Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1927, Page 48

WOMA N’S PAGE. NANCY PAGE Peter's Homemade Portfolios Scored a Hit BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Peter had a friend who was an ardent photographer of amateur at- tainments. He had photograph album after album filled with his efforts. It was sometimes painful to sit through the showing of a whole book. Peter wondered why a portfolio could not be used. He decided it could. He made | it himselt, using two sheets of heavy | cardboard. A small patterned wall | paper was used on the outside and a plain paper on the inside. Bock bind- | ing tape held the two sides of the portfolio together. The ties were of strong linen tape. The paper was given a coat of colorless shellac. An ordinary accordion manila enve- lope was one of the gifts Nancy re- ceived. But you never would have recognized its plebeian origin in the| finished product. The cover was done over with a piece of silver paper on which blue stars of assorted sizes were glued. The cheap red cotton tape tie was exchanged for one of silver rib- bon. And this gay affair, thank you most to death, was planned as a holder for the bills of the current month. Some of Nancy's bills were food bills. She made good salads. If you would like her recipes write to Nancy Page. care of thie paper. inc} d, self-address- ed envelope. (Copyright, 1. Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Cod liver oil has become such a fa- miliar article on all bathroom shelves that one supposed all’ mothers were equally familiar with its properties, and the reason it was given to chil- dren. Apparently not, as one mother ‘wrote me, in what sounded like an in- dignant tone on paper, “I have never given my child cod liver oil and I do not intend to. I do not believe in drugs.” Because doctors advocate it and be- cause it is bought at the drug store is, I feel sure, the reason for this erroneous idea about cod liver oil, be- cause it is no more a drug than but- ter. It is a food, an oil derived from the livers of cods, and it is given as food. It contains vitamin A—the same vitamin that is found in butter, cream, milks of all types—and in addition it contains what has been named vita- min D, a property whese action is like that of sunlight. 'Sunlight hefps the body to make the best use of its foods. ‘We may give a child a good diet, but without enough sunlight the proper- ties in the diet are not all doing their “jobs.” Add sunlight to the diet and the same one will be found efficient. Cod liver oil does the same thing. It sets the calcium and phosphorus to work in the most telling way, & nice little slave driver, if you will. Some mothers have complained that cod liver oil upsets their babies for days. In almost every case it has been found that these mothers either started out with too large doses at first; or else they were giving the cod liver oil all at one time in the day, a load that proved too rich for the baby’s stomach to bear. A concentrated oil like this given to a child before a meal would, if nothing else, tend to check digestion, so that the food would leave the stomach more slowly and might be partly vomited back. The best method of administering is to give the cod liver oil in small doses three times a day, and give it after a meal. The full stomach will take care of it better, and in small doses it will not upset the child. The Winter climates of many States make cod liver oil an essential part of the diet of the baby and child up to two years of age. In sunny climates when the child is able to be exposed to the sun’s rays for periods during the day, it is not so vital a need. The mother must decide these matters for herself, though cod liver ofl is one insurance against malnutrition, and that in itself is a powerful factor in its favor. . Hot Tamales. Cook one or two chickens until tender. Remove all the meat from the bones, shred it in the chopping machine, and add to it the liquid in which the chicken has been cooked. Season with any desired condiments, especially red pepper, and thicken with corn meal. The rolls should be about the =izes of link sausages, wrapped in the inner husks of green corn or similar material. Tie the s with strings at each end to e them. and boil them for three hours. It is best to taste the prepara- tion before adding the meal, to note whether it is rich or needs more sea- soning, allowing for the meal to be added, which will take up the sharp flavor. Parsnips Tasty. butter in a saucepan of cooked parsnips, chopped parsley, add squeeze of lemon ogether until thor- Melt put in sprinkle soning some pleces with and ‘Throat Sore? Be Careful! Results in 2 Hours A sore throat is dangerous. A new discovery, GERM-ORAL, pwill clear your sore throat quick- ‘1y and kill the disease germs. Sore throat is often the start soward tonsilitis, laryngitis and there is always the danger of it going down into the lungs. Be Prepared. Get s Bottle Today Reports Wise Advice Given on Daughter’s Wedding Eve What the ” - midc:flfiozhrr %Dorothyplx “Don’t Come Running to Me With Your Troubles After Marriage,” Advised a Wise Mother. “Don’t Confide Your Husband’s Affairs to Me.” “1\1\' CHILD,” said a wise mother to her daughter on her wedding eve, “you are going to be married, and I want to give you a few words of *Listen to it well, for it is about the last advice I shall ever give you. you and your husband must play your own game off | Your own bat and work out your own salvation without any suggestion or | fnterference from me. I shall simply stand on the sidelines and watch you with @ heart that rejoices or breaks, but with hands off. advice. After you are married | “You are all that I have had since your father died and I shall miss you | sorely enough, but I am glad that you are marrying, because I believe that the woman who has a husband and children and a home follows the career | for which she was created and leads the fullest and happiest life that any woman can have. “And because T want your marriage to be a success I am not going to | accept John's and your kind invitation to live with you. Any third person, any outsider in a household, menaces its: peace and stability. That is why a mother-in-law in a home is as dangerous as a bomb under the hearthstone. And since I do not wish to blow yours to kingdom come, I shall stay in my | own place and content myself with paying you visits, which will not be too Ciose together nor too long. § that’s that. “Now, my first piece of advice to you is: Don’t come running home to mother with your troubles. Don't tell me every time you and John have a spat. Dn't tell me about all his little faults and foibles and weaknesses. Use your own intelligence in settling your own problems. “Jave enough courage to fight your own battles without calling for out- side assistance. Have enough fairness to realize that you are not perfect vourself and that John is just as much surprised and disillusioned to find out that you are only & human woman instead of an angel as you are to discover that he is only a mere man instead of the godling you had imagined him to be. “Keep vour domestic difficultles to yourself. Don't even confide them to me. Believe me, my child, that it is a lot easier to admit that you are wrong and back down from a position if no outsider knows anything about it. No two young people can adjust themselves to each other without plenty of spats, but if only they themselves know about them, the girl will break down and cry and the boy call himself a brute, and they will kiss and make up and no harm is done. have told mother all about it, you have your pride to con- ave to stand pat on being a poor, persecuted creature who and pitied because she is married to a tyrant who doesn’t understand her or appreciate her. Besides, just talking over your matrimonial grievances with mother makes them concrete. So if you are dissatisfied with John never put it into words. Let it stay nebulous and you'll forget it. “MY second piece of advice is: me. I have no right to know t told me everything about yourself is no reason why everything about him. “But if you sider, and you h is to be ‘poor Mary-ed" Don't confide your husband’'s affairs to hem, and the fact that you have always you should tell me that their husbands never tell them about their business affairs or their hopes and plans. When this happens the explanation in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred is that the husband has found out that he can’t trust his wife with his secrets. He has told her something and she has blabbed. It doesn’t justify her to say that she only told mother, for mother may be one of the kind of women who broadcast all they know to the world. “When you get married your loyalty belongs to your husband. You are his confidential partner, and if you are to make your marriage what it should be he must feel that what he tells you is as safe as it would be it locked in his own soul. “The next piece of advice that I give you is not to throw mother con- tinually in your husband’s teeth. The reason that most men hate their mothers-n-law is because their wives are always telling them that mother says that we had better do this or that, or mother thinks that we should have a car or shouldn’t have a car, or mother says that we should go out more or stay at home more. “Many wives complain “It's mother that is the authority on every subject. It's mother who is the oracle. It's mother to whom the bride turns for guidance, and this naturally wounds the vanity of the bridegroom, who has fondly believed that his wife thought him a second Solomon and that he was to be the head of the house, not mother. ow, I want John to like me, and so I beg of you never, under any circumstances, to quote my opinion to him. Keep mother in the background, and if you ever want to use any of my ideas, for Heaven's sake advance them as your own. “MY next piece of advice is: Don’t phone John or go to his office except when absolutely necessary. Don’t call John up to ask him whether you had better order mutton or beef for dinner or to tell him that you still love him. Manage your own affairs alone and keep your soft talk until he comes home. A man who is interrupted in the midst of a conference or while he is selling a bill of goods to spoon with his wife over the telephone doesn’t feel like talking love to her, He feels like bawling her out for being a fool. “One of the most promising marriages I ever knew went on the rocks because the bride would call up her busy and ambitious young husband a dozen times a day to tell him how lonely his little sweetums was without him and did he still love his pwecious babykins. It got on his nerves until he cut the telephone connection by divorcing her. “And my last piece of adviece to you, my child, is: Don't tag your hus- band too closely. Don't hang on to his coattails every minute f the time. Give him a reasonablc amount of personal freedom. Let him go out now and them by himself, and, above all, don’'t always go along with him when he goes to visit his motl “You will find after you are married that you can enjoy coming to see me alone and that we have many things to talk over that you would not care to say before John. Just heart-to-heart things between mother and daughter. Don’t forget that John feels the same way toward his mother, and especially don't forget that there are times when John's mother would like to have her boy to herself without any wife along. And this isn't because they want to discuss you or criticize you. “So give John and his mother the pleasure that you and I have of being alone together occasionally. And this is my parting advice.” DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1927.) Stewed Kidneys. Cut the kidneys in thin slices, let them soak in cold salted water for half an hour, then drain them and put them into a saucepan. Cover with cold water, put them on the fire and let them boil for 2% hours or until done. When they are nearly tender, add butter, pepper, salt, sage, celery, grated nutmeg and an onion chopped Boil until done, add a cupful of rich cream, let it boil up once and serve hot. Pineapple Souffie. Drain all the juice from a small can of crushed pineapple. There should be about one-half to three-fourths of a cupful. Melt three tablespoonfuls of butter, add four tablespoonfuls of flour, cook to a smooth paste, then add the pineapple juice and one-half a cupful of the fruit, also one tea- spoonful of lemon juice and the grated rind of the lemon. Add three eggs, the yolks and whites beaten separately as in all souffle making and bake in a moderate oven. Victrola Club Now Forming! Learn About It! 1 It Means Much to You Machine ..cccoeeecee....$12500 6 75c double-face records 4.50 ! XCeTul /7@ 4 $1.50 double-face records 6.00 You pay $10 cash and then! THE MOST LIBERAL TERMS YOU’VE EVER HEARD OF. Records your own selection. .. 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If preferred, apples or any other mix- tures could be baked in raw crust. Hecipe contains fiber, lime, iron and vitamins A eaten in moderation and only occa- sionally by and under ROBERT QUILLEN, ght to be after she devotes her | tening, 4 tablespoons. 2 tablespoons. 1 SINGLE CRUST. shortening mes: Gradually is, add 1 tabl to about one-half the mi side of the bowl; the se to the other re The_dough Beware of too It makes crust tough. Use light mo- in quick oven ‘When_cold ure. Strips Bake 20 minutes. DIET NOTE. and B. Recipe can be normal adults of average ght. NASHVILLE NEW YORK MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Sliced Bananas. Dry Cereal with Cream. Ham Omelet. Bran Toast. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Browned Vegetable Hash. Graham Gems. Raisin Gingerbread. ‘Whipped Cream. Tea. DINNER. Boiled Corned Shoulder. Boiled Potatoes. Spinach, Buttered Beets. Cabbage Salad. Mock Cherry Pie. Cheese. Coffee. HAM OMELET. Chop cold cooked ham very fine. Put butter in frying pan and, when melted, the chopped ham. Beat 2 or 3 eggs (or as many as you wish to serve) very light and season slightly. Pour over ham and fry until set. BROWNED VEGETABLE HASH. Use 2 parts cold boiled cabbage to 1 part each cold boiled po- tatoes and beets. Chop vege- tables separately and mix. Sea- son with salt and pepper. Re- heat in butter, brown well. MOCK CHERRY PIE. Cover bottom of pie plate with paste. Reserve enough for upper crust. For filling use 1 cup cranberries cut in halves, 14 cup raisins seeded and cut in pieces, % cup sugar, 1 table- spoon flour, lump of butter size of walnut. Bake 30 minutes in moderate oven. Inexpensive Curtains, Very artistic and inexpensive cur- tains can be made from Japanese crepe. This material is a yard wide and of sufficlent body to fall in grace- ful folds. Select that with a white ground and wistaria, dragons, oOr >herry blossoms in blue. Choose a dye- stuff in red if the woodwork or other furnishing of your room is mahog- any or redwood, and dilute until you get a color that exactly matches. Dip the material, first practicing with a bit of the goods to be sure you have the right shade. The blue design comes out in that peculiar blue, which has a sort of red bloom over it some- times seen in Oriental rugs, which on the background of dark red is ex- tremely attractive. If the woodwork in the room is oak, use a golden brown YOUR "WEATURES.” MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. MIND And How to Keep It Fit BY PROF. JOSEPH JASTROW. Police or Doctor? Every large city has a group of derelict stations or misery clinics, where are considered cases of wrong- doing, by reason of wrong feeling and wrong thinking, cases of human nature gone wrong in so many ways, vet with some power of come-back if properly helped or directed. To an older generation the only recourse was to call the police! now we are more apt to call the doctor. But he is a new kind of doctor, a doctor of minds in distress or for society in distress as to what to do with its derelicts and the misery they spread. Henry Loyal was a steamfitter, 48 years old. He has been in trouble all his life, generally irresponsible. He comes from a low-grade family and is dull enough to be called feeble- minded, yet intelligent enough to know what he is doing and to under- stand what you want him to do. As in so many cases, the problem is not an individual, but a family. There's a slack, profane wife, and four girls, with not_a healthy one in the lot. Yet the Loyals are attached to one another. despite the poverty of the home and the paternal sprees. They cling to father though he goes off for days of wild life, loafs for months and now and then breaks out in fits of cruel rage. The police have been called. Four times in court for wife-beating and non-support; yet a threat of separa- ton from friend wife, who never has come to tell her story, is enough to bring him to his senses. There would be little use in jailing him. What he needs is something to jack up his sense of responsibility, and what manhood he has left. The doctor has been called. There were headaches for 15 years; and enough if not marked symptoms to make him any one of a dozen kinds of “mental” case. On the basis of his medical record you could put him in what is now called a psychopathic hospital; for a psychopath—a man with a twisted and defective mind— he certainly is and born so. There wi a fear or threat of suicide, a suspicion of doctors; all sorts of com- plaints—unsteadiness of mind gener- ally. And the doctors were able to help him. Henry Loyal and his family needed social help. The social worker got neighborhood and celebrated it by getting a plano on the installment plan. But some of the debts were paid off, and all went fairly well for eight months. Then another slump; a debauch. No work, and the land- lord threatened eviction. The mother had to be sent to the hospital, one girl to a relative; the others boarded out. After a time they began to get well; & new job was found, and the Loyal family were getting together; and there seems to be hope. Such is a trpical tale of the human develict in the Misery Clinic, that may be holding fairly continuous ses- sions around the corner from where you live. Dr. Southard and Miss Jar- who call _their case-book the ingdom of Evil can give you hundreds of such cases. Here is the bill for the Loyal case in social terms: The social worker, 245 hours; doctor, 15 hours; psychological examination, one hour, and nothing is said of the | policeman and the court. The medi- cal record takes 42 pages; the social record, 106 pages; there were 120 visits, 105 telephone calls, 75 letters on_the case. That's the formal bill that society pays to keep one derelict afloat. It seems the only way. If society said, sink or swim, there would be no choice but to go under. The day is past when we can treat crime; we must treat cases. But the day hasn't come when we can dispense with either the police or the doctor. We have become more expert in knowing when to call them, and why we do so. (Covyright. 1927.) An experienced baby nurse told me that the best way to dry the tiny baby |after the bath is to wrap him smooth- ly in a large, soft towel and then b the hand gently over the towel, pat- ting but not pressing. This is consid- ered preferable to rubbing the towel over the little body. (Covyright. 19 My Neighbor Says: When using dried or evapo- be added, as the flavor of the fresh fruit. The same rulé gov- erns canmed fruits. When you wish to make gravy or soup with the water in which meat has been cooked. wring cloth out in cold water anc strain the liquor through it. No e will go through. » improve the flavor of cur- rents and raisins in pudding and cakes, place them in a bowl, pouring boiling water over them and leave to soak over night. Drain and dry in the oven before adding to other ingredients. A small window may be made to look larger by setting the cur- tain rods beyond the casing on each side and using draperies of a material heavy enough so that the casing will not be seen South American Salad. Boil six beets of regular size, not too large, until tender. Drop them into cold water, slip off the skins, and hollow out the centers deeply. Mari- nate in vinegar, which has been sea- soned with salt, pepper, and one or two cloves, for two hours, and then drain. Meanwhile, chop fine one-half a cupful of cold boiled potatoes, one- half a cupful of celery, one hard- cooked egg, one green pepper from which all seeds have been removed, and one-half a small onion. Mix to. gether and add one-fourth cupful of chopped walnut meats. 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