Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1926, Page 48

WOMAN'S PAGE. e Single Daytime BY MARY The black duilfinished broadcloth coat, tur trimmed, we recommend to the woman who can afford but one day-time wrap for the Winter. For the quite young woman or the ome- coat woman who has almost no formal afternoon engagements to meet there are_charmin s . preferable. But the coat of this d ription, however smart, is not so suitable for the after- when # wrap is retained THIS BLACK BROADCLOTH COAT, TRIMMED WITH SILVER FOX, IS SUITABLE FOR MORN- ING OR AFTERNOON WEAR AND IS A WISE CHOICE FOR THE WOMAN WHO CAN HAVE BUT ONE DAY-TIME WRAP. as the broadcloth coat. On the other hand, a simply cut fur-trimmed broad- ;'lohh cout is quite suitable for morn- ng. A year or so ago most women who could afford fur coats had them, but Wrap for Winter MARSHALL. wise who heeded the advice to select a straight-line fur coat in favor of one of the flaring sort. There is in some of the new coats a tendency toward a defined walst line, but there is usually no curve below the hip line. Furs trim the new coats with amaz- ing lavishness, but we do not inquire too insistently concerning the pedigree of these furs. There are women who would hesitate at wearing an imita- tion seal coat who wouldn't feel the slightest chagrin at the thought that the fur on their coat had been In I just plain pony. It is the same rather unreasonable _distinction that some women draw between real and imit: tion jewelry. They wouldn't wear rhinestone or crystal ring, yet they wouldn't hesitate at all in wearing rhinestone shoe buckles or crystal hat ornaments. Copyright. 1926.) MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Baked Apples Hominy with Cream Fish Cakes, Chili Sauce Popovers Doughnuts LUNCHEO Cream of Celery Soup. Rolls Rice Cakes, Maple Strup Tea 5 Coffee DINNER. Cream of Onion Soup Baked Stuffed Haddock, 7 Egg Saucc Stewed Tomatoes Irench Fried Potatoes Raw Carrot Squash Meringue Plo Coffee POPOVERS. Two cups flour, one teaspoon- ful salt, one teaspoonful baking powder. Beat separately whites and yolks three eggs. Add beaten yolks to two cups sweet milk, then slowly add to dry ingredients (which should have previously been sifted together three times). Just: before put- ting in pan, fold in beaten whites of eggs. Bake at once in hot oven 30 minutes. Serve Immediately. RICE CAKES. Pour one pint warm, sweet milk over one and a half cups boiled rice and stir until grains are well separated. Add one tablespoonful melted butter, beaten yolks three eggs and one cup flour sifted with one and a half teaspoonfuls baking powder (level) and quarter teaspoonful salt. Beat thoroughly, stir in stifly beaten whites of eggs this season the fur-trimmed cloth coats are 8o tempting that many wom- en have chosen one of them instead of the fur wrap—tempting as this may be. Velvet is a close rival to broad- cloth in the new coats, and at any smart gathering now you may count quite a number of red velvet coats lavishly fur trimmed. These’ of course, are not so practical as those of black, and word comes from Paris that many smart women there have chosen black day-time coats because of their fondness for wearing colored frocks beneath—and black goes with any color. For afternoon tea women are wearing red frocks topped by black coats. . Straight-line coats seem to have won the day -against those with a flare, and last Winter the woman was BEDTIME STORIE Jerry Has a Fright. When no_daner is in_sight, Th tch "out for sudden’ fright. o watch out 107 _Jerrs Muskrat. It sounds queer, but it often is true that the safest time is the most dan- gerous time. The reason is that when you feel perfectly safe you are very ilkely not to be watching out for danger. It is just as necessary to watch out for danger when you feel perfectly safe as it is when you don't feel so safe. The little people of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows know this, but, just like little human people, they forget sometimes. It was so with Jerry Muskrat. If there is any time of year when Jerry Muskrat feels safe it is in Winter after Jack Frost has frozen the Smiling Pool and the Laughing Brook. There is only one enemy that can get to him then, of whom he is “WHO COULD IT HAVE BEEN MUTTERED JERRY. really afraid, and that is Billy Mink. Bllly can, of course, go right into Jerry's house. But Billy isn't likely to do it. Billy isn't looking for trouble, and when he faces Jerry Muskrat he faces a whole lot of trouble. He would have to be pretty hungry. You see, With ice on the Smiling Pool Jerry Muskrat can go and come under the ice as he pleases. He has his mice, warm house out in the Smil- ng Pool, and he has his castle in the and bake in small cakes on well greased griddle. Serve with maple sirud. SQUASH MERINGUE PIE. Scald about one and a half cupfuls milk, add sifted squash to make like thin cake bat- ter. It takes about two cups. Add two-thirds cup sugar, half teaspoonful salt. Flavor with lemon or vanilla. Stir in two yolks, thinned with little milk. Meringue — Beat whites of eggs stiff with two heaping tablespoonfuls sugar and spread evenly over top of pie when cool. sift little sugar over top before setting in oven to harden. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS knows nothing about it. It isn’t un- usually cold down under the ice. It always just the same. The ice may grow a little thicker, but that is all. If there is a snowstorm Jerry knows mothing about it. It can snow and snow and snow without making the least bit of difference to Jerry Muskrat. So Jerry Muskrat had become some- what careless, as is the way with peo- ple who are too long in security and peace. He forgot it was possible for any of his enemies to be hunting for him. Having grown tired of staying in his house and in his castle, he bur- rowed under the snow. You see, he had a back entrance to his castle in the bank, and this entrance was up on the Green Meadows. He dug the snow out of this entrance, and then from it made a tunnel, just as Danny Meadow Mouse makes tunnels under the snow. It gave him something to do and a chance to explore around a little. He was still out of sight under the snow and above him was a crust. Under- neath that crust he felt very much 'as he did when he was under the ice in the Smiling Pool. He felt just as secure. No sharp eyes could see him there. So it was that Jerry was taken by surprise. Without any warning there was a thump above his head. For a startled second Jerry didn't move. Then he turned and started back along that little tunnel for the safety of his castie in the bank. At the same time there was another thump on that crust above him, and it broke. Down came something on his tail! He knew that something was a paw. ‘Whose paw it was he didn't know, but it was somebody’s paw, for he felt the claws in it. Jerry squealed, and how he ran! My goodness, how he ran! He could hear some one frantically digging behind him. He popped down into his hole at last and was safe. There, quite out of breath and wondering what it was all about, he realized that a little more and he would have been caught. He reu ized that he had the narrowest of ‘(‘lufi 'l tell him he don’t need to bring me narrow escapes. ‘““Who could it have been?” muttered Jerry. “Who could it have been, and how did he know 1 was there? He couldn’t have smelled me through that snow, and he couldn’t have seen me through that snow. Yet, whoever it was, he seem- ed to know exactly where I was, ‘Well, anyway he didn’t get me, and that means he never will, for I'll never, never be so careless again. Ne bank. He can go from one to the other, and as he always has plenty ‘o eat, he lives u very comfortable, casy life while some of his friends are having & hard time of it. Storms and cold mean nothing to Jerry Muskrat. {f the weather is unusually cold Jer Though it's hard to learn new facts, A thing that ie harder still Is to unlexrn ancient lies. sir, I'll never be so careless again.” l HOW IT STARTED BY JEAN NEWTON. “Cheese-Paring Economy.” This { san expression that has be- come common with us, denoting the extreme of parsimonious frugality. Yet the words on the face of them glve us no indication of why or wherefore! Paring cheese would not be an eco- nomy, for not to pare cheese would be to spoll the whole cheese with the in- edible rind. So it 18 not from a literal connotation that the expression gains its meaning or its fame, but from an old French tale that was popular many years ago. A thrifty man, we are told, was in love with three sisters. All of them were equally attractive, and he was hard put to make his choice. He ob- served their dispositions and habits and found them to be identical. Then he found that one sister pared the cheese closer to the rind than either of the others and decided that she THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY I busted my bank open an' I takin’ all my money down to poor old Santa I'll put it in the pot, an’ ‘en ‘at ’losipeed fer Christmas, 'cause 1 know he can't ‘ford ta do it. Copyright, 1926.) DIARY OF A NEW FATHER BY ROBERT E. DICKSON. Letter the father of Joan: ‘Dear Joan: Well, I am glad you are having a good time with all our folks and the old crowd. When do you figure on coming home? “I did not either forget to tell the iceman and the milkman. And I sent the laundry out, too. . “Dia the baby really stand the trip all right m that darn basket you carried him in? I hope he didn't catch cold on the train; colds develop into pneumonia so easlly. “Think you will stay away long? Have a good time. “The Andersons have invited me over to dinner tomorrow night. Mrs. Anderson is pretty, isn't she? “Do you feel lonesome for me? I'm lonesome. “Kiss the baby for me. For good- ness sakes, don’t let all our relatlves spoil him. It was a bad time to take him home, just when we had him trained to sleep so well. “I haven't been late to the office once, and I changed my shirt, too. “I hope you are enjoying your trip. ‘When are you coming home? “Love BOB."” SUB ROSA BY MIMIL from new Rarely a Jolly Foursome. Remember when you and your best friend were planning happily for the future—before either of you had met Mr. Right, but both of you had very definite ideas of what he should be like? emember how Edith said that she'd never dream of going with a man you didn’t like—and how you swore that only her approval would make your happiness complete? You ' plctured the jolly evenings you'd all have together, you and Edith and the two Prince Charmings. Then Edith started going with Billy Cummings, and you couldn’t under- stand what in the world she could see in him—but 'because you liked her so much you tolerated him. But when your Kenneth came along his dislike of Billy was too violent to permit of any pretense He an- nounced flatly thet he wouldn't go out on a party with that big bum, and you didn’t really blame him. Yet for Edith's sake -you insisted on a jolly foursome—and that's where you made your big mistake. If you'd wanted to do the only thing possible to preserve your and Edith's friendship, you'd have given up from the beginning any attempt to realize the beautiful picture of four congenial young people together three evenings a week. For by dragging Bill and Kenneth together you only precipitated dis- aster. Kenneth laughed at Billy, whom he considered the world's biggest dumb- bell, and although it didn’t penetrate Bill's cranium for a long time that he was being razzed, Edith was furious from the start. Her anger at Ken turned her against you. She suspected you of lack of loyalty. She complained to Bill, who didn’t like Kenneth any how—and once she actually Lad the nerve to tell you that your man's manners could improved. That's what broke up the beautiful friendship of a lifetime. It was too bad, too, because you could have held on to that nice pal of yours by resolutely ruling your especial men out of the picture, If you'd both used tact and discre- tion instead of trying desperately to make the chummy foursome a reality, you might be friends today. You could have seen plenty of Edith in the deytime. You and she could have come to the understanding with- out either of you speaking a word on the subject, that parties of four |2 were out, but that your own friend- ship was as firm as ever. On this basis you might have gone ahead for years. As it is, you hardiy speak. It would be marvelous if we all liked our best friends’ sweethearts or husbands. It would be nice if they all Lked us and our men. But it so seldom happens that way that it's a good thing not to count on the jolly foursome—and it's im- perative-—if the foursome proves any- thing but Jjolly, to cut the men en- tirely and go back to the old twosome for daytime affairs. If your man doesn't fit in with your pal, keep them apart—and so o [ imi o answer any in- uiries ted to Smea iiaeed iveops®hs iBeiad? ® S Hot Chocolate Shake. Put four squares of chocolate in a small kettle and melt. Add four tea- spoonfuls of sugar and mix well, then add four cupfuls of heated milk. Let the mixture ,come to a boil, stirring all the time with an egg beater. Put one teasponful of whipped cream in each cup. Pour over the hot choco- late and serve. This mixture is not injured by standing. If it becomes celd, reheat and stir with the beater, {Why Second Marriages Are Desirable and Successful—A Plea for Protection Against Letters of Introduction. AR MISS DIX: What are your views in regard to second marriages? Do you !hmhlt is possible to lovo the second husband or the second wife as well as thb first? BETTY. S ek Answer: T am an enthusiastic advocate of second marriages, provided a man or woman marries in his or her own age class, and uses o reasonable {amount ot discretion in his or her selection of a mate. | A second marriage 13 bound to prove disastrous when an old widower | selects for a_wife, as he so often does, a girl young enough to be his | daughter, and puts her to be stepmother over h.s haif-grown children. And it is a still worse tragedy when a middie-aged widow lets some ,adventurer marry her for her husband’s insurance money just because sho 18 lonesome, and it sounds so good to her famushed ears to listen to some man making love to her again, But this extreme of matrimonial folly is one thing, and marrying a nice, suitable compan.on 1s something else again. And I think the men and women are wise wWho try to rebuild their houses of happiness that have been shattered by death. by " For there is one curious thing about marriage: Even when it {sn't wholly successtul it seems to unfit men and women for single life. A man’s wife may bore him and get on his nerves. She may nag him. She'may have o hundred faults that jar him; but when ehe is gone and her voice i8 sienced; when he is free to go and come, and live at the clubs for | vhigh he yearned while she was alive, he finds that he has lost his taste or them. . “He misses home cooking and home comforts. He gets sick and tired of having ta order every meal, and remember to send thags to the presser and the laundry. The woman I3 in even a werse fix. She may have had a husband who was greuchy and unpleasant enough to live with. She may have had to haggle w.th him over every penny, but when he is gone and she has her own money and nobody to tell her of her faults, she finds that her freedom is dust and ashes. No woman who has run her own home is ever happy or satistied in anybody eise s home. No woman can put any pep into keeping house just for herself. No woman's life has any meaning to it if it has no service in it, and it she feels that nobody needs her. Furthermore, the older we get, the more need we have of companionship in our own homes, for in age we must find our entertainment at our own fires.des. And so I think that the middle-aged men and women who have lost thelr old partners are well advised to secure to themselves new ones with whom to make the last lap of the journey of life, As to whether 2 man or woman loves the second wife or husband as well as the first, that depends upon the individual case. Possibly nobody brings to o second marriage the same romantic itlusions with which he or she approachea the altar the first time, but in many cases the second marriage is happier than the first. And nearly always second marriages are happy und peaceful because the widow and the widower have learned about men and women from their first venture, and know better how to treat their husbands and wives. = DOROTHY DIX. D SAR MISS DIX: What do you think about the promiscuous giving of letters of introduction? I live in & large city and am a man of some prominence, with a w.de scquaintance all over the country. 1 have dozens of friends whom I like very much, but they victimize me by giving letters of introduction to me to all of their friends and acquaintances who visit my city. There is hardly a day that some man doesn’t bob in with a letter of .ntroduction from dear old Tom, Dick or Harry, asking me to show this perfeot stranger some attention while he is in my town. I find this an intolerable tax on my time and purse. How can this nuisance be {abated? X. Y. 2 Answer: Shake, Mr. X. Y. Z., I belong to your lodge of sorrow. Indeed, I dare say my sufterings are greater than yours, because women are more fluent letter writers than men, and even more glfted at passing the buck than men are. Perhaps no one escapes, for it is such a nice, easy, cheap way to do somebody & favor. It doesn’t cost even the price of a postage stamp to give John Jones or Mary Smith a letter of .ntroduction to somebody in New York or Philadelphia or Squeedonk, to which they are going, and the writer should worry about somebody else having to invite John Jones out to lunch, or put him up at a club, or take Mary Smith out riding, or to see the sights, or go shopping with her. And if you don't do It, you make a mortal enemy of John Jones and Mary Smith, who consider that they have been snubbed, and your friend never forgives you for turning down his friend. Apparently it never occurs to those who give letters of introduction that we all have just about a8 many friends of our own as we can manage to keep up with, or as many calls upon our time and money as we can respond to, or that we are not running free employment agencles. There is no greater pest than the letter of introduction, but I know of no way to stop it. There will always be those free-hearted, spontaneous enthusiasts who, when they hear that you are going to Rabbit Track or Paris, will say: “Oh, my old chum Bob Robinson or Sally Snooks lives' there, and you must meet him or her. I will just give you a letter of introduction.” And that puts it up to Bob and Sally to do his entertaining for him. ‘Whereat Bob Robinson and Sally Snooks say things that no perfect gentleman or lady should say. DOROTHY DIX. (Covyright. 1926.) Undermine. Fish (plural). 7. Prefix: three. Child’s room. . Redeems. Designations. . Thus. . Wholesalers. Away from the wind. . Approach. . Assigning. Destructive insect. Becoming vigilant. Englneering degree (abbr.), ;oultu. . : overty. I 18 Toeral metal. . Beast of burden. 1 30, Furlous fighter. Aonl onnk . That man. . Paradise. . Burled. Rage. . Make certain. . Weapons. . Had control of. Down. Spreads out in battle line. English college. . One who has on. . Belonging to it. 3. Trells. . Rests. 6. Canadlan Province (abbr.). . Hector’s companions. . High card. 3. Arabian name. Butter substitute. State of hostility. “Puzzlicks” 'uzzle- Limericks. A fellow who lived in —1— Was known as a silly young —2—; He utterly —3— Good judgment and —4—, For he told a svelte girl she was —5—, 1. Islands north of Australia. 2. Foolish person (colloquial), 8. Was wi 4. Saying right time. 6. Scrawny. (Note: Obviously the young man in question has never read the far-famed Book of Etiquette or he would never have done such a thing, as you'll agree when you have completed this Mmerick. If you can’t complete it, Jook for the answer, as well as an- other “puzzlick,” here tomorrow.) . Platform. . Varieties of ples. . Be In debt. . Affirmative answer. el Answer to Yesterday’s Puzzle. Yesterday's ‘“Puzzlick.” There once was a girl named Amelia, ‘Who drank half a pint of lobelia; The doctor came quick And decl , “You're not sick, 8o why am I summoned fo heal you?” (Copyright, 1926.) n 1926. THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Friday, December 17. Tomorrow is an uncertain day, ac- cording to astrology, which finds that Mars is in benefic aspect, while Mer- cury, the sun and Uranus are all ad verse. It is a day to push plans for public | buildings or for the construction of bridges. Many big projects w bring profits to engineers in the com ing year. Hospitals and infirmaries now come under the best influences, which new bufldings and improved facilitic ‘With the beginning of the new year, there is to be increased agltation for the prevention of lo: of human life in street accidents. w traffic rules are to be severe, according to fore- cast. Another day that is likely to be dis- couraging for those who seek to Figures are inclined to be depressing while this configuration prevails. Deception and intrigue flourish under this rule of the stars, which is supposed to increase greed and selfish- ness. ‘Venus {5 in a place most favorable to the welfare of children, so far as education is concerned, but their health must be watched in the next few months. A renaissance of vital interest in spiritualism and other oecult subjects is again foretold. Persons whose birthdate it is may have good fortunme, which attends rather a daring decision of some sort Melt oné large tablespoonful of butter, add three cupfuls of sugar, three.fourths cupful of condensed milk, one-fourth cupful of water and mix well. Place over the fire and boil until it forms a soft ball when tried in cold water, then remove from the flre. Add two teaspoonfuls of promise many benefits in the way of | ance thefr year's accounts has come. | vanilla and let stand undisturbed un-| til cold. Stir in two cupfuls of wa nut meats and plck up in the hands and work for about 20 minutes. Shape into rolls and slice. Milk may be sub- stituted for the condensed milk and water, but it will not give as rich a flavor. While being worked in the hands this candy gets very soft, but it will finally come off clean. A timid person is frightened be- fore a danger; a coward during the time and a courageous person after- ward, says Richter, 5 ot foo | still my complexion | skin; FEATURES. MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS Make-up for Young Girls. ! Dearest Lois Leeds: (1), What shade of face powder should I use. I have biue eyes and brownish-blond hair. 1 am 15 years old. Should I use rouge on my face? I always seem to look more grown up when I do use it, and | not bad when | (2) Please sugeest | constipation. | THELMA. | Answer—(1) You forgot to tell me the shade of your complexion, my dear. For a very fair skin there is a | flesh-color powder; for creamy white there are ivory powders; there “natural” or “medium” shade for erage comple and there unette t k skins 1 don't use it something f is the are Since you are between a brunette and | a blonde, you might try mixing equal | parts of flesh and brunette powder. No, do not use rouge yvet, as it will | coarsen your skin. (2) Regularity of | habit is very important. Be sure to| include in your daily diet plenty of | bulky vegetables like lettuce, spin-| ach and cabbage, Eet some raw fruit daily and drink five or six glass- fuls of water between meals. inverted blcycle exercise for s minutes each day. LOIS LEEDS. Persistent Dandruff. Dear Miss Leeds: (1) I have dandruff in my head and can't seem to get rid of it, although I wash my hair every two weeks. (2) I am 5 feet tall, 33 years old and weigh s. Please tell me how BROWNIE. Answer—(1) Give your scalp a hot oil treatment before your shampoo. Twice a week use a dandruff remedy on your scalp and massage it in thor- oughly. Here is a recipe for dandruff in dry hair: One and a half teaspoon- fuls flowers of sulphur, 2 ounces car- 2 | streak | black Do the | eral | late bolated vaseline, 1 10 grains quinine sulphate, 1 ounce olive oil. Mix well. Massage you scalp well every day for 10 minutes (2) stimulate your appetite by takins outdoor exercise every day. Eat plen ty of simpie, nourishing food, chewin it well and keeping ceful fram of mind while eati nd digesting It is usually that keep: girls of ease send . s nvelope for How to Gain Weight LOIS LEEDS ounce witch haze Streaky Blond Hair. Miss Leeds: My hair ia blond, but I do not want tc bleach or dye it My eyebrows ave Do you think that my hair 1 gradually darken? I am 1 ars old, 4 feet 10 inches tall and weigh 113 pound Am I too heavy WiHIl T become t ner as T grow older Is there any exercise to make one grow taller? AN W Answer—You might w a blon¢ rinse to keep your hair a ecleare: color. After washing and rinsing ou the soap from your r, rinse it again in the following special preparatiorn Two quarts water, two tables lemon juice, two tablespoonfu , one teaspoonful ammo; > acld n one’s hair. doubt that lair would tum black naturally. You are a little ove the average weight for «girls of y age and height, but you do not to reduce. Yes, 1 think you will be more slender as you grow taller, A ways hold your body as tall as yo can, with chin level and chest ¢ vated This is the best way to i crease your height. Take plenty « outdoor exercise, nou hing food ar sufficient sleep. LOIS LEED: . 1926.) Dear i e L Cabbage Soup, Shred and blanch a large, firm hea {of white cal . The blanching | done by pouring boiling water over | | and letting it stand until it whiten In Winter blanching is not necessar. as the cabbage whitens naturall Slice o red onion and put it and th cabbage well drained into three quart of ordinary stock from the fami | stock pot. Thicken with semolin: two tablespoonfuls of which should 1 shaken in dry. 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