If you are prone to think, Come
summer and I will reduce" or
Come summer and I will gain
weight" permit me to smash your
illusion before it grows on you!
Last winter as I was summing
myself on the lovely Florida coast
I had ample time to look at the
figures on the beach. Golly! Pro-
truding stomachs, rolling hips, tre-
mendous buttocks, too thick thighs,
rubber tires! I listened also. And
believe me, my male playmates re-
marked upon them plenty! The
last nights belle of the ball can
quickly lose her glamour when she
pulls on a snugly fitting bathing
suit! Then her figure is revealed
and how!
I listened to the women. They
would come out of the dining room
telling each other how they couldn't
resist a six-course luncheon, or they
had been too lazy to join another
at tennis or for a walk. They
ate. and lolled. and lolled and ate,
and their figures, my dears, told
the tale of their inertia.
Many of them confessed that
they actually had come to the win
ter playland to reduce! Others
(those who were decidedly under
weight told me that all winter
they promised themselves that they
would exercise when they reached
Florida. stimulate their appetites
and put on those much-needed
pounds. I counted nine women
who actually were intent on re-
fashioning their figures and surpris-
Ing as it may seem, they were
always counted among those present
when select party was being
given! Those women knew it paid
good dividends to keep their figures
fashionably curved and their energy
up to par.
So if you have even the faintest
intention of making your figure
more beautiful, drop this newspaper
and begin at once! If you delay
today you might delay tomorrow.
And warn you that when the real
summer creeps up on you, you will
be a sorry lass for not having gotten
down to business.
A pretty figure means so much
to a woman-especially when she is
away on a holiday, away from the
family who will condone any state
of beauty! Much to beauty editors
distress!
Get yourself good reducing diet,
or suggestions for gaining weight
whichever you need. Seek also cor
rective exercises for building you
up or humping you down! Then
follow those suggestions. For the
next couple of months make your
figure your hobby. You needn't an
noy every one around you by talking
about your hobby, but keep it in
mind and just see what satisfaction
you will reap in the end! But do
not procrastinate, start today!
No matter what your age, your
occupation, your measurements
you want to improve your figure
you may! We cannot all be slim,
tall beauties, but most of us can
keep our stomachs in where they
belong, our chests up and full, our
buttocks tucked under! We also
can keep sparkle in our eyes and
show q little pep" And it is sur
prising how little energy 1t all takes
providing you schedule 1t daily!
Free upon request are two diets.
A 30-day reducing diet and one
for underweights. If you request
either be sure to inclose . fairly
large self-addressed envelope,
bearing Scent stamp. Address
me care Of this paper.
Copyright. 1939)
Evening star., 1939-03-28

There distinguished by these
romantic designs Sets small pictures embroidered black white
design
The pattern envelope contains designs for six
motifs averaging by inches complete
directions illustration used and
much you will
To obtain this pattern send incose IS cents in
to the
Needlewok Editor Of The Evening STAR
Evening star., 1939-03-28
Dorothy Dix Says
Job Can Be Interesting or Boring,
Depending on What You Make It

DEAR MISS DIX: What about
girls who work in Offices and are
very much fed up with the same
routine, day after day and year
after year? I have worked In vari-
Gus Offices for the last 10 years,
and for the last four years I have
found it dull and uninteresting. If
I could do some creative work, I
believe it would be the solution
of my problem, but I have not the
money to give up my job and tackle
anything so uncertain. The days
are long, whether I am busy or not,
and when I leave the Office at
night I feel as If I were being re-
leased from prison. But it all starts
over the next day. What would you
advise?
DOWN IN THE MOUTH.
Answer-I would advise your tax
ing new attitude toward your
work. Everything in life is the way
you look at it, and work Is dull or
interesting, gay adventure or
dreary grind, according to your
point Of view. We get out of our
work just exactly what we put into
it.
All work of every kind that we
do to earn our daily bread is bound
to become matter of routine, be-
cause we do the same things in the
same way over and over and over
again. To the aviator flying becomes
just as much a Job by which he
makes his living as driving a street
car does to the motorman. Daub-
ing her face up in grease paint,
saying the same words and making
the same gestures when q scene Is
taken time after time in a motion
picture Is just as much a chore to
the glamorous cinema star as cook
ing three meals a day is to her
domestic sister. Writing is just as
monotonous a task to those of us
who have to scourge ourselves to
our desks, whether we feel like it
or not, as selling goods is to the
saleswoman, or pounding a type
writer is to the Office woman.
So there you are. If you work at
all, there is no chance of escap-
ing monotony in work, because all
life Is monotonous repetition. It is
getting up in the morning. It is
putting on the same old clothes. It
Is eating three meals q dow r. }e
Evening star., 1939-03-28
Table Linens for Spring and Summer Meals Have Never Been
0zsi;sn,;xg WSm<n

We suggest that plan whole wardrobe
THAT Well shouldn't Because
you about SO that
When expenditure all at
healthy symptom that will help it down.
Naturally can't predict what the fashions will
Evening star., 1939-03-28
Beans NOurishind

Subsistence gardens should grow
lots of beans; this crop produces
more nourishment per square foot
than any other.
Evening star., 1939-03-28
Choosing Effective Pieces
Matter Of Suiting Them
To the Time and Place
Outdoor Dining Is Pleasanter
When Proper Accessories
Are Selected in Advance
BY MARGARET NOVEL;.

The linen for your dining table far interesting these
color and delightful design interpreting day
spirit OF the OCCASION it styled cleverly
the earliest houbreakas
candle pasteined in con-
Evening star., 1939-03-28
9 Pounds Only 79c

Then all flatwork is sized, mended
and ironed. Your doilies, napkins, hand
towels and tablecloths receive special
attention. Handkerchiefs are ironed.
Bath towels are luH-dried. Wearing
apparel is starched If desired, shaken
out and returned just damp enough
tor easy ironing.
Evening star., 1939-03-28
FOR
SPLIT NAILS

If your nails split and break easily
...a are dry and brittle, don't wait an
other minute. Get the newLACTOLs
Treatment Manicure, developed ex-
pressly and solely for troublesome
nails. A rich creamy emulsion, alto
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right along with the manicure! It's
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the nail surface BOTH oil and mois-
ture, which are vital to flexible.
healthy nails. Telephone your beauty
salon right now for an appointment.
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Evening star., 1939-03-28
Try It This Week

Manhattan's Thrifty Service still costs
only 79c for a 9.pound bundle-from
40 to so pieces. Additional pounds cost
even less per pound. Mems shirts, hand. |
finished only loc each. Try Manhattan's
Thrifty Service today-ifs cheaper than
doing the laundry at home.
Evening star., 1939-03-28

Free upon request are two diets.
A 30-day reducing diet and one
for underweights. If you request
either be sure to incl0se q fairly
large elf-addressed envelope,
bearing q 3-cent stamp. Address
me care Of this paper.
(Copyright. 1930O
Evening star., 1939-03-28
Read What You Get

It's a fact Manhattan now irons all
handkerchiefs as part of its Thrifty
Service. And. too. you can have al
wearing apparel starched, and ready
TOR quick ironing. if you wish.
Evening star., 1939-03-28
No Increase in Price

That's why Manhattan's new Thrifty
Service gives you more for your mon.
ey. For everything is washed
by Manhattan's gentle Net Bag Method,
guaranteed to save you money by
making clothes last longer.
Evening star., 1939-10-22

death, was enabled to go on with his work.
Now see the oompounding of happy end
ings. Minot was working on another "sure"
tragedy: pernicious anemia. 1t had always
been fatal. Most doctors thought there was
nothing to do but reconcile themselves - and
their patients - to the inevitability of death.
But that didn't satisfy Minot. Every time he
saw patient die of pernicious anemia - and
he saw hundreds of them die - he became
tragedy. And he kept on trying to find the
way to lick it. He found it in liver diet. And
50 thousands of other life stories were changed,
stopped on the way to tragic endings.
F. A. Silcox, Chief Forester of the United
States. can tell you tragedies by the dozen -
tragedies of boom and bust" he calls them
They make dramatic tales; tales of towns like
Fullerton, Louisiana, which was forest in
1907, grew into a three million-dollar COM
munity by 1927, but which is wiped off the
map today except for one deserted building
and an old steel vault that used to be part of
the bank. Two thousand people went to
Fullerton to live and work. They settled down
there, built churches and clubs and lodges;
their children went to its schools, played on its
baseball field, swan in its pool; it was home
And then, suddenly, the timber was gone;
there was no more work, no more pay. Two
thousand people had to tear up their roots,
abandon the homes that they thought would
be theirs for generations to come, and move
on - heaven knows where.
Sioox hates that kind of drama, with its
defeated families, its deserted homes its
tragic ending. He spends his time trying to
stop it from happening. In his office recently
looked at a map. 1t showed the holdings of a
lumber company in Arkansas. The forester
pointed out areas where timber was being cut,
Others where the forest was being restocked
He showed me dots representing farms. where
men were supplementing their work in the
forests, so that nature would have time to
replenish the supply of timber. 1t was not
being cut any faster than it would grow
Here, he told me, would be no boom town like
Fullerton, no swift, sudden tragedy. no rows
of broken, abandoned homes. This was
small, solid, permanent community. He had
helped the company work out its plan, as he
has helped many others, 50 that the story
would have happy ending.
Happy endings! These are only four of
many stories about Americans who have
worked to bring happy endi 1gs to the lives
of their fellows. The story will 60 on and on.
Today's characters will give way to those of
tomorrow, will hand on to them the materials
out of which may be fashioned an even
greater, happier story.
Lay on. you critics of the American love
for the happy ending! That is the sort of
ending we want for the story of our America.
Evening star., 1939-10-22

9RE WAS thin-faced, pale youngster.
When the school attendance officers
. caught up with him. they put it down
in more technical words: "Undernourished,
anemic." They also put down: Neglected"
He lived in dilapidated cold-water tenement
in New York City, but spent most of his time
on the streets. The attendance officers took
him before judge, who put him on probation.
He went back to school, apparently docie
but obviously uninterested.
That was in the early 1905. In 1881 the
attendance officers heard of him again, but
this time he was beyond their province 1t
was the police who were after him this time
1t took hundred and fifty of them two hours
to capture him, using rifles, revolvers shot
guns. machine guns and tear gas in their siege
of the rooming house where he was hiding out
Francis Crowley, the truant, had become
Two-Gun Crowley, the cop-killer On his fill
ing card the attendance officers had one more
notation to make: 'Electrocuted, l/21/32."
George H. Chatheld, director of the Bureau
of Attendance of the New York City schools,
showed me the card. Chatfeld's job makes
him, in effect. the head truant officer of the
country's biggest city. He is one of the
gruffest men l have ever met; no old-time
truant officer ever growled more fercely than
he does in everyday conversation But it is
just mannerism, hiding what some critics
of American character like to call softness He
hates tragedies, like that of Francis Crowley
He is-as the same critics have said of
Americans generally - incurably addicted to
happy endings
But he has seen too many Francis Crowleys
come and 60 to have any Pollyanna idea that
happy endings just happen. He spends most
of his time trying to make them happen. The
other day went with him to an old candy
factory, now converted into central kitchen.
From that Kitchen every day, 60 out lunches
for 10000 New York school children in
700 different schools. 1t is run on public funds
now, but Chatheld, for several years, went
around and got teachers and others in the
educational system to put up the money for
free lunches for hungry pupils 1t was his
answer or part of it - to the Two-Gun
Crowley problem. Undernourished, anemic?:"
Then of course they will 60 out on the streets
and steal and become gangsters, he reasoned.
And in his gruffest, most scolding manner,
he told the teachers that it was up to them
to make the children want to go to school,
instead of having to be dragged in by the ears
Only. then could the schools make children
into civilized citizens. Neglected." Give
them something healthy to do get them in
terested. give them feeling of accomplish
ment, he says. Then they will stay off the
streets and out of trouble So he works out
rereational activities and special instruction
to help backward children.
Chat6eld is one of many; his way is the way
of modern educators And in other fields men