Evening Star Newspaper, July 9, 1925, Page 36

FEATURES. Ways of Making Home Tasks Easy BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. * Easy methods of doing housework are gerly sought by home makers, and at no time m than in Summer. It ‘déés not nec ari mean that cooking alone must be made as light as order to insure com- fdrt in the kitchen, but that all the s be done deft! possible, A REGULAR LE 31, MADE TTUCE BAG QUICKLY Each h ife he of rules for minimizing work. yet each has something to learn from others The: hints given today may simpler methods for some women. It cAn schrcely ‘be expected ‘that all of the readers iwill.be unfamiliar with 1 the ideak, but some hint will special set su 1 of unfur 'BEDTIME STORIES Peter Learns More. e of the Old fe, while Pas 3 just out side Iking in the mos e had just told Pet ¢ e haj to be there c in the Far W be t te ought to you both el I DIDN'T KNOW PRAIRIE DOGS,” SAID THE HE. West ut ind the come 1 F: e in ime bott way replied Digger. v rubbed his wabbly little nose It didr ok that way just » me,” he declared. “Old Man certainly twas planning to on you chuckled in a while,” said he. “We are very od friends. He 1t he saw a.chance to catch me irprise and he just n't re blame living were was when there t. Then it t a dinner he showed the Prairie they relatives ht millionth don’t even at ire not even a aid he They the Dog family hen what are they ca demanded Peter “Goodness only knows replied ppose it is because they ed if 1 I‘Lugh 2t myself And the fool things I ao It wont bother me much To see others l‘e.ug"\ too B Can An Appealing Beauty J A velvety skin and complexion of ra- diant beauty. An alluring appearance 50 appealing, you'l enjoy universal adoration. ‘White - Flesh - Rachel ' Gouraup's ORIENTAL Send 1cc. for Trial Size Ferd. T. Hopkins & Son, New York City | “He forgets him. | My, | Prairie | Dogs | ! Lettuce should be kept in a bag in the refrigerator or some of the leaves will get on the shelves, dry and stick firmly. If you do not have a lettuce bag, use a paper bag. The head may be washed and separated into its leaves or may be put in just as it comes from the store. It is handy to find it washed and ready to serve | when meal time comes, and so the | first way is advised. Lettuce Bag. I may say that any one who chets or knits can have a lettuce for the making. It should be made from ordinary Knitting cotton | and crocheted in a filet mesh or knit | with dropstitch < Make a lon; about 10 inches | wide, sew the sides together, run a ! string through the top meshes and the bag Is complete. You can make a | twisted cord drawstring with tasseled ends, or use tape for the drawstring instead of heavy cord. Sifted Flour. If you make cake often keep a con- tainer of sifted flour ready to measure out and add the baking powder before the final sifting. Most cakes are bet- lter for having the flour sifted twice, ind it simplifies the work if -double quantitv of flour is sifted at one time. Butter for Sandwiches. 1ve the butter on top of the ice over night for sandwiches to ba in the morninz. Hard butter rs bread when it is spread and is unsatistactory. Do not melt the to make the work easier, for or is impaired. By keeping butter off the ice for a few hours it will be just right to spread. Clothespin Holders. Do not throw clothespins into the asket with clothes when they are aken from the line. They have to be picked out, making double work Have a clothespin apron; that is, one with a turned-up end pocket; or use a clothespin bag and put clothes and pins where they are to remain. Water in Egg Cups. Pour cold water in egg cups after the eggs have been eaten at breakfast and they will be easy to wash. Com petent housewives are particular to do this and see that members of the family do also. Plates from which soft ecgs, fried or poached, have been aten should have cold water poured in them for a few moments prior to washinz. This keeps the egg from adhering firmly. Lingerie Ribbon. When the end of ribbon slips just a little beyond reach in the hem of lin & use manicure pliers to draw it back. This will save running the rib bon all the Way through the hem again, as well as pulling it all the way out first BY THORNTON W. BURGESS [ bark like a to but even their bark isn't at all Dog's bark. They are related Johnny Chuck Peter pricked up his ear: and truly. Mr. Badger?" imed Digger “Really and truly | said he. “Yap Yap the Prairie Dog i own cousin to Johnny Chuck. When- ever I see Johnny sittinfigup on his doorstep it makes me homesick. It always reminds me of Yap ¥ap. He sits up in just the same w Yes, sir, every time I see Johnny Chuck I get to thinking about:-my old -home out in the'Far West, 1 get homesick. I just ache to hear Yap Yap vapping {at sight of me. You ought | Prairie Dog ‘town, Peter.” | "A what?" cried Peter. | _“A. Prairie Dog town,” | Digger. ’ “I guess I don't know -what that |18, sald Peter, scratching « long. ear | with a long hind foot. H ‘It is a place where ever and ever |s0 ‘many Prairie Dogs have their | homes “close together,” exclaimed | Digger. “T've seen places where the |doorsteps of Prairie Dog houses tretched away so far that I couldn’t see where they ended.’ Peter frankly looked his unbelief “Mr. Badger,” said he, “I can't swallow all those Prairle Doy ‘Nobody asked vou to vallow | them.” retorted Digger. “But'I tell | you. right now that I could swallow one or two of them right now if T | could get them that you don't told you.” Peter looked very mu rassed. “It's pretty hard he ventured. “I think vou are just having fun with me.” “No,"” replied Digge! told you is all true.” (Copsright. 1925 “Really he ex odded repeated | | | i believe what I have “what I have Burgess) | ————— 1 Rich Mexican Omelet. In a saucepan put one tablespoonful of butter and one tablespoonful of flour. When melted and mixed, add | one cupful of veal stock and stir until smooth and thick. Add 10 drops of onion juice, one-fourth teaspoonful of | anchovy essence, two dozen cooked hrimps and one-half of a ripe chilli pepper. stripped of veins and seeds ind chopped very fine. Add one-fourth teaspoonful of salt, and simmer for |15 minutes, then draw to one side of the fire until ready to serve. Make an omelet with X eggs. When al- most set, read two spoonfuls of the | cooked mixture in the center. Roll, turn out onto a heated platter, and | pour round it the remainder of the | Alling SILK DYE A new and better way to re-beautify your silk finery. Glorient dyes evenly. No boiling. Re- stores original body and softlustre. Eachandevery color, from the delicate pastel to the vivid hue always leaves lace pure white. It's guaranteed. 18 exquisite shades, all fadeless-to - light. -Try Glorient to-day. uS. @ owrorv At Leading Drug and Department Stores . fozsee a | I suppose yvou mean | of sugar and a pinch of salt, stir in | a little of the cooked milk, then turn THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1925. Color Cut-Out DICK WHITTINGTON. Dick Finds Work. When Mr. Fitswarren saw the poor boy on his steps he stopped to ques. tion him as to whence he had come. Dick was so weak from his long trip and his lack of food that he ceuld scarcely answer him. Nearly fainting, he gasped that he had had nothing to eat for two whole days." “Why don't you get a ‘job and work?" the merchant asked him “I would gladly work," answered Dick. “if T could only find something to do Now, bright, Mr. Fitzwarren liked Dick’'s honest face. “I will give vou a job if you really mean that,” he said. *““We need a new scullery boy For what_help vou will give the cook you shall have your board and room.” Make Mr. dark blue. Fitzwarren's coat and hat MODE MINIATURES To be smart now, merely choose some pearl adornment and wear it Bar pins of three and four tinted pearls gleam on shoulders by night, smaller versions determine a hat's | chic, rings call attention to slim hands which raise teacups, double pearl earrings prompt the smooth combing back of the hair, while buckles en- hance the beauty of dancing feet And about all these things there's a sing informality, a gracious blend- 5 in with the loveliness of Summer's dainty frocks that explains why this vogue for pearls has been so univer sally accepted NARGETTE. i’elch Ice Cream. scald one pint of milk in a double boiler, add two level tablespoonfuls of flour rubbed to a thin paste with a little cold milk, stir until slightl thickened, then cover and cook for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally Beat together four eggs, two cupfuls all into the double boiler and stir until the custard thickens. Strain and set aside until cold. Pare, mash and rub through a colander sufficlent peaches to give a little more than one pint of pulp and sweeten to taste. Add this to the cold custard with one pint of rich cream, pour the mixture into a freezer and until firm. Remove the dasher, pack down the cream with a long spoon, replace the cover, fill up the tub with ice and salt and then set aside for several hours to ripe fréeze | | bench waiting for her Grand Pasha to throw the handk | purp | generally for no such wickedness as their wiv DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Should an Unengaged Girl Have Many Beaux or Should She Stick to One?—What to Do When Hubby Refuses to Play Escort. DEAR MISS DIX: Do vou think that a girl who is not engaged, and with no present prospect of being engaged, should go with only one man? A few nights ago 4 young man brought me home from a party. My parents did not approve of this, and say that people will talk if I go out with different young men. What do you think? And what do you think of the good- night kiss? MABEL. Answer: I think your parents are entirely wrong in the view they take of the matter. There is safety in numbers, and there is far less danger of a &irl being gossiped about who has a number of beaux than there is if she is continually in the company of the same young man. Every girl should try to know as many men as she can, because it gives her a wider range of selection when she comes to pick out a husband. It is only by having looked over the whole bunch. so to speak, and being able to contrast one with another, that she is able to tell which is the best of the lot, and which one she really: prefers. Very often w young man who seems attractive at first doesn't wear well When a girl gets to khow him better she finds him mean, or stingy, or bossy, or disagreeable, and hard to get along with. If she has given up all her other beaux for him, she is compelied to stick to him, or else sit at home instead of stepping out to places of amusement of an evening. But if she has kept & number of strings to her bow, she can swap him off for a more agreeable companion. In my opinion, any girl is foolish who lets any one man monopolize her until_he has definiteiy proposed marriage and named the wedding day. Because if she narrows herself down to just one man, it puts her completely in his power so'far as having a good time and getting married are concerned Such an arrangement binds the girl and leaves the man free. He drives all other men away, and she must depend upon his pleasure to take her about but he is under no obligation to do so. This puts u girl i a humiliating position. Instead of having half a dozen men seeking her favor, und fighting each other for the privilege of taking her to places and anxious to marry her, she has ta sit on the anxious rchief to her, and condescend to invite her to places of amusement, and he can take his time in marrying her, if he marries her at all And if, as often Happens, the man gets tired of her, and leaves her in the lurch, she has nobody to fall back upon because she has given up all other men for a trifler “ompetition is the life of trade, in love-making and matrimony as elsewhere. Nothing booms a girl's stock with a man so much as seeing that other men admire her. To her that hath beaux shall be added more beaux, but from her that hath not shall be taken away even the poor little steady that she has. DOROTHY DIX e s & EAR MISS DIX: 1am a married woman with two children, aged 11 and § 1 enjoy going out with my husband and children, but my husband often refuses to go, telling me that if 1 want to go, to take the boys and go on Of course, that leaves him free to go wherever he pleases. Do you think I should do as he says, take the children and go, or stay at home apd brood over his absence until he returns’ A PUZZLED WIF Answer: Take the children and go and amuse yourself. No good se would be served by your staying at home shedding gobs of tears of self-pity, while you brooded over your husband's absence. Purgatory itself has no greater torture than that which wives go through who sit at home of nights, wondering where their wandering husbands are, while their jealousy pictures their fat. bald-headed, middle-aged spouses taking part in scenes of wild revelry, filled with champagne bottles, and vamps in slinky clothes and long jade earrin And it abates nothing of the sufferings of these poor ladies that these orgies are generally purely imhginary, and that nine times out of ten hubby has spent the evening playing pinochle with Gustammayer around the corner, or has been with a group of cronies in the back of a drug store unnecessary luxury for get ve It would save wives a lot of realizé that vice is an expensive price, and that their husbands cannot misery if they would only which” most men lack the v gay out of what is left of | their salaries after they have paid the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker, and settled for the children's shoes and the doctor’s bill. Therefore, when they wander forth of an evening away from their own firesides, s Imagine, but for a mild game of pool, or & gossip with other men, and the only lurid night life they see is on the moving-picture screen. ¥ However, that is not the point at fasue. It is whether the wité should g0 and amuse herself, or stay at home and weep, and as long as she can take the children with her I am all for her going There is no merit in being unnecessarily miserable, and there is sound philosophy inemaking the best of a bad bargain. If husband doesn't enjoy family parties, let him go by his lonesome, and let wife find something to do in his absence. It will make for domestic peace and harmony for wife to be able to meet husband on his return with an account of the pleasant time she has had instead of the surging thought she has had in his absence, and the things about his conduct that she has been bottling up to tell him. DOROTHY DIX. sl o Iam deeply in love with a young man who is studying 1 ani teaching, and knowing that 1 am making money Do you think that I am right ANXIOUS. AR MISS DIX for the ministry. he writes me continually for spending money. in sending him money, stamps, writing paper, etc.? Answer: I think that the:young man has very little manhood about him if he is willlng to graft on the woman he professes to love, and take the hard-earned money of an ill-paid teacher. There are plenty of men who work their way through collége, asking help of no one, and doing without the things they cannot afford to pay for themselves. There is no way a_woman can kill a man's love for her so quickly as by giving him money. It hurts his pride so to know that he is dependent on her, that he soon ceases to care for her. My advice to you is to keep your money, if you want to keep your man. If you give it to him, lose both. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 19 ) of flagon from which beer and ale were drunk. It was made of leather, tar coated, which made it hard and black. Hence its name, “blackjack,” “jack” being the archaic word for a pitcher or can for carrying liquor. As to how the term came to be ap- plied to an offensive weapon, nothing HOW IT STARTED BY JEAN NEWTON. laying down the law about what Coolidge ought to do {about the German reparation i it s | you | The “Blackjack.¥ “Blackjack” today describes a short stick with a bludgeon head. The highwayman and the thug, with whom, next to the revolver, it is a favorite weapon, have popularized the blackjack and made its name familiar in daily speech. One should say “daily slang,” for the term has no legitimate derivation, being of strange and ir- regular origin. “Blackjack’” was the name applied in former times-in England to a tvpe more-definite can be adduced than the perhaps obvious conjecture of the con- nection between the flagon which held enough liquor to rob.a man of his senses and the weapon which one would use cnly when bereft of them. (Copyright. 1925.) o Our forebears who used the expres- sion_ “slower than the seven-vear itch” never heard of a road con- tractor. A fly will return §0 times to the same spot ILIES are troublesome, filthy | insects. Get rid of them quickly by spraying with Flit. Flit spray clears the house in a few minutes of mosquitoes and disease- bearing flies. Itis clean, easy and safe to use. Kills Household Insects Flit spray also destroys bed bfl'l% es, ants, and insect eggs. cracks and crevices where insects hide. and breed are readily reached by Flit spray. Spraying Fliton garments kills moths and their larvae which eat holes. ‘Extensive tests showed that Flit did not stain or injure the most delicate fabrics. A Scientific General Insecticide Flit is the result of exhaustive research by expert entomologists and chemista. ore than 70 formulas werestested on various household insects before Flit was finally perfected. Flit is a 100% effective insecticide containing no in- active (inert) ingredients. Try Flit in your home. For sale everywhere STANDARD OIL CO. (NEW JERSEY) | | | powder 1s WOMAN’S HOME NOTES By JENNY WREN IN THE GARDEN Of course you have seeg the French peasant chairs with their cushions made from Provence peasants’ quilted petticoats that are considered so smart just now. They are really lovely, and we liked them so much that we were After Heat Has Been Cruel. “What are we to do with our poor gardens, Mr. Burbank? 8o have been laid low by the drought The roses are burned, many of the young plants have died for lack of water and the vegetables have suf- fered.” hot spell. “It is hard, indeed, to see destruc- tion in the garden, but unless the plants are really dead much may be done to restore them,” he replied in a cheering tone. “The burned blos- soms may be cut off and the bushes lightly pruned, thus giving the plants rest and recuperation. It would be well also to remove some of the leaves and blossoms of other plants that are drooping, that they may be relieved from the strain until they have recovered from the heat. Delphiniums and coreopsis may be cut down and will come up again from the roots. “If the Spring-sown plants i really dead they cannot, of course, be | planted again, but seeds of perennial plants may be sown now in boxes and seed-beds, to be transplanted in Octeber to their permanent quarters, though it might perhaps be better generally to wait until when the days are shorter and cooler. “This also is a good time to sow perennials 4n partial shade, to be | transplanted in October to their pe: i manent quarters. Columbines, lark- hollyhocks, violets, pansies, s, wall flowers, sweet Williams I¢eland poppies could be sown | now besides the biennials—Canterbury | bells, foxgloves and the biennial eve- | ning primroses. “Certain lilies may also be planted now, among them lilium candidum (madonna lily), lilium superbum (Turk's head lily), Canadian bell flower lily (growing wild in New Eng- land) and llium regale, the new white Chinese lily." inspired to search for an equiva old ou American lent of “Touye” to cushion the black Boston rockers that grace cottage living room So here you see one of them gayl outfitted with its new cushions made from an ancient hand-pieced quilt that had seen better days. Although the quilt ftself was nearly worn out, there were many parts of it still strong enough to make durable cushions. The pieces are all bright, old-fashioned calicos and percales, so that the effect is very gay as well as being satisfy ingly “in character Light Pound Cake. Cream well together six ounces of butter and eight ounces of powdered sugar. Add the beaten yolks of four eggA and beat again. Add ope-fourth teaspoonful of ground mace, the juice | ground they and one-half of the grated rind of a |by lemon, one-fourth teaspoonful of salt | sc and seven ounces of sifted pastry flour. Beat hard, add the stifly beaten whites of the eggs and béat again for at least ten minutes. As no baking used the lightness of the cake depends upon the eggs and the amount of beating, and there should be plenty of beating. Bake in three layers, and when cold put together with boiled icing table garden?”’ I asked occupled may s to utilize the space. Feed the asparagus plants well with top dressing of manure or com up material for future bearing and do not overlook the weeds, “Do not neglect asparagus or rhu barb or any of the perennial vege tables when they have made season’s offering, but give them good care and nourishment for next sea U. S. Public Health Reports Show Terrific Increase in Infant Mortality From Intestinal Disease During Hot Weather “Summer is the purgatory of motherhood,” according to Assistant Surgeon General W. C. Rucker and Surgeon C. C. Pierce of the United States Public Health Service, in a Supplement to the Public Health Reports. From 12 to 20 out of every 100 babies born in the United States die during the first year,and the majority of these deaths occur during warm weather. many | 1 asked one day after a long | are | September, | “What is to be done now in the vege- The radishes will be gone and the be filled spinach or other greens sown now their | great PAGE. WITH BURBANK As Reported by Elizabeth Urquhart and Edited by Luther Burbank. | son's crop. 1f vou discover rust, which is a fungus, on the asparagus plants, cut and burn at once. Prevent this by using Bordeaux mixture as soon as the plants bggin to look vellow. “Select always the best one of any |plants wanted for seed, saving the earliest of each kind, treat it well, and do not let it overbear. Pick the first crop and do not permit any more seeds to form Pinch off the ends of the black berry canes and the gooseberries, to encourage side branches and make currant cuttings, September or October. Layering is often the best | method of propagation. This can be | done this month “I think we shall have to have some specfal instruction in layering, Mr | Burbank.” | "*“We can take that up with grafting {in the near future, for it is an im portant branch of the art of garden ing. But to continue with our vege. tables, celéry and lettuce, as well as spinach, may be sown for a late crop, and if the celery does not make satis factory growth, a little nitrate of soda worked into the sofl will stimulate it to renewed vigor.” { (Copyright 10 Colonial Rolls. small pointed freshly-bake | dinner rolls, making an incision | the side of each and carefully remov of the inside, then brush interfor with melted bu |and fill with the following: One cup ful of minced chicken, half this quan tity of chopped radishes, the same | Quantity of diced cucumbers and | about half a cupful of mayonnaise dressing Serve very cold, garnished | with small, stuffed oifves and bunches of crisp watercress | Select ing some over the er | T s 1 | Molasses Cake Beat together one-half & « butter and two tablespoonfuls of sugar | then rub them into two heaping cup | fuls of flour until fine. Add one cup | ful of molasses and the yolk of one |egg and beat well. Lastly add one of Tercinl tertiliver: that they may store | cupful of boiling water and the white {of the egg beaten stiff This recipe ‘lm’ak-.\ a thick sheet in a biscuit pan | . vy that you resemble a nothing about it. The may the moment vour menth man say resemblance you open The principal contributing causes are given as improper feeding and intestinal disorders. Many valuable sugges- - tions are made for proper feeding, sanitation and general care of children in summer. The mother should nurse the child for the first year if possible; if not, modified milk is the best substitute. Keep baby cool during hot weather, especially by proper clothing and frequent bath- ing in tepid water. Give plenty of boiled water. Keep flies away from baby and all utensils used in preparing its food. Never consider any disturb- Depend Upon —~ S Dr. Caldwell's Reproduced from chart published by U. §. Public ‘Health Service to show appalling increase in the number of infant deaths from intestinal discases Guring hot weather period. ance of baby’s bowels as unimportant, or “only summer complaint.” At the first sign of bowel disorder the disturbance should be immediately remedied. In thousands of homes Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is relied on to correct and regulate the bowels. This mild, pleas- ant laxative, free from injurious drugs, can be given to even the tiniest babies with perfect bought at any drug store. SYRUP PEPSIN THE.FAMILY.LAXATIVE Dontt risk. EJ “One minute’s boiling is all the fruit needs 2 ey another failure =2 with your Jams andJellies HERE is no reasdn today for holding your breath while you wait to see if your jam or jelly is going to set. When you use Certo there is not the slight- est chance of failure. For Certo is itself the element that makes fruit jell—taken from the fruits that arerichest in it. Some fruits never have this jellying property; in all fruits it grows less as they ripen. So you’ve often had bad luck before with fully ripe fruit. But good luck is sure every time when you add Certo. You can use the luscious ripe fruits now. And you only need to boil the fruit one minute. Think how much time Certo saves you. N Think how much fruit juice it saves you, too, that used to boil away during the long old-fashioned “boiling down.” With Certo you make half again as many glasses from your fruit. Order Certo today from your grocer. A booklet with each bottle gives nearly 100 recipes for delicious jams, jellies and marmalades. Douglas-Pectin Corp., Granite Bldg., Rochester, N. Y. C (Surgjell)