Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1925, Page 38

WOMAN’S PAGE. Valentine Symbols for the Table BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Valentine refreshments should be as gay and pretty as the day demards, and, furthermore, they must taste as good as they look. Those given to- day are primarily designed to go with the valentine entertainment, but they zan be served equally well at a lunch- fon or a bridge party be adapted %0 that they can be included in a Jinner menu. The resourceful hostess will make the menu suit the occasion. The table decorations do much to- ward contributing a festive atmos- phere. The table itself may be given something the appearance of & valen- tine by edging it with lace paper tra- aitional upon vaientines. This is, in HEART SALAD DAINTY AND DELICIOUS NAME IMPLIES, AND IS JU THING TO VE AT A TINE PA IS AS THE T THE VALEN reality, white perforated shelf paper secured to the cdge of the cloth by & few basting threads. If a hardwood table is used, library paste can be made to serve the purpose of holding he paper in place and W not harm the wood, being easily removed after- ward. Fortune-Telling Caken. The heart vario; centerpicee is . large red cut from paper and edged with mall colored heart-shaped v frosted This afterncon 1 came home and hung up my overcoat on the hallrack wnd went upstairs to wash my hands and face for suppir, more because I knew I would haff to enyways than beaause T felt like it, and ali of a sud- din ma called up, Benny, come down heer immeeditly Wich I did, with my hands and face «till full of water and half full of woap, 1 ma was standing the hallrack ying. Wat in the w 1d is this terrible big stane on the back of vour overcoat? My overcoat? Never ind was is it? ma G wizz, it m; How do vou meen, it may be? ma sed Were you enyware neer eny paint? she 1 dont kn bin, I Do you meen to say there on 2 feet ard look me in the eyes and tell me vou dont know ather youve bin neer paint or not? ma, sad 1 don’t know, Im not sure, I may of vou can stand maybe T was, T sed, and ma sed, One more maybe out of you and youwll get a slap vou'll re- member to your dying day and no maybe about it, now wat about this stane? Well ite be pal coming ho the reason I think maybe it is because wen I was 1 was with Puds Sim- kins and there was a lam post with a sine on it saying Wet Paint, ony it dident look wet to me and Puds dident blecve it neither, so we made up a contract to push each other into it jest to prove it, and he pushed ine ferst and then 1 pushed him, ony it was too dark to see if enything happened 1 aint sure, but maybe something mite of, I sed Wich jest then something did for sure, being ma giving me a fearse push in the middle of the face and then quick running upstairs with the coat to sec If she could get the s out wile it was still partly Banana Salad. This is a combination salad and des- ert and is capuble of numerous vari- utions. One attractive way 1o serve 1t is as follows: Slice ripe bananas in tather thick picces. Cut these pieces tn quarters. Place on a bed of lettuce and pour over a dressing made of eweetencd Juiee or orange juice. This is a very nourishing salad. cmon in color and bearing a tiny candle holder and colored candle. Pointing to each cake is a red arrow, laid upen the table. The arrows radiate from the centerplece on all what llke the apak wheel. There are as many Arrew and cakes as there are guests, and upon each of the darts the name of & guest is written. In each of the cakes a tiny favor has been placed, simple and perhaps nonsensical, but pleasing. There are scores of wee trinkets that are sultable, such opera glasses, spoons, rings, thimbles, etc. Guests should be told that the cakes contain favors, so that they will bite cau- tiously. Refreashments. cae Sweetheart Salad. Valentine Sandwiches. Stuffed Olives. Cupld's Punch. Heart-shaped Ices Fortune-telling Cakes. Valentine Bonbons. Sweetheart Salad. Sweetheart salad, true to its name, is both sweet and a heart. Canned pineapple, cut with a heart-shaped cookie cutter, 1s dipped in cranberry Julce and allowed to remain there for about an hour. The plat te hold this salad are first adorned with & paper dolly with lace edge, such as can be bought for a trifie. A few crisp lettuce leaves are placed there- on. The pineapple hearts are set upon the green. The centers are filled wtih cream cheese. Tiny ar- rows cut from red paper are stuck in the chees and look -as if they pierced the heart. Sandwiches. Valentine sandwiches are filled with a mixture of chopped pimento and celery, made the right consistency to spread by the addition of mayonnaise. A small cookle cutter should be used to cut these into heart-shape sand- wiches. These are deliclous made with either white or graham bread, and form an appetizing contrast=to the sweet of the salad. Cupld’s Punch. Cupid's punch is made with the Juice from the pineapple added to & basls of cold tea. A little cranberry julce lends a pleasing color, and & tew maraschino cherries should be floating in it. The addition of a teas spoonful of lime juice to two cups of punch will give it a piquant taste. Lemon juice may be substituted for this if preferred. Ices, Cakes and Candy. Ice cream in any flavor, if Sought in bulk or made at home, can be put in heart-shaped paper cups before serv- ing. Heart-shaped pleces can be cut from slices of ice cream, if the cream is very firm. It is not necessary to have heart- haped cake tins, in order to have the little heart-shaped omkes, earller de- scribed as part of the table decora- tion. Any cakes of fine texture, baked in a thin layer, may be cut with & heart-shaped cookie cutter, and dif- | ferent colored frosting put on them in as many shades as are desired. Heart-shaped candies, ornamental and delicious, can now be found in a good sortment Pistory of Pour Name BY PHILIP FRANCIS NOWLAN, GIBBS. VARIATIONS—Gibbons, Gibsen, Gil- bert, Gilbrecht. RACIAL ORIGIN—Eng! man. SOURCE—A given name. The family names of Gibbs and Gib- bons don’t show their origin {n the form, or rather, that origin is not se obvlous to us today, simply because they are patronyic ‘developments of a type of nickname which is rather rare in modern times, though gquite common in that perlod of medieval history in which family names came into being. We would not, for instance, think of shortening the name of Gilbert inte “Gib” or “Gibb," though we might make it either “GIl” er “Bert.” But the twist of the medieval English tongue, under the influence of Neor- man-French, was different. It tended particularly to eliminate the letter + Hence as Walter was shortened and gave us “Wat-son,” so as shortened to “Gib” and ib-son.” i and then ish and Ger- to “Wat Gilbert gave us “Gibb-son’ as “Di “Dickson,” meant “lit- tle Dick,” and by the addition of “son,” gave us “Dickinson” and “Dick- e 80 “Gibbon” has developed into ibbons.” Gilbert, as a family name, is but & reshortening of “Gilbertson” inte “Gilberts” and then Gilbert. Gil- brecht, of course, {8 a German form. As a given name Gilbert means either brigh or “yellow- bright.” " {s from the same source as our “glit,” «“gild” and “gold,” and the German “gelt.” The “bert;” which appears as “brecht” in German, is a mark of Teutonic nam It means “bright,” and comes, in fact, from the same source as that word. The Anglo-Saxon form was “beort™ or “beohrt,” the latter being the older form, with the “h” as strongly gut- tural as the h” of today. The “gh” in was_originally pronounced in this same fashion. (Copyright.) About Garlig. Most persons know in a vague way that garlic is {n some way connected with the onion family, but definite in- formation as to: the Dproper place of zarlic in the diet is not very exten- sively distributed. Both the onion and garlic belong ta what is known as the alllum family, Other plants in this same group are leeks, shallots and chives. In each one of these plants there is a volatile oil wHich gives the flaver- ing element. That each also adds a certain Irritant if any ome of the plants {s used to excess is known by many who have digestive disturb- [~ a2 o o ) HOULD uot every housekeeper try a food product with the remark- able record of Virginia Sweet? A half century of uninterrupted success! Noth- ing can displace unsurpassed quality at moderate price! THE FISHBACK CO. Indianapolis ' v S4th Saccesstol Year GINIA-SWEET PANCAKE FLOUR ‘ THE EVENING STAR, WASHING’I‘ON D. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1925 | HIGH LIGHTS: OF HISTORY— OF The Albemarle Settlements. AND HAD NO TOLERANCE FOR ARISTOCRATIC Throws Fem- inine Light on Masouline Duty Making a will |DorothyDix] When You Make Will, Don’t Tie Wife to You After Death, But Protect Her by Tying Up Money in Trust Fund. HAVE you made your will, Mr. Man? This sounds like foolish question No. 85,437,681. It would seem that any man above the grade of a moron, who had property to leave when he died and a family, which he wished to protect, would, while he was still in full possession of his faculties, have the best lawyer he could get to draw him up a last will and testament that would be as near ironclad as he could make it. But this is far from being the case. It is very far, indeed, from being the case, There are thousands and thousands of men' who have died intestate because they have shillyshallied about the matter and kept putting it off for the convenient time that never came. And there are thousands of other men who never make a will because they have not the courage to face the thought of death and cannot bring themselves to do « thing that visualizes the end of life for themselves. So afe without making wills, and estates are thrown into the courts for settlement, and lawyers fatten upon them, and great injustices are done, and only too often the money that a man slaved to make is blown to the four winds and widows and orphans are left unprotected. With the wisdom of making a will you will not argue with me, Mr. Man, and, being agreed that it is the thing that you should do, do it today, for in these days of dodging automobiles it is even betting whether we get home alive at night or not. But let me make a few suggestions to you, from a weman's standpoint, on how to do it. IN the first place, don't be catty enough—oh, vy there are Tom cats as well as Minnies—to leave your wife her Inheritance only so long as she remains unmarried. Belleve me, many a widow has dried her weeping eyes on that clause in her husband's will, for she has justly reflected that if her departed spouse had that sort of mean, pusillanimous. jealous soul he wasn't worth grieving over. This provision also defeats its own end, because it would raise the fighting spirit of a female worm and make her determined to marry the fifst man that asked her just for spite. Beatdes, it 1sn't fair and honest. If your wife has been a good wife, who has held up her end of the matrimonial partnership, she has earned her share of whatever you posseas, and you haven't any right to withhold it from her or tie a string to it. How would you like her to fix matters so that you couldn’t marry after she died? And, anyway, do you think that it is going to add any to the joys of Heaven when you are an angel to know that your wife is lonely and forlorn, living around with her children and in-laws, whe don’t want her. or existing miserably in boarding houses or hotels just because you kept her from making new ties after you were dead? Secondly, as to the division of your estate. If you have only a small amount to leave, leave it all to your wife, because she will spend most of the income on the children, anyway, and the children are better able to make a living than she is. But If you have a comfortable fortune to bequeath. do not leave it all to your wife with the idea that she will look out for the children, but give each child its fair portien. For one thing, your wifé might remarry, and her second husband loot the estate. Furthermore, while it is true that mother will look after her children, it is equally true that no.mother can tyrn a deaf ear to the piea of her child who {s'in trouble or In want, and o the prodigal sons and duughters get the lion's share of the estate if it Is left in mother's keeping. e MPOTHER will pay Joe's gambling debts, and support Tom, who is too temperamental to work, and buy Susle the fine clothes that she cries for, and not even dream that she is robbing Industrious Bill, and John, and Mar: or realise that they are just as much entiteld to a falr share of lh'elr father's estate as the other children, who are waaters, and loafers, and spendthrift: Worthiness should not be penalised, but mothera virtually always do i They Rave & pecullar love for their bleck lambs. And so, while it is safe to trust to & mother’s heart, it s unsafe to trust her head. Finally, Mr. Man, tie up what you leave your wife and daughters in trust fund, so that they cannot touch the princlpal. Net one woman in u thousand knows anything about handling money, and even when she does there s only t00 often ker husband to bo reckoned with. e may not necessarily be a bad man, or one who plans to ¢! h Some of the best men in the world are the worst Dbuflnelol Hll‘:l:! in‘; the less & man knows about business the more certain he is that he could 2! n stocks e only had hi " ot oy y s wife's money with which to Now, if a woman has any money and her hushand wants it, she has either to give it to him or live in a perpetual family wrangle. Save your daughters from this, 8o that they can sweetly say: “Darling, of course, 1 would let you have the money if father hadn't left it in this horrid old trust.” So will your daughter be able to keep her money and preserve her domestic harmony. Make your will, Mr.. Man, and don't forget what I have been telling you. DOROTHY DIX. ance. In fact, this volatile oil 18 tion. For example, the French, who known chemically as allyl sulfid, -ul e Shim are masters of delicate cookery, know how to do this to perfection. One well-known French cook advis housewives to use garlic water rather than the garllc itself. She makes this by taking a single bulb of the garlic and pounding it well. Then a half cup of boillng water is poured on and allowed to stand until cold. The lquid should then be strained and bottled. A few tiny drops add- ed to sult the taste or a sauce from the garlic water will give just the suggéstion of an appetizing flavor which is so desirable. in recént analyaes chemists have made the dizcovery that its general prop- erties are the same as the »so-called tear gas used in the great war. To return to the garlic. This particular plant is supposed to have & certain medicinal effect on b the circulation and the nervous system. This has not been very definitely established on a aclentific basis, but is of interest as a mere bit of information. The secret of the sucoeasful use of garlic is to exerclse extreme modera- 0 E—— — — How to make better percolator coffee USE a coffee that is especially prepared for percolator yse—Chase & Sanborn’s Seal Brand Percolator Coffee. It is the outcome of long experiment. It will help the percolater to make better coffee—to develop the full, rich flaver of Seal Brand and to produce a beverage that is cleat in the cup. The flavor is identical with that of regular Seal Brand—the flavor that carried the fame of Chase & Sanborn’s across the continent in 1864, and which has added new friends daily ever since. A tryly delightful flavor and one that is always the same. - <oy &Sanborn's 200 High Street, B © McClure Newspaper Syndicate BEDTIME STORIE Blacky’s Cleverness. 1 The clever always find & way To get what's peeded day by day Blacky the Crow. | Blacky the Crow was one of those who was having @ hard time. M.m)l a time that he had gone | South instead of spending the Winter | up there where there was so much snow and ice. He had been able to get along after a fashion until that hard, icy crust formed over everything. Then he could get nothing to cat. Now, Blacky is a most suspicious person. Especially does he suspect the two-legged creatures called men. Of course, he had learned long since that Farmer Brown's Boy was a friemd of all the little people of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows. He wasn't afraid of Farmer Brown's Boy. Still he never was able to bring himself to be friendly as some of the other teathered folk were. He always kept he wished EW THAT FARMER BROWN'S CHICKENS HAD PLENTY TO EAT. at a safe distance. But now things were different. Yes. indeed, things were very different. He simply must have something to eat or he would starve.- He knew that Farmer Brown's chickens had plenty to eat, and he wondered if he might get a share of that food. 1f only they were fed outside the henhouse he might have a chance. But he knew that they were being fed inside the henhouse this bad weather : Rlacky flew over where from the top of a tree in the Old Orchard he could watch all that went on around Farmer Brown's house. He saw his cousin, Sammy Jay, stuffing himself with good things from a shelf on the window. sill of Farmer Brown's houst. He saw Tommy Tit the Chickadee, Yank Yank the Nuthatch and Drummer the Wood- pecker stuffing themselves. But he couldn’t quite get up courage enough to go so close to Farmer Brown's house. Hungry as he was, he couldn't quite do it. Then Blacky noticed that Farmer Brown's Boy had left the door of the | seen BY THORNTON W. BURGESS henhouse open. ineide busily picking up corn. looked sharply all around. Farmer Brown and Farmer Brown's Boy go into the house. He flew over to a post in tha henyard and cocked his head on one side as he peered hungrily into the henhouse. I'm not afraid of thosc hens,” said he to himself. “Probably they will be afraid of me. If T work fast T can pick up a lot of that corn and get away before any one can possibly get over here. Those hens probably will make a great fuss, but if I can get just a few grains of corn that will be enough to give me & little strength. Well, here goes. He spread his black wings and sailed He could see the hens Blacky Ho had FEATURES. —By J. CARROLL MANSFIELD TOMORROW - FOUNDING OF SOUTH CARO, down to the doorstep of the henhouse Then he boldly walked right in. You should have seen those hens run! They ran and huddled together at the back of the henhouse. Perhaps they thought Blacky was a member of the Hawk family. And such a racket as they made! Blacky paid no attention to them. He began to pick up corn just as fast as he could. But all the time he kept one eye out toward Farmer Brown's house. He knew that the racket those hens were muking would bring some one out to see what ail the tuss was about , Sure enough, in a few minutes the door of Farmer Brown's house opencd, and _Farmer Brown's Boy came hurr ing toward the henhouse. Blacky picked up one more grain of corn then took to his wings. “Caw! Caw! Caw!” he shouted, as he flew over to- ward the Green Forest. He was feeling in high spirits again. He felt that he had been very clever. (Copyright, 1025 by T. W. Burgess) Burnt Child Fears Fire. This popular saying is a very old one, and its travels to its place in modern parlance it has undergone a series of interesting transitions in form, always, however, with the same mignificance—that the person who has known suffering does not need to told to take care. It is from the It that we have adopted the saying, their form for being “The lded dog fears co water,” wi h impli of course, that once a victim, one fears e " where there i= no cause for concern. And the people who originated the saying in Italy were the Venetian Jews, who had it from their ancient rabbinical lore. There, hunted to its lair, It found in this form: “He who has been bitten by a snake fears even a plece of rope.’ (Copyright.) n | —— Saturday will be St.Valentine’s Day How about some heart-shaped cookies? DUZ washes men’s grimed and perspiration- stained clothes—children’s sciled and things—yourown personaldsinty thi and stained linens. Makes them sweet, clean and stained things wash out spotiess and fresh asnew in Dus suds. Osypen- sl e il rmshiny DUZ makes washing o eassy—no boifing, wash- board scrubbing or even blueing s necessary. DUZ makes foamy suds filled with millions of purifying oxygen bubbles—even in havd warter. 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