Evening Star Newspaper, May 13, 1925, Page 25

) WOMAN’S PAGE Making the Soup Course a Success BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Soups, hot or col formal dinners, of many ‘home dinner suppers. They may chief feature of ept the dinner. w0st delicate of either of RICH IN FL. VARIETIF ROM O. AND IN N B E SOUP STOCE MANY MAD! merely preparato several courses in both these ways they form a de- cided €ullnary feature in most homes, and varjety is essential During the thrift campaign of the to a dinner of BEDTIME STORIES Tries His Music Bag. 1z that hive jom 1= A thin Mother Old Mr. Toad was very tired when at last he reached the Smiling Pool. Tor such a slow traveler it was a long journey from Farmer Brown's gar- den way down there, a slow and a dangerous journey. So he was very, very weary as he reached the shore and then waded out ,until only his head was above water. Right away his weariness left him That cool water seemed to wash it all away just as it did the dust. Old Mr. Toad sighed happily. From all about OLD MR. WHILE ING THE CONCER him rose h sweet ~Noices of the Pegpers ins, who should re One of them v wa t of stick right in front of Old Mr. 0ad and he could see the little white bubble of a music in the little fellow's throat gleam in the moon- light as he s Ol Mr. Toad watched for a while, resting and enjoving the concer Then he began 10 think about singing himself. “I wonder how that mus bag of mine is id he to himself there being no one else to talk to just then. “It is nearly a vear since I last used In fact, 1 had almost forgot- ten that I possessed such a thing. My. my. that chorus certainly does need my voice. I do hope that music bag will work as it used to. There was no finer music in the Smiling Pool last vear, if I do say so. He drew in the soft night air through his nose down into his closed mouth and then forced it through two Jittle slits in' the floor of his mouth. At once that little music bag in his throat began to swell. It swelled out and out. Then Mr. Toad tried a trem- ulous note. It was rather weak, but it was clear and sweet. He sighed few minutes a music . bag in his throat swelled larger than before, and this time the sweet, clear note w: the his small cous- led Hy las. 4T i;e Velvet Kind ICE CREAM ince they are used | d . are served at all | war years housewives learned to con- and they form a part|serve even the well washed peeling luncheons or {and e substantial and the or they may nsommes, the water in which vegetables were cooked for aids in soup-making. It is a mistake to disregard these eco- nomical ways. We may not have to save for the soldiers, but it is still desirable to save by so doing and have our meals better and at cheaper cost. 1 kpow of one competent house- wife who makes a meat soup that is hearty, using a stock of soup bones with some meat adhering to them. She saves the bones, together with some of the fat skimmed off the top of the whter, and uses these for a stock for another soup rich with veg- etables, or for a tomat> soup. She has found that there Is enough good left in the soup bones to enrich the second soup. Enriching Stock. | 1f you have no soup stock, a canned |beet soup may be substituted with fine |results. Here is an economical meth- lod: When you cook vegetables, such as carrots,” turnips, onions, or prac. tically any of the rott varfeties, save a few pieces that are cooked, to- gether with the liquor in which they | were boiled. At the end of a day or [0 vou will probably have quite a good | supply for the soup kettle. It will be lacking. however, in that gavor which is the essence of good soups. So open a can of the beef soup and add to the heated liquid and diced vegetables. Season with salt, pepper and a little celery salt, and you have a delicious soup. Bouillon cubes can be used in place of the canned beef soup if this is not handy. Or one or more cubes can be | added to the stock made from the sec. ond boiling of the soup bones when a large amount of soup is needed. Full Flavor Soups. | One thing is absolutely required in |soups. and that js sufficient flavor. A |tasteless soup is one of. the poor |things a housewife can serve. Fla [vored and seasoned water constitute consomme. Flavored and seasoned milk forms another variety of soup called bisques tha e slightly thick® ened. They are also creamed |soups. These are del they must have tempting [xhe\' are almost as insipid as the poor | consommes. | Adding Zest to Soups. [ To give added zest to soups, a little | tomato or chili sauce or a dash of meat sauce can be added. A plece of bay leaf, celery or the water in which it has been cooked, a bit of parsley, just a tiny bit of thyme. marjoram or |Summer savory, or a wee pinch of ithem in powdered form may give the required zest. Avoid using too much spice. Though cloves, einnamon, nut meg. peppercorns, etc., g0 into the ! making of many soups, especially con. | sommes. they should be indistinguish |able. Bay leaf is too penetrating not |to be used sparingly, as well as other | herbs Cold Jellied Soups. On very hot days cold soup is re freshing. Chicken broth. clam broth and consommes are favorites for such {purposes. Gelatin is added to the {broth to make It congeal. A soup made from knuckle of veal will often jelly without anything being added. Cold soup should be thoroughly chilled by standing close to the ice before it is served in bouillon cups. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS farrived at last,” said a voice just bac {of him. He turned to see Stickytoe: | the Tree Toad. who isn't a Tead at lall, but a g, “We had begun to think that you were not coming. need vour voice. The Smiling Pool chorus wouldn't be complete without it,” continued Stickytoes. “Sing again, Cousin."" Old Mr. Toad was quite willing to oblige. His music bag swelled larger than before and the music was louder, but none the less sweet. Old Mr. Toad chuckled happi ¥ musi bag as good as eve said he. t is just as good as ever I wonder if Mrs. Toad has arrived vet, and if she is within hearing of my voice. 1 hope so. P don't care much, not so very much, what other | people think of my voice if Mrs. Toad | still likes it. 1 wonder where she spent the Winter. I Winter rather unexpectedly myself and didn’t think of her at the time. It was most heedless of me. It was so. But, then, she probably didn't think of me, so0 I guess that evens things up. She always has said that I have the finest voice in the Smiling Pool. I often have said that Mrs. Toad has excellent taste, and I re- peat it. Dear me, 1 wonder where she is (Copyright. 1925, by T. V. Burgess.) Italian Ravioli. Into one cupful of flour in a howl drop one unbeaten egg and one-fourth teaspoonful of salt. Knead to a stiff paste, the same as a noodle paste. Roll out to one-fourth an inch thick and use this as the foundation for the ravioli. The paste can be cut into squares or circles, and simply spread with grated cheese and cooked |gravy “for five minutes to melt the cheese, or a mixture of chopped chicken livers, young onions and cheese may be spread on the squares, covered with similar squares of the paste, pressed together, and cooked five minutes in bouillon, or forcemeat balls of an |tween squares and these steamed or poached in bouillon either Use of the cigarette in China is he. ing promoted by educatio; travel motion pictures. Always soft and fluffy * after washing Wash your precious blankets [ inLux—itsgentlesudsleave them sosoft and fluffy—no matting or shrinking. Won’t harm hands. Directions on | package. LUX We | retired for the | Tells How to Hold Girls With a ‘onversational Line Spell-Biyding the Ladies flDorothyDix If. You Would Fascinate a Girl, T.ell Her She’s “Different”—Compliment Her, But Never Make ! Yourself the Sole Topic of Conversation. A YOUNG man asks: “What line of conversation holds the girls?’ Well, °* son, God made women eady to please, so far as men are concerned. So almost any line of chatter, provided there isn't too much of it, and it isn't too overwhelmingly egotistic, goes with the fair sex. Once upon a time I interviewed a bigamist who had wooed and won and married 37 wives, as to the best method of making a hit with the ladies, and he said: “‘Oh, it isn’t any trouble to make a woman fall in Jove with you. All you have to do is just talk to her about herself.” This was the opinion of one who had qualified as an expert in senti- mental affairs, and I do not think you can do better than to take his advice. The one subject in which all of us are eternally interested, and of which we can never hear enough, is ourselves. So as long as you talk to a girl about herself she will not only lend vou a willing ear, but when you pause to take breath she will sit up and beg for more. Do not fear that you are likely to bore a girl when vou tell her how beautiful she is, and what a willowy figure she has, and that her eyes are like stars, and that you don't know how she walks on such tiny little feet, and that her black or brown or mouse-colored hair has such ravishing shades In it that she really should have some painter fellow do a portrait of her. As long as you hand outythis line of conversation she will regard you as a silver-tonkued orator who Yould give Willlam Jennings Bryan pofnts and then knock him for a goal Girls like to be told that they are somehow different from any other girl a man ever met. ‘Something inexplicable, you know. Vague. Intangible. Maybe something deep and weird In the eyes, or something in the smile. or perhaps just the way she says things that give a thrill, and make him feel that he has met the one woman that he has always been looking for and | never found before. | OODNESS knows why girls fall for that kind of spiel, but ‘they do. They simply lap it up. Just tell a girl that she has some sort of weird per- sonality, and she will hang on vour words as long as you will vivisect her. Another line of talk that makes a hit with girls is the bold, bad-man | stuff. Virtually all women are born with the reformation complex. They have a mania for making people over according to their own little cut paper patterns, and nothing allures them as much as does the black sheep who has strayed away from the fold. Also. they have a morbid interest in hearing about sins that they would like to have committed, but lacked the courage to commit. So never hesitate to make a woman vour mother confessor. She will listen enthralled while you tell her all the crimes you have committed, and can make up as vou go along, in your revelations of a secret desperate life, that has been camoufiaged to the general public under the guise of the blam less existence of a shoe clerk. And when you tell her that her sacred influ- ence alone can save you, she will qualify on the spot as your guardian angel, and will regard you as the most fascinating devil she has ever met. Of course, young girls like boys who can kid, who have an inexhaustible | line of jolly, who can make near-love amusingly, and make a girl feel pleased and flattered and satisfied with herself, without being able to put her finger {on anything the man has specifically said. It is a great art to be able to i talk nonsense entertainingly, and women particularly delight in gay fooling. | A line of conversation that never fails to win out with older women is to talk to them about their souls. This hy doctors and clergymen and college professors and poets are so peculiarly fatal to the fair sex. | When the ordinary man desires to ingratiate himself with a woman, he pays her a compliment on her looks and tells her what a peaches-and-cream complexion she has. This doesn’t make much impression on the woman because it is the conventional thing for the man to do, and a thousand other { men have told her the same thing. | But when a man tells her what a wonderful mind she has. what discern | ment, what understanding. and that there is something psychic about her. | | the flattery of it goes to her head like wine and sweeps her off her feet.| She could listen to it forever, and she is willing to marry any man who holds | out a promise of giving a continuous performance of this onversational line. i UT in trying to acquire the art of the spellbinder, son, you must bear in mind that conversation is one of the things that are easily overdone, | and that between the dumbbell and the chatterer. the dumbbell is preferable. | This is especially true of women who enjoy using their tongues even more | than they do their ears, and who would rather tell you of their adventures at | a bargain sale than to listen to your account of shooting big game in India. | il i Women, however, resent having to do all of the talking, and having to work like a coal heaver to entertain a man a Grand Pash: and only deigns occasionally to throw in & < 0" or a “Really to show he Is still awake: but they are bored to tears by the man who does | 2 monologue and never gives them a chance to get a word in edgeways. | ‘Above all, son, never make yourself the toplc of conversation. Remem. ber that yvour mother is the only woman on earth who wants to hear vou tell how ireat and smart and wonderful you are, or cares for your reminis- | cences of when you were a small boy with pale green freckles on your hands. | Perhaps the best conversntional rule is just to play it as vou did the old | game of “follow the leader.” Find out what the man or the woman you are | | talking to is Interested in, and talk about that : { But you can't go wrong if you put the loud pedal on the other fellow {and the soft pedal on yourself. Bspeclally with girls. DOROTHY DIX. | (Copyright, BEAUTY CHATS anything else that dried up the milk, vou will have much more difficulty in restoring the bust to its original firm ness.. Keep up the cold water bathing followed by light friction from a coarse towel, as it certainly helps after a time. Be regular about it, as most people fail for no other reason than indifference and then blame the remedy. You can also massage with | | cocoa butter or any other nourishing oil. but this should be gentle. The motions are circular. BY EDNA KENT FORBES. The Ever-Popular Bob. | The latest hairdressing style from | Paris is very simple and severe. too i trying for any but a young face, but— | when it can be worn at all—extraordi- | narily becoming. It is a bobbed hair | “style.” for every one in Paris has| short hair these days, with the huu'i | brushed smooth and very glossy and straight. If the hair i much of the wave as possible [ n out, by rvbbing a very little -grade oil on the brush. The oil is so fine that it does not make the hair actually greasy. The hair is parted in the middle Miss Evelyn Lave, of London re- cently sang through two opera per- | potatoes in | kind may be inclosed be- | wherever possible, brushed smoothly across the forehead and straight down each side, the ends being brushed out over the cheeks if the face is thin. If a side part is found to be more be- coming, this is also used. This very straight style is particularly good for the round face, since it gives an im- pression of slenderness. However, the severity of the new style is not adapt- ed to light hair as well as dark, since blond hair is usually dry and fluffy and apt to look muddy when oily. In Paris they bleach and oil bond hair, but this is not advisable. There are, however, not many types of American women who can wear the extreme styles in hairdressing so often affected by French women. Mrs. C. F.—If you used camphor or formances with a fishbone lodged in her throat, suffering great agony, and then submitted to an operation for its removal. Spots Withou Injury to Rubric .&bnth:ficd;c:: does Almost every woman spends hours every week in the care of her face—cold-creaming i, cleansing it, massaging it, .0 guardagainst the tiniest blem- prove her daintiness. It may m;ly indicate pride and vanity. . . . The real proof THE QUICK AND GENTL © 108 The dainty woman Bluesjay is the delights ful way toend a com. A tiny cushion, cool as velvet, fits over the. com-—r:hg‘\_fi; the pressure. i stops at once. $oon the corn goes. Bluee jay leaves nothing to guesswork. You do not have to decide how much or how little to Minm -tandndge?“:e:; ment, wi right amount of the el ® not KEEP Corns of perfect daintiness is the care a woman takes of the things that are not seen. A blemish on her foot is as objectionabletoherasoneon her face. The moment a com wpurlA. she n;;ggl.iu a Blue- jay. At once pain goes, in 48 hours the com goes too. Blue-jay E WAY TO END A CORN The Selfish Stepsisters. The stepsisters were terribly ex- cited when they heard of the ball They were handsome enough girls| when Cinderella was not around, and | each secreily hoped that the prince | might choose her for his bride “Oh, how I wish I might go to the ball. 'too,” sighed Cinderella. “I would love to see the handsome | ce and all the lovely ladies | Jeered the sisters. the ball! A pretty sight with your rags and your sooty hands. | o back to the Kitchen and scour| vour pots and pans. That is all that | is fit for you, you cinder-wench.” You at (But better times are coming fo Cinderella, as you well know. This| the cloak she will wear to the ball. Color it a deep blue, leaving the fur white.) 1025.) (Copyright Haddock Farci. Remove head. tail and skin from a fresh cooked haddock weighing about three pounds. free the meat from the bones and it about six through « ricer and season with one tablespoonful of =alt and one teaspoonful of pepper. Add one fourth cupful of softened butter and mix this with the flaked fish. Bind with one beaten egg. The mixture should be quite firm and should now be shaped with the hands into the form of a fish on sheet of greased paper In tae bottom of a dripping pan. Insert the head and tail of the haddock, dot all over with litt'> pieces of butter, and bake in a ar k oven for about 30 minutes. or urdl nicely browned. Serve with a white sauce into which one chopped hard-boiled egg and one tablespoon: of minced pickle have been added for ou would be | z | with broken pottery stiff and | every cupful of s IN THE GARDEN As Reported by Elizabeth Urquhart Window Boxes. Spring has revived the spirit of gardening and with the early flowers city dwellers as well as suburban gardeners are turning their thoughts toward g.owing things, even though they have merely 4 wee bit of a garden in the rear of their lot or only a window box. However, in the realm of nature there is no greai—there is no small, and window boxes a joy without and within—little hanging gardens that add grace and beauty to mansion and cottage, and that waft bloom and fragrance into the city streets. A window garden may be anything from a geranium planted in a. tomato an to « tiled box adorning some palatial home, and the mission of both is to bring closer the beauty and fragrance of the out of door: Mr. Burbank's work has hardly in- cluded the planting of window boxes, 50 in making out the lists of plants he was only asked to cast a kindly nd discriminating eve over the pecifications” and eliminate. any- thing he felt to be out of place. And yet so deep is his interest in all that grows and blooms and so keen his joy in bringing into being these fragrant little lives that he was quite as sympathetic over the plant- ing of a window box as over beds of | bulbs or a nursery of seedlings ready | for the garden rst it will repay the city dweller to prepare the hox garden with care and if already in long use it must be emptled of its sofl, scalded and thus disinfected. It is really better to have duplicate boxes. starting one in the house dur- ing the Winter with bulbs and early Spring bloomers, and putting it out as soon as frost danger is over, and starting the other one in Spring for Summer bloom. The box must be supported on rackets, either of wood or iron, ac: cording o the walls of the house, and should be made as long as the window is wide. and six inches to one foot about one foot wide. It may le of pine or other wood with v made to fit inside: this is necessary for preventing too rapid drying out of the soil in the Summer. There should be holes in he bottom of the wooden box covered and a layer of coarse gravel for proper drainage and the box filled with good potting soil slmost I lack decision in my life — Well, if T cant be firm and strong, Like wind-blown flowers I'll bow with grace To any fate z that comes 2long. . FEATURES. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. WITH BURBANK and Edited by Luther Burbunk. Making Promises. with plenty of sandy loam to make it porous and prevent baking The food in the soll may be replen ished as the season advances by the use of a little bone meal or commer cial and liquid fertilizer, as the con fined plants will make hi demands on the larder. Weak soap suds are an_excellent fertilizer. Do not crowd the plants—think of the roots—and in selecting them be guided by exposure, whether sunny or shady, or whether the box is to ma its best show toward the street or look its best from the room. There may, of course, be an ingenious com bination of these two specifications Some window gardeners prefer to use potted plants, setting them in the box or soil and filing the spaces with | moss, and removing them or ex. | changing for others at will. This is thoroughly practical and often the most convenient One Mother Says Children so often easily make prom | ises and as easily break then without of One day when T was aski something, he Why her ingly a pang conscience Crab Gumbo. Cook in one pint of salted water a|son to promise me quart of okra pods, previously wash- | plicd rather firmiy ed and sliced thin crosswise. They |don't have omise. 1f vou te should take about 20 minutes to be-|to do a ay, 1 will.” I come tender. Meanwhile t ken one | jolt to T pint of either fish stock or milk with two tablespoonfuls of flour biended with two tablespoonfuls of butter and stirred into the milk over the fire un til, it boils. Add to this a cupful of sifted crab meat, either canned or fresh cooked, and season with one fourth teaspoonful of pepper and u | agent, operating dash of paprika. Now add to this the | Harry M. Luckett okra, with the water in which it was| with hes dquarter cooked, stir together, and serve with | has resignen The reason fo! croutons. resignation W3 not made public w n asking my his or th right. 192 s making promise to a Baltimore Dry Agent Resigns. W. D. Dill. a hibition sion FACTS ABOUT TEA SERIE5—No. 3 Mountain-Grown Teas Best The tea plant grows best in the pure cool atmosphere of 2 mountain tea garden. The | higher the garden, the finer and more de- licious the flavor of the tea. This is part- ly due to the clear sunshine on a high mountain side, partly to the more invigor- ating air, partly to the more frequent rain- fall and perfect drainage. The largest and roughest leaf grown at an elevation of 7000 feet is much superior in flavor to the tiniest tip grown only 2000 feet above sea- “level. All teasused in the ““SALADA’’ blends are grown from 4000 feet to 7,500 feet ele< vation. The trademark ‘“SALADA” is a guarantee of quality. "SALADA” What shall I do? T presented a real problem to her. Re- peatedly he had urged her to marry him. He was attractive, of good family, and fortunate in a financial way. Yet between them there was an invisible barrier that made her hold back: Something she couldn’t bring her- self to talk about. . s You, yourself, rarely know when you have halitosis (unpleas- anc breath). That’s the insidious thing about it. And even your closest friends won't tell you. Sometimes, of course, halitosis comes from some deep-seated or- ganic disorder that requires pro- fessional advice. But usually— and fortunately—halitosis is only 2 local cond the regular use of Listerine as n that yields to a mouth wash and gargle. It is an interesting thing that this well- known_antiseptic that has been in use for years for surgical dress- ings, possesses these unusual propertics as a breath deodorant. Test the remarkable deodoriz- ing effects of Listerine this way Rub alittle onion on your fingers. Then apply Listerine and note how quickly the onion odor dis- appears. This safe and long-trusted an- tiseptic has dozens of different uses; note the litele circular that comes with every bottle. Your druggist sells Listerine in the original brown never in bulk. There are tl ackage on]i — ree sizes: three ounce, seven ounce and fourteen ounce. Buy the large size for economy.— Lambert Pharmacal Company, Saint Louis, U.S. 4. LISTERINE Throat Tablets are now available. Flease do |} | motmake the mistake of expecting them to corvect bad breath. | Relyontheliquid. Listerine. Containing all of the antiseptic essential oils of Listerine, however, they are very valuable @@ relief for throatirritations— 25 cents.