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WOMAN’S PAGE.” Touches to Vary the Routine Menu WY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. well run households it & practice to avoid the serving of the same 4ls al any two successive meals. Varlety is the spice of life, und it is for the sake of health as well us pleasure that we are admonished to add such seasoning Lo our menus After all, though, a week comprises but seven days, and to repeat the same er similar dishes as often as once in every seven days is to rob variety itself of some of its spice. Voreigners who come from those lands where more care is taken to make dishes elaborate before their appearance at table are apt to find American cooking monotenous. if such is the case, it is assuredly not the lack of variety in recipes which is the cause. Nor is it always the knawledge of how to go about the preparation of a varied menu that is wanting. Nearly every housewife knows many more recipes than those which she serves. for_instance, in the course of a month. Why, then, does she not make use of them? To Vary the Menu. The cause for anything which ap- proaches monotony in meals must then come from one of two reasons— either time or inclination. Possibly one reacts upon the other. To solve ihe problem of time may be height- ening the inclination. Today we will take one of the most usual and at the same time one of the most choice of American dishes. leefsteak, and speak of a few of the any ways in which it may be varied its service. The first one “Steak | 1 la Lundy,” is especially good for a dinner where there is no maid in the bouse and the hostess has to attend » cooking and serving it herself. 1t s been served. however, at the mos fashionable dinner parties and de-| | serves to rank with the best of its| | In most isheen removed Slice the onion, and fry suet, seeing that it After simmering for add the tomato, and mer, so that all the flavors are well blended. Cook the steak for five minutes over a quick fire, add sauce, or chop it with it in butter or does mot burn few moments, continue to sim | nd, as a main dish to a course din ner | Steak a la Lundy. Thick steak of a good cut: four tablespoons olive oil; two tablespoons of any of the highly seasoned meat &auces; four tablespoons ketchup. Mix the liguid ingredients in a cup or bowl. Place steak in a flat baking pan. Pour half the sauce over the steak, reserving the rest to heat #nd pour over it immediately befare serving. See that the oven is moder ately hot. Place the steak in the oven bout half an hour before it is re- quired. The length of time in cooking arles of course with the size of the steak, which should not be less than two inches thick. Slice a lemon into ahout six pieces. Put three of these on the steak after it has been in the oven 20 minutes. When the steak is done, heat the sauce as specified, and pour over steak after it has been viaced on serving platter. Garnish with parsiey. the rest of the lemon and a few slivers of pimento, if de sired. WHETHER COSTLY OR THE SERVING MADE ART. THE STEAK BE OF INEXPENSIVE CUT OF IT MAY BE and let stand over flames for another four or five minutes. Garnish with parsley and serve with bolled rice. With Mushrooms, There is na easier way to e steak a distinctive touch, und the a of a “‘company” dish, than to serve it with a few mushrooms. A quarter of a pound of mushrooms to a paund of steak is sufficient to give a_delicious flavor to the gravy, and. if more is used, but one vegetable and a salad need be served with the steak to com- prise the entire meal Strip_the mushrooms skin, after separating the tops from the stems. Scrape the stems. Cut up stems and tops into pieces of any de sired size, and saute for five minutes in butter. Add half a teaspoonful of lemon juice, and a tablespoonful of flour. Add a cup of water, simmer for two minutes and pour over steak. Inexpensive Recipe The abave is a recipe for a thick steak. of which the most considerable part of the expense is the steak itself. 1 shall follow it with another method of preparing steak in which a thin slice of meat is employed and the chief charm of which is in the sauce. This requires some care, but no special skill in ‘preparation Steak With Sauce. Top of the round in half-inch slices thinner; one onion, medium size: small sweet pepper; one-fourth butter or suet: one cup stewed tomatoes, fresh or canned In this case the sauce is prepared separate from the steak. Parboil the pepper, from which the seeds have of the outer or one cup Ramble Around South America BY RIPLE 5TRONG BACR - weak MIND Re e o . Twenty-Seventh Day. CUZCO, Peru, February 21.— 18 very old—and locks older. It longer great or glorious. Crumbling adobe houses, superimposed on the ruins of ancient Inca buildings, now line the narrow streets of cobble- stones and open sewers. It is raining and old Cuzco is dreary when it rains. { 2 Whis aiaves G Jappearguce acking X sdulnt the morning does the famous sun ap. | KPOW that it was the polite thing year. Then it burns hotly f few | for the othets to wait upon the guest Dours untll the dark clouds roll over | Of honor. When the guest of honor the valley walls from the ccov. | drinks—they drink, and only then ored “Hity mlanbr o Mids the faee ot || e aimost idied thirst before 1 red “alto plano” to hide the G e the Inca's dlety e, I cistbetacy offer a 1t is cold. There are no fires. Trees | 4 o 5%y f0 5 b caitis Ticon do m.\ v ,;,,‘,,\?.p lr\?dl; »d\"‘?.»'.;“c\f?\ sciously I tasted of my glass once in Ishiands and fuel s dcarce and &% |a while without. this warning for- mive. o e oA B mality. which caused a wild scramble d damp, and it more pleasant | for giasses all down 'the table outside than in, heir overcoats |, MY tastes grew so uncertain that Eothn put on their overcoat®!I had them all eating with their left when they enter their houses and take | nands before the evening was done. them off when they leave. . | T was dome early. 1 experienced Today Cuzco is anything but a “Cit¥ [ iy first_attuck of “soroche” (moun of the Sun.” Nature herself seems 10| tain gickness) when the festivities have .fq.euvlm = fl;r ”"";’fh:rfi‘;’(r:shxh= were highest and my nose bled the ruin wrought by those old treacher | rest of the night. ous tramps of Pizarro and no longer smiles on the land Manco and | Mama Stolid and ¥ | as fashionable lends chantment. Up uzco | equator, they go is no | better and wear at noontime with at the boiling point But did you ever Distance in Quito. on Paris one or two full evening dress the thermometer en- the or see a Peruvian nothin’ on a pa vou ain't seen manners were yet a with sno' 2] e Salmon Pudding. * an of salmon. Add salt of one-half a two eggs and add to make a batterlike | consisteney. Pour into a buttered | mold. Strew with dried bread crumbs. Dot with butter and bake for about 45 minutes in a moderate oven ] silent Tndians along beneath huge hurdens. bright colored ponchos and gieam through the mist. The their hurdens is oiten astounc Indians all chew cocoa leaf. They will carry the heaviest trunk on their hacks for miles without effort. Pro. fessor Ochoa tells me that if you give | trudge Their hoods of | Mash one paprika and lemon. F enough milk an Indian a wheelbarrow to deliver he will his whale load—wheelbar on his back and trot tie ow and ff with Strong backs all it and weak minds! The Indian never smile: A short fe and a weary one. He s subjected to enforced labor. On feast days he gets drunk. Intoxicating joy! The anly happy moments of a blank, brief life. Once were ten millions of empire—today less | there him in a great than one million Such, is the way of the white man with the Indian! Last might Capitan Vivera, Prefect of ¢ invited me dinner. The captain distin- guished zentieman—educated abroad and master of many languages— dresses in the height of fashion, and lives in direct contrast with his sur roundings. But no more so than I. Last ning my dinner clothes were boat saifling to Valparaiso; Jooked and felt sadly out among the uniformed assemblage pathered at' the Prefecturo. Cuzco v inay, be far from Paris put It iy just [ de Navio eve on a and 1 of place Orange Pekoe Tea THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. DorothyDix Not Every One Has “Turn” for Matrimony Any More Than for Other Business of Life— Those Whao Dislike Domesticity or Sacrifice Shouldn’t Marry. Lists Types of Men and Wom- en Who Are Born Oelibates Are Yau One of Those Born Not to Marry? NE of the things that are the matter with matrimony is that so many men and women get married who were foreordained and predestined to be bachelors and old maids. Nature never intended them to be husbands and wives and fathers and mothers. They were born to be celibates. They were old bachelors and old maids in their cradles, and no matter how many times they marry they still remain old bachelars and old maids in spirit, Their wedding rings always gall them, and after the brief allure which enticed them into the holy estate is over they spend the balance of their lives wondering what made them fools enough to do it. So do the luckless women and men who drew them as life partners. Just to be married doesn’t make a man or woman a resl husband or | wife any more than a ream of paper and & typewriter make him or her a writer, or a saw and hammer turn him or her into a first-class carpenter. To be a successful husband or wife is a gift. It requires a special talent One must have a “‘turn” for it, as the phrase goes, and this the born celibat lacks and can never acquire, no matter haw censcientiously he or she may strive to do so. There are many men and women who should never marry just because domesticity is not their country. They are never contented in it. They never feel at home in it. They never get acclimaied. They are not only as unhappy as a fish out of water themselves, but they make things very un- comfortable for the innocent bystanders. Chief among those who should not marry are the egotists, male and female. Their whole hearts are centered upon themselves. They will never see any other human being that they love as well as they do themselves. Their own comfort, their own pleasure, their own convemience, will always be the chief concern in the world to them. And every,sacrifice they are | called upon to make for another will be done grudginglys and with bitter lments and raucous oueries. 3 OW, every home is buill on sacrifice. There is not an hour in t ¥ in whicii husband and wife do not have to give up thgir own personal desires, opinions. tastes and inclinations. The man must toil for his family and see the money he earns go for household bills, instead of spending it on indulging himself. The woman must slave in a house instead of running around to places of amusement, and nothing but a love greater than them- selves, nothing but preferring another above themselves, makes the iney- itable sacrifices of matrimony worth while. The unadaptable should not marry. Ther who are set in their ways and who are absolutely convinced that their opinions and their views of life are the only right ones. They never change. They never grow. They never concede any liberty of opinion to any one else. These men make the kind of husbands who are grinding tyrants, and who crush the joy out of their wives’ lives, and the sort of fathers Whose children fear them and flee from home at the earliest possible moment These women make ibie wives who nag a man for 40 vears about smoking and about wiping his feet on the mat before he comes into the house, an who drive their husbands and children from home to find some place in which they can throw things on the floor and be comfortable. There are plenty of married old maids who think it far more important to have every book and chair and table in its place than it is to make a happy home. The very essence of conjugal felicity is adaptability, a man and a woman heing able to adjust themselves to each other. to change their very char acters to meet each other’s needs, and those who are constitutionally unable 10 do this save themselves and others a lot of trouble by staying single. R 0 man should marry who lacks the domestic complex. There are plenty of men who are born butterflies and who no amount of good resolutions will ever change into grubs. It is their nature to flit from flower to flower, gay, irresponsible, utterly incapable of looking out for the future. Thev are born philanderers, and philanderers they will be until the end of the chapter. No woman has it in her power to hold them long. are granite men and women There are other men who are men's men. They enjoy men's society, men’s games. They like club life, where they foregather with their own sex. Women are only a slight and extraneous interest in their lives, an amusement, a convenience, nothing more. Nature intended these men for celibates As bachelors they are happy and contented, useful as week end guests, delightful as dinner partners; but when they marry they break the hearts of the wives with their faithlgssness and neglect, for by the time the haney- moon has waned the call of the wild has been too much for them and they have reverted to type. Nor should the ambitious woman marry. Nature betrothed her to a caver instead of to @ man, and she is wise when she does not commit bigamy and espouse both. 1If she does, she is punished by failing in both. As @ matter of fact, not evervbody Is any more fitted for matrimony than hie or she is to he s grand opera singer. When we understand that y i . - marria »r not. we shall have and try to find out whether marriage is our vocation or not. we shall ha more marriages that- stick. S DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1 WHEN WE GO SHOPPING BY MRS. HARLAND H. ALLEN. hanging in unbroken folds from the top to the floor, will seem to add height to the room that is too low. The materials from which you may select vour side drapes are many— cretonne, silk or cotton rep. pongee, shantung, printed linen, terr taffeta, chintz, and monk’s cioth, of- fer endless varlety. For elaborate windows choose heavy silks, brocade, tapestry, velvet or velour. Supper Plans. *“Dinner is the most important meal,” comments a certain able cook. “But supper the most difficult Needless the supper he re- ferred o was not the evening meal eaten in nouseholdes where dinner comes around noon, but the late sup- per that comes at midnight or there- abouts usually after an evening of gayety One thing that makes the planning of this late meal difficult is that taste differs so widely concerning it. Man person® want something rather sub. stantial and not sweet. Others want only the most airy trifles. To some persons there is no objection to sev- eral sweet dishes. So we find some ordering an omelet and coffee, others choosing a welsh rabbit, while a fruit #alad, or sweets, including ice cream and cake, may be favored EPSOM SALTS LIKE LEMONADE Made Pleasant with Grape and Lemon Acids Over-Draperies Important. in selecting drap- only, for the time Too many of us eries are interested { that we are in the shops anyway, in the beautiful and unusual color ef- fects. But there are other things that must enter into our choice if we are to enjoy permanent satisfaction from our purchase. For instance, a lasting color, as well as a beautiful ane, is essential if their beauty is to remain unimpaired. Ease of cleaning is a factor that must not be. over- looked. And durability is important to all of us who have a limited in come to spend. ; The purpose of draperies is to give a harmonious color and background to a room. which the glass curtains alone are not always strong enough in character to supply. It is a good plan to have them duplicate in some way the dominant color note in the rug, upholstery or the wall cover- ings. Otherwise the windows will appear in too vivid contrast to the rest of the picture, and ‘‘break up" rather unpleasantly the background formed by the walls. Where the walls, rugs. and upholstery are fig- ured, then the averdraperies may well be_ plain. If.your materials are not sun-fast. it is almost necessary to make them up with a lining in order to protect them against fading. Sun-proof, K ma- terials do not require lning. On the other hand, if the fabric is radically different in appearance on the wrong side it must be lined. in arder to pre- vent an unsightly appearance from the street Hangings that touch the floor give more dignity and distinction to a room than those that just come to the sill. But in deciding this question one should be influenced by the size and shape of the room and the char- acter of the furnishings. If all your furnishings are formal, with rich up- holstery and soft, deep-piled rugs, then the fulllength draperies are in keeping with the effect created. But if the rooms are simple and the fur- nishings unpretentious, the shorter hangings are more suitable. If vou have the problem of a roont that ‘is too high in porportion to its size, vou can create the illusion of “pulling down” the offending ceiling by use of the sill or three-quarter length hangings; or if the long ones are already on hand. the same effect n be obtained by looping them back against the side walls. On the nll\Pr‘ hand, the long. straight draperies, It tastes mighty good along about four o'clock. is to say “Epsonade glass of eold water the next time you feel eon- stipated, bilious or head- achy will give you all the perfect action on the bowels of a dose of plain Epsom Saits but without the awful taste and nausea. Taken be- =l fope any meal, it acts in an hour. Ask for “Epsonade Salts” which costs only a few cents a package at any drugstore. Even children gladly take this wonderful discovery of The Makes good 'tea a cortainty D, €. WEDNESDAY, Life spreads out entrancingly In vistas strange and hezy — They'll never be mare clsar to me Pecause my mind is lvay. Lo BY JEAN NEWTON. “Both Sides of Shield.” When people are arguing or disput ing a question they gre admonished by the peacemaker to ‘“look at both sides of the shield,” meanfng “‘get the other fellow's point of view.” The expression is frequently met in the inspirational type of literature whose object is to premote understanding and harmony among fellowmen. It is obvious, of course, that in “both sides of the shield” the refer ence is no modern one. The saving has an old-time flavor, and it is in an old story that it had its origin, The story is one of two knights who, coming from opposite directions, met in front of a shield, one side of which ~vas gold and the other silver One knight mentioned “this shield of gold,” the other replied “You mean this shleld of silver,” until a lively argument developed, with the knights becoming more and more unfriendly At this point a third knight appeared, to whom the dispute was referred. He was wise enough to “look en both sides of the shield,'” and the quarrel- ing knights shook hands! IN THE GARDEN Starting Vegetable Garden. Spring is so busy a time it Is never quite long_enough for all that must be done. Not only are the lawns to be looked after, new shrubbery ig be set out and pruned, vines to trim and train, the flower garden to plan, but vegetables to start, and all wanting to be set out that they may be ready for summer. However hard the gar- dener may find it to turn away from the flower garden, yet the vegetables must not be neglected. “Surely Mr. Burbank has something practical to tell the beginners in a work he has mastered many years ago and made into an art!" And he answers: “The same preparation of the soil already advised for flowers will be necessary for vegetables: the same care in starting seed and caring for seedlings afterward, and the same unremitting attention later as to weeds and watering. The first pre- ition to take is in not working the ground too soon after its saturation with the winter's rains and snows. The soll should not be worked if it sticks to the digging fork, or if it makes a ball when taken up’in the hand and squeezed. When it erum- bles, it is ready, for if a wet soil be d too soon it becomes too close in texture instead of porous, the roots cannot push their feet down properly, and the water in the ground cannot be drawn toward the surface.” After poring over the seed | 1ogues, the amateur makes out a which he =oon finds out of all propor- tion te the space at his command. “But he says plaintively, peas. beans corn, potatoes heets, spinach. asparagus mbers. radishes, parsley, toma | toes, artichokes. onions and— The master gardener smiles at a misplaced enthusiasm and counsels moderation “It is best to select only a limited number of vegetables the first vear and as time and space permit the list may be enlarged Just here, before going further into the technique of making vegetables cata cuet Reported by Elizabeth Urquhart list | want | WITH BURBANK and edited by Luther Burbank. &rew, it might be well to make a sug- gestion as to the plan of the ve, table garden. which will repay fore thought as to planning and arrange- ment as much as the flower garden In no part of the home grounds wili regularity and formality of arrange ment be so necessary; the vegetables are not to be planted in masses or in ordinary beds, but must be in rows for convenience in cultivation and weeding. The vegetable garden may well be modeled after the well-known English and early colonial kitchen gardens, which combine usefulness with beau: ty, and where flowers, fruits and vege- tables all dwell together in harmony. A plan may be drawn, making allow. ance for paths, and old-fashioned flowers may be introduced in the bor- ders with good effect, and the gar. dener may have flowers as well as vegetables However, esthetic touches of this sort must not be allowed to interfere with the strictly business arrange. ment of vegetabies, and indeed man vegetables are quite ornamental as flowers, and parsley will make as | pleasing a border as mignonette or pinks. Tt may be added that where space is limited this combination of beauty and usefulness may solve a problem and the gardener need no longer be obliged to choose between flowers and vegetables. But whatever the plan. it is better to plant the permanent vegetables. such as asparagus, rhubarb, artichokes etc., at one side, where they i1l not be disturbed by the cultivation of the annual beds. A certain amount of tation of crops will be fit to these annt better under a cha But whatever finally decided upon, th garden may be enriched the new creations which fected in the course of experiments Among these novelties are as “It didn't take the cross-word puzzles to teach a lot of girls tha an excellent werd for ‘finance’ in six letters is ‘fiance.’ * a As a result of .the recent political overturn, Jorge Pristo Laurens, for merly mayor of Mexico C and go ernor of the State of San Luis Potosi is now emploved as a soda fountain Anatonio. shape i finest and the “Cy | grewn mnot | Canada, Ne South as we and light vell of these are the “Iceland ital,” and they have beer only in the West but i England and in the in ¢ tervals for gathered when 1 plants will not cucumbers are left to ripen on hybrid cucumbers produced from & | _They require a great deal ombination of the commen e ot | water and are Lenefited by fertilizer and the lemon cycumber, 4 native of | COntAinIng 4 large percentage of 4 ! Central America, which is small, o = o e planted he man, bear (Copyright, 1925.) %ay —all your clothes deserve the care you give to fine fabrics Your hands, too, deserve the utmost kindness For years and years your darling blouses, your exquisite hosiery in its myriad shades, your filmy lingerie— have been like new again after each washing! Silk sweaters, fresh and unstretched, at the end of the season—costly little sports suits soft and unshrunken—Lux took care of them all! Today that same good Lux works its magic with a/l your Monday laundry. For newadays every single thing of yours that’s washable is so nice it can- not be trusted to ordinary soap! Your hands, too, deserve the best of care. Today your gay little house dresses, your sweet muslin underclothes, the children’s darling little ginghams, bright as Easter eggs, your nice sheets and fine, monogrammed towels—all must go into plentiful, softly cleansing Lux suds! These sparkling suds keep the colored pieces so fresh and unfaded, the sheets and towels so snowy white! How faithfully yvour things wear when you use Lux! How wonderfully soft and smooth those velvet suds leave your hands. You know what amazing suds even a speck of Lux has always given you —that’s why it is so cconomical for everything—you really nced so little. i B Now the Big 5| New “Package, No red, rough, dishpan- ,l:}ulc A wasking dishes! A little Lux goes 50 far it’s on your hands s the finest toilet soap. one tegspoanful of Lux is enough for hands now! Toss a single “teaspoonful of Lux into vour dishpan—see what a relief it is to vour hands after harsh kitchen soap. Lux suds are so gentle, so kindy your hands stay soft and white with not a trace of that tell-tale in-the-dishpan look. s & It’s an economy to use Lux for erery- thing—for silks, woolens, fine cottons andfinens,ofcourse. Now use Lux for the family laundry, for dishes, babies® milk bottles, linoleum, paint, porcelain, rugs, shampoo. Itsbounteoussudsare somag- ically cleansing—so kind to your hands! Lever Bros, Co., Cambridge, Mass. a real economy to use it

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