Evening Star Newspaper, June 11, 1925, Page 34

WUMAN'S Assistance Given BY LYDIA LE F There is one article that should be included in the kitchen equipment of every home, and that is a testing spoon. I'm sure that most of you are wondering just what this- utensil is, and what it looks liKe, that it should IS USED TO IN THE PROC- NG. IT SHOULD DIRKECTLY amused peinted’s more spoon! spo Propriate th espe AU by Testing Spoon been used, it will cling. There is no ]need that the spoon be the same onpe. | It may vary several times a day or as many times as food has to be tested during any glven time. The name is transferable. The use of the testing spoon is ex- actly what the name implies. It is used to sample or test recipes when- ever the housewife wishes to be sure the ingredients are correctly blended, or to find out if proportions are right. Or it may be used to assure the cook that the desired texture or the quality of the batter in a mixture is what it should be. Sanitary Utensil. The need of a testing spoon will be appreciated by every particular house- wite who follows sanitary precautions. It relieves the awkward situation that is sure to arise without it, of trying to find out whether viands are right without touching a mixing spoon to the lips or without using the tip of one's finger in place of the spoon. There is never a cook who does not have to taste foods being prepared to see if the “seasoned to taste” direc- tions have proven exactly to her lik- ing. And how, pray, is she to find this and other necessary things bout the flavor, etc., of a recipe that i8 being put together, unless she samples the mixture? How to Use Spoen. There is but one really sanitary and cleanly method of tasting foods in the mak and that with a testing spoon or some device that takes its | place. TInstead of putting the stirring | spoon to the mouth and sampling the | concoction (and this idea is a bit re- ng), instead of tipping the pitcher King a sip of its liquid contents ired that in each instance just right, use a testing n. Put a few drops of whatever xture or the liquid is into the spoon and sample it. As the s not dipped directly into food pared since wee portions are from the mixing spoon or er, sanitary conditions are smali speon being p put in ting vs. Mixing. t remember that a uld never be used as When this happens the utensil is annulled. should mot be put into the food but food put into 1t The testing spoon ts place in every kitchen. Kitchen te: hoon, or a lver teaspoon, whichever sewite prefers—the latter, robably, If she is fastidio It is not the kind of spoon, but the uses to which it is put that makes it a sani- tary necessity in the domestic sci- ence of the home. WHEN WE GO SHOPPING BY MRS, HARL. “Will It Wash?” Every feels a satisfaction in knowing garment wh factorily. woman that that a 3 cleaned, does not actually lessen the the nent, nevertheless wearer no end of dis this reason ble so much in while it value « rment and iron out and a jov to 1ono sleeves because it handle is espect can be spread ou with k to iron, make it wrment t ushed es are likely to d in other ways to when put into the d orna- and lose their water. mentation that the whole cos Buttons used wash dress often The crc 3 and_ twist out made of cl molds r trimn ove ile wood or metal lored t- become disce MODE MINIATURE AND H. ALLE Inferior pearl buttons tend | to chip and break 1 v, fril style Is always diffi- to clean, and so makes a dress that is less durable and serviceable. A plain, short skirt can be “‘done up” | much more quickly than a fancy one. Circuiar s stretch out of shape very easi and for that reason give a great deal of trouble in ironing. Pleating, fluting and ruffling, while tempting to the soul of woman, are { surely things which make the fiddling | ne fiddler’s fee! rter: ble task to press tucks right, and they are unsightly other Pleats require a great deal of me to iron back in place success: | fully, and frills must generally ned into plain ruffles. Hemstitch. ing and drawn work must be handled | carefuily to prevent pulling apart. | White coliars and cuffs usually need laundering before the rest of the gar- ment is soiled, and so it is a conve- nience to have them only basted on, for ease in removing. | Laundering is a great strain on | clothes, at the best, and the only way | to be sure that a garment will “stand much rubbing and press- ee that the workmanship is , all stitching firm, seams ewed, and buttonholes se- finished. Remember that a must be fitted somewhat than one which will be Practically all tub ma- terials shrink some In laundering, and the only thing to do is to make al- glu\\unt h n buying. Inexpen- |sive materials are likely to shrink | most, however, because the threads |are ve ly woven and the wash- |ing causes them to draw together. | When cloth has been heavily sized | W ely |and calendared, some of this dressing slender parasol, 8 short buttertly dress of printed chif: couid better complete so Summertime ensemble as hose in delicate ombre sweeping hat, Jme magic process of weaving bright ch coloring down at the heels, oh, so g y pales out into whimsical echoes of the same shade. You will find them too lovely 1o resist and with an eye for harmon: choose a filmy fluttering scarf of chif fon, likewise ombre tinted to wear {leave the | stringy-looking. | well-beaten | and with them. MARGUERITE. comes out in the washing, and may frock rather sleazy and In such cases much can often be done to restore the fresh appearance of the garment by careful | starching. —_— Fig Cakes. Cream one-half a cupful of butter with one cupful of sugar, add one egg, one-fourth tea- poonful of salt, one-half a cupful of { milk, one teaspoonful of vanilla ex- | tract and three cupfuls of flour sifted with three teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Turn out on a floured board roll out like pie crust. Cut in strips three inches wide and spread with paste made as follows: Put one cupful of boiling water into a sauce- pan, add one cupful of chopped figs and one-half a cupful of sugar mixed vith the grated rind of a lemon and two tablespoonfuls of flour. Bring to 2 bolling point and cook and stir for five minutes, then turn out to cool. Spread this paste over one-half of the strips, place the other strips of dough on the top, cut in oblongs, lay on greased tins and bake in a quick oven for about minutes. R The oldest known will was executed in 2348 B.C. C Jnt the Silk a lovely pastel shade ~leave the lace white-with KEEP lacetrimmed silk finery always just as colorful as new with Tintex in the Blue Box. It is almost magical —for it tints the silk the newest shades and leaves the lace its onginal color. For all other tinting and dyeing use Tintex in the Gray Box. See the new Tintex Color Card. 15¢ at Drug and Dept. Stores { the leader of the gang. ol LHiy 6V ENING I Color Cut-Out | ALADDIN’S LAMP. The Sultan Is Pleased. The poor mother was filled with terror at her task. She thought her son had gone crazy. “How can a tailor's son hope to marry a prin- cess?” she asked. In fear and trembling she came be- fore the Sultan with her message The Sultan could hardly keep from laughing when he heard that the son of this common widow wished to marry the princess. But when she uncovered the gift she had brought he was amazed. “Never in all my life have I seen such beautiful jewels,” he cried. “Truly a man who can send such a gift as this is worthy to have a prin. cess for a wife." Here is the Sultan in his plain everyday suit of yellow satin. HOW IT STARTED BY JEAN NEWTO! The Best Man. Having a best man at a wedding is another one of those customs that have become so common that we sim- ply tread the beaten path without ever inquiring or even thinking about the reason why. The best man is a relic of barbar- ism. The friend who solemnly “stands up’ for you today will blush ‘when he learns the origin of his office. He will see blood on his hands, and in his ears will resound the shrieks of some fair maiden who eons ago was a victim of his brutality. When marriage by capture, even of another man's bride, was the fashion, as it still is with certain tribes in parts of Australia, the best man was He directed the operations of the other members of the expedition, and assisted the happy man in finding and gagging the object of his choice. Knowing the danger, a prosepective bridegroom took measures to prevent his prize from being snatched away from him at the eleventh hour. He armed his escort, or, as we call them today, his groomsmen. All these groomsmen were called “‘best men" because they were the most powerful of the bridegroom's friends. But there was one special “best man” to protect his friend's bride, as he would help him steal an- other’s. And it is in this capacity of protection rather than as accessory before the fact that the best man has come down through time and “stands up” at your wedding today. Maple Gingerbread. Beat two-thirds cupful of butter un- til creamy, then 2dd the yolks of two { eggs well beaten, next add half a cup- ful of milk and two cupfuls of maple sirup stirred together. Sift in three heaping cupfuls of flour, two tea. spoontuls of baking powder, a quarter teaspoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of ground ginger, one teaspoonful of ground clinnamon, half a teaspoonful of cloves and half a teaspoonful of ground mace. Beat thoroughly in with one teaspoonful of caraway seeds, then fold in the beaten whites of the eggs. Bake in a buttered and floured cake pan in a moderate oven for one hour. Lamb in Casserole. ‘Wash, peel and slice thickly one pound of potatoes, peel and cut into rings one large onion, and blanch the potatoes and onion separately. Trim one and one- half pounds of loin of lamb, and cut into small pieces, and fry them in a saucepan containing one heap- ing tablespoonful of melted dripping. Line a casserole with alternate layers of potatoes, meat and onion. Season each layer with a pinch of powdered mint, salt and pepper, add two cup- fuls of stock or water, cover the casserole ang place it in a hot oven for 1% hours. Pasteurized and untouched by hands + phies cacy of flavor Phila delphia” Cream Che CHEESE SLAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, Advice to All Girls About Earning Their Own: Living—What- About the Girl Who Accepts Auto Rides From Strange Men? DEAR MISS DIX: I have just passed my 18th birthday, and am thinking of takéig a course in stenography. My girl friend says I am too old to think of going into the business world, but 1 told her that it is never too late for more education. But I cannot decide what I had better do. ‘Will you please give me your advic A READER. Answer: Take your course in stenography by all means. As for your being too old to undertake a business course, why you are barely oid enough. Stenography is not for babes, and one of the reasons it is not a better paid profession is that so many girl-children who lack education, who do not even know how to spell, take it up. They can acquire the mechanical part, but :‘}'loe‘:'lel‘;mk the knowledge and culture that would make them eflicient office At 18 you have only begun your education, and as long as you live vou should be studying some particular subject. We never get too old to learn. Cato, you remember, took up the study of Greek at 80. You are very wise to try to fit yourself to make your own living, and to take up the study of some definite profession. Perfect yourself in it, make yourself an expert, for the better you do a thing, the higher salary you can command. You will have to work just as hard for a low wage as you will for a high wage. The world {8 full of women, poor and miserable and ill-paid, milling almlessiy about because they have no trade. They do not know how to do oné specific thing well, and so they drift from job to job, and are aiways the first ones who are laid off when work slackens. Do not be one of these. particular line of endeavor. It doesn’t make any difference what this is. There i3 always a demand for high-grade office women, for expert saleswomen, for milliners and dress- makers who have magic in their finger-ends. The trade schools have proven again and again that they can more than quadrupie a girl's wages by teaching her to be efficient. So put your heart and your back into your work, and make yourself an artist in your profession. Make yourself a crackerjack in your own Every girl in the world should learn some trade or profession by which she can make hersell self-supporting. She should do this, even if her father is rich, and it is not necessary for her to earn her own bread and butter. Money has wings, and often the girl who has been brought up in luxury finds herself at middie age poverty-stricken. Then, if she knows how to make a living, her loss of money is merely an inconvenience, but if she knows no way by which to earn a dollar, it is a tragedy. If a man leaves his daughter money, she may lose it, but if she has within herself the ability to make money, she has something she cannot 103e. Furthermore, the knowledge that she can stand on her own feet gives a girl a poise that nothing eise can. For at the bottom of ali independence must be financial independence. DOROTHY DIX. SAR MISS DI from str: . o @ D : Do you think it is right to take ride 2 voung feilows? I am 17 years of age, a kind of nice-looking blonde girl, | and 1 earn $16 a week. Well, the other night I went out with a few girls, I don't know them very well, but they have more wonderful clothes than I | have. When we were coming home from a dance about 1:30, two machines stopped and asked us to o for a ride. The girls I was with all agreed to go, but my sister wouldn't let me, and made me go on home. The next day the girls laughed at me, and now they go with those fellows steady. Gee, I am getting sick and tired of it all, all work and no play, but before | I try anything else I would like your advice. JUST ALONE. Answer: Well, here's my advice, dear little sirl, and it is to let that kind of joy-riding alone. Keep away from it as you would from the pit of hell, for the voung men who pick up girls they don't know on the street meen them no good, and the rouad they travel leads to destructior: You are very young. You have seen little of the world, but you are old enough and have seen enough of life to know that there is always a price to | pay for what we get. So figure out for vourself the price the girls must pay | for those wild midnight rides with strange young men. Believe me, my child, it is a price that ieaves them bankrupt in everything that makes life worth while for 4 woman. You are envious of these other working girls who dress finer than you do, and who are running about with these men who have automobiles, and who take them joy-riding at night, and on wild drinking parties, and to sporty roadhouses. It seems very gay and alluring to you, but have vou reflected that these men don’t come honest s at their homes, that they heve no intention whatever of marrying them, ti they are just playing with the girls, and when they get tired of them wis throw them aside as they | would a_broken toy? And where will the girls be then with their innocence gone, their smudged reputations? What decent man will want to marry one of them? Remember, that when a strange man stops an automobile on the street and invites you to ride with him, he is offering you a deadly insult. He is assuming that you are not a girl of good characte: He is classing you with the women of the streets. He would not dare try to pick up any girl he respected. But whatever you do, don't go with him. tears and despair and disgrace. D SAR MISS DIX: I am a college graduate, wildly in love with a girl of | 15, but her Latin ancestry gives her the mental and physical develop- ment of at least 15. What shall I do, tell her of my love? After all, she is older than Jullet. Or shali I wait until she is of an age that modern society dictates is proper for marriage? AMOUR. Answer: If the girl is older tkh Romeo stuff, but kindly recall that Juliet and not a flesh-and-blood maiden.e Fifteen is too young for any girl to marry. know her own mind, and she lacks the stamina to stand the strain wifehood and motherhood. DOROTHY DIX. That kind of joy-ride ends In DOROTHY DIX. n her age, you might venture on the the creation of a poet's fancy, A girl at that age does not | of | (Copyright. 1925.) Meat Loaf With Eggs. Prune Rice Pudding. Chop one pound of lean beef and| Wash a fourth of a cupful of rice one-half a pound of veal with six|well and put it into a saucepan with ounces of pork very fine, and mix one and one-half cupfuls of milk and well. Add one raw egg, beaten light, | cook slowly until soft and the milk is and four crackers rolled fine. Mix |absorbed. Beat the yolks of two eggs with two teaspoonfuls of salt and one {{n another saucepan with half a cup- level teaspoonful of papril Form | ful of sugar, add two heaping table- into an oblong roll, packing firmly. |spoonfuls of powdered gelatin mixed | Then make a groove through the cen- | with one cupful of v then stir ter. Put in this groove four hard-|over the fire for a few minutes, but cooked eggs, end to end, press to-{do mot allow it to boil. Strain over gether, patting the meat to make it|the cooked rice and when cool add very firm. Roll the meat in bread |one teaspoonful of lemon juice, 12 crumbs, put in a buttered baking pan | prunes which have been steamed and and bake for 2% hours, basting occa- | rubbed through a sieve, and two sionally with melted butter. When |cupfuls of whipped cream. Pour into the meat loaf is sliced, there should |a wet mold and set away In a cool be a slice of egg In each plece of meat | place. Turn out and garnish whh a It the eggs were put in properly and |, '\ o prunes atuffed with chopped carefully. Serve garnished with chopped aspic jelly and parsle: nuts. er, —_—_— ‘a wondelful lavor” Weariness vanishes—cares dis: before the witchery Banquet Orange Pekoe Tea. Such a perfection of| flavor—such wonaerlnl fragrancel It comes only from skillful blending of selected hill-grown tea, yet the delicious flavor of genuine Banquet Orange Pekoe costs no more! Makes luncheon a feast. 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Well, I hope he knows us the next time he sees us, wats the ideer? Glad- dis sed. G wizz, Gladdis, maybe he's trying to flert with vou, T sed. I sincerely "hope not, he awt to be home telling his grate grandchildren bedtme stories, Gladdis sed. Wich pritty soon I huppened to stab his back with my toes agen, more axsidently than on perpose, and he terned erround agen and smiled and shook his fingers and terned strate agen, Gladdis saying, Well of all hings, I bleeve you were rite, Benny, well if he tries it agen Ill soon tell him ware he gets off. And in a little wile T happened to give him another slite kick, more on perpose than axsidently, and he terned erround agen saying, Well well well. Are you looking for enything, Glad- dis sed giving him a proud look out of the bottom of her eyes. Wy yes, Im looking for vour young escort to stop wiping his childish feet all over my back, the man sed. 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