Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1925, Page 28

WOMAN’S PAGE. Club Potatoes -in Various Styles BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Club potatoes add another variety to club dishes. They get their name from the combining or “clubbing” of the different ingredients into one single and complete dish. Foods so prepared are substantial, forming almost, 1t not quite, meals In them- lves. We have only to think of club sandwiches to appreciate the truth of this statement. Club po- tatoes are no exception to this rule These hearty potatoes are prepared in the following way: First they are baked. Good-sized potatoes should be chosen, and those .with even, smooth shapes. After baking they are cyt apart lengthwise, allow- ing one part to be large and cup- shaped with the other shallow. Scoop out the large part, leaving Just enough of the potato in the shell to insure the shape remaining firm. Scrape out all the potato from the small part. Recipe. Mash the potatoes and mix with minced ham, chopped Ereen pepper seasoned with dry mustard, pepper, celery seed and a little more salt if required. Beat one egg for each four large or six smaller potatoes, and add to the mixture, together with hot milk or cream and butter to make the consistency of mashed potatoes. Re- fill the shells, piling the filiing up above the skin. the white of egg, sprinkle with pu- priks and put in the oven long enough to brown. On the top lay a strip of pimento. Club_potatoes make main dish for Sunday suppers, luncheons or simple meals. A green salad is a good accompaniment, dressed with French or Russlan dre ing. Grilled sweet potatoes or any other preferred vegetable may with club potatoes® though nothing is absolutely necessary Chicken Club Potatoes. Chicken, fowl or the left-overs of eny kind of meat may be substituted for the ham, but there is nothing quite so plquant fish may be combined 1wit! ¥ Finnan haddie is especially The sea- xoning depends upon the kind of meat used. For instance, chicken, turkey etc., would he seasoned with a dash of thyme and sweet marjoram and the mustard omitted. A few chopped walnut meats in with the chicken filling add delicacy and individuality With the chicken club potatoes serve cranberry sauce. When lamb or mutton is the meat, season wth salt and pepper, and, of course, use the butter and milk. Just befors serving sprinkle the top with paprika and a few capers. Grage jelly is the best accompaniment for lamb club potatoes. Th should always be a touch of piquancy either in the potato mixture itseli or in the accompaniment. Potatoes with Fish Club potatues with fish should re- semble neither fish balls nor creamed fish, but should have a different note. Do not have the filling soft enough for creamed fish, and have the mix- ture seasoned unlike fish balls. A a delicious \ BEAUTY CHATS Hand Massage: In the beauty shops, where mani- oures are as high as 32, hand-mas- sage is included as part of the treat- ment. It ought to be! These shops elalm that no hand is properly eared for if it is not massaged; that such treatment prevents the gnarled rough-looking hands of middle or old age, keeps the skin whitamnd reduces large finger joints. it forgotten what else they claimi’ I dake it with @ very large grain of salt, considering how mueh more profitable is a mani- cure at $2 than one at, say, 50 cents. Hand-massage has its uses, of course. It brings the blood into the extremities of the arm, where, as with the feet and ankles, it is apt to be sluggish. Cold and clammy hands are often cured by a steady course of massage and rheumatic hands benefit greatly. egin at the fingertips. With thumio and first finger: of the other hand work upward to the last joint, pressing against the middle joint and working the finger back and forth Brush the tops with | for | o | the | little bit of fried and chopped bacon adds zest. If fresh fish is used, in- stead of preparing it as described, PIMENTO NKLE WITH PAPRIKA A mix the fish with hollandaise or bechemal sauce and then add to the potato. Pickles and toasted common (Boston) crackers are excellent to serve with fish club potatoes. BY EDNA KENT FORBES. to keep this joint loose and flexible. Then with. the thumb against palm of the hand work the four fingers over the back of the hand. Massage the thumb as you did the fingers. Then take the wrist in the entire hand and rub around and around it and rub up and down the larm from the elbow. You should | knead the flesh here. When you have m ed both hands extend them bei you and make them rigld, fingers SWL thumb outspraed. Bend finger amd=thumbs in as though clutching. ~Bhis is a wonderful exer for musclesgrow- ing stiff from rheumatismy - Anna S.—Constant marce! will certainly make your hair full Iife- less, because it will dry out the.essen- tial oils of the hair, and evem*when well done it will in time buen and break the hair. Having it mdrceled now and then will not hurt. If you must have your hair wavy all the | time, roll it up at night on soft kid curlers. This is the least harmful { way—in fact, doesn't hurt the hair tat all. WHEN WE GO SHOPPING BY MRS. HARLAND H. ALLEN. Your Wrist Watch. Perhaps you got a new watch for Christmas. And if you didn't, you probably have a good one. For it is different now from what it was when these little pocket timepieces were first Invented. Then only the night watchmen, whose work took them away from the mantel and out ot sight of the town clock, had to carry them. (And so they got their name—watches). Now, however, be- cause nearly every oné has appoint- ments to keep, nearly every one has a watch. But, it we are to believe the watch doctors, only a very small per cent of the people take ca pleces. . Some of these don't how, others are indifferent, while some seem to be positively hostile to the delicate little mechanism. “I shook it and shook it, but I couldn’t get it started,” is the most common admission a woman makes to the jeweler when something goes wrong with its mechanism. And when you think that there are more than 200 parts in that tiny little time recorded that she carries on her wrist, is it any wonder that a sever shak- ing is likely to do almost irreparable harm? It may seem strange, too, but the better the watch the more harm it does to shake it. Of course, the moral is that it you have a reliable watch and want to keep it so, don't shake it. Careful winding is another point in the care of a watch. Your watch should be wound regularly, preferably in the morning, so the mainspring will be in its best shape for the gen- eral disturbances of the day and gtill keep the best time in the hours when that {s most important habit about winding is t a jerky movement don’t indulge the ing away at your You happen to be a li Your gold watch w and never develop rubbed occasionally chamols or soft cloth, it doesn't need “powdering other words, the best place to keep your watch is not on your dressing table. It should not even be worn on the wrist when making your toilet, for powder and dust and hair are the worat enemies of good timekeeping. Keep the covers on your watch. ‘The jar of gemoving fromt or back may hurt the works, and when they are off thers is bound to be some dirt from the atmosphere get to the mechanism. The finest dirt is the hardest for the jeweler to remove, vet it may be plenty big enough to spoil the regularity of the watch, Yes, a walch needs oiling. But it needs it in such small quantities that only an expert should do the job. A tenth of a drop once a year is suffi- cient, but for that it ought to be taken to a good jeweler. Such a program for your watch doesn’t mean more trips to the shop, but fewer. We spend too much for repairs already. The remedy is to spend a little more thought caring do it with above all, of wind- every 1l look better a tarnish if-it is with a piece of But, re The worst | time | le bit nervous. i for our watches, a little less time tinkering with them; then they will cost us less to keep in shape and we shall have better timepieces in the bargain. Flower Prints, Women who have gone in for fur- niture of the early American period will be interested in charming prints taken from an old book on horti- culture and framed with passe par- tout in dull gold or colors. The prints are hand-colored and are extremely decorative, besides fitting into the general scheme of decoration. MOTHER! Watch Child's Bowels “California Fig Syrup” is Children’s Harmless Laxative Children love the plessant taste of “California Fig Syrup” and gladly take it even when bilious, feverish. sick, or constipated. No other laxa- tive regulates the tender little bowels so micely. It sweetens the stomach nd starts the liver and bowels with- out cramping or overacting. Contains 1o narcotics or soothing drugs. Tell your druggist you want onl; the genuine “California Fig Syrup” which has directions for babies and children of all ages printed on bottle. Mother! You must say “California” or you may get an imitation fig eyrup. the |* Us fellows kicked Sid Hunts foot ball all afternoon and I was starting to go home feeling tired as enything, and I stuck my hed erround our corner before I went erround, jest out of curlosity, and ma was stand- ing on our frunt steps looking up and down, me thinking, G, she's looking for me to go a errand. And I quick stuck my hed back agen and started to wawk the other way, thinking, Holey smokes that was a narrow Ixcape all rite. Wich jest then I herd Puds Simkins yelling In back of me saying, Hay Benny, yourc mothers looking for you, she wants you. Me jest starting to wawk quicker as It I thawt I dident heer him, thinking, G wizz, Im tired, I wunt to go home, but I dont wunt to go eny errands the way T feel, holey smokes. And I kepp on wawking and pritty soon Skinny Martin ran past saying, Hay Benny your mother wunts you, she's looking for you. Aw go on, stop vour kidding, I sed like somebody that thawt some- body was jest making something up. Whose kidding, youre crazy, she asked me If 1 knew ware you was, Skinny sed. If 1 bleeved that you'd tell me an- other one, I sed. Aw shut up, wat do T care, if I wasent in a hurry Id give you a push in the middle of the face, Skinny Martin sed. And he kepp on running warever he was running, and after a wile I went home on account of being ix- hausted wawking erround, ma say- ing, Well ware have you bin, your cuzzin Artie telefoned arround that he had 2 tickits for the movies for the Kut Up Komedy or watever the crazy name is, and he sed he would walt in frunt ef the Little Grand for you but I couldent find you high or low,syou seem to of disappeered bodily from the face of the erth. Me thinking, Aw heck darn the luck G wizz aw rats. Proving If you try to get out of things youro libel to get out of more than you tried to. >Pllid! in Velvet. Plaided materials are decidedly in vogue and a very smart frock has a tunic of brown and fawn plaid velvet and a skirt of brown. My Neighbor Says: After a bottle of glue has been opened rub a little fat or ofl #round a sound cork before inserting it in the bottle, and the cork will pull out quite easily. Glass stoppers should be treated in the same manner. Common kitchen salt is an excellent occasional ~dentifrice, as it whitens and Dpreserves the teeth, removes tartar and hardens the gums. It should not, however, be used every day, as it has a tendency, like all gritty substances, to injure the enamel if used constantly. Ivory ornaments may be suc- cessfully cleaned In the follow- ing way: Rub the stained parts with lemon juice, then with whiting made into a paste, with a little lemon juice. When the paste is perfectly dry rub it off with a soft cloth or wash off and afterward polish. To remove paint om black silk or other material, patient rubbing with chloroform is effectiva and will not hurt the most delicate color or. fabric. To keep the whites of eggs from falling after they have been whipped, try adding, while whipping, a pinch of cream of tartar. This is usually most effective. If the white of an egg !s used in mixing a mustard plaster, it will not blister. . Types, of Men, and the Girls They Pick Out. - Should the Woman of Forty Accept the Hand of a Suitor of Sixty-Three? DPAR MISS DIX: Answer: Depends on the man, my dear. ‘What type of girl is most attractive to men? MARY ELIZABETH. There are many men of many mind and each has a different mind about women. Some men like the little cuddly type, while other men admire stately goddesses. Some men fall for Allc girl who is a champlon in all sorts of outdoor sports. and thousands adore beautiful morons. browed college graduat -sit-by-the-fire, while others prefer the A few men like high- Some like flappers, while others fall in love with women old enough to be their grandmothers. What appeals to one man doesn't to another, which is the reason that most every woman gets married. Generally speakin| type’of girl. a tig man is apt to'be attracted by the baby-doll She appeals to him as cute and cunning, and he looks upon everything she does and says with the amused indulgence he would show a child. The only henpecked men I have ever known in my life were big men, and they seemed to regard being bossed by a little two-by-four woman as a great joke. On the other hand, a little man adores a daughter of the gods, divinely fair and most divinely tall. The shy, quiet man, who isn't much of a talker, is attracted by the babbling-brook type of girl. He likes the vivacious girl who is always laughing and full of high spirits, and who monologues along and saves him the effort of having to entertain her. The self-conceited man picks out the, quiet girl who is a tireless listener and a good, steady, The man who know reliable, incense burner. likes to eat can be ensnared by any domestic gi¥l who how to cook and who will feed him. She can lead him to the altar every time by dangling a loaf of homemade bread in front of his nose. Shy young men like bold and aggressive girls who meet them more than half way, and epare their blushes by doing most of the love-making, and who make most of the dates, including the wedding date. Old men like girly young enough to be their daughters, who address them as “Jimmy boy” or “Tommy lad,” while young boys prefer women older than themselves who treat them as experienced and biase men of the world. And so it goes. There Is no arguing about tastes In girls or cooking, and one type of girl is just as likely to be admired and find a husband as another. D CAR MISS DIX: DOROTHY DIX. .. I am very much in love with a girl who says that she only loves me as a friend and brother. I have loved this girl all through high school and college, and I would be willing to wait for years for her if I could win her at last. have any chance? But she doesn’t encourage me at all, and the only hope I have is that she does not go with any other man. Do you think 1 . JOHN. Answer: Surely, John, while there is life there is hope, and as long as the girl is on the safe side of the altar there is always a good chance of winning her. Success goes to the patient suitor, and a woman’s heart is won by siege bftener than it is by assault and battery. Therefore, my advice to you is to piteh your tent on the lady's doorstep and be always Johnny-on-the-spot. This serves several useful purposes. In the first place, it more or less quarantines the girl and keeps other suitors away. Men are not apt to come a-courting at a house where they are dead sure of stumbling over a rival. In the second place, you make yourself necessary to the girl and she begins to depend upon you to take her. When she wants to go to places, you are there All of her good times come to depend on you. In the third place, being on the ground you can study her moods and tastes. You know when to sympathize and when to encourage. You become the only one who understands her, and women dote on the man who does that. break than a habit. In a word, you become a habit with the girl and nothing is harder to Don’t bore her with too much love-making. Just an occasional impassioned speech to let her know that your heart is still doing business at the old stand. Do your courting subtly by means of little gifts to commemorate anniversaries, and that show by thelr appropriateness that you are always thinking of her. Then suddenly absent yourself. her jealous by showing attention to some other girl. Let her miss you. Make And it is dollars to doughnuts she will discover that her sisterly affection has lost its status and has become good, old-fashioned woman love for her man. DOROTHY DIX. EAR MISS DIX: I am a woman of 40. Have worked in an office for 20 years and have had a good salary, but have not saved any money. Recently I met an active, ihteresting widower, 63 vears old, who wishes to marry me. He is in good health, highly regarded and has accumulated enough means to make us comfortable the balance of our lives. Do _you think the disparity in our ages is too great for me to risk marrying him? Answer: Certainly not. DOROTHY MAY. A woman of 40, and especially one who has had the aging experience of fighting her own battle of life for 20 years, is spiritually as old as a man of 60. has every chance of happiness. You are both done with romance of the boy-and-girl type. Such a marriage as you contemplate You no longer have the impossible matrimonial ideal of the very young, and you are ready to play matrimony on the 50-50 basis and to give each other a splendid friendship. . The-man can remove from your shoulders the burden of anxiety that crushes—the woman who sees a lonely and dependent old age coming toward her. He can give you the home and comforts you crave, and you can give him t| elderly. 2= The New Color. South¥th fashions have already ap- peared amd the new color to be con- care and companionship that he needs. itof and heaven bless you, my children. (Copyright, 1925.) By all means accept your DOROTHY DIX. spiouously featured is a brilliant deep yellow, just the color of the intense sunlight one sees on the Egyptlan degert. Keeps fresh and flavory in their lunch boxes— The children all will vote for my raisin bread in their lunches. It keeps fresh. And they love its wonderful fruit flavor. The men fol ks like it too. Give it to them on Wednesdays. I prepare a special baking of raisin bread for Wednesdays—beautiful, golden loaves generously filled with Sun-Maid Rai Make this delicious and inexpensive mid-week treat a regular custom in your home. Place a standing order with your baker or . He will deliver or reserve s loaf for you each week. Phone your order now. Endorsed by bakess including the Ret: verywhere, 1 Bakers” Association of America and the ;American Bakers' Association Place a standing Wednesday order with your Bak:r or Grocer Serrow comes to everyone . We 2ll must struggle through. The things tha't last through ‘sorrow’s test Are real and tried and true. What Today Means to You BY MARY BLAKE. Capricorn. The vibrations of today tend to ex- cessive mental and physical activity without much real accomplishment. Delays, loss and disappointment are apt to dominate unless you exerci self-control _and tact. During the early part of the day, conservative e fort is advised, but the conditions im- prove in the early afternoon, and, if your energy hasbeen conserved, much can now be done along customary lines of endeavor. The vibrations are particularly propitious for inventive or mechanical efforts, and may pos- sibly be of so stimulating a character as to enable you to discover the solu- tion to some difficult problem that has been disturbing you for a long time past. A child born today will suffer the ordinary allments peculiar to and as- sociated with dnfancy. Tt will, with proper care and attention, success- fully overcome these weaknesses and attaln a_ healthy and vigorous turity. For the sake of its physical development, it should be compelled to participate freely in outdoor games and sports. It will, temperamentally, possess the qualities of a leader—will be able to grasp the salient points of a situa- tion quickly. Its judgment will be good, and it will always command the attention and respect of others. It will have a retentive memory and learn readily. Its nature will demand strong love, and it will not be averse to flattery If today. is your birthday you are inclined ‘to be impulsive. Your ac- tions are liable to be misunderstood and your motives questioned, You think and act quickly, but not always with good judgment. You should cul- tivate poise and self-restraint, or your passions ‘will lead you into serious difficulty, even though your thoughts and intentions are the best. You are quixotically loyal to your frilends and to those you love. You are brimming over with affection and sympathy and an appeal is rarely made to you In vain. You are a strenuous worker, both active and alert, and honest in both thought and action. Your character assets are many. Your one great liability is a quick and an ungovernable temper. You lose sight of the fact that in an argument—be it mental or be it physi- cal—the victory invariably goes to the one that is able to keep even- tempered and self-collected. The one who loses his or her temper is inva- riably the loser also of the fight. ‘Well known persons born on this date are Charles Sumner, statesman; Charles M. Cooley, jurist; William J. Stillman, author; James A. Burden, manufacturer; Clarence King, geolo- gist, and Henry E. Dixey, actor. (Copyright, 1925.) Marseille, France, may have a power- ful broadcasting station TheseP FEATURES. "thus' respect 1 —OLD MOTHER NATUN Little Joe Otter's fo voung who had found a de h at k of a little pen of sticks on edge of the water, remembered warning to leave dead fish al But he was hungry, and it wou take but a second to get that fish Father and mother were just Ing to scare us” sald the v Otter to himself. And HE FOUND THAT | THI f TOE DIDX WATER PULL HIM UN | realize that 1 am big enough to | care of myselr. fore 1 will be leaving them and g out into the Great World for my anyway. Then I'll have to depen. my own judgment. This fish is waiting for me. I don’t | happened to get here, but that do make any difference. 1 would silly fellow to waste my time h |ing for a live fish when a dead is waiting for right under nose.” | So, with a look | sure that no one was watching the foolish young Otter entered little pen of sticks through a na wpenir his eyes shining as reached for the dead fish at the of the pen. And then something pened. Yes, indeed, something pened! Something grabbed the ish young Otter by one of his ¥ sir, it grabbed him an grabbed him tight. What it wa hadn’t the least idea. But whate: was, it hurt dreadfully But the young Otter sufferad from fright than he did from He twisted around and 7 the deep but he was bro up short, ng that had gra him by t s hol g o 11 around to m BEDTIME STORIES R son, the the the one. ldn't try- ung guess they don’t THIS IAT HAD HIM BY THE DER take It won't be long be- oing self d on just inow how it esn't be a unt- one my ke him, the row he back hap- hap- fool- toes. d it s he er it more pain. unged for ught bbed He 8Y THORNTON W. BURGESS uggled with all his might, but he s held fast. The dreadful thing was pulling him down under water. If it should succeed in holding him down there he would drown. My, how he did thrash and strugsle' en yet he didn't know what it was that was holding him. By an by he had to stop struggling in order to get his breath. His feot ached dreadfully. Without really thinking of what he was doing, he swam toward the shore. Then he tound that this thing that had him by the toe didn't pull him wunder water. He twisted around to see what it was that was holding him. It was a cruel steeltrap. He knew what it was as soon as he saw It, for his father, Little Joe Otter, had shown him one that very morning. Right within reach was that flsh which had been the cause of all this trouble. The young Otter didn’t even look at it. He, who had been so hungry a few minutes befors, had lost his appetite. Yes, sir, he had lost his appetite completely. Just then he felt as if he didn’t care ever to eat again. All he wanted was to get away from that dreadful trap He bit at it. But this only hurt his teeth. Tt held him as tightly as ever. He remembered what Little Joe Otter had told him about how if he should be caught in a trap that dreadful two-legged creature would come and | kill him. Once more he begam to struggle. He pulled with all his might. It hurt, but he kept on pull- ing. But for all his pulling he was held fa Smothered Chicken. Prepare the chicken for frying by cutting it up, seasoning in sait and pepper and rolling in flour. Put into a dripping pan a plece of butter as large as an egg, and when this is hot lay the piec of chicken In it The pan shouid be of such a size that it will be filled by the chicken. Pour in sufficlent water to two-thirds cover and put to ¢ k In a rather het oven Allow one hour for the cooking, turn- h piece when it has become eplenish the water in the th more from the teakettle if | there is danger of its becoming dry. When done remove the chicken snd make a gravy by adding one cupful of milk into which one spoonful of flour has been stirred. If the gravy does not seem rich enough add more | butter. Boil up once and serve in a | gravy boat 01d Fashion Revived. Reminiscent of early Victorian days are the delightful boxes and port- folios made of papier-mache with old prints on the covers - . Before you (nvest Investigate. To Safeguard quality and flavor "SALADA" T E.A H822 is always sold in an air-tight aluminum pacKet, never in bulk. nes SEALED IN CARTONS are fresh and clean Of course, they must be. In the packing plant these Sun- sweet Prunes ate sterilized in waterat212 grees F. Then they are automatically packed while still hot in the con- venient 2 1b. cartons, untouched by human hands. No chance for dust or dirt to contaminate them. They come to you just as fresh and clean as the day they ‘were Then, too, thecartonidentifiesthe genuine Sunsweerbrand. -You know what you are getting—the finest fruit from famous California orchards, grown, selected and packed by the growers themselves—the sweet, thin-skinned vari- ety you prefer, not the Order Sumsweet Carton Prunes from your grocer tart, sour kind. today. No other fruit offers so much in taste, in health and food val- ues, at 50 low a cost. Prunes are truly economical. Cook in the simple way suggested below. Then serve to- morrow morning this delicious aid to health. PRUNES POR CONSTIPATION Prunes I;R nature’s own las- ative. Doctors everywhere Wiming outthetthe nat- fruitjuices, the fruitsalts 4 pacticalarly the bulk of e natural effect on the bow- els. "“Pranes for Breakfast” isa health rule. Other fruits and fruit juices which lack the bulk snd nat- Bacon, ¢ 80 high! con‘a"nmudbnsb e Tl e Spaivs the tract and sid elimination., A Quick METHOD TO COOK BREAKFAST PRUNES Wash SUNSWEET PRUNES, cover with bot water and allow 10 soak one howr. point in the same water in which they were soaked, cover and cook until prunes are -five minutes. < Add sugar ten minuses before removing cup of prunes, measured before soaking or cooking. If a thick Wush when tender, and boil the lis 5 L) until it is of the desi Sove, Allow one it desired, remove prunes consiftency. <A listle orange pucl, lemen Rige ity wos -m‘ Juice or Sick cinnamon im proves the flavor for some taftes. SUNSWEET CALIFORNIA PRUNES CALIFORNIA PRUNE AND APRICOT GROWERS ASSOCIATION - 11,252 Grower Iv{gnbers, San Jose, California 4 o