Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1926, Page 40

WOMA N’S PAGE. French Method of Making Salads BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. ¥ ce is famous for its salads. If u have had the pleasure of eating ose prepared by French chefs and ed in one of the fascinating little enormous varfety of American salads it seems odd, indeed, to find the com- parative sameness of the French kinds. At the same time you find yourself joining the group of those who speak so appreciatively of these foreign sorts. It is because to our own marvelous and distinctive va- rieties we may add the French kind that I am bringing the subject up to- day. We can just as well have the tossed salad as any other people, and it is this meéthod of making them that gives the peculiar excellence to foreign salads. Root Vegetables. The ons ingredient that is most often added to salad greens in France is beet root. This resembles our Win- ter beet in texture, but has a sweet- ness of sugar beet. It is generally cut into small bits, not into regular {tiny cubes. The other characteristic ingredient is celery root, which is cul- tivated for salads, hors d’oeuvres and seasoning. has the same texture of our celery root. Either of these root vegetables or both are a customary part of French salads. How to Toss Salads. The greens may be lettuce in any of its many varieties, dandelion, mus- tard and cress, water cress, etc., or some of the greens that are native to France. The'small leaf greens dre preferred. These are fresh and well washed. One or more of the kinds is put in a good-sized salad bowl, and if anything is to be added it is cut up and sprinkled over the op. A good quantity of the French ressing is then poured on. A fork and spoon, usually wooden, are taken and the under portion of the salad is deftly lifted up and put on the top. The process is repeated until every part of the salad is thoroughly dressed. It is so lightly handled that the term tossed is used to express the action. There are many It attains a large size, but | DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Problem .of Wife Who Is a Poor Housekegper. Who Should Hold the Household Purse;: - Husband or Wife? EAR DOROTHY DIX: I have been married more thian a quarter of a| century to a woman who is above the average mentally and’is all right morally, but she is not a home woman. During all of this time there has never heen a meal ready on time. More often than. not I have had to go to work without any breakfast, not even a cup of coffee unless I made it myself, and when I would come home after a 10-hour day’s hard work I would find that dinner had not even been started or planned for. Always I have lived in a house with a sink full of dirty dishes, beds unmade, floors unswept, everything higgledy-piggledy. T have tried to bear this with patience, but failing health, largely due to the way I have been fed, has sapped my courage and I do not feel that I can| endure it much longer, T A There are two children, one now making his own way with a good education back of him, and I am willing to skimp to get the other through college. Life is too short to waste in quarreling, sb we have never quarreled over these matters. But I have become desperate and I ask you: What wopld you do? P i - X X% Answer: You are just 25 years too late at tackling your problem, my friend. You should have begun it in your honeymoon days the first time your bride set you down to a meal that was first aid to the coroner. There is nothing like getting off on the right foot, you know, and if you had made your wife understand at the very beginning that she had to toe the mark and hold up her end of the partnership just as well as you held up yours, and that you wouldn’t put up with any slacking, you could have reformed her. Taking it by and large, the wife job is a pretty good one. At any rate, it is one that women desire to hold down, and if they thought that they would get fired if they didn't give good service, why, they'd give good service. That's all. The woman who works outside of her home knows that she must be prompt and punch the time clock on the dot, and she does it. She knows that she must be neat and orderly and systematic, and she is. She knows that she can’t loaf and idle and spend her days in work hours running the streets or lounging around reading novels and she doesn’t attempt it, because if she did her employer would dismiss her. L But because a husband can't get rid of her, no matter how trifling and lazy she is, she goes back on her job if she is that kind of a woman, which is about the lowest trick'a woman can play on & man who is good and kind and generous to her. As for a woman excusing herself by saying that she is not domestic, that is all folderol. Even an idiot can be taught to sweep a floor and make a bed and wash dishes, and there is no excuse for any woman on earth who can read not being a good cook. . WhatTomorrowMeans toYou BY MARY BLAKE. Aries, Tomorrow's planetary aspects are variable and fhe favorable and ad- verse conditions are so briefly con- tinueus that it is rather difficult to nake any reliable prognostications. It.is probably advisable to dp noth- ing out of the ordinary, and ‘content one's self with strict and conscien tious attention té tne usual day's round. On the other hand, there will be an exceptionally encouraging con- dition between the hours of noon and 3 .pam., when it will be quite safe to make any important decision, should the necessity arise. All day long, however, great care must be taken to avold acfiug on impulse, and to| . ‘estdblish poise_.and equilibrium. | A boy born tomorrow- will suffer | from many allments during his early years, but, at the age of 7, wtll show evident signs, that will increase as the years go by, of attaining a normal physical condition. A girl 11 be a comparative stranger to all slckness of any serlous nature, and promises to develop into perfect girl- | hood and womanhood. They will be wingome and attractive and, al- though liable to get into lots of | scrapes, will at no time display any signs of viclousness. They will both be happy and contented, and, while not gifted with abnormal intelligence, will possess a fund of practical com- mon sense. T ke 1f tomorrow is your birthday, you are very sincere and, as a friend, al- most quixotic. Figuratively speak ing, it almost requires the blows of a sledge hammer to knock out your exalted ideas of a friend, even when the evidence is ample to convic him or her of insincerity and treachery. You are more fitted for outdoor life than that of a_conflned or| sedentary character. You have al- | ways shown a preference for the| masterpleces of nature and little Nk- | ing for the works of man | You possess great courage—both | physical and moral. Your ideals | fortress city traveled Americans who have their ;szllads tossed, and any one who has ‘The courts grant women divorces from husbands for “failure to support.” high, and you pursue them with ex- ceeding tenacity of purpose. FEATU FLAGSTAFFS OF WASHINGTON BY JENNY GIRTON WALKER. The Flag of the Republic of Uraguay. flag has nine stripes, alternate white . the white uppermost A white square is left in the upper right-hand cor- ner, in which is depicted a golden sun. The flag is displayed at the Pan-American Union and at the_ residence of the Minister {rom Uruguay. 1777 Massachusetts avenue. During the years of 1810 and 1811, when so many of the South Amerai- can provinces were struggling to as- sert their independence, a small group of revolutionistd in the “Banda Oriental” or “Eastern border prov- ince,” as Uraguay was called, car- ried a banner of two blue stripes separated by a band of white. Gen. Artigas, a Spanish army officer who, jolned them later and led them in many victories, adopted the same flag "crossed diagonally with a band of red. It was this banner which was displayed from the walls of the of Montevideo, 1815, A flag of the same colors inscribed March | walting” for the evacuation of that city, adopted, on December 16, the ‘following constitutional article “The flag of the State shall be white with nine azure stripes, horizontal and alternate, leaving in the upper corner near the flag pole a white square in which shall be depicted a sun.” The sun symbol is referred to as the “sun of May,” which repre- sented the awakening of Summer and the awakening of the old province to a new life. Early the next year a ceremony took place in several neighborhoods called the *“Benediction of the Ban- ner.” The new flag received a public consecration, was greeted with artil- lery and with much enthusiasm by the people, many of whom saw it fol the first time. They believed pros | perity and honor were symbolized in the “blue and white banner without RES. SPRINGTIME ¢ the little brooks the alder flower of this Spring, peeps into. bloom. First from its Winter buds the young catkins hang | forth, the small red male flowers that | have now turned green and may now | for the first time be said to be truly in bloom. When they turn vellow | the pollen is ripe and will be shed | abroad upon the wind, where, if fate is kind, it Wil be borne to the female | flowers, whose catkins are so emall that people rarely notice them. Late lin the season these will ripen ia turn into tiny structures, for all the world {like minjature pine cones. Peopl | have sometimes wondered if the alder | were not an evolutiona: -endan | from the ancient and primitive order of the conifer: Probably such is not the case, but | about the alder i | with nothing st | tory, there is nevertheless something strangely moving. Blooming in soli quietude, among its own leafless | branches and the whole leafless for- pst, it has something of that wistful | charm of the witch hazel, that blooms late in the Fall when every leaf has fallen and the forest is drear. Bui | the alder 1= the bearer of good tidings the news that Spring at last is here | Cold days may come dnd winds roa rudely, but the alder blooms. The | old miracle and pageantry has begun 10,000,000 vears ago when the alder young. Olive Club Sandwiches. st two elices of bread and move the crusts. Butter lightly s cool, then spread with heavy m naise. On one slice of bread pla hearts of lettuce le . then spread with stuffed green olives eut in rings On the other Portion of bread ar range slices of broiled bacon. Garnish Your character is rather rugged. In spite of this, however, your emo- tions can be deeply stirred. and your nature 1s both sympathetic and kindly. |eaten deftly tossed salad appreciates lits delicacy. Do not stir or mix the {salad, except so lightly that it |amounts to tossing. Failure to make a comfortable home should be equal grounds for divorce for a man from his wife. And, believe me, many a shiftless housekeeper would get busy if she | knew that her bread and pie and photographs of her kitchen sink and littered with the motto, “Liberty or Death,” |stain and without defeat.” which | is preserved in the museum of Mon. | their poets sang would lead the tevideo and was carried during. the | country to victory and glory. | jlatter struggles against the power of | A Jattr constitutional order changed | Quaker Oats RENCH., SALADS ARE WELL TOSSED. ench restaurants you will realize e of the reaséns for their excel- nce, while you are somewhat sur- sed as well. For one thing, the lads are scarcely anything more han salad greens served with French essing, and for another, these salads e alwa ossed.”” To one who is accustomed to the | What Kind to Toss. Practically all plain salads (served with French dressing) that are not so delicate that they would tear may be tossed. Salads with mayonnaise and fancy salads that are as beauti- | ful to look at, in their arrahgement, las they are delicious to eat, should | not be tossed. The French save their | mayonnaise salads for hors d'oeuwres, |chiefly. In these they excel. In mak- |ing the French dressing for salad, rub the mixing bowl with a bit of garlic |or cut onion before adding the ingre- dients in_the following proportions: | Three tablespoonfuls oil, one of ‘vine- | gar, one-half “teaspoonful salt, one- | quarter teaspoontul pepper and a sood sprinkling of paprica. 150 YEARS AGO The Origin of the U.S.A. BY JONATHAN A. RAWSON, JR. Envoys Leave for Canada. PHILADELPHIA, March 25, 1771 r. Benjamin Franklin, Charles Car- b1l of Carroliton and Samuel Chase 1t today for Canada as envoys from longress. They go with broad powers , negotiate, with the Canadians to ring Canada into eomplete union ith the -13 - colonies now united gainst Great Britain. They have al- ost unlimited authority to deal with hatever conditions -they may en- punter. The commissioners are to assert that ‘anada’s interests and ours are in- parably united, and that’it is impos- ible that we can be reduced to a ervile submission to Great Britain pithout thefr sharing our fate, and at, if we obtain a full establishment ¢ our rights, it depends wholly on eir choice whether they will partici- ate with us in those blessings. The fanadians will be urged to put them- elves under the protection of the /nited States colonies. Methods of rganizing thelr affairs are to be lecommended to them. The formal structions of the envoys sa; “Explain to them the nature and rinciples of government among free- hen. * * * Endeavor to stimulate lhem by motives of glory, as well as terest, to ume a part in a con- st, by which they must be deeply af- scted—. Promise to the whole peo- le the free and undisturbed exercise f their religion——. Assure’ them hat it is our earnest desire to adopt hem into our union, as a sister colo- v, and to secure the same general jystem of mild and equal laws for hem and for ourselves, with anly uch local differenc be agree- Bie to each colony khould they agree to our terms, prom- s in the n.mes of the United Colo- hies that we will defend and protect he people of Canada against all ene- nies, in the same manner as we will efend and protect any of the United folonies.” Furthermore, the commissioners are o establish and enforce regulations lor the preservation’ of good ‘order, oppose differences . hetween our and the Cangdians, sit and of councilg of war in es,” encourage the | nada with the Indian na- establish a free press, use every and prudent measure to give leredit and circulation to the conti- nental money in Canada, and assure he Canadians that their foreign com- erce shall, In all respects, be put on hn equal footing with ours. Congressmen are privately admitt- ng among themselves that they have jhanded over to their envoys a rather ge order. (Copyright, 1926.) S a1 Lo Every week the factories of the great English industrial city of Bir- {ngham turn out 14,000,000 pens, 10 tons of pins, 6,000 metal bedsteads, 7,000 tons of rifles and ‘numerous other articles. =N MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Oranges Oatmeal with Cream Scrambled Bacon and Corn Hot Corn Muffins Coffee LUNCHEON. Meat Loaf, Tomato Sauce Baking Powder Biscuits Banana Puffs DINNER. m of Tomato Soup roiled Beefsteak Mushroom Sauce Cr “Jof ‘his income as her own personal allowange, floors would be exhibits A and B and C and D in her husband’s divorce suit. ‘When a man marries he should demand good housekeeping of his wife. It she refuses to make a comfortable home for him, he is perfectly justified in leaving her. If he doesn't care to do this, he should break up housekeeping and go to board with some woman who does know to cook and keep things clean. This is the only way he can save his digestion and his nerves and his soul, and I advise you, Mr. X. . to try it, even at this late date. ‘There is peace in finality, in just accepting a thing and making the best of it on thht basis. Then you quit worrying over the impossible, over trying to make people do what they ought to and will not do, and that you can never make them do. And perhaps your wife has qualities of head and heart that atone for her not being a good housekeeper, and that you could appreciate if you were properly fed and not continually aggravated by her thriftless ways. So my remedy for your trouble is a good boarding house or family hotel. 2o DOROTHY DIX. .. DEAR MISS DIX: Should the husband or the wife hold the household purse? And why? MRS. W. A. J. Answer: Both. Considering that both put into it, neither one should have a monopoly of it. Of course, the man earns the visible money, so, to speak, but the money the wife earns by her actual labor as cook and housemaid and laundress and baby-tender and seamstress and scrubber and so on makes her cortribution to the family exchequer of real monetary value. For if the wife did not do these things the husband would have to hire some other woman to do them. " ¥ Statisticians estimate that it would cost $40 a week to pay for the services that the average woman performs for her family. And such being the case, the wife has a tangible as well as a moral right to assist in the purse-bearing. I believe that financlal independence is the basis of‘a]l self-respect and happiness, and that neither husband nor wife has the right to enlnln::'e the other. Therefore, a woman should not expect her husband to tufn over all his earnings to her, nor should a man refuse to give his wife a fair proportion The only happy couples are Asparagus Hollandaise Sauce Hearts of Lettuce, Russian Dressing Brown Betty Foam Sauce Coffee BACON AND CORN. Cook in deep spider one-half pound bacon cut in small pleces. ‘When browned, add one pint canned sweet corn. Stir until hot, then drop in four eggs and stir rapidly. Add one-quarter cupful miJk, one teaspoonful salt an@ one-half teaspoonful pepper.. Cook until eggs are a little solid, then serve on hot dish over slices buttered toast. BANANA PUFFS. Beat yvolks three eggs until light, add one cupful sugar and cupful cold water, then add stifly beaten whites alternately with one cupful flour mixed and sifted with. one teaspoonful baking powder and few grains salt. Peel and cut three ba- nanas into dice, stir them into batter, half fill buttered cups, steam 1 hour and serve with lemon sauce.’ MUSHROOM SAUCE. Melt one-elghth cupful butter and when brown stir in_cupful flour. ' Add, gradually, one cup- ful brown stock and one-half cupful liqguor from can mush- tooms, stir until smooth and thick, cook over boiling water 10 minutes, then add drained mushrooms cut in thin slices, two teaspoonfuls lemon julce and pepper and' salt to taste. Cook 2 minutes, add beaten yolk one egg, remove at once from fire, stir in one teaspoon- ful finely chopped parsley and serve. ; Finnan Haddie With Chees Parboil some finnan haddie in milk and water, or all water. ‘Then rinse and flake the fish, removing all bones and skin. Put a layer in a buttered casserole and a layer of cheese cut thin. Add salt and pepper and a thin white sauce. Proceed until all the fish is used, probably two layers of each. Cover the top with bread crumbs and butter and bake until browned on top. ‘Put a red or:green pepper in the' white sauce and - use less black pepper. Serve with baked potatoes. . 'COFFEE Brings you all of Nature’s rich coffee goodness, preserved in the roasting. There is no substitute 57 for White House Coffee. 'Dwinell Wright Co.. Baston, Chicago, Portsmouth, Ve. those who go 50-50 on the income proposition, « 0. DEAR MISS DIX: What do you consider the best age for a young man to marry? B M.-1L DOROTHY DIX. Answer: Around 30. It is dangerous for a boy to marry before he is 25, because up to that time he is unformed, his tastes are shifting, his ideals are chaotic and he does not know what he himself wants in a wife. 1t is disastrous for the average man to marry very young for. financial reasons, for matrimony shuts many doors of opportunity in his face. As a married man he cannot go to many places that would be advantageous to him and to which he could have gone as a single man. ‘Women who could push his fortunes lose interest in him once he has a wife. He can take no chances with a family hanging around his neck, and with wife and bables to support he can save no money to branch out for himself.. All of this bars the early marriage. * i ‘Against the late marriage in the forties is the fact that by then a man has grown old and blase, and romance is dead in his heart. He'has become selfish and wedded to his ways and lacks the ability to adapt himself to the give and take of married life. But around 30 & man is at his prime. He has generally got sufficiently well established to afford & famil; And above all, he is still young enough to be ardent and, romantic, and old enough to have learned: self-control and Your home life is, with such at- | tributes, ideally happy, as you are | always thinking of the welfare and well-being of others, even at the ex- pense of your own. % (Copyright, 1 | Clues to Character BY J. 0. ABERNETHY. Emotional, Sensitive Hand. The slender hand never is adapted | to heavy labor, but can handle the | light tools of finer mechanic arts with | great delicacy of touch and extraor- dinary skill. ‘But it does best work in the literary field. It especlally is the | poetic and artistic hand. . | It 1s the hand adapted to the pen | and pencil. It accompanies and in- | dicates the predominance of the | nervous system and temperament. | You will find- it on: persons with the conical or pyriform face, the expres- sive features and the slight and often | graceful form properly attributed to | that constitutional condition. | You should have little difficulty in reading the characters of those who have slender hands. .They are an in- dex to a character that is emotional, sensitive, -easlly hurt, sbut quickly soothed by an\appeal tg the emotions. Their tastes are refined, and they care more for ideals and the finer things of life than they do for mere material things or riches. If you would win their confidence direct your appeal to the heart rather than the head, to the emotfons rather than to reason. It has a friendly gras; few and a tender, loving cld one. wisdomy in dealing” with women. Flexible Glass. From the Baltimore Sun: Flexible glass, of which the inven- tion is announced in ¥Europe, is going ostly for the bet- ter.. “Oh, mothes The baby has bent her niflk bottle” will be a less alarming announcement than the one which is now usdal. Youthful base- ballers wiil no longer break windows, for the effects of an excessively hot “liner” can be undone by smoothing out the wrinkles in the displaced pane and putting it back in its frame. The convivially inclined—and, for that matter, automobiles—can move with- out fear of a puncture from broken bottles.. . Only the sideshow glass- éater Wil be out of luck. DOROTHY -DIX.' - His Vivid Memory. From the Detroit News. A member of a secret fraternity sought to visit a strange lodge and found that he could not pass the ex- amination at the door and knew no one qualified to vouch for him. As he was turning away a man from out in the State recognized him and re- called having been at his initiation a dozen years ago. P ““You were in the class tvith Mr. So- and-so, weren't you?” he inquired. “Yes,” replied the applicant, a-little flattered. *How did_you happen to remember me =0 long? “By the ‘cowlick’ on the back of your head,” was the reply. The complete line of Domino Sugars fills every need and assures clean, pure sugar. When you think of the countless opportunities ordinary sugar has of col- lecting impurities, you will realize that " it pays to take no chances. Ask also “for Domino Syrup, a pure cane sugar product pro “Sweeten' it with Domino” the 'Spanish and Portuguese which resulted in the definite declaration of Independence, August 25, 1825. Victory came after years of war- fare and finally, in a little town near Montevideo, the patriot council while BEAUTY CHATS Hair Tonics. “It's been quite a long time since I've printed the formula for the pllocarpine hair tonic. Once upon a time I thought, I would save all the letters in praise of this tomic, which is my pet formula, but they ran into thousands and took up more room than I could spare, so I finally burned them. This hair tonic has a double virtue. It can be made up without the pilo- carpine—in which case it costs less and 1s just a good general tonic—or it can be made up with the pilocar- pine, in which case it stimulates the color cells of the hair and prevents premature grayness, If you are 30 or over I'd advise you to use it with the pilocarpine. The formula follows: Pilocarpine hydrochlorate, 2 grains; precipitated sulphur, 30 grains; car- bon detergent, 30 drops; castor oil, 10 droj alcohol (85 per cent), 4 ounces: tincture “of cantharides, 4 drachms: cologne, 4 drachms; rose water, make 8 ounces. Have your druggist make this formula up and use it two or three times a week, unless the hair is very bad—in that case use it daily for a few week: 1f you have severe dandruff, either the oily or the dry kind, use a sulphur ALL L11E LRN RAR WAW A WAL WIN wRN W to | the number of stripes to four, left the entire number of stripes nine. which is the number representing the original political departments of the republic, (Copsright. 1926.) . BY EDNA KENT FORBES. tonic the night before you shampoo. I'd suggest you put a teaspoonful of | powdered sulphur into a tiny jar and | mix enough olive ofl with it to make |a paste, and that you rub some of | this paste thoroughly into the scalp. | You'll have to soap the hair at least | four times when you shampoo and use hot water to cut the extra oil and sulphur, but it is worth it. | H. Andy.—A girl of 17 years with a height of 5 feet 7 inches should | weigh about 125 pounds. | More or less weight would not be | serious in such a case, for the girl is | developing and may have used up helght at such an early age. It could average and normal weight for such an unusual cage until after there had not for another five years. LS Salmon Hearts. Cut some bread in slices one-fourth inch thick, then cut in heart shape. Brush both sides with melted butter and put in the oven to brown. Put | 'on each piece a thin slice of smoked salmon. - Around the edges of the heart-shaped bread put a border of nicely minced hard-boiled egg. but | much of her energy in attaining that | easily mean that there would be no | heen complete development—possibly | “stands by” you through i the morning That’s why doctors urge it | to start every day | O feel right through the morning, ; you must have well-balanced, | complete food at breakfast. At most other meals —that is, at luncheon and at dinner—you usually get that kind of food. | But at breakfast the great dietary | mistake is most often made—a hur- | ried meal, often badly chosen. ‘Thus Quaker Oats, containing 16% protein, food's great tissue builder; 58% carbohydrate, its great energy element, plus all-important wvita- mines and the “bulk” that makes laxatives seldom needed, is the die- tetic urge of the world today. It is food that “stands by” you through the morning. Food that should start every breakfast in your home. Quick Quaker cooks in 3 to § minutes. That's faster than plain | toast. Don’t deny yourself the nat- | wral stimulation this rich food offers. Pezzaaadeaaiss-danil BBARZY NP e e e Bl N m3zs s aMsRRRS S Ao R2EETS