Evening Star Newspaper, January 28, 1921, Page 25

WOMAN’S PAGE. ' THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY. JANUARY 28, 1921 WOMAN’S PAGE. THE RESPONSIB ™ The Star’s Househol Expert Takes Up Sub- ject of a Home”—A Study of Special Needs for Spe-| cial Families. A home is not merely a house; it is an atmosphere, a feeling. It is a place full of beloved associations, where vou can ‘wear old clothes and think old thoughts. ©One should be happy there, and be com- fortably unhappy. Luxury cannot make a home, nor can books, pictures, rugs or Bric-a-brac, but they will help. A cat, & canary, two geraniums, a Bible and an old rocking chair may make one of the loveliest homes in the world. At the same time a home is not necessarily bappy because it is the house of pov- efty, as somé persons would have us be- leve. Success in homemaking, as in every- thing else, requires that you should feel a real joy in your work. if it is an irkeume duty, if your mind is of a thousand outside things that are not home, you cannot make home what it should be. Not that the homemaker should think of nothing else—neither de- sirable nor possible—but the woman whose first pleasure is to create that beautiful thing, home, will be a pre- s and permanent influence to her family, to her guests and to the com- munity in which she lives. Make Good A general makes plans and directs campaigns_that affect the destinies of nations. Behind the general was the woman who fed him and taught him, Not all women have the molding of great men in their hands, but every ‘wife and mother has potential good citi- mens at the mercy of her cooking and her instruction, and If she is wise she will study how best to equip her hus- md{ and hér children for the struggle e The task is not difficult. A wife need not become an expert food chem- although she will find that the ler her knowledge the more inter- enti be her work. She must ‘mere] n a_comprehensive view of the laws of nutrition, apquaint herself with the chemical character- istics of ordinary articles of diet and learn how to classify them. Her next step should be to study the particu- lar needs of each member of the fam- ily, but at the same time she ought also to bear in mind that to dwell too long on the peculiarities of the individual is bad for the welfare both of_the individual and of the family. The family health will suffer un- léss the meals are palatable and well anced. A housekéeper should, of sourse, plan her expenseés carefully, E&tho cheaper foods can be made attractive and nourishing. All members of the household need a s:pcrly varied diet. If they ha t. they will not need “blood pu: "LISTEN, WORLD! By Elsie Robinson OF A MODERN HOUSEKEEPER “Perfect! If it is a drag, | | flers” and “spring medicines.” The | thin person needs milk, cream, butter. | olive oil. cocoa. the fats of meat and well cooked, starchy foods, The stout | person should omit most of these | articles of diet, and those who are much in_the open air can digest food that is harmful to persons of seden- tary habits. | ™ The children's food should be a study in itself. for children should not have the full adult meals until they are old enough to digest them. { They shoull be taught moderation and self.mastery in rexard to food, hould mot be permitted to yield otions” or to cultivate dislikes. An inborn distaste for an article of food should be respected, but in gen- eral it is better that a child should eat and learn to like what is set before him. Children's tastes are naturally simple. It is a mistake to foster a craving for a complicated diet. Two Important Every-Day Duties. “Are we degenerating?”’ asks one woman. “Can it be that with all our powders and polishes, our special soaps and brushes, our vacuum cleaners, our dustless dusters, electric irons and fire- less cookers, we are still unable to ac- complish what our grandmothers achiev- ed with the simple equipment of their ay > ! What you have not considered, dear | madam, is this: That all these modern dirt destroyers hardly counterbalance | the modern makers of dirt. Your grand- { mother lived on a quiet country road, where there were 10 passing automobiles to raise clouds of dust. Her dainty lace and linen were not soiled by a shopping trip in a soft-coal city. Her carpets were not smudged by the trackings from oil treated streets. Her days were not oc- cupied in cleaning innumerable sets of special table silver or polishing hard- wood floors. That is why she could take her knitting and run over to her neigh- bor's for a long, leisurely afternoon call. ‘Washing Dishes.—The implements for a large preserving kettle and two wire baskets, six inches deep, made to fit in- They should be made of No. 12 wire, with one-inch meshes. First scrape the dishes, then fili one of the wire baskets with the cleaner dishes, the other with those thai are more soiled. Cups, glasses and pitchers should be placed on their sides, the other dishes with the soiled side down and loosely overlapping. The sil- ver may bé piled round. Place the basket containing the cleaner dishes into the big_ kettle and throw on some washing soda. This does not leave streaks and it Is a good germicide. Pour in hot water enough to cover the dishes, swing the wire basket gently from left to right and from right to left a few times. The height of the kettle will prevent splashing. Take the basket out, add more soda to the water and repeat the process with the second basket, while the first one stands on a tray to drain. Next lift out the second basket, empty the dish water, replace the first basket in the kettle and pour in the hot rinsing water. ]n simple method of washing dishes are side the kettle. silverware. Shake the basket gently before, and do the same with the then with a clean as second bask; A little ammonia added to the | water will brighten the glass and tbel towel give the dishes a swift rub. Of course, in both baskets the dishes rise above the rim. but in the big Kettle they are entirely submerged. Ivory or pearl handled knives should not be placed in the hot water. The less greasy dishes, those in the second basket, should be washed first. Loops of wire or strong twine make con- venient handles for the baskets. The Care of Floors. Sweeping is a task that takes a large part of every housewife’'s en- ergy. A floor of soft wood with wide cracks between the planks and with square corners requires as much care as a whole houseful of floors built with a view to saving work. It is not always advisable to lay a new floor, but at least the old floor can be im- proved. A covering of oflcloth or linoleum and a molding that makes curves of the corners will save a great deal of work. Sweeping a stairway, the hardest work that comes under the head of sweeping, can be simpli- fied at very little cost and trouble. A few dozen brass or wooden corner fillers, that can be bought at any hardware store, will keep dirt from lodging in the angles of the steps and s0 do away with the main difficulty. There 18 a way to sweep a carpet that really removes the dust without scattering it. Dampen a broom and shake off all the water possible. Now scatter some dust catchers round over the carpet. Theseé dust catchers are made either from wet newspaper torn and twisted, dampened shavings or sawdust. Sweep with a pulling mo- tion, using a short, overlapping stroke and stopping it on the floor. Begin at the edges and sweep toward the middle. In a room where there is a fireplace sweep in that direction. In about half an hour wipe the carpet again with the broom covered with a damp cloth. Many housewives take care of their own floors, and, with no outside as- sistance, spread the paint, stain, var- nish or wax-finish themselves, but there afe times when even the most 'oxpensh‘e floor-finishes do not produce the expected results. For the best results the temperature of the room and of the materials used should be between 70 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit. If the floor is greasy wash it with hot washing soda and water, otherwise the finishing material will neither soak into the floor nor Wwear satis- factorily. An old floor should first be thoroughly scrubbed and afterward washed in clean, warm water, other- wise the soap that has entered the surface of the wood may prevent the paint or varnish from spreading prop- erly. This is especially true of an old painted floor, which will not ab- sorb the soapy water; the water evaporates and leaves a film of soap. Never paint or varnish a floor ex- cept when it is perfectly dry; damp- ness will prevent the finishing ma- terial from taking a good hold. Some- times the finish will not spread easily. 1f every apparent condition seems fa- vorable you can perhaps remove the difficulty by going over the floor with a cloth-moistened with turpentine or gasoline. If a painted or varnished floor is to be refinished it should first be thoroughly scrubbed. and after it has become perfectly dry should be well sandpapered and then win d tine or gasoline in order Lo remove the dust caused by the use of the sandpaper. Sammy Jay Makes a Shrewd Guess. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. Just look for the Eoodness iwags ‘think e baat ¢ Never think the worst of ethers; Never mind the SAMMY JAY. Sammy Jay was the most surprized bird that ever flittéd a wing when he saw Whitey the Snowy Owl flying away as fast as he could go, for | Whitey didn’'t appear to be in the Here's to you. dad! Not the large, |least harmed by that terrible gun of opulent dads who ride around in lim- ousines tryin' to escape the | Farmer Brown's boy. You remember income | that S8ammy had screamed, “Thief, tax. Not the young sporty dads, who | thief, thief!” at the top of his lungs wear the latest grasshopper stylesand conosal their domestic affiliations while they flirt with the ticket girl But the lil', old, meek, stooped dad, ‘without much income or ¢hin or nuth- . The kind of a dad who brings up kids and a wife-with-neuralgia, Nis brother who drinks, &nd some- manages to scrape enough to. gother to send Sammy to the univer- and get Tilly Thru business col and pay for Cousin Belle's oper- ‘The kind of & dad who is always attached to the motor end of a lawn mower or a baby carriage—who never sald a brilliant thing in all his life— who wears an awful old coat and smokes an awfuller old pipe and reads the eporting news and goes to sleep. That's him. God bless him! ‘There's a lot of de luxeé laddies dec- , orating the civic scenery who can put it all over you for shine, Dad. ut T'4 hate to think what the real homes would de like if the Master Architect « had left out your terrible pipe and those battered old hands—and that . smile of yours! (Copyright, 1921.) Your House Scrapbook. Almost all married women are to be found in the class of those who are * snaking plans for their first house or ‘who are mskinfi plans how to bulld the next house. T k3% § §3 f ndre is Is uun::cmm l: planning and dreaming about an ! nally moving into the first house of | your own that can be compared to nothing else for the woman of really domestic_temperament. But there is also an jmmense satisfaction in build- ing the second house, which shall con- mone of the objectionable points of the other and which shall have ail sorts of improvements. Don’t trust your memory for all the things you want to remember in con- neoction with this house of yours. The best plan is to buy a scrapbook. Then as you discover good suggestions, at- tractive ways of furnishing your rooms or laying out your garden, you may in: sert them into this house-building scrap- book. Of course every suggestion will not materialize in the new house. Some- .times you change your mind when considering the proposition again, and sometimes the cost is too great. But there are lots of little things that the house builder forgets that still co only & Httle additional extra and eave suach time in the long rfun. One woman ‘the writer knows vows that she would never bufld another house without a ‘Duflt-in cedar closet In the attic. Another insists that she would have laundry ahuf till _another insists that her next house shall have a dumbwaiter, while yet another seems to think that abe must have vacuum cleaner piping through her house for the centrally operated vacuum cleaner. There may be little things about the house that you are now lving in that it would make you happy to have remedied in your new house, no matter when you may be fortunate enough to bulld that house. One woman is espe- right on the electric ml the lower »ou have the Jou-em. ress buttons that loor, which means e e s pactialy cloes | ¥1od. Fib ght e nghen, when Whitey had alighted on the root of Farmer Brown's henhouse. He had waited and walited, hidden in bring sr Brown’s boy out and that Farmer Brown's boy would give BUT FARMER BROWN'S BOY HAD ggg!}GHT ‘OUT THAT TERRIBLE Whitey the Snowy Owl such a fright that he would leave the Green Mead- ows and the Green Forest for good. Farmer Brown's boy had poked his head out the doof to Ses what Sammy was making such s fuss about and had watched him point that terrible stant he saw him he knew what Whitey was there for. He knew that Whitey had returned to try to catch another fat hen. At once Farmer Brown’s boy had stepped out with his terrible gun, the gun that all the little people of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows had ocome to think had been put away forever. Sammy Jay had half expected that Farmer Brown’'s boy would bring out that terrible gun, yet down inside he had hoped he wouldn't. You see, Sammy feit that i Farmer Brown boy should kill Whitey with that ter- rible gun none of the other little peo- ple would ever again be quite sure that Farmer Brown's boy was the friend he had seemed to be. Sammy had hoped that Farmer Brown’s boy would find some way to give Whitey a ternible fright, but that he wouldn’t shoot him, But Farmer Brown's boy had brought out that terrible gun. Sammy had watched hi mpoint that terrible gun at Whitey. He knew enough about guns to know that at that short distance Farmer Brown's boy couldn’t possibly miss Whitey. Sam- my had closed his eyes, for he could- ;\ht“bea:.wbleo the dreadful thing wi about to happen. Th had been a dreadful e .':, Sammy had looked then and had had hard work to believe what he saw— ‘Whitey the Snowy Owl flying away as fast as ever he ecould and appear- » ing not to be hurt in the least. There wasn't even one of Whitey's 1t white feathers on the roof of the hen- house. Sammy looked sharply at the face of Farmer Brown's boy. Thers wasn't a particle of disappointment in that freckled face. In fact, it was wear- the big cedar tree in Farmer Brown's dooryard, to do just this thing. He had hoped that by so doing he would had he seen one who didn't look greatly disappointed when he failed 0 kill the one he had shot at. my flew over to the Green For- @8t to think the matter over. He couldn’t understand it at all. But by and by an idea popped into his head. "l know,” he chuckled. “I know. He 8idn’'t try to kill Whitey. He just tried to frighten him. Farmer Brown's boy is to be tfusted more than ever. He used that terrible gun just to frighten and not to harm that hlf white robber. I hope he has frightened him so that he has left ms.“ parts drorhgood," - ammy had shrewdly guessed There ad ‘been no shot In that er- un, nothing by make 8 Ereat noise. But Whitey tho owy Owl didn’t know this. i day he thinks that he had a v:";uné:: ful escape and never tires of telling of It back in the Far North, where he makes his home. And not once again through the long winter was Whitey seen near the Greén Meadows or the Green Forest, and a great load was taken from the minds of the Httle péople who 1ive there. It worked,” chuékled Sammy Jay and S even "aliD Brown's boy kuows that we dl‘flh?:s (Copyright, 1931, by T. W. Burgess.) Griddle Shortcake. Put two cups of flour and a little Salt, in a bow. Dissolve one scant level teaspoonful of soda In one cup of rich sour cream, beating while the #0da effervesces. Add the cream to the flour and mix thoroughly. The dough should be soft and fluffy. should be kneaded lightly on a {mar% sprinkled with a little flour, ana should be rolled out in a round cake just big enough to fit an ordinary fry- ing pan. Have the frying pan heated and well greased, place the dough in it and cover with a lid. Set the pan halfway back on the range, so that the shortcake will bake thoroughly without being scorched. Turn it when well browned, and brown it again on the under side. The gridd shortcake is suitable either for breakfast or for supper, and may be served with but- ter, fruit or honey and cream. —_——— Coffee Sauce Over Sponge Cake. - Beat four ounces of butter to a cream. Little by little add six ounces of powdered sugar, stirring all the while; then add the yolks of two egRS ten, and one and one-half cups of rong hot coffée, poured in drop by drop. When the cream is made take a well buttered molding dish, cover the bottom with lady fingers or liced sponge cake or any other light cake, and fill with alternate layers of cream and cake, finishing at the top with cream. Place in the ice box and Just b:’(lur: ur:lng turn it out and cover the top of the cake wit! of the coffee cream. Pifooe To Keep Cake Fresh. The best and most simple way to keep a fruit cake, or any other cake, fresh and moist is by means of a freah apple. When a large cake Is made, Wwhich 18 necessarily rich, and conse- quently only small pleces served at & time, it 15 a problem how to kee, \It In the best condition. If kept in : dampened cloth, es is customary, you are apt to forget to wet it from time to time. The apple must be removed a8 soon as it begins to wither and a new one put in the box. Riced Apple Pudding, One cup of rice, six apples, half a teaspoonful of cloves and two table- spoonfuls of sugar. Boil the rice for about twenty minutes, drain it untfl the water is all off and put & layer of rice in a buttered baking dish, then a layer of thickly sliced apples, then a '?fll“k"n‘ ollclnv.l and a few pleces of lemon peel an: gar. Cover the apples with more rice and bake for an nw'.m'lem with hard butter sauce or L with a cloth dampened with turpen-| But Whitey the' Temporary Improvement. Today I want to talk particularly to the woman over thirty-five and to those women under thirty-five who are working just a little bit harder than they should, There 1s a little period in the day when these women begin to “give out.” It is a little 5 o'clock tired feeling; it is the in-between part of the day, when the bulk of the work is done and when the world in general relaxes and turns its mind to pleasure. It is just at that period that every womarn looks her age or a little more than her age. The English people gét over this trying period by relaxing and having tea. And we a8 a nation are coming more and more to follow this excel- lent habit. But this is not the only way of resting and refréshing your- self and getting past that one most trying hour of the day. If you can so arrange it. have your daily hot bath at this time, for nothing is more refreshing or more relaxing than this. Then if possible. change into another dress. a thing in itself refreshing; or, better yet, be- Things You’ll Like to Make. The next time you are about to throw away a pair of old silk stock- ings, cut off the lisle tops. They make splendid winter petticoats for Dotty's big girl dolly. Use the top edge for the bottom of the petticoat and crochet scallops of bright worsted around It. Join the other edge to & belt of silk or muslin, and dolly's stocking-pet coat will keep her warm and comfort- able for the winter. FLORA. (Copyright, 1921.) Ham Pie With Dumplings. To one quart of boiling water add about one-half a pound of boiled ham, or the meat from a ham bone, cut into small pieces. Let this boil while pre- paring biscuit dough. Roll out thin a plece of dough about the size of a pie crust, cut it into small pieces, and drop them into the bolling broth one at a time, so that they will not stick to- gether. Line a well-greased two-quart saucepan with strips of dough, put in a layer of ham, a seasoning of butter, pepper and salt, add dumplings, more seasoning, and then another ham. Over this bre person in the family k one egs fo- each cover loosely with a top crust having an opeminz in the center to allow the steam to cscape. Bake in a moderate oven until a ligh brown, and dredge with buller. Sparrow Cake. Cream one cop of butter with two cups and a half of sugar; add four eggs well beaten, one cup of milk in which one teaspoonful of soda has been dissolved and four cups of flour, in which ‘wo teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar have been mixed. Add mace, Gloves, cinna- mon and allspice to taste and bake in a moderate oven. English Boiled Cabbage. Cut a small cabbage Into quafters, remove the outer leaves &nd cut away the core; wash thoroughly in two waters; place it in a colander and let it drain while a large kettle of water is coming to & boil. When the water is bolling very fast put in the cabbage. Add one tablespoon- ful of salt and one seant saltspgonful of baking soda. As soon as it comes back to the boiling point remove the cover and push the cabbage down into the water from time to time. The secret of success is to have rapid boiling, plenty of water, plenty of room and the cover off. It will take about thirty-five minutes to cook. Make a dressing for the cab- bage by rubbing one tablespoonful of butter and one large teaspoonful of flour to a paste and adding it to one- half cup of warmed milk. Take u the cabbage in the colander an: press with a plate to get every drop of water out; dress and serve. If once this manner of cooking 1Is tried it will make converts, for instead of a wilted, indigestible vegetable there will be a delicious, tender, springlike one, and with the additional advan- tage of having had very little odor from the cooking. Dessert as a Centerpiece. Select some fine, large dates, re- move the stones and put five or six of the dates on a wooden skewer. Dip the skewer into a preserving kettle contalning sugar that has been melted to the glazing point. After you have fmmersed the dates thor- oughly in the melted sugar put them in a8 wire sieve and allow them to dry near the stove. If you like, the dates may be left on the wooden sticks and brought to the table in tall glass tumblers or cut glass vases In which maldenhair ferns or flowers have been arranged. a plan that furnisheés both an original table decoration and an appetizing dessert. Ten or twelve of the sticks surround- ed by ferns and tied together with a bit of bright-colored ribbon form a novel and attractive centerpiece for the dinner table. layer of | for you dress lle flat on your back for ag many miautes as you can spare. If you are very tired, massage the face with cold cream. then get into your tub of hot water. bathe and at the end of the bath wash the face, with hot water. Follow this with an ice_rub. This quick treatment and even & ten-minute rest will make the skin look fresh and will rub out many of those little lines which come from weariness and which make one look ! 80 much older. The bath, the massage | and the rest need only take a hal hour altogether, but it will lift years from your face. THE PROFILE. As I have sald before occasionally, there is very little that can be done to improve the actual features which form the profile. But there is a great deal that can be done.to make the side face apparently better looking by the style in which the hair is af: ranged. If you have a very low forehead. the hair should either be brushed directly back from the face or else it should be pulled down quite to the evebrows. One method makes the most of the forehead and the other completely conceals it. 1f you have a very high forehead. you will have to bring the hair all the way down to the evebrows or else bring it partly down. for a high forehead is never becoming to any woman. If you have a sloping forchead, the hair will also conceal this. If you have hollow cheeks or an in- significant nose, the hair should be brought out over the ears and fluffed a little out on the cheeks. If you have a very large nose the hair should be brought over the cheeks also. but not to such an extent. It is only a very well formed nose that can stand a severe style of hair dressing. The chin glways plays an important part in the appearance of the profile. A good line can be made from a bad ane in the case of a receding chin, if the knot of the hair is placed very hzh uu and on the back of the head. In fact, if the profile is at all imper fect it will be greatly improved with the hair done in this fashion. 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