Evening Star Newspaper, February 22, 1927, Page 24

WOMA Observing Washington’s Birthday BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. If Washington's birthday finds the housewife entirely unprepared celebrate in any way, she can always add a note of festivity by making some special dish, and by adding touches to the decoration of the din- ner table. It“is not necessary to increase the work materfally by do- ing these things. There are simple and effective methods, last-minute ANY TREE-SHAPED GROWING PLANT WITH THE WEE PAPER FLOWERS SCATTERED OVER IT CAN SIMULATE A MINIA- TURE CHERRY TREE. T touches. If you have not thought of them until now, let me help you solve the problem of what to do and how to do it. A Washington ple with one or more little flags stuck into it and with lighted cake candles about it declares the festivity to be for a birthday. Any simple cake, with a filling, and topped with icing, or even sprinkled lavishly with . powdered sugar, constitutes a Washington pie. A delicious filling is sliced “oranges sprinkled with shredded coconut and having chopped maraschino cherries over the coconut. Be sure to have N’S PAGE. ing, the flags can be omitted. If you haven't the cherries, bits of cooked cranberry will do, but lack the spe- clally fine flavor of the cherrfes. And in the event that vou have neither cherries nor cranberries, you can use any canned red berries. Be sure to use them as dry as you can drain them. . Bougquets at Each Place. Cut small circles of red and white tissue paper about the size of a half dollar. Run a cord (with a knot in the end to prevent its slipping through the paper) through the center of each disc. Leave a length of the string for a stem to each. Twist the paper from the knot to form a wee floweret with string. Wind the cords about a bit of wire or a hairpin. Cut a large circle of green tissue paper, and notch the edge so that it resembles fronds or leaves. Push the cord and wire “stem’ through the center, and wind the stem with metal foil such as comes about yeast or candy. There is sure to be some of this paper about the house. Tie a bow of blue ribbon, tape, cord or even narrow strips of paper about top of stems. Place one of these quickly- made boutonniers at each place. A Birthday Table. If you have any wee candles to spare, cut a strip of white cardboard just big enough to fit inside the top of a goblet or tumbler. Hold the bot- tom of the candle over a light until it melts sufficiently to hold the candle upright when pressed in the center of the circle of cardboard. Put one of these at each place and just hefore calling the family to dinner light the candles. The table, with the bouton- nieres, the Washington pie center- plece and the candles at places, pre- sents a true birthday appearance. A Tree in Bloom. The Washington pie can be brought in later as another pleasant surprise, instead of using it as a centerpiece. If so, another centerplece must be evolved. If you have any tree-shaped potted plant, you can scatter twisted circles of deep pink tissue paper over it and make it suggest a cherry tree. From pasteboard cut hatchets with heads at least two inches long and handles of length to suit the size of the heads, and lay them on the table about the flower pot. Cover the pot with green erepe paper if it doeg not have an attractive holder. A rose geranium or any sturdy geranium makes a good “tree,” and an azalea, if in bloom, needs only the imagina- tion aided by the circles of hatchets to symbolize a cherry tree. My Neighbor Says. Save time in cooking by soak- ing beans, rice and dried fruits overnight. Leather picture frames, port- folios, etc., may be cleaned with benzine. Apply with a soft cloth, and if the benzine removes the polish apply the well beaten ‘white of an egg. To wash chenille articles, first of all soak the article incold water, then squeeze, but on no account wring. Make a good lather with warm water and some good washing powder, and in this rub the cloth very gently, repeating the process if neces- sary. Rinse well in a gallon or 8o of cold water to which has been added a half pint of vine- gar. Finally, squeeze, —pass through the wringer, shake and hang in a breezy and shady place to dry. To tell when a cake is done: It shrinks from the pan, it springs back when pressed lightly with the finger, it leaves a clean, nonsticky tester or straw. Melted fat should -not be hot ‘when added to-cake mixture, as - hot fat is likely to make cake tough, course grained and heavy. Graham bread is wholesome the filling sufficiently sweet. If you write the word *“Washington"” across the top of the icing, using wee bits of maraschino cherries for the letter< BEDTIME STORIES A Hunt for Buds. 3,81 i in the point of view: hat's wrong to me is right ‘to you. —Farmer Brown's ‘The Winter had been hard. Yes, sir, the Winter had been hard. No one knows quite as well as the little folk of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows how hard the Winter can be. Happy Jack Squirrel, Chatterer the Red Squirrel, Rusty the Fox Squirrel, and some of the Mouse family, who thriftily lay up stores of food in the Fall, do not have to worry. It is the little people who eat the kind of food that cannot be stored up who learn the real bitterness of bitter weather. Every morning they must go out to search for food. If they do not find food, they cannot live. The one th! that the little folk of the Green rest and the Green Meadows dread most is an ice storm. You know that is one of those storms ‘when it rains and the rain freezes as fast as it falls. It covers the trunks and branches of the trees with a coat- ing of hard ice. It covers everything on the ground with an icy crust. Then, y. Heany “THERE 1S MIGHTY LITTLE TO BEAT AROUND HERE,” COMPLAIN- ED MR. GROUSE. indeeq, is it hard for the little people, | especially the little feathered people, to find enough food to keep heat in their bodies. Just such a storm had covered the Green Forest and the Green Meadows with glittering, shimmering fce. It had come late in the Winter, when food was a little hard to find anyway. Mr. and Mrs. Grouse were fortunate that they were not caught under the crust that formed all through the Green Forest. They had been in the habit of burying themselves in the snow to sleep, but the night before this ice storm Mrs. Grouse had had an un- comfortable feeling. Something had warned her not to go to sleep under the snow. So when Mr. Grouse had said, “Come on, my dear, it is time you went to bed,” she had replied, I am going to sleep up in a spruce tree tonight.” Mr. Grouse had tried to argue. Now, Mr. Grouse should have known better than that. Yes, sir, he should have known better than to e tried to argue with Mrs. Grouse. Certainly, he had been married long enough to know better. In the end he did exactly as Mre. Grouse wanted to do. They re- tired and sweet and ought to be eaten frequently in every family, par- ticularly by young people whose THE SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. An’ so his daddy says, “George, did yuh chop down ’'iss cherry tree?’ An’ he says, “yes, sir.” An’ his dady say, “well, I got ter lick the stuffin’ out o' 'vuh fer doin’ it, because you's goin’ ter be the father of yer country an’ you's got to learn how to bring up children.” DIARY OF A NEW FATHER BY R. E. DICKSON. . Monday night. I have found oyt how to get your wife to talk to you while she is still mad at you about something, and the way to do it is to have her want you to do somefhing that she knows you do _not want to do. Tonight made four days since Joan had said a word to me, and I had not sald- much myself, because it sounds silly when you talk to some- body and she does not even shut up. But when I came home tonight Joan said, “We are invited over to the Cooks Wednesday evening to meet Mrs. Cook's sister,” and I sald, “I didn’t even know Mrs. Cook had a sister. What is she celebrating?” and Joan said, “She doesn’t live here, but she is just back from a trip to Europe and is visiting Mrs. Cook on her way home. She is quite famous.” 1 said, “I already know some one who has been to Europe. Why should I want to meet a woman who thinks she 18 famous just because her hus- band could save up enough money to give her a trip?” and Joan sald, “She hasn’t any husband. She is a well known feminist.” I sald, “A what?” and Joan said. “A feminist.” I said, “Well, it will be a treat to meet a woman like that again, after all,” and Joan sald, “Like wha! and I sald, “One who is feminine. They are all too darn masculine, these days, to suit me. I like women who are not always wanting to take men’s jabs instead’ of ki g house.” Joan said, **Well, my heavens, Mrs. Cook’s sister “does not even want married women to use their husbands’ names Jand she is against housework and bones and teeth are forming. BY THORNTON W. BURGESS They were sheltered under the thick branches and there, side by side, they went to sleep. By and by Mrs. Grouse awcke, It was raining and sleeting. She poked Mr. Grouse. *Now, aren’t you glad that you're not down in that snow?” said she. “Uh-hu,” replied Mr. Grouse sleepily. That was all she could get out of him. When they awoke the next morning it was to find everything encased in ice. They shivered, It wasn't that they were cold. They shivered at the thought of what would happen if they couldn't find food, and they knew that finding food would not be an easy matter. ““There is mighty little to eat around here,” complained Mr. Grouse. ‘“These spruce buds are bitters I think we'll have to go over to the Old Orchard and get some apple buds.” “They'll be covered with ice,” sald Mrs. Grouse, “Lknow it,"’ replied Mr. Grouse, “but we shall just havé to break the ice oft. It will be easier to get than any other food I know of. Come on, my dear.” = Mrs. Grouse knew Mr. Grouse was right. The apple buds would be none too easy to get, but they would be easier to get than any other food she could think of. So she and Mr. Grouse hurried nwnf' over to the 0ld Orchard and started in to try to fill their empty crops on apple buds. -, —_——— Kentucky Fudge. Mix two cupfuls of sugar, one cup- ful of milk, two squares of un- sweetened chocolate or four table- spoonfuls of cocoa, and boil for ten minutes. Add butter the size of a small egg and cook until it crisps in cold water. ‘Take from the fire and put the pan in a dish of cold water, and beat until it gets pretty stiff, everything like that.” I sald, “What was it you called her?” and Joan said, “A feminist,” and I said, “She sounds to me like a bolshevist." Joan sald, “Oh, I know you want women to stay at home and slave and raise children and never have a chance for a career. I would like to have a job myself and earn my own money,” and I said, “I would not mind it, either. Maybe we could get out of debt,” and Joan said, “Oh, you would not mind my working if I could bring in some extra mon ‘Well, what would I do “You started this yourself,” and there I agreed with her, and still she want- ed to argue. That is how women are—when you agree with them they have to take the opposite side of the argument, and I guess ‘it is just to keep things going. While we were washing the dinner dishes I sald, ““Well, I certainly will not get any kick out of going over there,” and Joan said, “We are going, anyway,” and so we will waste ‘Wednesday evening meeting a woman who does not want other women to use their married names because she has fl'not got one herself, on account of nlen being too smart. adding one-half a teaspoonful of vanifla. If you beat too long, it will turn to sugar. In that case reheat | it with a little more milk and try again. for the night in a sprucestree, 4 EVENING BTAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, FE DOROTHY DIX’S' LETTER BOX Advice to a Restless Young Married Woman Who Is Puzzled—How to Treat a Beau of Three Years’ Standing Who Won’t Propose. Dm MISS DIX: I have been married three years. 1 married at the age of 18. Most of the time my husband and I are like sweethearts. Then we quarrel like enemies. He never starts a fuss, but when I am worrled and start one he ends it by saying awful loving, good-looking, companionable and makes baby, but I wonder about the quarrels. Answer: No woman knows why things to me. My husband is home- over me as If I were a 3 B. she goes out of the way to hunt up trouble or why, when she has all the materlals for happiness in her hands, she throws them deliberately away. Nor does any woman—nor anybody else, for that matter—know why, when a woman has & good husband, she doesn't cherish him and enjoy him and thank heaven for her luck, instead of putting him under a micrescope and hunting for flaws in him until she finds some fault or blemish that she can Worry over. Nor does any woman know why she is driven by some demon of perversity into doing the things that will alienate her husband from her and kill his love for her when she really loves him and wants tp keep him. And that seems to be about your case. You have, on your own showing, a pearl of a husband who does everythi; get along with you In peace if you woyl to make you happy and who would let him. But you deliberately start quarrels that end up in bitterness and the final result of which is bound to be that you will drive him away from you. ‘Why not try using a little intelligence—at least one lobe of your brains— in meeting the situation? Try to realize that no man in the world likes to come back at might to a home that is a perpetual storm center. plenty of fighting during the day in his business. He gets Try to visualize how unattractive a wife looks to her husband if she is the only woman he meets who is always scrapping with him. The fact that you are worried is no reason for taking it out on your poor, defenseless husband. that vinegar catches no flies. At least play fair with him. Especlally in domestic life. And never forget Get so busy doing your duty as a wife that you will have no time to think about yourself. Try making your husband happy and you will be happy yourseif. remedy always works. This DOROTHY DIX. DEAR DOROTHY DIX: For nearly three years I have gone with a man who seems to love me very dearly, but who will not propose. Jealous and stays mad for a month if I go out with any one else. with his mother and she does not do? He is He lives ‘What shall WAITING. want him to marry. Answer: Evidently your gentleman friend s a dog in the manger, and that's a poor pet for any woman to cherish and keep around her. want you himself, yet he isn't willing He doesn’t for any other man to have you. Don't delude yourself by belleving that any man loves you who has been hanging about you for three vears without ever popping the question. The first thing that a man does, if he is really in love with a girl, is at least to get an option on her hand and heart by asking her to marry him and binding her by an engagement. So if you are wige, you will call time on this dilatory gentleman who is keeping off other suitors, and tell him in effect that he must either put up or shut up, and that you are not going to waste any more of your good company on one who does not have any seffous intentions. Go out with other men. Let him find it very difficult to make a date with you, and then if he means business he will come across. But if he is 80 much tied to mamma’s apron strings that he is afraid to get married, I don't see much happiness in store for the woman, even if he does spunk up enough to lead her to the altar. daughter-in-law about as cordially as she would a smake Mamma would welcome a in the house. Mamma’s influence would dominate, and wife would always play second fiddle to her. ‘When a girl is young and good-looking, that is her marrying time. She must make her hay while the sun of her beauty shines. Therefore, it is very foolish of her to throw away her opportunities by waiting as yo for a man who has given no indication that he ever lmenn‘dl toyA:k‘}:srd!oom:e. MILADY BEAUTIFUL BY LOIS LEEDS. his wife at all. Exercise for Round Shoulders. Dear Miss Leeds: I have round shoulders. Should I wear a brace? (2) 1 de not walk very much during the day, but every evening I take an hour's walk. Is this enough exercise? (3) I have pimples on my face. Are they caused by drinking coffee? (4) Should I use white or flesh powder and what shade of rouge? (5) I am 18 years and 10 months old, 62 inches tall and weigh 130 pounds. What should my weight and measurements be? (6) I have blond and very large blue eyes. How can I make my eyes look smaller? Most of the time there are dark circles under them. ANTOINETTE. Answer—(1) A brace is seldom ad- visable, as it makes the muscles lazy and weak. What you need is constant practice of correct posture and also daily exercises for strengthening the back ‘muscles. Here are some exer- cises for you: (a) Lie face down on the floor with arms folded across the small of your back. Slowly raise head and shoulders as far off the floor as you can. Relax and repeat. (b) Stand erect, elbows bent and hands on shoul- ders. " Rotate your arms backward try- ing to make shoulder blades touch. (c) Stand about 2 feet away from the corner of a room, facing the corner with arms spread out on the two walls. Without moving your feet and keeping knees straight, slowly incline your body forward ‘until your chest touches the corner. Keep arms spread out on the walls. Return to starting position and repeat. (2) The evenifig walks are splendid for you. You should walk briskly, covering about 4 miles an hour; do not saunter along slowly. Attend a gymnasium class at least one evening & week and get plenty of outdoor exercise during your week ends. 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You'll agres, it's the wonder soap of the e—atter usk AT S DOROTHY DIX. avold all stimulating beverages. The pimples may be caused by lack of sufficlent fresh fruit, salads and green vegetables in your diet and too much fatty, fried food and meats. (4) You forgot to mention your skin tints. Very few girls can wear white pow- der.” Flesh or ivory {8 more becoming. There is a light-red rouge for blonds. (5) You are about 14 pounds too heavy for your age and height. Please send for my leaflet on “Feminine Propor- tions,” that gives the physical specifi- cations of several well known beauties with whom you may compare your- self. (6) Yes, I think the dark circles make your eves look larger. They make you look unhealthy, too. They are often caused by female troubles as well as eyestrain and loss of sleep. Use a bleaching cream and try to rem- edy the cause of these disfiguring circles. LOIS LEEDS. Beautiful Proportions.. Dear Miss Leeds: I am 17 years old, 5 feet 3 inches tall, and my meas- urements are: Neck, 13; bust, 33; hips, 38; thighs, 21; ankles, 8%. What is good for blackheads and enlarged pores? CELIA. Answer—You should weigh between 118 and 122 pounds. You are large from the hips down in proportion to the upper parts. In the youthful slim figure, bust and hips measure the same. Good proportions for your height are: Neck, 13; bust, 34; waist, 26; hips, 34 or 35; thigh, 20; calf, 1315; ankle, 7%. Please send for my leaflet on blackheads and enlarged pores, in- closing stamped, self-addressed enve- lope. LOIS LEEDS. Peanut Loaf. Two cups canned tomatoes, one and one-fourth teaspoons salt, two table- spoons cornstarch, two cups peanut butter, one cup dried bread crumbs, jper to taste. Mix the cornstarch with a little of the tomato and then add to the remainder of the tomato. Then add the peanut butter, crumbs, salt and pepper. Mix thoroughly an place in a well greased mold. Cover tightly and simmer for 2 hours. Serve very hot with creamed onions. This loaf is excellent when cold if sliced. BRUARY 22, 1927. WINTER BY D. C. PEATTIE. Strawflowers. Barren, indeed, are the flelds in these days that look toward Spring yet give no hint of its coming; and as Winter wears along, we run .| through the list of flowers common with the florists, and repeat, and at length grow weary them. But there is one class of flowers that never tires us all Winter long—the dear old- fashioned strawflower. The commonest of ghe strawflowers are the gaudy, papery composites known as Helichrysum, members of a great South African and_ Australian genus of no less than 700 species. These are brilliant, exuberant crea- tures of the hot lands far away. But there are other sorts of flowers, which come from places nearer home. In their delicate, wiry way, in their soft, “sweet colors, in their famillar names, they seem to belong to our clime, our race, our tradition, far more than the haughty Helichrysums. I speak of the sea-lavendar, or, a8 they call it in some places, thrift; lead-plants, and marsh-mary —these are other goodly old names. All belong to the strange little sea-lavender family, which may be a sort of salt-marsh branch of the primrose family, or perhaps it is near- ly related to the pinks. However that may be, it encircles the marshes of the Northern Hemisphere, lovingly lonely little sea islands and maritime cliffs, appearing sometimes in salty sofl of prairies, or the great Russian steppes. And in what delicate colors it comes; how frall its grace; how ever- lasting its deathless beauty. For the petals never fade, but keep forever thelr soft white, gold and lavendar. HOME NOTES BY JE WREN. Reed, wicker, rattan and cane pieces of furniture are undoubtedly the most satisfactory for the porch and for the sunroom where an outdoor atmos- phere is the aim. They withstand the weather well and can be painted = (@ tions, such as black with red, apple green or yellow; gray with green or yellow; jade green with dark green and red with blue. Shown here is a Penang chair of peel cane with an.hour-glass stool to match. When a home is being furnished on the progressive budget plan pieces such as these can often be used tem- porarily. in the living room. Then when finer pieces are purchased for the living room they may be trans- ferred to sunroom or porch, or even to one of the bedrooms, and are hand- some enough to .give satisfaction there. (Copyright. 1927.) Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. Words often misus was kind of surprised. what surprised.” Often mispronounced: Mischievous- ness. Pronounce mis-chiv-us-nes, both I's as in “it,” u as in “up,” and accent first syllable, not the second. Often misspeiled: Library. ‘‘Abscond, disappear, de- e, decamp, steal away. Word study: “Use a word three times and it is -yours.” - Let us in- crease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today’'s word: Pungent; piercing, keen, biting, fecting the nerves of sensation. pungent odor filled the air.” Tongue-BAi; nfi Sauce. Scrub the tongue thoroughly, put it in hot water, and boil for about two hours, or until the skin peels readily. Remove, jmmerse in cold water, and skin. Into a pan put two tablespoonfuls of dripping and two heaping tablespoonfuls of flour, and brown by rubbing over the fire. Add enough liquid that the tongue was boiled in to make a thin gravy. Add half a bay leaf, one tablespoonful of vinegar, salt and pepper to taste, one blade of mace, one handful of raisins with seeds removed, two slices of lemon, six cloves, and one table- spoonful of capers. Cook down ui til the gravy is the desired thickn Don’t say Say ‘“‘som: in various attractive color combina-|3: FEATURES. The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1927.) . Number of people. . Dirt ground in. . The globe on which we dwell. . More recent. 3. Pronoun. . Mald loved by Zeus. Jot. . Flower. . Behold. Store. . Anger. . A capltal in Europe. Hail! Chum. Attending officer. Short for “alas.” . Units of length. . Proposed international language. 5. Song by one person. v . Cries of sheep. Silver (symbol). Satisfy. Helped. . Weird. Island in the Mediterranean. Scoff. Down. Procure. 2. College cheer. 3. Openings. Say. Combining form; loving. Darkness. Lift up. . Japanese statesman. . Engountered. Period of time. . Fully developed. . Verbal. ?*MANBUR» 5 Answer to Yesterday's Puzzle. nonEne o (1 [FIR] ANENA O ME| e} pil~/o] icja[nlalolalll¢]: [Vilf]o[T] |alsleISHl fc fo[nill 2] (elelwillA[Dlor ggg MK an appointment to have Arden Treatment before every social engage- ment of importance. The brisk patting with nourishing creams will Luminous circle. . Roughly elliptical. Mexican coin. 28, Items of avallable property. . Decree of the Sultan. . Rulers of Venice. . German city. Flat-bottomed boat. Atmosphere. . Suffix; relating to. . Exist. Bind. Ever., THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Wednesday, February 23. This planetary government is read as not important by astrologers, but a benefic aspect dominates. It is a day rarely auspiclous for dealing with one's correspondence, especially that which concerns banks and banking. Under this sway, it should be easier to obtain credit than when the plane- jtary rule is less dominated by Mer- | cury. There is a sign read as encouraging visfonary schemes and it is well to de- fer speculation until a more faverable rule prevails. o Great fluctuations of the money market abroad again are ferecast and financiers are to assume new bardens, the seers foretell. Actors and actresses who may hap- pen to be discouraged by this year's theatrical conditions may take joy in the announcement by those who read llgeflslars of brilliant possibilities for Great activity in machinery, iron and steel is prognosticated for 1927, when the United States will compete with European manufacturers. Persons whose birth date it is have the augury of great good luck in the coming year, which should be pe- cullarly fortunate for editors and writers. Children horn on that day probably will be keenly alert mentally. Many mathematiclans are born . undep Pisces. (Copyri ik DEMEYER an Elizabeth bring up swift circula- tion to clear Your skin and smooth and firm it. The skilful lifting and moulding of the contour with the tonic and astri tighten your skin and ngent Preparations will the underlying tissues. Elizabeth Arden has developed a system of Exercise as an important part of her scientific method of building beauty on health. A course of diet, massage, roller, reducycle and exercise, prescribed for you according to your individual requirements,will normalize your weight, mould your figure on smooth youthful lines, and so stimulate circulation and all the processes of your body’s functioning that every organ will contribute richly to your health, your vitality and your appearance. Telephone for' Appointments for Skin Treatments and Exercises: Franklin 4334 ELIZABETH ARDEN 1147 CONNECTICUT AVENUE - WASHINGTON, D. C. LONDON 25 0/d Bond Street NEW YORK 673 Fifth Avense PARIS 2 Rue de la Paix Elizabeth Arden's Venetian Toilet Preparations are on sale at the smart shops