Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1925, Page 35

WOMAN’S PAGE. { Two Ideas for Christmas Dinner BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. There ar ut Chri st preva two totally different ideas | an incre: The first and 1t it should be of the day. The sec- it should be tasty but sir sed tax on digestion, especial- 1y on that of the child. There is no thought of doing without the festive { meal, however, when discriminating | against it on the holiday. (ting muking the mid-day or the eve- ng dinner on Christmas a simple but ydelicious one merely postpone the feast ~ | until the following Sunday. It must be admitted that there are points in favor of this idea which, though it may ze at first glance, has been satisfactorily many times. Simple Tasty Menu. Let us suppose for a few moments | that we should decide to try the simple | dinner idea. What would be a good | menu that would satisfy and not dis- | appoint the family? How would the | following seem: Tomato Soup with Cheese Crackers. Thick Juicy Beefsteak. | Spiced Peaches or Homemade Pickles. Baked Potatoes. Green Peas. Celery. Plum Puddipg w Crackers and Ch Bonbons. Easy to Prepare. It will be seen at a glance that such meal is easy to prepare. The soup nd the peas may both be from the s of the store closet. The need no_preparation further e washed clean and be put in oven to roast. The celery is ready ter being washed. The plum pud- hould have been baked before nas day in any event, and then h Sauce. e. requiries steaming to heat it ugh. The crackers, cheese re ready to go to the are. The steak takes but a moments to brofl. There is little . @ tasty dinner and leisure. Yet | the dinner has its holiday aspect in | the dessert. The table should be | trimmed with green combined with red berries or flowers to lovk Christma Real Christmas Feast. When Sunday comes the family will have the real Christmas dinner, thus prolonging the good times of the holi- day. Then the following menu will prove tempting: Consomme aux Croutons. Roast Goose, Mashed Potato and Onton Stuffing, Apple Sauce. uffed Roast Turkey. Cranb 'y Sauce. Mashed Potatoes. Squash. Creamed Onfons. Cele Fruit Salad (small portions). French or Cream Dressing. wce Pie and Cheese or | Plum Pudding and hard sauce. Assorted Fruits. Raisi FOF Nuts. Bonbons. ple, thus permitti Cotes have more of & lerwise. Thosc ond idea stren Ssuring vou rdies, candi mas day that a fe housewife to ay than is possible | Those who find that Christmas day in favor of the see-| would be lacking without the regu opinion by | tion dinner will find this menu de- ire so_many | licious without being extravagant. n on Christ-| Perhaps they would find the first ast added to these is| menu to their liking for Sunday. BEDTIME STORIES Why Yowler Yowled. If Natu 1 should yowl How "o howl ler the Bobeat. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS | see Hooty, and of course, he’didn't {hear Hooty, for those wings, those |great broad wings, are noiseless. So | Yowler knew nothing of Hooty's nres ence. It would have made no_differ- ence if he had known, for Yowler was not afraid of Hooty. Of course Yowler the Bobe the top of t was crouched on ck midway in the dam Beaver. It |not. supported and strensthened that dam.| Peter Rabbit, sitting still so that Paddy had been smart enough to|Hooty would not know that he was build his dam so that it would. Now, [about, wondered how long it would Yowler crouched ther he was arly the color of the rock that h: vou happened along there you might have passed close to him and not seen him at all. You see, it w night, and although the moon wa hining, be before Paddy and his family re- turned. Peter was fairly burning up with curlosity. You see, he had heard Mrs. Paddy when she gave the warning after she had heard Yowler in the tree above her, but Peter hadn’t seen Yowler and was aching to-know what_had happened. So when he saw Hooty he was quite upset. He wouldn't dare show himself to ask the Beavers what the trouble had been about. How Peter did wish that Hooty would_fly away. By and by Yowler saw far down the Laughing Brook a silvery moving line, and then two more. Yowler grinned. Those Beavers were returning. Nearer and nearer they came and the flerce glow in Yowler's yellow eyes became even more fierce. It was all he could do to keep still. He couldn't keep wholly still. You know he has just a stub of a tail. It isn’t enough of a tail to call a tail. But it is enough to twitch, and when Yowler is ex- cited he twitches that ail. He began to twitch it now as he watched those Beavers drawing near. The nearer they drew the faster he twitched that ai uddenly Yowler yowled. My good- ness, such a yowl. - 'AS STRAIG IT WAS STRAIGHT At the same time INTO THE R he made a mighty spring. But it s Al Mol th mea otititian Mavre: | WasTiiBon) one otk BOSCHE avera S OF Sl L il Tlrg)“_ my, no! No, indeed! It was straight ing Brook. lle was watching for the |INt0 the water, and Yowler hates return of Paddy the Beave his | Water. That is, he hates to get in it family. He was sure that they would | &l over. You should have seen him return, for it was ill early and he turn and make for that dam. You should have seen him scramble out, ke himself, and then sneak along that dam for the shore. And as he (]jd it he kept looking over his shoul- 7| der as if he expected some enemy to *|spring on him from behind. If ever there was a scared Bobeat, that one was Yowler. Yes, sir, he was one scared cat! What had happened? Haven't was sure that they would to get some more logs from that new pond down to the old pond where the Win- er food pile was. he kept hit flerce eves, those glax vellow ey downstream. “If one of those Beavers will cross this dam within jumping what a feast 1_will have.” he. “I have a f ing tha you g 3 a2 Why, Hooty the Owl b With this fine place to guesse y the Owl had [ ol E ok At T don't|Seen tat twitching tail without see- like to think o T must |i& what it was or whose it wa: of the |On silent wings he had flown over wa until one wait 0t angland struck at what he was sure was water and then ou stra ! i i down et | @ prize. Too late he had discovered thore. Tt woutdnt o wilow” Him | WHSL It was.” But by that fime thowe to get in the water mizht not be | 8r€at. sharp, curved claws had sunk S i in_Yowler's flesh at the root of his Aol plans and|tail That is what had made - him dreamed the feast that | YOW! and spring straight into the would be his if Ning went s, Water. And by the thne he had turned, he had planned. Ie paid no.atten. | those silent ‘wings of Hooty's had tion to other things. So it was that | taken Hooty ay So to this day o Tinn't oot HToats the ¢ Horned | Yowler doesn’t know what hit and on his watch tower, a|hurt him that night by Paddy's new | dam hand. He didn't| MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Clues to Character The Friendly Eyebrow. | As high, arched brows are not in- { dicative of great concentrative effort, {it is a safe prediction that the subject | will not he noted for profound thought, { originality, reasoning power or a criti. | cal mind. | Although high eyebrows are found { on persons who have excellent mem- orizing power, there is a lack of con. | centration. They learn by rote, but when swerved from the text are hope- lessly lost. They manifest little ini- ive and are not good planners. Carrying out schemes laid by others is the method they like best. The eyes of this type generally are large and round. They are very | agreeable, friendly and good routine | workers, but they will not go very far in the vocational field, for they will be found treading the beaten path for the lack of initiative power. table, the| When you see n man or a woman seems to | with eyebrows set high upon the head eland aiso well arched do not expect e! him or her to make a success as an investigator or as a critic. This type kIy the | drifts along with the tide of life and intro- Sometimes it Tuc o at th ¥ which e meal of e lefsurely. A g is both instruciive wnd j umed, and the first peron t of the announcer tells me of the capital city and one other | rarcly takes the time to look up mportant in the State. The next | things. le accepts statements as child answers in like manner to the | they are presented to him and is con- name of another ate. When the | tent to let others do the investigating. well ssed, Anv: "nited States has beer (Copyrighf with 1926.) gn coun- it is fun to st tries. We alway the grown: [ iny i one v SO this game. v advice is, Hiz’:m':rs and mothers. watch vour |Career the elder Dumas eclipsed all i v records by turning out one el o weel [ Those advo- | THE . EVENING COLOR CUT-OUT COSETTE’S CHRISTMAS. i The Step-Sisters’ Doll. No one was watching, and with a stealthy movement, Cosette reached out and drew the doll into her retreat. Now the lead sword was cast aside, as Cosette, for the first time in her life, held a’real doll in her arms. She was almost wild with joy merely at touching the sawdust thing. Her STAR, WASHINGTO little face, which until this time had seemed plain and inexpressive, kindled with delight and a pleasure so deep it seemed almost unreal. No one but e stranger saw her, and in her ecstasy she’ did not notice that the sisters had returned and were look- ing for their doll. They did not see it at first, for Cosette's place was dark, then the youngest spied the flicker of firelight on one foot of the doll which extended beyond Cosette's arms. This cross landlady is wearing a Her gray dress with a white apron. hair is light brown. (Copyright. 1925.) HOME NOTES BY JENN WREN. The bayberry candles flicker upon the mantel shelf, the fire glows on the hearth and the stockings dangle Umply, invitingly, between. Do’ you really know how to fill a I stocking properiy? It is a very fine art. First of all, in the toe, a bright, new copper penny. This is a very important item. Then an orange—to make the toe bulge properly. Then a few nuts, perhaps, and some pieces of hard candy. A very tiny and choice present should come about half way up the leg. It is expected to be there and it should be there. Then an apple, a few more nuts and another present to show invitingly at the top. The whole effect must be one of extreme and grotesque lumpiness. (Copyright. 1925.) Your Baby and Mine | | BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Doubtful Diet. Mrs. R. S. H. writes: . “My baby girl, six months old, weighs 15% pounds and weighed six at birth. She has one tooth. Now she eats the yolks of poached eggs, ‘wheat, baked potatoes and fruit juices. She takes 10 ounces of milk and water besides her nursing. Is this all right? “She sleeps only about two hours a day and ens every hour or so at night. What causes this? She sleeps alone.” Answer.—It is my guess that despite exceedingly full diet she is not being fed satisfactorily. It may be that she gets too much food and it may be that you have so little nurse for her | that she has to be satisfied with but 10 ounces of milk and water. She has made a splendid gain in weight so that the former would seem the best guess. Nurse her but once in four hours. If she seems dissatisfied after a nurs- ing, give her a complementary feed- ing, otherwise do not. Give her one tablespoon of cereal only with her morning and evening feeding, and fruit juices once a day between any feeding. The egg yolk is good and can be continued, giving that at the 2 o'clock feeding. This should help the sleeping problem and you should soan be able to judge by this method if your nurse is insufficient and it would be wiser to wean the baby entirely. Mrs. R. I.—The baby's shoes should remain soft soled for some timie to come. The baby who is learning to walk has a much better balance when his toes are free to spread and grasp than when they are tightly en- cased in stiff shoes. It is natural for him to stand and walk and nature has provided him with the muscles and given them the strength to hold his weight. _—— Mrs. Florence L. Whitman, first woman member of the city council in- Cambridge, Mass., is the mother of a family and is 63 years of age. (HOCOLATS, (ALY | i FRENC%KMULA D. C, WEDNESDAY. |Dorothy Dix] If You're in Love With a Business Girl, Pop the Question on a Lonely, Rainy Evening—If She’s a Flapper, Spend Everything You Have. Fays It's Easier Than Working o Puszle How to Win e Wife §Y/OU are always telling girls how to catch husbands,” says & young man, “why don't you give us chaps a few tips about how to get wives? Well, son, perhaps I unconsciously favor women because I belong to t_heir lodge. Also, it is more difficult for & woman to catch a husband than it {s for 2 man to get a wife, not only because women are more inclined to matrimony than men are, but because & woman's pursuit of a man has to be stealthy and secret and under cover, with all of her tracks carefully hidden and her pur- poses velled, whereas & man can go after a woman openly and aboveboard with everybody looking on and applauding the chase. Therefore, the woman is more in need of any stray hints that may im- prove her technique than the man is. Still, far be it from me to withhold from my brothers any information I may have about the short cuts to the feminine heart. So to the really earnest seeker after knowlsdge on this subject I would say: First. Study your girl. Catalogue her. Find out to what type she belongs, | and adapt your tactics to the situation, for women do not all rise to the same Iine of courtship any more than all fish bite at the same bait. There are some feminine hearts that can be taken only by assault and battery. Others sur- render to patient siege. There are women whose love is for sale to the highest bidder, and others who bestow it in pity. There are women who like a business proposition, and women who fall only for the romantic wWooing. So there vou are, and your success will depend upon your ability to psychoanalyze the particular woman, and with the skill with which you sug- gest to her that you meet the great need of her soul. EEEE ]F, the &irl s of the clear-eyed, upstanding, competent business type, your best methods of winning her is by the good, old, well-tried Platonic friend- ship method. She isn't anxlous to exchange a mahogany desk for a kitchen range, nor to give up a good pay envelope and an easy job to toll for some man for nothing. Llhkewlse. she has worked among men too long for her to see any rosy halo around the masculine brow, so he is pretty apt to shy at any suggestion of marriage and balk at the thought of the altar. But life lacks savor to every woman without masculine soclety, and so this particular type of woman is especially allured by the idea of & beautiful friendship with some man. And when a chap has gotten his toe that far into the door to & woman's heart it is his own fault if he does not open it all the way. Only there is this word of warning: Never pop the question to the busi- ness girl In the morning of a sunshiny day when she has on a new frock and and a good hat and everything is going swimmingly at the office, and she feels fit and fine and ready to buck the world. Instead, choose a rainy evening, when she is sitting alone at home, dejected and foriorn, when she is tired, and the boss has been grumpy. Then the thing she wants most on earth is just a nice strong masculine shoulder to cry on. If the girl you want is a flapper, your best ally is your bank book. All you need to look good to her Is to be a good spender. Hold not your hand and count not the cost of jewelry and trinketry and candy and flowers and cabarets and eats and joyrides, and remember that the man with the longest purse wins. Some day she will jazz with you to the preacher, and you will live scrap- pily ever afterward. If the girl upon whom vour affections are set is a demure little Puritan, confide to her all your sins, real and imaginary. Invent a dark past for her benefit. Make her believe that but for her sacred influence you wouid become an abandoned character, and that she alone can lead you up to the higher life. All women have the reformation complex, and the better they are and the less they know of the world, the harder they fall for the belief that a grown man’s character is like a plece of dough that they can mold into any shape they please. Once let a girl get the idea into her head that she is re- sponsible for your soul, and she is yours for the taking IF the girl you want is one that you made mud pies with in childhood, and went to school with, and who refuses to see you in a sentimental light. don’t be discouraged by her telling you that she will be a sister to you. Just keep right on strutting your Rachel-and-Jacob stuff. Mighty few women can resist that. Futhermore, the man who camps on & woman's doorstep drive: , all other suitors away, and in the end gets her. Make yourself a habit with the girl. Make yourself necessary to her hap piness and comfort by always paving her the little attentions that womer like. Fetch and carry for her. Be the one person in the world she can always depend upon to make life pleasant and agreeable for her. Then suddenly drop her and begin paving furious attentions to som: woman she always accuses of being made up and older than she looks, and ar | artful hussy, and it is a 100-to-1 bet that she will call you back and let you see that her feelings toward you were not at all what she had supposed they were. For when she thinks vou are about to marry another woman, she will wake up to the fact that life will be cinders, ashes and dust without you. If the girl you desire is one of the morbid sort who hangs between “I will” and “I won't,” who is always vivisecting her heart and taking her emotional temperature, what you need to use is cave-man methods. She is just dying to have you drag her to the altar by the bair of her head, and if you are half a man you will do it. Don't ever ask that kind of a woman to marry you. going to marry her, and that you have the licens: pocket and are on the way to the chapel with her. These are only a few of the many ways to win a wife. It i dead easy and any man can do it who has gumption enough to work out a cross-word puzzle. DOROTHY DIX. Tell her you are and the ring in your (Copyrieht, 1825.) WHEN WE GO SHOPPING I BY MRS. HARLAND H. ALLEN. Dolls From All Nations. of these dolls are very elaborately de- signed and dressed. Perhaps you've decided to buy your | "'y e Coetea Dolls that catch your eye because daughter a doll for Christmas and |pej i Youre undecided just what kind of a eir finish is shinier than the others are probably of French manufacture. doll it shall be. It may be more or|Moe: of these are jointed character less of a novelty to consider dolls by | o115, The are well made, and alway thelr nationaiity. Yes. of course g.incily dressed. French dolls are ver dolls have nationalities, and some of | ofien costumed after such figures them are very positive about them,|Columbine clowns, manikins and the too. like. Tt you see a small doll In peasant| rj.; there are sawdust-stuffed dolls, wstume on display it probably comes | with artistic china heads, hands and ‘rom Austrfa. The peasant costume |fee(. These dolls are very expensive, consists of a_ colorful blouse, a blue { however. Some of the smell bane skirt trimmed with red and a €avly | golls are made entirely of china with embroidered apron. Little leather | ntyrally curved arms and legs. boots that resemble our overshoes| '1¢ s dificult to pick a German doll will cover the doll's feet. Then theres | srom 3 ‘group, bacause 5o mang. duils the Austrian wang doddle doll, which z are German. ‘They may be character is purposely stuffed out of proportion, | dolls, dressed, £ in a long, thin figure, with a Nght. | joint i bed dolla. Jointed dolls or jointed baby dolls. colored, tight-fitting costume. Some | pew Itallan dnkfis are on Zn;; 1‘# this country, but those few ‘are of excellent quality. One of the most famous was designed by an artist who copled the faces and forms of children, and made his dolls both artistic and lifellke. The dolls are made of felt and they have wigs of mohair which are fuzzy and stands out in all directions. They're soft. attractive and inde- structible. > Morimura dolls with their slant eyes and dark complexions are the best known of Japan's contribution to the world's store of dolls. Many of the dolls that look German are Japanese imitations, especially the bisque doll R— One-Egg Nut Cake. Cream together one-fourth cupful of butter and one cupful of sugar and add one well beaten egg. Sift to. gether two cuptuls of flour and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder and add alternately with one-half a cupful of milk to the first mixture. Place in a shallow pan, sprinkle nuts over the top and bake. Parking With Peggy Snow Pie. Take one and one-half cupfuls of milk, one cupful of sugar, one-half a cupful of butter and three tablespoon. fuls of flour. Mix thoroughly and cook until smooth. Then stir in the stiffly beaten whites of four eggs, pour into a ple crust and cook until done. " Burchell’s Famous Bouquet Coffee “The girls In our set may not be ‘penny wise,’ but it you heard them talking about reducing you would know they are ‘pound foolish Better Than Ever - 38c Lb. N. W. Burchell 817-19 Fourteenth St. N.W. | | i | i ] H + bility! ])'nur»elf with the {one word each day. of mink McNaught - Syndicate, inc.. MODE MINIATURES On luggage rests a mighty responsi To it is entrusted traveling wealth. Therefore new equip lock suit case Journeyings. Some clever mind has devised this arrangement whereby you may make your own combination—set the lock accordingly, and it will open to n: other. However, for those times when security is thought for your Christmas and nece: speed paramount, the lock can be quickly readjusted to open and shut just like the regulation style. Then too. it eliminates the trouble of al ways carrying a key. NARGETTE. Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. Words often misused: Don’t say “the acoustics of the auditorium are ex- cellent.” Say “is. Often mispronounced: nounce last syllable Often misspelled: N the e after c. ticeable. Retain Synonyms: Ancient, primitive. primeval, primary, native, original aboriginal. Word study: “Use a word three times and it is yours. Let us in- crease our vocabulary by mastering Today's word Scrutiny; close inspection or examin: tion. “Revealment of the cause r quires scrutiny.” 1l one's | combination | || PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. warm in the ho g0 barefoot. The Baby's Shoes. | The man who is too poor to buy In the Summer, c this is | shoes for the baby is in luck, or rather : ;s { =% g boon to the baby’s health, because e | the baby s e baby who has not ¥ . o e oo | posure of even the skin of the less vet started to walk needs shoes no e - & > . to the sunlight or sk: jmore than the cat needs pajamas. =~ | p,py gy the blessings of codliver { Now I am not proposing to organize | without the trouble of taking the oil a soclety for cruelty to chjidren—we | sng by this time everybody ought i need no formal procedure to insure | incuw that every haby. after the fire: | plenty of cruelty for them. I stmply|month or six weeks of age, sh jassert a fact. If anybody runs away | receive a daily ration of col-liver oll if | with the notton that I say bables must [ ot & da priiaed T e Tt ot e, "SEatte | There ts a wrong notlon that a bab: > sl needs the support of some kind ¢ misunderstand everything I say, no| e the tats on matter how carefully or how clearly | Sho€s even 1k, and many parents be | lieve that such support is essential 1 say it. Still I won't mind much if | €NOUEH to w B e oE Tt I Eenelo; | after the baby begins to walk. | shoes for our own baby until the| A pair of socks is sufficient cover ! baby had to have 'em. One Fall day |Ing and protection for the baby’s feet { the baby was traveling with mother | before he begins to walk. After he {and a kind old lady noticed that the " has learned to 1k the less shoe the | poor baby had no shoes and not even | better in any A kind of soft | stockings, and she gave the mother | moceasin, which wears as well as stiff- some kindly advice about how to | soled shoes and affords ample prote coddle the baby, but, T regret to say, | tion to the feet from injuries, is the the kind old lady did not offer the | ideal footwear for the toddling child price of a pedn ef shoes for the baby Not until the child is old enougn * nd at.he time that would have been run-ahout shouid the footwear riighty welcome contribution have a hard sole. Then the she | All Summer; =t any rate. und when- should be as plexible as possible—that ever or WHerefer it is comfortab! d or stifl plates or counte ! sole (for wear) and spri | heel should be quite flexible, and such | shoes should be insisted on until the child is 10 or 12 years old. It is a crime to put high heels on children’s shoes. | When the baby outgrows the sock or moccasin, the soft shoes must he bulit to fit the unrestricted foot, and that means that the shoes must have very broad toes—the natural foot is broadest across the toes. Such shoes are furnishec ome few manufac turers for youss infants. They should be available for children up to the age of 6 years at least. | Parent i | safe to let the baby go barefoot wher he is playing about the they care fully mention—cold or drafty floor f the Wintertime. If the enjoy it, it is not only safe but healthful. It his feet do not feel cold to your touch certainly they need no covering. ine gives the late with shopping At last Ive thought of what to do— | |This year Tl buy each { friend two presents E And label one | “ Well, since Tm always | Some of the deep-living sea plan:s of the Black Sea contain a larger per centage of green coloring matter than those which live near the surface SOU HOT SOUP ! 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