Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1927, Page 36

WOMAN'’S PAGE. Budgeting in the Household Routine BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Tamily and personal budgets are essentlal to a knowledge of how money goes out. and what money comes in. There are familles that know to a penny exactly what is spent, what income is theirs and also for what each penny goes. There are other families that know what their expenses are, but cannot reckon on any epecific income. Then there are still other families that know just what their Incomes are, but have not the faintest notion for what they went, Those who keep account with ex- Mo E o WALKER, WHEN INCOMES ARE UNCER- TAIN, MAKING A HOUSEHOLD BUDGET IS A BAFFLING TASK. actness, both as to expenditures and incomes, are apt to look with amaze~ ment on those who are not so care- ful. Sometimes there is a grain of pride in their competency and a touch of pity for the lack of it in others. While lauding the excellence of keeping family accounts precisely, there 18 something to be said for the others who do not that mitigates any pity or condescension of thought to- ward them. Strange as it may sound, it is quite possible that in many in- stances this cannot be done! For example,. professio people never can know wi endss just what thelr incomes will be. To a degree this is true of all families that are not living on salaries. When Incomes Vary. ‘Where incomes are small and un- certain, keeping accounts and mak- ing budgets is racking and ticklish work, To cut down expenses and live with extreme frugality, so that, how- ever little comes in, it can be made to cover expenses is the portion of many a home maker and many & man of the house, for it takes strict econ- omy on both of their parts to accom- SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. 1 know why 'iss is called March; cause yer has to do it if yer want or not. ‘ 7. “Fish Cakes Supreme” [Mrs. Fisher’s way of serving plish this imperative necessity. These familles have years that are “lean,” when ends barely meet, and again there will be years when busi- ness brings in better returns. By exercising the same frugality at all times the savings of such vears can be put in bank toward some special purpose or to swell the “rainy day” fund. It is a happy year when such fam- ilies can do budgeting with any de- gree of accuracy. If Incomes Are Stable. The families that know what their | Incomes are and have no idea of what their expenses are constitute a great proportion of households. It is a haphazard existence at hest, even when living within means results, but this latter is imperative. If it is not done, the time comes when a present scale of living must be given up and reduction of expenses be made. This is most unpleasant, and it is unnecs essary, when it could be avoided by careful budgeting. Investment Income. Families or persons who live on definite salaries or incomes from in- vested funds need to make use of the budget system or there are liable to be rocks ahead in thelr course, and it certainly adds an asstrance that pro- motes a feeling of comfort to all fam- ilies to know what they have to spend and how it goes out. Even a partial budget is better than none, for thereby a large proportion of in- come and outlay can be accounted for with accuracy. DIARY OF A NEW FATHER BY ROBERT E. DICKSON. ‘Thursday night. Joan took the baby down town to- day to have Mr. Spencer take his pic- ture, and the proofs will be ready to- morrow in time for me to call for them on my way home, but I am kind of sorry we are getting them because 1 had @ better idea today and we might as well have saved the money we will spend on these pictures, be- cause who wants just plain pictures nowadays? ‘When I came home this evening Joan told me the baby had just been wonderful and Mr, Spencer had said that it all bables were as good as ours, taking photographs of them would not be any trick at all, and she said the baby smiled every time they want- ed him to and she knows the pictures are going to be good. - She said, “We will have to get a lot of them finished, I suppose, be- cause there are so many people that we must send his picture to,” and I said, “Well, I hope it doesn't cost too much, because I have another idea and we cannot afford it if we spend a lot on the pictures you had taken today,” and Joan said, “What is your idea?"” 1 said, “Well, now that the baby is learning to crawl I think we ought to take moving pictures of him in. stead of just plain, ordinary pictures and Joan said, “What for?” I sal “What do you have anyipiciures taken for?” “To send to ourrelatives and friends, of course,” answered Joan. “You couldn’t very well ship & few reels of movie film around the country and expect people to make ar- rangements with their neighborhood movie house to see them, could you?" “They sell projectors now t! can use in your own house,” I ex- plained, but Joan was not at all sold on the idea. “I suppose every person we send a picture to would have to {: out and buy a movie profector just ’;u what our baby looks like,” she said. that I had planned every'minute de- tail completely. - Any new idea has to start some place.” And says Joan, ‘Well, your {dea did not start any place, because the brain that an idea like that that came from could not be called any place.” “All right,” I said by way of closing the scrap, “Go ahead and send out a bunch of com- mon, ordinary, everyday pictures, just like everybody else in the world has, instead of trying something new once in & while and keeping up with the time, nd I certainly will get a hearty laugh if the baby grows up and goes to Hollywood and is in the movies in spite of his mother, s One-Egg Cake. Cream one and one-half cupfuls of sugar with one-half a cupful of but- ter, add one egg, beat well, then add one pint of sweet milk, two pints of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, and flavor to taste. Bake two layers in a moderate oven. Add filling if desired. 1LOVE taste. Any will tell you of the blood-reddening, body-building properties of pure cod liver oil. It has always worked wonders for those who take it. No longer need you coax children to take it! For in the form called coco cod, it has only a rich and mellow chocolaty flavor. Coco cod gives you the pure cod liver oil, with a// the vitalizing vitamins which physicians e are_essential to virile, wvibrant heall Adults are fairly rejuve- mated by coco cod. Children thrive on it —and Joveto take it! You'll take t, too, and smack your lips! All druggists in this city now have coco cod. ) ‘The Cod Liver Ol thet Tastes Like Chocelate or STl KITTY McKAY BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM. Next Summer I'm going to take up outdoor sport and learn to rock a plazza chair. (Covyright. 1927.) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Me and Lew Davis and Leroy Shooster wns standing around the lam post tawking about diffrent sub- jecks, sutch as weather we would rather be a living skelleton or @ tatoo man if we had to be some kind of a freek, and all of a suddin Lew Davises mother came up mad, saying to Lew, I thawt I told you to come home immeeditly with the stamps and postal cards. 1 dident get them yet, Lew sed, and she sed, Then you go and get them this instant and come home the next instant, and then Im going to give you a good wipping. And she went back home still mad and me and Leroy started to wawk around to the drug store with Lew me saying, Is she reely going to give you a wipping, Lew? Sure she is, Il leeve you come around with me and see her do it for a cent, Lew sed. Him allways trying to think of some way to make some money, and I sed, G, all rite, its werth a cent, Its reely werth 2 cents, ow sed and I sed, Like Heck it is, and he sed, Sure it is, my mothers some wipper but I sed a cent so Ill stick to it, how about you, Leroy? I havent got a cent, Leroy Shooster sed, and Lew said, Its a cent cash and 2 cents credit, if you wunt to come you can owe me 2 cents. All rite, thats a go, Leroy sed. And Lew got the stamps and postal cards and we went home with him and his mother was on the frunt steps wait- ing, and we all started to go pass her in the house and she sed, Wats all this percession? Their coming in to see me get wip- peéd, Lew sed, and she sed, Their go- ing rite home ware they came from or elts theyll get a good box on the eer themselfs. ‘Then hay, give me my cent back, I d. sed. ‘Wich Lew did, proving some biz- nisses fale before they hardly get MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN, Let Children Use Books. One mother says: Many excellent housekeepers con- sider books and papers around the house, or magazines on tables, real signs of disorder. But they should forget this idea for'the sake of the Said I, “I did not guarantee|’ children, who need to see and to touch these sources of education and to be very familiar with them. (Copyright. 1927.) Sweet Cabbage. Cut a cabbage fine. Put a large plece of lard in the pan, then a chopped onion. Let it get a light brown. Put the cabbage in the fat, add salt, half a cupful of sugar and half a cupful of vinegar, Cover and let it cook until all the liquid is absorbed. Then add a handful of flour and enough water to cover the cabbage, let it cook and stir fre- quently. When the cabbage is ten- der and all the water is absorbed it is ready to serve. Part 8—Continuir, The Adventures 9" MARBILS ‘With Billy THE following day the marble statue of the Prince again took on life as the magic pebble sank in the fountain waters. “Father, I have something wonderful to tell you. Silly s coming over In my new country today and we are to be together always. Why, father, you are crying!” “YES, little Otto, for we shall miss Silly very much,” “‘Father, Silly and I shall be very happy together, and I have more good news. Silly Indorses This Method as BSafe Guide for Young Men. Should o Men Judge o Girt by Her - Mother? Mbnm@dfix “T Should Take a Very Careful Look at Mother Before I Popped the Question, Because Most Girls Are What Mother Made Them.” YOUNG asks me If it is safe to judge a girl by her mother. Generally A’ lu‘l’khlnfi’,n;'e’s. Ninety-five times out of a hundred the best tip that a vouth can get on a malden is to size up her mother and study her past performances. The way mother looks at 50 is pretty apt to be the way Mabel will look at middle age. The kind of a housekeeper molhr;r is, is more than likely to be the way that Mabel will keep house. Mother's point of view is about the way that Mabel will look at things. For you see, son, Mabel is the result of both heredity and environment and the (’!’hlnul are that mother has not only bequeathed to her daughter her own beauty or homeliness, her own brains or stupldity, but she has formed the girl's eharacter, and the ideals that will make her code of conduct as long as she lives. Of course, every man thinks that he is golng to make over his wife according to his own taste, and he never doubts, when he marries a young girl, that she will be as plastic as dough in his hands. But before he is through with the honeymoon he has found out his error. He has discovered that mother had been on the job some 18 or 20 years before him and that, strive as he will, ho cannot undo her w rk. T was mother who implanted in Mabel's tiny breast, while she was yet in the cradle, a love of honor and truth and loyalty and a sense of duty, or else taught her to trade on her sex and be a mean little llar and grafter and quitter. It was mother who taught Mabel to read and think and develop her mind, or else who let her grow up a Dumb Dora with her sole interest centered on clothes and boys and dates. It was mother who taught Mabel habits of industry and thrift, or cultivated laziness and shiftlessness and extravagance in her. It was mother who taught Mabel to be unselfish and sweet and kind, or who trained her to be a hard-bolled Gimme-Gimme, with no consideration for any other human being but herself. It was mother who gave Mabel the strength to stand up and do her duty, or who made of her a weakling with a yellow streak in her, who will always do the easy thing instead of the right thing. Therefore, son, T should take a very long and careful look at mother before T popped the question to Mabel, for the old adage, “Like mother, like daughter,” is only too likely to be true. If mother, for instance, 18 one of those ladies who habitually deceive their husbands about the bills and all family matters, and whose favorite motto is “What a man doesn't know doesn’t hurt him.” I should leave Mabel for some more optimistic suitor, for T should want for my wife and the mother of my children a woman who would play the game squarely with me, and who had honor and honesty bred into her very bones. If mother has kept father's nose to the grindstone all of his life trying to pay for her extravagances—— I would never let myself in for a lifetime of slavery by marrying her daughter, for I should want a wife who would be a helpmate instead of a millstone about my neck. If mother is a sloppy housekeeper, where nothing is ever done on time, where the meals are a menace to life, and where theré is no order or system or management-—— I would not endanger my stomach and my happiness by putting them in Mabel's hands, for I would know that she did not even have a standard of good housekeeping, nor know the first principle about making a comfortable home. e NOR ‘would I marry Mabel if her mother is a shrewish, tyrannical, over- bearing woman of whom her husband stands ip cowering fear, I should reflect that Mabel might have inherited mamma's temper, and that, anyway, I wanted a wife who not been reared in an atmosphere in which men and women do not exercise a decent self-control over their tongues. But if mother at 60 is more interesting and better company than most girls; if she is large-minded and intelligent and humorous and sympathetic; if her husband still adores her, and her grown children make of her a pal; if her household runs as if on skids; if she has been a real partner to her husband in her marriage and the prop and stay of her family, then I should implore Mabel to marry me, for I should know that not once in a thousand times does that kind of & woman raise up a daughter who makes a bad wife, Speakipg by and large, as the mother is, 8o is the daughter, but there is no rule without its exceptions, and now and then an old hen hatches out a swan. Sometimes the fool woman has a clever daughter. Sometimes a weak woman has a strong daughter. Sometimes a frivolous mother has a serious- minded daughter. And sometimes girl is so disgusted with her mother's way of doing things that she take: he opposite tack, and goes to the other extreme. Bometimes the girl who has been brought up in a house like a becomes a monomaniac on cleanliness. 8he who has known in her ‘;}:u‘ti the dread knock of the bill collector forever pounding on the deor turns into almost a miser, and she who has been brought up in an atmosphere of strife becorgut :hbem::;‘lny-pdflce o‘tl“eit ut these changes do not often occur, Most women are what moth made them, and so it is safe to judge them by their mothers. Ry (Copyright, 1927.) TanotEx two years. This sult was a double penalty. But the court granted a judgment against Turner, stating: - “‘Misdeeds may be both private and public. For the same offense he may be a debtor to the one he has wronged, and also a wrongdoer against the pu lic, Both actions are independent. The State cannot prevent the wronged in- dividual from pursuing his priva remedy—the civil action; nor can the individual prevent the State from pur- suing its remedy—the criminal action.” Everyday Law Cases (May Wrongdoer Be Jailed Sued for the Same Offense? BY THE COUNSELOR. “Two years in the penitentiary!” ‘The case of the People vs. Will Turner was over. Turner, pleading {ity to the -charge of embezzling 2,000 from the Produce Bank, was led out of the courtroom to begin his sentence, Two years passed. Turner, at free- dom, was attracted again by the races, which had been the cause of his trouble. But luck was with him, and in a few months he accumulated a few thousand dollars. The Produce Bank, hearing of his good fortune, recalled the $2,000 loss and instructed a lawyer to enter suit against Turner for the money he had embezzled. Turner contested the suit, defending himself on the ground that he had already paid the penaity for taking the money. He. had served If It Swims Buy It At the PRINGE. & Silly is to be here with me on earth also.” “What! How can that be?"” “It is so, father. You will see. Now I must run over to Silly’s home and whisper the #ood news to him. Otto slipped in the front door and went quietly to Silly’s bedside. (You see the young Prince was no visi] to any one on earth excepting his ble r, the King)) He took Silly’s thin little hand in his hispered = and wi across the face look,” ‘Look, *‘Hel A emile fiitted of the sick boy, ' sald the. excited mother, “Silly Js smiling, perhaps he is getting bet- ter.” The doctor shook his head sadly. He knew how sick the boy was. SILLY'S pale lips moved. “Hello, Prince Otto. Are we going out to play?” The mother started as if she had been shot. Silly’s hand moved on the outside of the coverlet and seemed to clasp another hand. His evelids drooped, a 100k of happiness settled on his face—and the Prince and Silly went out to play together, To Be Continued Monday Written for “Junior Town™ Home of Smart Shoes for Children Hahn's, 1207 F Copyright, Wen. Hahn & Co, 1927 «| ancessory is an ideal accom| NANCY PAGE Joan Comes for a Stay at Aunt Naney’s BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. sister stepped off the rried. proud. Nancy, was all smiles and dimples. In the taxi Docia told Nancy her tale of wou She had had a bad cold for months. The doctor advised rest, a complete rest. He suggested an ocean trip. If her husband could go, well and good, But Joan was too active, too much of a care, for an overtired mother, She must be left behind. 'Why don't eyes sparkle e Joan with us? Peter adores caNe BRI her. We'd love to have her for awhile.” That evening it was decided that Joan should stay with the Pages for the rest of the Winter. “I'll get a book on child care, and I'll have Dr. Green come in every week. Lois Ashton's sister is a trained nurse; she can gfve us advice. “Yes, but think of preparing the f!“l’\ vegetable puree, the cod liver oil, the orange juice,” sighed the tired mother. (Covyright, 1927.) Cold Beefsteak Strips. Cold beefsteak is too little appreciat- ed. So far from being a makeshift dish for a catch-up meal, if a little care is put on its preparation, cold beefsteak may figure as literal piece de resistance. First, the steak should have been cut thick; second, it should have been lightly brolled unless in- dividual preferences are strong for well done meat. Then the steak should have been set away to become thoroughly cold. With a sharp knife the strips should be cut not more than ong-half inch in width, In finger lengths the steak strips will then present a_most attractive appearance. Conslderable ingenuity may be exer- cised in arranging these strips for serving. They may be laid in straight rows on a platter and garnished with sweet pickles and parsley. They may be served betwen thin slices of white bread and butter or they may be ar- ranged to suit individual idea and taste. Speaking of garnishing, while pickle or chutpey or some otho; en! there is something indescribably ap- petizing about nicely broiled cold steak when served with literally nothing but salt.. When the cold strips are intended for the children’s lunch, for example, this latter is the better way of serving. Good Pudding. Break one pound of shelled English walnuts fine and cut nine ounces of dates in s. Add 11 ounces of powdered sugar mixed with three teaspoonfuls of baking powder and th whites of flve eggs last. Bake in a moderate oven for about 30 minutes. Serve with whipped cream. TSE<SANBO% Beal Brand Xea Ls of the THE -EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1927. .FEATURES. BEAUTY CHATS Shower Baths. If you are bullding a house, build showers in your bathrooms. If you already have a showerless bathroom, you can put in a shower bath over the tub without much extra expense. And If you can't afford even that, get a long hose with a spray nozzle, and an attachment at the other end to mix the water as it comes from the pipes into the hose. There is something in the stinging, tingling force of the water against your skin that is healthier than get- ting into a tub of still water. The force of the water brings the blood up to the surface of the skin, open: the pores, cleanses them, massage: the skin, washes you cleaner than ou until you are glowing all rom its heat and its force, and denly turn off the hot so & quick cold rinse—and it this by a rubdown with 8 _large, rather coarse towel, you'!l end yaur bath feeling vigorous enough to go out and completely conquer the world. Try it some morning when you hate getting up and feel generally low- spirited and dull and decide that the whole day Is going to be a failure, BY EDNA KENT FORBES therefore it seems a pity to have to gt up and begin a useless routin y the end of the rubdown you be able to do your job better a&n your mind will be clear and youM really want to get to work. Baths are healthy and necessary, of course, but there is no more reason for a bath to be dull, obligatory busi- ness, than for a bathroom to be & hideous, shiny room full of deathly white tiling. Baths should be stimu- lating, cleanse your mind as well as your skin, make you feel well and active—shower baths do that, salt baths do it, certain medicinal herb baths do it. Neither need a bathreem be celor- less and ugly. Shower curtains of ol ored rubbered silk or cretonne can be bought now and add to the cheerful- ness of your morning shower. ’ wgrakuictin Fig Paste. Mince one pound of drfed figs through & meat chopper, add a quart of warm water, and let it simmer on the baock of the stove for two hours, them re- ! move and place in the refrigerator for several hours before serving. When ready to use, put in a glass dish and pile high with marshmallows chopped fine and mixed with whipped cream. Garnish with whole walnut medts. "CONSTIPATON HUBDERS SLEEP Kellogg’s ALL-BRAN brings prompt, safe relief—guaranteed! Nervousness, sick headaches, ingomnia are often the direct re- sult of constipation. Indeed, this terrible curse wrecks strength and health—and causes more than forty serious diseases. Yet it can be re- lieved—easily, promptly, perma- nently, It be prevented! Kellogg’s RAN is guaran- Doctors recommend ALL-BRAN ‘because it is 100% bran or “bulk.” It relieves eonstno..lpatlon ;‘n mtnr:t own way. a work no part- bran product can equal. Simply nent!‘v’o tablespoonfuls daily—in chronie cases, with' every meal. You'll enjoy it! 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