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Modern Women It Is Possible For You to Be Fashionable and Smart At the Same Time By MARIAN MAYS MARTIN THE older I grow, the more I marvel at the wonders of sct * ence. So many theories that the older generation swore by have been proven false through scientific research that I won der our elders have any ground left on which to stand. For instance, there was a time when high heels were considered a detriment to the health of womanhood. The accepted theory was that fashionableness and health existed on opposing planes and could never be brought together on any point. THE woman who went In for smartness was supposed to suf fer untold tortures at forcing her feet Into narrow, pointed, high-heeled shoes, while her more sensible sister who shod her pedal extremities in long, horribly round-toed, flat-heeled, heavy leather objects clumped about gaily, giving a good Imitation of a zephyr-like cow. The distinction between these two groups was defi nitely recognized. TODAY, however, stylists and scientists have joined hands in making it possible for women to be both fashionable and healthy at the same time. The theory that high heels are harmful has been exploded, according to Dr. Nor man D. Mattlson, New York spe cialist, who concludes that it is not the height of the heel that causes harm to the foot; it is the im proper balance of the whole shoe. It is his theory that in its natural, unfettered state, the body depend ed on the grip of the toes for a maintenance of balance and co ordination. In any shoe, no mat ter whether It's high or low heeled, the toes cannot get this normal grip on the smooth surface of the leather. Therefore, the thing to do is to perfect the manu facture of shoes so that the toes may function properly. And this may be done with the smartest of French spikes as well as the lowest of the so-called sensible footgear. • • * THIS discovery should bring Joy into the heart of every woman who at one time or another was chided for sacrificing her health at the altar of fashion. I, for one, will take fiendish glee in saying, “Ah, ha! What do you think about this?" COR I can remember when I was * still in my teens and a sopho more in high school, I was in trigued by high heels. I wanted a pair badly and it was my ulti mate ambition at that time to own some very Frenchy high-stilt - ed pumps. But, when I broached the subject, mother raised her hands in horror. “Why, Marian." she said, "what in the world are you thinking of? Don’t you know that high heels are injurious— particularly for adolescents! Never, no high heels for you. young lady.” Of course. I put up what I considered a good argu ment. i pointed out that so and so let her daughter wear high heels and she wasn't iny older than I was—that all the girls wore them to dances, and, and .. . But no avail. I was doomed to flat-heeled shoes and so I went through high school Ugh-heel less, muttering against the injus tice of tyranny. • • • WOW and then, however, I man aged to sneak off and don a pair of entrancing spikes that be longed to a girl friend. Of course the under-handed, forbidden as pect of such an adventure had a lot to do with my pleasure in wearing them. But even that Joy was cut short. Never will I forget the time I was out walking tilting ly. mincing from side to side in a very skittish fashion and I sud denly came face to face with mother. She—but why go into fur ther detail. Suffice to say that the remembrance of what happened is too painful even at this late stage for my further comment. I-IOWEVER, I made up my mar * 4 tyrdom In launching out. when I finally left the parental roof, and purchasing six whole pairs of the Frenchiest spiked shoes that were obtainable. I was through with being a specimen of good, bouncing health. And al though mother groaned every time she saw me wearing one of these new-fangled health destroy ers, I persisted in doing so, taking a fiendish delight in giving ex pression to a hitherto forbidden desire. DUT realizing the perversity of ** human nature, I wonder how long high-heels will be in fashion, now that they are being branded as healthy? Who knows but what right now Paris dictators are stealthily laying plans to thrust upon the unwary fashionable world shoes without any heels or toes or soles, for that matter. Who knows? Who knows? By NANCY WELLING DEOPLE who want to see life generally have their eyes opened for them. • • • AS quickly as some people find a place in the sun they spend more money for awnings. Party Hints By LEATRICE GREGORY AT an announcement party the butterflies, sailing gracefully from their black threads overhead, might have the “secret” of the engagement written on the side of their wings that does not show. At the proper moment during the party the guests are Invited to catch a butterfly apiece and see what message he brings. For a shower party, the pack ages containing gifts are wrapped to correspond to the colors of the butterflies and hidden ebout the room. The bride must search until she finds a package to match each butterfly. Refreshments for the party may be served at the bridge tables. Delicious refreshments consist of pineapple and bananna salad, cream cheese and nut sandwiches, “butterflies," fresh strawberry, ice cream and coffee. For the salad, cut a banana in half crosswise then quarter each half. Use one of these small sec tions for the body of each butter fly. Arrange on crisp lettuce leaves. Cut a pineapple ring In half and place the curved por tions like wings toward the strip of banana. The design on the wings may be made with colored mayonnaise and the antennae with narrow strips of pimento or green pepper. The “butterflies” for dessert are made from rich cookie dough, rolled thin, cut In strips 1 *4 by 3 Vi inches, twisted in the middle into butterflies and fried In deep fat like doughnuts. Home Making By ALINE STERN If you’ve never tried to stein a floor, perhaps you don’t know that all wood will not take a stain. It is not possible to stain over paint or varnish. The floor must have a natural wood finish. Paint or var nish can be removed with a repu table ready-made varnish remover. Or if a home preparation is de sired, lye and hot water will do the Job. Only, In using this solu tion be careful not to let the lye come In contact with your hands. • • • Soiled clothes should never be kept In washtubs. to accumulate from one week to another. The clothes are apt to become moldy as the tubs are nearly always In a damp condition. After the clothes have been washed in a tub. it should be thoroughly wiped dry and left unused for any other purpose until next wash day. • • * There’s nothing more annoying than a rattling window, but it’s one thing that’s easily remedied. Simply remove the window fas tening and screw it further back —that is, toward the room—so that the windows will 'ock more tightly. This will prevent them from knocking together. What to Do With Baby While on Vacation Trip The good old kitchen market basket has seen a lot of service in many different ways, but utiliz ing it as a baby carriage is per haps the strangest use it has ever undergone. No less an authority than the U. S. Children’s Bureau advocates carrying the baby in the market .basket en route to the sea shore or country when you start on your vacation. If it is fixed up like a bed with small mattress, rubber sheeting, blanket and pillow, it makes an ideal arrangement for keeping the baby comfortable and safe. And if it's covered with netting to keep off mosquitos and flies, the baby may sleep in peace and quiet, free from molestation. Among the suggestions offered by the bureau to safeguard the health and disposition of the baDy during the journey are the fol lowing: Do not let anything interfere with the baby’s regular feeding elimination, bathing, sleep and exercise. Don’t put too many clothes on the baby. For a long journey in hot summer weather, he should be barefooted and dressed only in a band, a diaper, and a thin, short-sleeved, low-necked dress or slip. Do not give the baby cakes candy, bananas or anything else to keep it quiet on the train. Ir regular feeding and unsuitable foods, together with the fatigue and excitement of traveling are likely to make him ill. RET) AND WHITE WITH A CHIFFON JACKET The charming new frock shown above is of bright, red chiffon with encrusted stripes of white chiffon. The jacket is of matching Lyons velvet, lined with white to make it crisply white. Speaking of Style By IRENE VAIL IF you know how to knit you rank * second only in importance to she who crochets. The war gave many of us amp]£ pfafctice m wielding knitting needles, but it did not enrich our experience with a crochet hook. At the moment both weapons are flying about and instructions on how to knit or crochet are quite as important as new rules for contract,or don’ts for backgam mon players. Fashion has found work for idle hands to do, and after the work is done, found ever so many at tractive ways of wearing it. Cro chet edges are highly approved and hand knitted sw°aters and caps and what not are cheered to the echo in sports circles. There are also any number of smart folk wearing boucle and other types of knitted sportswear, suits being the most popular type of costume. Boucle and other knit - ted jacket costumes generally are smart with tweeds or with silk suits. Light weight zephyrs and an goras are smartly sponsored by va cationists everywhere. The insistence of the double breasted theme In sports circles is something else to remember when one is selecting those all im portant last minute vacation clothes. Separate jackets are often double breasted, and so are dress tops. Buttons are employed always on these models and range from crystal, white or colored, to velvet covered buttons, one of the new est notes. Both separate dresses, and dresses with jackets show a par tiality for the ribbed waistline. Nothing could more definitely de fine the waistline, and waist lines are that way again. The introduction of a crochet edge on a tweed patterned wool dress or any suitable fabric is now rather a general practice. The sleeveless sports dress is with us in large numbers. Sleeve less dresses are good for practical ly all purposes. Curiously enough, the tendency is to introduce a lit tle cap sleeve in evening gowns. Many white shantung sleeveless dresses a,re being worn at such places as Tuxedo. Southampton, and so on. These are usually pro vided with a jacket which may be worn by way of variety. Shantung is one of the silk revivals which has gone over with great success. In reading fashion reports from our own resorts and comparing them with those from European style centers, one is forced to the conclusion that prints ar° more frequently chosen on this side of the Atlantic. In New York, even at the most exclusive lunching places, one finds prints in the majority although there is a decided falling off of them for evening. A Fine Early American Setting Early American furniture, in vogue now for several years, con tinues to hold it*..popularity Here is a complete setting of this <vpe even including the old gun and pistol as fireplace ornaments. Guide to C h a r m Beauty Can Be Attained by Attention and Determination By JACQUELINE HUNT |N everyone there is an undying hunger for beauty. What some call loneliness is really a search for beauty—complete beauty. It is this that keeps poetry alive, inspires music and gives us the courage to go on and on when we are weary and disillusioned. Every woman can have beauty if she is willing to work for it. She must use intelligence, and have the force of character to keep at the job regularly. Many of the highly admired women in the business world and on the stage today have had to overcome beauty obstacles as well as obstacles in life. “THE thing that you must learn 1 about beauty is to separate everything into two groups—that which is important and that which only seems Important. The most important thing of all. perhaps, is your attitude toward life. It is the little psychological tom-tom that urges you to act instead of thinking about it. Keep your youthful zest and enthusiasm. Forty-five minutes to an hour of daily care are sufficient for many women to keep their faces firm, clear and plastic and their bodies lithe and gay.'Try follow ing the routine outlined and ad just it to your needs. When you awake in the morn ing stretch lazily and relax. Then, while still in bed, covers tossed off, do as many exercises as necessary to make you feel loosened up and glowing inside. Stretch the arms over the head, bring up and drop to the sides. Repeat ten times. Sit up and bend and touch your fingertips to your toes. Ten times again. Then, lying down, bring A + DISH + A DAY By JANET WILSON 1 omorrow s Menu Luncheon. Baked Spinach and Eggs Hot Muffins Scalloped Apples Tea Dinner. Baked Mackerel Boiled Potatoes Lima Beans Strawberry Pie Coffee Stews A LTHOUGH stew is not by any *» means a fancy dish, the cor rect choice of meat and vegetables, careful preparation and proper seasoning should make this old standby as attractive and appetiz ing as it is nourishing and whole some. Many housewives have the wrong conception of what is meant by stewing. To some it means cooking in rapidly boiling water, which is the wrong meth od. Stewing should be done by gen tle heat in a small quantity of water. The correct temperature for stewing is below the boiling point; simmering is highly desir able in order to make tender the coarser cut of meat from which stews are usually made. The following cuts of different kinds of meat are suitable for use in stews: beef—neck, flank, shank, shin, top round, bottom round, rump; veal — neck, shoulder, breast, knuckle, flank, sticking piece; lamb — neck, shoulder, breast, shin and flank. Bride's stew is made with 2 pounds beef, 6 medium sized po tatoes, one onion, pepper and salt, flour, one cup boiling water, one tablespoon butter.* Cut the beef into small pieces, slice the potatoes and shred the onion. In the top of a large double boiler or a steamer place a layer of beef, then one of potatoes, sprinkle with onion and season ing, dredge with flour. Repeat un til all materials are used. Last add boiling water. Cover and steam over water for 4 hours. Add butter just before serving. To make Irish stew, use 2 Vi pounds shoulder of lamb, 2 large carrots, 6 small onions, 2 pounds potatoes, one teaspoonful salt, one-fourth teaspoon pepper, 4 cups water. Cut the meat into medium sized pieces, cover with cold water and bring slowly to boiling point. Skim off any grease from the top. Cut up the carrots and add to the meat and simmer slowly for one hour. Add seasonings, onions and potatoes cut in chunks. Simmer until potatoes and meat are ten der, about one hour. Arrange on a large platter, placing the meat in the center, the potatoes and vegetables around it. To make kidney stew, use one beef kidney or 6 lamb kidneys, 3 cups cold water, one tablespoon butter, one small carrot, 4 pota toes, one onion, one cup stewed tomatoes, one teaspoon salt. Separate the kidneys and cut each in two pieces, cut the hard portion away from the center. Place in cold water and wash thor oughly. Cut the onion fine and cook in the butter in a large pan. When tender add the kidneys and heat through. Cover with cold water, add salt and bring to a boil. Cut the carrot into small pieces, add to the stew and sim mer until tender. Cut potatoes in to chunks, add and cook until ten der. A few minutes before serving add tomatoes and cook until we?_ flavored. Remove kidneys and '■egetables, thicken the-liquid with flour., and pour this over stew. one knee at a time upward, drop ing it to your chest, up and back to position. Ten times with each leg. The last two are good for keeping the stomach firm and flat and the intestines in working or der. Do not hurry through the ex ercises. Do them leisurely with music if you wish. When you have finished, step under a luke-warm shower, sponge off with soap and let the water run as cold as you cari stand it. The morning exer cise, bath and applying your make up should take only fifteen min utes. Allow ten minutes during the afternoon for removing and re newing your make-up, and from twenty minutes to half an hour or more a night for brushing your hair, cleansing your face, bath ing and following the beauty treatments you find essential. Australian Tribes Swap Sisters For Wives By VINCENT WILCOX IF you want to get married in * Australia and are one of the natives of the back country tribes you are apt to be a lot better off when the great day comes to choose your helpmeet, provided you are fortressed with a nice lot of plump and sound looking sis ters. Sisters and female relatives are a great asset to the native tribes of Australia. As the flapper of to day might remark, “Nothing else but-’’ You see, the husky Australian man gets his wife by an exchange of a sister or a daughter of his own or the survivor of a married daughter. It is not possible for any man to obtain a wife without a solemn promise to give his sister or other relative in exchange. If the father is living he can give his daughter away, but she is general ly the gift of the brother. The girls have very little choice in the matter, for the females, particularly the young ones, are kept principally among the old men, who barter away their daughters, sisters, or nieces, in ex change for wives for themselves or their sons. The result of all this is that the more female children in a family the better chance for the getting of a good first wife and many, many wives thereafter. Apparently this does not work out at all well for the women. Many sisters mean many wives for the many men and much hard work and mortal suffering. For the men it means many wives, which in turn brings a life of ease and indulgence; the chance of a bigger income and the assurance that there will always be enough to eat for the women are made to do the ground scratching that goes for farming as well as all the rest of the work, or anything ap proaching work. Women are little more than slaves; they are real domestic creatures. Votes for Australian women of these tribes is as yet apparently, quite unknown. MODES AND MANNERS By MARTHA MAXWELL QUESTION: Is it necessary to tip servants in a private house at which you have been a guest for a week? Y. C. ANSWER: Tipping servants in a private house is a custom which is fast dying out. The host usu ally takes care of such details and if the servants have extra work, he sees that they receive extra pay. However, if you send a ser vant on a special errand or ask him to do something for you per sonally which is outside his usual' routine, you should tip him as you would a bell-boy in a hotel. QUESTION: What is the cor rect procedure to follow if you’re seated in a public restaurant and the waiter seems to ignore your presence entirely? I’ve sat for a half-hour at a1 stretch waiting to have my order taken. I don’t want to make a scene, but what can one do? r. k. ANSWER: It is rather distress ing, isn’t it? I’ve been in the same fix and I know how you feel. The best method is to go up to the head waiter and inform him of the trouble. If that doesn’t get a re sponse, take the matter u* with the manager. Of course, the usual thing that most people would do is to walk out and never darken the doors of that restaurant again. I agree with you that it’s unwise to make % scene. NEW FASHION IN PULL-ON CLOVES <S> 1931, by Fairchild. A flared pull-on slashed at the side, is trimmed with constrasting piping and a button. An unusual effect is achieved at the piped top of a glace glove by an irregular point and a long end, slipped through a buttonhole and held with a metal button. You and + + + Your Child By JANE HERBERT GOWARD IN our eagerness to give our chil * dren a few of the advantages which we ourselves may have been deprived of, many of us lose our way. That is to say, we become ambitious for our children . . . more so than the circumstances warrant. And we begin to expect more fro mthem than their natu ral endowment makes it possible for them to give. Parents are right to feel that it is up to them to bring out the most and the best in their off spring. But they are only partial ly right when they consider that so-called “advantages” have the power to do the trick. They have skipped an important step when they have failed to apply the “ad vantages” to the child’s specific needs. Take music lessons and parents who themselves are musicians or passionately fond of music. It does not occur to them that their Ar thur may not have inherited their musical ability. They talk it over while he is still in swaddling clothes and decide that he will be a great pianist or violinist some day. And as soon as he comes of age —5 or 6—they go out and invest in a piano or a violin and the daily grind of music lessons begin. Later when the boy proves to them by his development that he had it within him to develop into a jazz artist or a mediocre musi cian and nothing more, they are more than disappointed--they con sider it to be a personal affront. Geniuses happen so rarely and when they do the signs are so un mistakable, that parents need not worry themselves or spend their hard earned money striving to produce the symptoms through hard work. They will never be re warded for their efforts if they do. And chances are that they will live to rue the day that they de cided to give their child those cer tain “advanages.” rrom time to time newspapers call some infant wonder to the at tention of the world. Perhaps it's a fifteen-year-old college student or an eighteen-month-old cigar smoker or a two-year-old with a seven-year-old I. Q., or a ten year- flag pole sitter. Parents of just normal children study the pictures and read the accounts and tell themselves or each other that if their child had had the same "advantages” he might have turned out the same. Of course it is possible to pad a child's mehtality. That is, given a child with average, or slightly over average intelligence and a patient, adored, ambitious parent, and a youngster could be taught an astounding number of facts or could be trained to paint or play * a musical instrument with a sur prising degree of efficiency. No parent wants a freak in the family. Yet everyone would like to have a child with a spark of genius. So earnest is he in his wishfulness, that he often—too often is willing to pay for it in cold cash. That his child may be called upon ultimately to pay the final debt, is a contingency which eludes him. Strange as it seems, the child who develops normally — that is Physically, mentally and normal ly in keeping with his years—has a greater chance for happiness and success. If he has any out standing traits of character or mental leanings, they will out. helping to shape his personality and giving him that touch of in dividuality which will set him apart as “different” or “superior.” More than “advantages’* to train him along defnite lines, every child need opportunities to experiment and find himself.