Evening Star Newspaper, April 24, 1925, Page 39

FE How to Seat Gues BY The seating of guests at a dinner, luncheon or supper party is of genuine importance, for on this the success of the party largely consists. It matters not how well the meal is served, how Landsomely the table is decorated or how delicious the viands are, if part- ners are not congenial or if pe'ssons are seated next to those with whom they have little of mutual interests conver sation lags, and, instead of a gay affair, AT A DINNER PARTY CARDS FACILITATE THE ING OF GUESTS. PLACE SAT- the meal is tiresome, not to say boring. There is no form of entertaining that requires more tact on the part of the hostess in planning every minute de- tail than the one in which her friends sather around the dining table. A simple meal with guests felicitously | placed is far more delightfui than an elaborate one with guests not so hap- pily disposed. It is partly because LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. | this ATURES. ts at Dinner Party right of special distinction it is a gentleman who is the honored guest. this order is reversed, and he sits it the right of the hostess, and not the host To seat him by the host would bring two men together, which is punctiliously avoided. The seating of men and women aiternately is always observed. Age a Criterion. The honored guest is the oldest lady present: this is assuming there is a decided discrepancy in ages. 1t would scarcely be an honor at a dinner of persons of approximately the same ages to single one lady out because of her stispected maturer vears and. for no other reason, give her the seat at the right of the host. However this does not alter the custom respec ing age and honoring it, and there are innumerable instances where there are differences in ages that im- mediately ndicate who deserves the seat of honor. Guest of Honor. There are, .of course, exceptions to rule. For example, a bride, a lady of marked distinction, a returned traveler or any woman for whom a is expressly given, even though the invitations may not convey such information, is seated at the right of the host. The lady next in order of preference sits at his left. The man who is seated at the right of the hLostess occupies the place of distinc- tion for the gentlemen. When mar- ried couples are the guests of honor the wife is seated at the right of the host and the husband at the right of the hostess Other Guests. With the exception of the fir: second guests of honor, there is no order of preferment in seats at the table. Guests are arranged because of congeniality, of mutual interests or bonds in common. The host leads the way to the dining room, offering his arm to the lady of first impor- tance. The hostess is the last to enter the dining room. and is taken in by the gentleman who is to sit at her right. The lady who sits at the left of the host follows him and is escorted by her partner. at whose right she sits. It is for the hostess to decide who are to be partners. Place cards prevent confusion, and re- lieve the hostess from designating where each person is to sit when she enters the room It is not wise to put persons of like professions next to each other, such, for instance, as two artists, two mu- sicians, etc. The conversation may hold a certain mutual interest, but it apt to verge on what is called is of the comparatively smail number who gather around a board that a sense of intimacy is established tha makes congeniality essential | | Honored nest When it is a lady who is the guest of honor she is placed at the right of the host, who leads the way to the dining | room with her on his arm. If by BEDTIME STORIES Fat and Independent. 1 rat and sleep. and Just when I pieage come and T'd have you Jimmy In other words. Jimmy Skunk was independent. He had no one to think about but himself. He slept when he | nleased and where he pleased, with no one to ask questions. If he wanted | o remain out all night he remained out all night, and didn't have to ex piain to any one. He rather liked it now that he was used to the fact th Mrs. Jimmy preferred to live by her- self in the home she had made under | the henhouse. It had upset him a lit- | tle at first, but only for a short time. | Then he began to enjoy his independ- | ence. For a while he waniered about and | didn’t bother to go home to sleep. He | simply curled up in the nearest com- | fortable retreat and slept until he felt | hungry again. But as he grew fat he srew lazy and less inclined to wander about. He discovered what Mrs FOR A WHILE HE W. ABOUT AND DIDN'T BOTHER TO GO HOME TO SLEEP. | Jimmy had discovered which was that a very was to be obtained around Farme Rrown's doorvard and in his garden. So. because he was too fat and lazy | 1o travel far, he took to sleeping un- | der the barn. Thus he was near Mrs. | jimmy and sometimes joined her | when she was looking for food. but at the same time he was wholly in- | dependent | Soon after Jimmy took to sleeping | under the barn Farmer Brown's Boy hoticed that seldom did he see a Rat | or a Mouse in or near the barn whereas before that the Rats had neen very troublesome, too smart to be trapped and growing bolder and bolder. It was some time before he inew that Jimmy was sleeping under he barn and he wondered what had happened to the Rats. Jimmy could have told. Some had helped to make him fat and the rest had moved away. They didn't like his company You see Jimmy didn't sleep all the ime he was under the barn Once or twice Jimmy had started to look into Mrs. Jimmy's home under the henhouse. t he only just ctarted to and then he hastily begged her pardon and explained that it was a1l a mistake. Tt puzzled him a little ‘o have her cross, for she was pleas ant enough when'he met her outside. Rut after a while he kept away from before him, | good_living | who picks | those " eagerly | ne | tained only from fruits and vegetables. shop talk.” Let persons get in touch with others who are interested in the subjects, but from the layman’s point of view. It is a clever hostess just the right group from she "knows and seats them felicitously at a dinner. She will get the reputation for giving famous din. ner parties to which invitations are desired { If yonu vour leisure about the possibilities of | THE unt Jane says that though peo- ple have quieted down somewhat over the cross-word craze, the puzzles are still just as good as ever for quilt pat terns i utrition Nuggets. 1f you must slight table service at any one meal be sure that it is not at breakfast. The appetite is apt to be capricious ad an attractive table will sometimes fean a good break- fast that will carry the eater through an otherwise unsuccessful day Your breakfast plan calls for fruit dried, fresh or canned: cereals, home. cooked mush, flaked, puffed or shred- ded readyv-to-eat cereals or twice cooked cereals such as fried mush bread. either dry or buttered toast or hot bread: main dish exg: or re- cooked left-overs such as minced meat, fish or vegetables: beverages, coffee, tea, cocoa, or cereal coffee with milk always for the children. Now that the season for fresh fruit is coming on, it is important to re- member to wash the fruit carefully True, there are some writers who say that this must not be done, but those of us who do not have our own gar- dens will be much safer to take this precaution In preparing fruit use agate Kket- tles and stir with either a silver fork or a silver spoon Other materials either in the container or in the uten sils used in stirring may discolor the fruit Although left-over dishes may be used for either breakfast or luncheon be sure to use these with disci=tion Reheated dishes are suitable only for hearty adults and not for children or invalids. Make out a systematic using foodstuffs in your emergency closet. If the emergency arises vou will then not be in a state of bewil derment to just what to serve. For example, a single can of chicken or other prepared meat may be used as the basis for any number of dishes make some careful at plan about otes each tin of prepared food you wiil find it an enormous time saver BY THORNTON W. BURGESS the henhouse and didn't even wonder why he wasn't wanted there. He was quite satisfied with life. He was fat and this made him good-natured. e wholly independent, and this made him good-natured. And ver once did it pop into his head that he was wholly selfish Of course, any one who thinks of no one but self. and who has no cares, is selfish. So Jimmy was selfish. All he thought about was having a good time. A good time means to Jimmy Skunk eating and sleeping. So he grew fat and lazy and was altogethe: nappy. And he didnt even wonder what Mrs. Jimmy was doing or where | she was when for several days he would not see her at all Perhaps if he hadn't been home he would have felt at least bit lonesome. As it was he didn't feel lonesome even a teeny weeny bit. Anyway, that is what he would have said. Perhaps down inside he was a wee bit lonesome and that is why he had chosen to live near Mrs. Skunk, but he didn’t know it But Jimmy's independence wasn't to last always. No, sir, it wasn't to last always. So perhaps it was just as well that he made the most of it. About Fruits. Obviously. this is a larze subject hut by way of preparation for the study of individual fruits, the house- wife may well inform herself in re- gard to certain facts about fruits in general One of the first points in which the housekeeper is interested is that of | the food value of fruit and its place in the diet. Probably most readers | know that the chief function of fruit is to furnish the body-regulating ma terial in the form of mineral salts. True, therefore, Some forms of fruit | do furnish starch and sugar in con- iderable quantities, and this is espe- | cially true of the dried varieties. We | are told that dried fruits make up about 16 per cent of the entire output | of our orchards. These are popular because of their palatability, but their | food value is not realized to the fullest | extent. No far from being depended | body-regulating materials, such as | is the case in fresh fruits, dried fruits | may also be looked upon as providing | body-building material. One fact should be noticed in this connection, namely, that as to their contribution of body-building material, dried fruits are not as vitally neces- sary to the housewife as are fresh The reason for this is that body-build- ing material may be obtained from a number of other groups, whereas, | body-regulating material. such as mineral salts and acids, is to be ob- 0 S0 near h a wee Any housewife who has worked on the problem of family diet on a low in- come finds her job cut out for her. So often housekeepers who must plan very carefully make fruit a luxury, whereas it is as much of a necessity as milk and meat The body may be ever from the standpoint of muscles and bones, but if the many complicated processes that are necessary to keep the machine as a whole in order are interfered with there is sure to he trouble. A wise use of fruits is one of the most efficient ways in which to avoid such trouble. so strong Chéaper than wall paper For your woodwork- buy Farboil Enamel Paint." If any of the children use a lunch box for their £chool lunches, be sure that it is well sterilized, scalded, dried and aired every night (Copsright My Neighbor Says: Before attempting to d ew into woodwork cover end of the screw with so bathroom If the trap in vou or kitchen is clogged. attach piece of rubber hose to your cold-water faucet, then place the hose over the opening in the sink. and turn the water on full ree, allowing it un several minutes. This will flush the trap If you have difficulty in driv inz small tacks into the wall put them int piece of thin cardboard an inch or two apart drive them in. then pull out the cardboard Try chopping an apple in vour meat hash and add a hit of sugar, brown or white: it is fine. ave all cereal boxes and put jars of fruit in them. This is r preferable to wrapping them in paper to keep them dark To cleanse white satin. rub it with the grain with very dry bread crumbs slightly tinged with washing blue. A scrap of old white silk should be used to apply the bread crumbs and the satin well brushed afterward with a soft brush Fragrant and Pure "SALADA T E A is Kept deliciously fresh in air- tight aluminum foil pacKets. Never sold in ‘EVENING N, D. €. DorothyDix Girls, If You Want a Fat Envelope on Pay Day Sit Down and Think Over What You Like to Do Best and Get a Job in That Line. Gives Hints to Girls About Choosing a Career “What Shall 1 Do When 1 Graduate? YOUNG girl who is about to graduate from high school asks my about what trade or profession she should take up for a livelihoo It doesn't make a bit of difference what you do, my dear. It is the way you do it that counts. You can make a success or a failure of any occupation under the sun. The fat pay envelope is the reward of superexcellent work It isn't the perquisite of any particular trade or profession. We do best those things that we enjoy doing, and %o I urge you to sit down quietly and study yourself and try to find out what nature intended you to be, Probably vou have no very decided talent. no cosmic urge that makes vou feel that you must paint, or sing, or dance, or cook, or keep books, or else life will be dust and ashes in your mouth. But you are sure to find that there is something that you like to do better than other things. It may be trimming hats. It may be messing around the kitchen. It may be that you are quick at figures and can always remember dates. It may be that you write a good hand, or always got 100 in spelling at school. There is always some one thing for which vou have a turn, as the phrase goes, and that points the road for you to follow. If you have no mechanical skill, don't do anything that requires deftness of the hands. If you can’t spell, don't waste any time trying to be a stenographer. If you cannot add up a column of figures three times without getting four different results, pass up bookkeeping. You will never make a success of anything for which you have no aptitude. You will always hate it and be bored by it. The successful people are those who love their work so well that it is a sheer joy to do it: who never count the labor that they put into it, and who are so interested in it that it is perpetually in their thoughts. Therefore choose the thing that you like to do and get fun out of doing, and don’t just blunder into taking the first job that presents itseif or make the mistake of taking up some profession to which you are not called because some other girls are doing so or because it seems to You romantic or elegant O-‘ course, in these days of the emancipation of women, every road free for a girl to follow as it is to a boy, but vou will find that women make the greatest successes who stick to purely feminine lines. There is just as much need for woman's work in the world as there is for man's, and when it is equally well done it is equally well paid. In some occupations it is a little better paid because there are fewer woman experts than there are men There are very few women who have risen from the ranks to become presidents of banks, or trust magnates. big manufacturers: but every community has in it women who have made tidy fortunes as dressmakers, or milliners, or hoarding-house keepers those Teaching, nursing. cooking. sewing; home-making in all its ramifications and branches: buying and selling pretty things: the building and furnishing of houses; the healing of the sick—all of these are strictly within the feminine province, and you will not make a mistake if you choose whichever one of these occupations appeals to your fancy. Women have been unconsciously trained along these lines for -centuries and have for them an inherited aptitude. It takes the average man years of profound study to acquire the sense of olor that a girl baby is born with. And any dub of a woman can give an architect points on lights, and Kitchen sinks. and the heights of shelves and closets. So stick to your last and capitalize your feminine intuitions, instead of trying to invade masculine fields. Even woman writers and woman artists are more successful when their work is most womanly. And great actresses will be remembered for the feminine roles they portrayed, not for the masculine parts they essayed and in which they were grotesque failures selected your occupation, perfect yourself in it. Master its Don't be satisfied to be an also-ran. Make of yourself a blue You will have to work longer hours and harde: doing ill-paid | Having technique. ibbon winner work than you will doing highly pal HE difference between a $15 cook and a $10.000 chef is just a matter of | skill. One woman gets $5 for a hat. another $30. It is just the touch to a bow or ribbon or @ twist to a bit of velvet that does it. Whether you get a | Thin pay envelope or a thinck one as a stenographer, or bookkeeper, or clerk depends upon how expert You are. So make up your mind that you are not going to work for a pittance, and go after the big salary by making yourself Worth it. Employers are just pining to pay the price of good work jobras if yYou meant to make a life work of it look upon it as a bridge of sighs that you have to travel over with reluctant feet from the schoolroom to the altar. Think of it as something vou are zoing to do as long as you live: something that is going to be your friend and ~omforter and stay.and to which vou will give the best that is in you. That | won't keep vou from marrving if the right man comes along. and it will be a powerful stay if no man comes. Then tackle vour Don't regard their work as only a makeshift take the trouble to learn how to do they are ill-paid. Don't be one do th They and so they never they fail, and why Not many a until they can marry it properly. That is why them. Choose a congenial occupation and put your and your success will be assured (Copy of heart and youyhack DOROTHY into DIX. with butter, place ina very hot oven to brown the potatoes, and finish cooking the chicken. Serve on the plank at once. Planked Chicken. one-fourth teaspoont: Cream cupful of lard or ul of chopped onion, one-fourth tablespoon- together butter, one | | | d pepper, green par: one-half clove. and one teaspoonful of | Split one young chicken | place in pan, sprinkle with salt and pepper, dot over with butter. and bake until nearly done in a quick oven ful each of chopped r | pepper. and | minced gar | temon juice CEVER me as for broiling, NEveR avibng o8- o for the hack o my e s Tyrecs Bocke ind Hrourume W w s erhal medicine. 1w mide oflong Buche, Ura Urm, . Parwrs B, Hrworame, Hom Aceare of Pomme, Aol e of N ead Heaumedhrion y o e e i Then grease a plank, arrange upon it a border made from two cupfuls of hot mashed potatoes to which have been added seasoning and the beaten volks of three eggs. This is put on with a pastry tube and may as desired with Brush over syghtly the chicken and saute eight caps, place on the which has been first spread fancy ramids. eggs diluted and place be made as rosettes with and p beaten with water, in the center. Peel large mushroom chicken It. would sur- prise you to know whatanenormous percentage of dressmakers pre- fer Wiss Shears. Dressmakers must haveshears bulk. Try it W. & J. Desks FREIGHT PAID TO ALL SHIPPING SLOANE 1508 H STREET -~ WASHINGTON, D.C. Obposite The Shoreham ODD PIECES of furniture contribute greatly to the atmos. phere and comfort of any room. The moder- ate prices and large variety found here make your selections a pleasant experience and an economical investment. Stools and Benches Windsor Chairs Serving Cabinets Upholstered Chairs These pieces are obtainuble in either Mahogany or Walnut STORE HOURS 8 A. M. TO 5.30 P. M. EVERY DAY INCLUDING SATURDAY that cut easily and stay sharp. That’s why they prefer Wiss—and why you should” use them too. 8 inch Dressmaking Shears FRIDAY, APRIL {11,000 feet. I | flowe: $O up 14 up 20 up 40 up 60 up POINTS IN THE UNITED STATES Sloane Endorsed Merchandise Carries an cAssurance of Satisfadtion 24, 1925. WOMA Ramble Around South America BY RIPLEY. AN INCA BAR A BOUDUET OF FLOWERS on( A PoLE DENOTES THAT LIQUOR 1S FOR, SALE made of maize that is almost as bad as the stuff we get in New York The Indians save their mane get drunk only on holid Al times they are very doc Along they come examine my | baggage again! This makes the third time since 1 left La Paz that my pass- port and baggage have been looked over. ' The offici e Chileans and they are very suspicious of anvbody going to Tacna or Ar It was even necessary for me to report to the po lice in La Paz and explain why 1 wanted to go there. They knew that I had come from Peru and they were making sure that I did not intend to capture the town fol Peruvian is not permitted Tacna or Arica Thirty-Fifth Day. ARICA, Chile, March 1.—One who sees only the plateau region of Bolivia knows but a small part of this inland republic. The section east of the Andes is attractive and tropical though few Jravelers ever wander over into the jungles. There lie some of the sources of the Amazon and away stretches the greaj, unexplored territory of the continent, where dwell tribes of strange people. Many are the mysteries of El Gran Chaco. There is one spot where the rain has been falling without a stop for thousands of v ! There the tribesmen cut off and reduce the heads of their enemies to the size of a base ball. There is the tiver of Doubt.” ‘There it rains fish! T re the Indians are so wild that towers are built in which men call out messages of good will to them at nightfail, like the eve- ning call of the Mullah from the mina rets of Arabia. Believe it or not! I wish that I might visit Santa Cruz, whose population of pure wh peo. ple is the farthest removed from civili ic f any in the world. There are Cochabamba, Sucre, Oruro and Potosi The Potosi silver mines are famous It is said that 7.000 mines have been | opened in the (erro, and that the mines have yvielded about $4.000,000 000 since their discovery in 1545. At one time the city had a population of 150.000. Now there are only about 25.000 inhabitants. But T am on my Arica. I am going down hill and going fast The train is fitted on a “rack”—a kind of cog-wheel system, by which the en gine winds itseif up and down the steep grades of the Andes. For the first time in more than two weeks I have descended below an aRitude of 1 bette eady, al nd other to WILKINS BREAKFAST way to Tacna and though my ing. Out of the window I can see the In dians resting in front of a stone hut There is a flagpole with a bouquet of attached to the top. This is sign of the saloon. Beautiful, isn't | Flowers instead of padlocks! They | chicha” — vile-tasting stuff. ears have a strange fee \ | | | the it? drink HOW IT STARTED BY JEAN NEWTON. “On the Shelf.” We ara all famiiiar with pression “on the shelf.” used tively to describe some one Culness has come to an end. Particu do hear the phrase used with reference to epinsters who are supposed to have lost hope of finding a spouse The natural inference would be that this is just an unkind vulgarism. As a matter of fact, however, it has a dignified origin, coming from the realm of literature. 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