Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 44, Hammond, Lake County, 8 August 1913 — Page 11

NO AGE LIMIT NOW IN CLOTHES

V AN ORIENTAL FLAVOR TO THI "6S

DISTINCTION IN THIS GOWN FOR MIDDLE AGED WOMAN. OLD age has gone out of style, and with it clothes especially designed for "elderly women." Indeed, there are only occasional moodaines to be found nowaday, even those over sixty-five years Put Furniture In Com fortable Positions A WELL known furniture dealer says if women would have furniture appear at its best advantage It should never be set with all lines the same way. Not that things should go every which way, as the children say, but the monotony must be broken. For instance, suppose therl is a davenport or a couch of some sort in the living room. It will look much better if backed up against a table or possibly across a corner than just set straight across one end or stiffly at one side against the wall. It should be arranged in some way to look comfortable, somewhere near a window or where the light may be near a table that any person sitting or lying on the couch can see to read if he or she desires. An intelligent study of- the rooms of those who can afford to let their taste run to the best examples will show that tables, couches, etc., are nearly always near the center of the room instead of standing primly against the walls. Such an arrangement makes the room look 100 p?r cent better than any other, simply because they show a reason for owning these pieces of furniture. Every room should have a center of some kind. Usually a fireplace is in such a position. Take this as a center about which to group chairs, etc., and stiffness vanishes. The piano, a pretty table with an electrolier or lamp, a big easy chair, a tea table with its perfect equipment, all or any of these placed handily give a homelike air that is very attractive and charming. Sofa cushions may be placed at different angles, pictures rehung and bright little rugs laid on another side of the room, vase3 and other bric-a-brac may be n.oved to other places in the room, and the housewife may so vary the monotony of her room that it seems to gain life to those who are obliged to occupy it. There may be and often is some tone that Jars of which the most conscientious home mistress is totally unaware until by mere chance she moves the article that produced it. A room may be overcrowded, a grave fault easily remedied, and here the process of elimination does a world of good. Change the looks as you do the air of your rooms and add to their beauty. NEW OUTING COSTUMES. QTRIFED voiles have become very popular this year for out of door sports, and they are practical as well as attractive, the blue and white, black and white, tan and white, or red and white, or red and white stripes being best liked. For golf, tennis, boating and automobiling there are the plain and fancy voiles and cotton crapes finished off with wide bands of ribbon, linen or fancy cottons.

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of age, who acknowledge themselves in this class. A maker of women's garments was heard to say recently that he made clothes for old girls and young girls and that between sixteen and sixty fashions are interchangeable. The rejuvenation of the old lady of decades past, who at forty put on caps

FAMILIAR VEGETABLES COOKED IN UNUSUAL WAYS

TTAVE you ever tried cooking turnips I with a cheese flavoring? It's a departure from the usual turnip recipes and is very good. Peel and boil young turnips in salted water until they are perfectly tender. Cut them 4n halves and put a layer of them in the bottom of a buttered casserole or baking dish. Spread the turnips with a layer of thick cream sauce which is well seasoned with salt and paprika and alternate layers of turnips and sauce until the dish is full. Sprinkle cheese over the top and bake for thirty minutes. Fried cauliflower is not the most digestible of vegetables, but it is worth trying to tempt the jaded appetite. To prepare the dish cook one good sized cauliflower in salted water until it is tender. Drain, cool and divide it. The divisions should consist of a flower each that is to say, the cauliflower should be broken apart at the base into its natural divisions. Dip each of these sections in beaten egg and then

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THE LINES ARE RIGHT ALL ROUND THIS HAT. OO many women when purchasing a ha.t forget to look at the creation from all angles. If the front view is becoming, that seems to satisfy the prospective purchaser. This is a great mistake, and a profile effect in most cases is of greater importance. The young girl pictured is aware of this point of vantage and is apparently viewing the pretty chapeau from every pleasing prospect. The feather is most gracefully posed, and the confection is one of the best of the cummer's productions

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and retired from the arena of modes, has been brought about principally through social changes club life, bridge parties, motoring and coiffures a motley collection of seemingly unrelated facts; but,' taken as a whole, they have put the old fashioned woman out of commission. Mental activity will do more to pre roll them in breadcrumbs mixed with grated cheese. Fry them golden brown in deep fat, drain and serve. There are innumerable ways of cooking tomatoes, but perhaps the best known of them is the curried tomato. Cut half a medium sized onion into very small pieces and fry in butter until brown, but not the least burned. Add a tablespoonful of curry powder and work it in well with the butter; then add half a cupful of stock, mixing it in slowly, and then add half a minced apples. A tart apple gives the best flavor, but any apple will do. Simmer this gently for fifteen minutes and do not forget that slow simmering is the secret of good curry. If it becomes at all dry add more butter or stock, but whatever is added must be done so slowly and gradually. Skin half a dozen ripe tomatoes and pour the curry over them. Just before serving add a teaspoonful of lemon Juice. This amount is exactly enough for six.

serve youth after the pristine freshness has faded than all the best prescriptions of famous beauty doctors. Club life and the bridge table give women interests on their own account apart from the secondary interest in their offspring's affairs. To have absorbing engagements of one's own is surely more enlivening than to look at

Why Don't You Make Your Own Shoes? QOME of the smartest women in Paris are engaged in making their own shoes. No, it is not on account of economy; it is simply a new fad. The employment has entirely superseded that of bookbinding with amateurs, and it is one that makes for usefulness as well as beauty. The shoes are made of leather, brocade, moire, velvet, satin, ribbed silk, ribbons, gold and silver cloth, cashmere and prunella and are appropriately embroidered, embossed, beaded, painted with flowers, monograms and other designs; bordered with fur and ornamented in many other ways. In most cases they are lined. The soles are sometimes of leather, sometimes of thin cork, and sometimes of fur, and bound with an exquisite care to the uppers. Heels are more often conspicuous by their absence, yet they can be prettily fashioned of leather and appropriately ornamented. . The French women in some Instances copy the shoes from old pictures, and they embroider the backs of gloves, wliich they also copy from pictures. CREAM SPONGE CAKE. TOUR eggs, four heaping tablespoonfuls of flour, one tablespoonful of cream, six tablespoonf uls of sugar and the grated rind of one lemon. Brush a mold over evenly with melted butter. Sieve half a tablespoonful of extra flour and two tablespoonfuls of sugar. Put these into the mold, shake them all over it and toss out all the mixture that will not stick to the butter. Warm the flour in the oven, sieve it and grate the lemon rind on to it. Beat the eggs until frothy, add the sugar, stand the basin over a pan of boiling water and whisk them for ten minutes or until very thick. Remove from the pan and whisk until cold, then lightly fold in the flour, add the cream, pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake the cake slowly for one hour. DRESSY SUMMER GOWNS. rpHE cool summer frocks suitable for the country club, for afternoon tea, on lawn or piazza, or perhaps for informal garden parties, are very pretty in a combination of cotton crape, all over embroidery, shadow lace and net cleverly combined. They are made short, with low neck and three-quarter sleeves, with broad satin girdles in bright colors, , TO BLEACH FADED FROCKS. fPHE colored frock or blouse that has become faded with frequent launderings or from wear in the sun may be bleached to a clear white by boiling In cream of tartar water. The correct quantity to be used to make the garment a pure white is a teaspoonful of the powder to a quart of water.

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life through other persons' rose colored spectacles. The motorcar is another factor, as before stated, in the continued youthfulness of the middle aged woman. It is a sport that appeals quite as much, and often more, to sixty than it does to sixteen or twenty. The older and the younger woman may wear the eame smart automobile togs, and what true daughter of Eve ever looked frowningly upon a pastime in which fine feathers played a leading part? The bridge table furnishes an exhilarating amusement and the time and place for the display of one's "best bib and tucker" to say nothing of one's rings and other jewels. Fifty years ago these same young-old bridge play LACE BLOUSE IN

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rpiIiT blouse in the cut is a fetching little confection to wear with a tailored suit of silk or an elaborate affair carried out in some one of the many dressy materials of the season. All over Valenciennes lace lined with flesh colored tulle is the foundation, and the decorative effects are obtained by a liberal use of white messaline satin.

JAPANESE EDUCATION. TN Japan only a blind child could be insensible to color, after long days under the pink mist of the cherry blossoms and the crimson glory of. the maples, in the sunny green and yellow fields or with mountain slopes of wild azalea for a romping place and a wonderful sky of blue for a cover. By inheritance and environment he is an artist in the use of color. Forrn too, Is as easy, for when crude toys have failed to please it Is his privilege to build ships, castles, gunboats and temples with every conceivable household article from the spinning wheel to the family rice bucket.

ing ladies would have been waiting at home for the "young people" to return from quilting parties, and a hundred years ago they would have been sitting by the fireside nursing their rheumatic joints. "Other days, other ways," and in this year of grace the old lady makes herself fit and young looking, too, by a carefully coiff ured head. Gray or white hair is never becoming or beautiful unless it is thick and luxuriant, but today it is no disgrace to disguise scanty locks by artificial means such as braids, transformations, puffs and other devices. And the professional coiffeuse has any number of customers over sixty from whom she reaps a splendid harvest by keeping their tresses in youthful condition. It is far more desirable to have a charmingly becoming coiffure and a simple gown, than to don an expensive costume with an unlovely coiffure. Singeing, brushing the hair faithfully and long night and morning clipping the ends and even the application of hair stain when skilifuly done ward off ihe approach of Ihe appearance of old age.

That there is little difference between the evening r;owns of matron and maid is smartly evidenced in the modeis in this category pictured among the grouped cuts. The older woman will have doubtless a longer train on her frock and will wear more jewels, but the silhouette of her gown will be the same as that of her debutante daugh ter. The latter will long to appear sophisticated, and her mother's object in : living will be to appear slim, and these two aspirations meet nowadays on the common ground of costume. The young girl's evening dress lllus-; trated is of steel gray charmeuse, a material hitherto the exclusive property of the middle aged, and over the gray satin is draped light blue chiffon, on which is an extremely rich border of cream lace, jet embroidered net motifs and blue and steel bead embroidery. She also Is allowed the matronly privilege of donning duchess lace, a prerogative granted her In the costume under discussion, which has a square decolletage tucker of this handsome dentelle. The matron's dancing frock shown as an interchangeable costume is stunningly carried out in black and white, a combination which the demoiselle de mode affects this season. The other contrast between the gown of sixteen and that of sixty is seen in the distinguished little creation worn by the middle aged woman in the group. The material Is a wool and mohair mixture of navy blue with black satin sleeves and touches of Bulgarian embroidery effectively used as a trimming contrast. Daughter could borrow the mater's dress in this instance if the powers that be have made them of like proportions. All the grace and dignity of a Parisian production are possessed by the oriental creation designed primarily for the jeune fllle, but which is equally good form for the matron who has kept her figure up to date. There is a dis-. tinctive oriental flavor about the cos tume that is mainly due to the loose jacket worn over a white blouse, the ornamental belt buckle and the swing ing bead tassels on the collar. So, taking one thing with another, the sartorial lot of the modish woman of eixty is as enviable as that of sweet sixteen. CATHERINE TALBOT. EACH WARDROBE 4 if. ; ; THE USEFUL CHIFFON WAIST. AT the beginning of each season the questiorf arises whether the blouse to wear with the dressy street costume shall be in a matching color or a white affair of chiffon or lace. To be sure, the white waist, both in lingerie and unwashable materials, has been more in evidence this spring than for several seasons, but that is no sartorial assurance that it will continue in vogue all summer. There are times and places when the white blouse is quite in keeping with an elaborate street suit, but there are other occasions when nothing is smart but the matching blouse.

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Practical Value of Art

Training For Girls TRAINING that calls for very direct use of the critical powers, developing Judgment ai4 skill, is a training that will increase the efficiency of the individual, whatever his calling may be, says Farly Doty McLouth, head of the art department of the Oregon Agricultural college. In America, this great land of wealth, having probably the best schools in the world, art education is not given the place it so richly deserves. Germany, France, all of the foremost European nations, are ages ahead of us in art education. Fine art should be more thought of and given its splendid place of power for good in the nation. There should be established a far greater number of art schools in this wonderfully progressive country of ours. Still greater is the need of art education in general, leading to a training in the applied arts. Instruction in this branch of art i r t STUDENTS AT WORK. should be offered by every educational institution, ropre particularly in the agricultural colleges and other institutions of learning which dignify the in- . dustries. Some schools have provided for serious young men and women, too, a place where the latent art sense may be developed, in the belief that, while what is called high art may not be essential there, a genuine love of art with the good influence such a love must have on the awakening Intellect will give a higher appreciation of the ordinary things of life and a higher efficiency in the work - of life than would otherwise be found. Many of oyr young men and women who fall in lie would become leaders experts in the applied arts, design, ceramics, interior decoration and costume designs- if they were given an opportunity to find their ability. Beauty Confidences For Young Girls gO many girls long for lovely complexions, but are too lazy in many instances to try to preserve what Dame Nature has given them or to make the best of a bad bargain. One thing should never be forgotten that is, the face must be made thoroughly clean before massaging, as otherwise specks of dust will be rubbed into the pores and blackheads will result. Blackheads, you know, are nothing more or less than dust which has not been removed from the sk.n. They are unlovely blemishes, and therefore the face should be thoroughl scrubbed before beginning any massage with a canW. s hair complexion brush dipped in hot soapy water. "When the skin is immaculately clean rinse it with floods of warm water, so that not the lightest sediment may dry on the skin. Dry with a soft towel and you are ready to begin your facial massage. Make yourself comfortable before your dressing table in a high enough chair to be on a convenient level with the mirror and with a bowl of boiling hot water and a couple of small Turkish towels at hand. Then, dipping the tips of your fingers in your Jar of skin food, smear the face thickly, rubbing the cream in with firm circular movements. Now double one of the towels and place it in the hot water. Squeeze it out quickly and lay it upon the face, patting it in close to the skin. At the same time place the second towel in the bowl. As the one on the face begins to lose its warmth replace with a fresh one and keep alternating for ten minutes, renewing the water when it is no longer hot enough. This will ope? th) pores and render the skin pliable. Pat the face dry with a soft towel and smear once again with the facs cream. Never attempt to massage the skin when either it or the fingers are not moist with an emollient; otherwise you will add creases instead of eradicating them. FOR THE TOURIST. rpHE most serviceable and durable " dressing gqwn for the traveler is made of some dark, inconspicuous, not transparent material. Crepe de chine is ideal for summer wear. A dressing gown of this material in a dark color can be worn comfortably for months. It does not show soil easily, and when it is soiled it can be easily washed and will look as well after a trip to the laundry as before. A dark gown, besides the fact that it will not show soil so quickly as a light one, can be comfortably worm on the way to the bath on shipboard and in the corridors of hotel or pension.

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