Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1928, Page 47

. WOMAN'’S PAGE. DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Remarks on the Wife-and-Husband Job—Advice to Wife Whose Husband Is a “Regular Fel- low” Abroad and a Grouch at Home. DOROTHY DIX: I am going with a young lady who feels sure that her feminine fncompetence for matrimony should be rewarded by a devoted husband. She can't keep hous» and doesn’t want to. but thinks that I should Jabor and provide a good home for her. How come that these feminine misfits should have paragons for husbands? B.R. C. Answer: Well, there are so few paragons of husbands that I don't think Fou need worry about anv girl getting one. It is such a remote contingency hat it s hardly worth taking into consideration. But if a man marries & woman knowing that she has none of the makings ®f & good domcstic wife in her his sin is on his own head. He brings his misfortune upon himself and has no right to ask us to shed any tears of sympathy over him. Many men do marry that type of girl, probably on the principle that they prefer the luxuries to the necessities of life. They fall for a pretty face and a vampy technique and console themselves with the fatuous belief that matrimony work a miracle in her character. Of course, nothing of the kind happens. The girl who hated a cook stove before marriage loathes it even more after marriage, and the girl who turned up her nose at domesticity in the days of courtship makes the wife who turns ¢ her back upon it and insists upon living in boarding houses and hotels. t inly you are correct in thinking that a woman has no right to get any fi:r:fr:tfmr’n' ge than she gives, and that if she is not willing to broil the bacon she should not expect her husband to bring the bacon home. Marriage should be & 50-50 proposition. a partnership in which each member of the firm should do his or her half of the work. . If a woman is not willing to do the work of making a home, she should certainly work outside of the home and not expect her husband to maintain her in luxury as a useless parasite. Most men marry to get a home as much as for anything else. The thing that Jures them into matrimony is the dream of coming home at night after a hard day's work to a place of peace and rest and quiet and order, where there will be a smiling face to welcome them at the door and a good dinner smoking on the table. ‘This is an works for: this is what makes him put his neck in the halter, and unie: woman is going to do her very best to make this dream come true she is playing a lowdown game on & man to marry him and make him assume her board bill and shopping ticket and alimony in case he gets to the place where he can't stand her housekeeping any longer and flies the coop. But it would be a good thing if both men and women would stop every now and then and ask themselves: “What am I, what do I do, what do I give, that I should expect a paragon of a wife or husband?” Suppose 8 man should ask himself: “What do I give my wife to pay her for her love and falthfulness to me, for her patience with my faults, for the ces she makes for me? I wonder if when I'm cross and grouchy, and when I knock everything she does, and when I begrudge her a new hat, she doesn’t think she has made a pretty poor bargain?” % pose a wife should say to herself: “What do I give my husband in return for his supporting me in luxury, for the money he lavishes on me, for his slavery for me? I wonder if when I am nagging and cross and dissatisfied, and when 1 don't even make him a flrvlr(r’\!ortnble and }r:eac;ful h‘"‘?‘a he egmesn't think t ell for & pretty raw confidence game when he married me?" ./ 2k pha o g DOROTHY DIX. DR EAR MISS DIX: I have a husband that if you saw him you would ‘think he was a superb husband, but who is breaking my heart. He fills our table with food, but our hearts are hungry for affection. Abroad he is the life of the compan-, but at home he is dumb, sometimes never speaking for days and weeks " atatime. When his boys come into the house, he never notices them. If there i8 love in him, I can't find it. He sits alone at night without ever noticing me, He is prominent in his lodges and & good companion among his fellow workers, ‘They call him a “regular fellow.” In his own house he is a grouch, & gloom and & terror. I feel that I can’t stand this life any longer. What can I do? MRS. E. Answer: The French have a proverb that describes this type of husband. ‘They say he is “the joy of the street and the sorrow of the home.” There are many men of this kind. They are genial and %ny and sun-shiny in the outside world, but they are cross and crabbed with their own families. ‘When they go to dinner parties they set the table in a roar, but they never speak their own tables except to knock the food. I have known men who headed subscription list. but whose own wives had to chloroform them before they get enough money out of them to buy a pair of shoes for the baby. Apparently these men consider that amiability and politeness and consideration are luxuries too good for consumption in the family circle, T do not think, Mrs. E, that there is anything you can do that will change your husband. 1 am not cne of those optimistic souis who believe that wives are iracie workers who can alter a man's nature and make him over to order. But can change youf own point of view regarding him. You can eliminate him your scheme of things so that he will cease to fret and worry you all the time, and, curiously enough, that will come nearer to reforming him than any- thing else would. For not even the most self-centered egotist of a husband likes to feel that he has come to mean nothing to his wife, and that his moods are of no consequence to her, and that she can get along perfectly well without him, He may like. to ignore her, but when she ignores him it is something different. He may not like to take the trouble to entertain her, but it piques his vanity for him to discover that he is actually boring her. ‘Therefore, your best ‘rlly is to quit trying to force your husband's favor. Devote yourself to your children. Fill your life with other interests. If he won't ?flk t0 you of an evening, put on your hat and go out to the movies with a woman -.-driend. Join clubs. Get interested in movements. Perhaps this will wake him up. If it doesn't, you will have at least established a life of your own that will have its own pleasures and wmpenfnu_ons; DOROTHY DIX. DLAR DOROTHY DIX: Is a2 husband justified in whipping his wife for flirting? 1 have the best man on earth as s husband, although he gave me the outstanding thrashing of my life several months after we were married. ‘This occurred six years ago, when I was about 22, and I thank him for takin such drastic action to bring me to my senses instead of allowing us to drift aj and finally end up in the divorce court. 1 flirted with another man. He warned me not to do it. I repeated ft, however, as 1 am of a stubborn nature. but he beat the stubbornness and the folly out of me with his leather belt. Which do you recommend, the strap or & divoree for a flirting wife? MRS. ANNA G. : Well, I can't say I am strong for wife-beating, but I have no doubt rap is a more efficacious remedy for flirting than divorce. I have long contended that. when men and women act like spoiled children, they should be treated like spoiled children, and that it was a pity somebody couldn't turn them over their knees and give lhzm' . king. Y DIX, Oysters With Codfish. Easy Nut Bread. Cut fresh codfish fine and Into strips| Run seven graham crackers and one an inch thick and remove all bones. Put the fish into & saucepan and add a | CoPTUl 0f nut meats through a food ¢ash of grated nutmeg, one cupful of | chopper. Add two cupfuls of flour sift- minced celery, half a tesspoonful of{ed with two teaspoonfuls of baking G STAR, WASHINGTON, This Was Reckless Driving Once, TME FIRWY SPEED DEMOM — 1) Asparagus loaf Spinach with carrots Buttered potato balls Celery and radish salad l’lnen'p;:'le ple ) (2 Spinach ring with mushrooms Baked potatoes Cream cheege and tomato salad French dressing Jellied rhubarb culurg sauce 3) Baked macaroni and corn French fried potatoes String beans 3 Tomato and watercress salad Caramel custard Creamed Onions and Eggs. Peel four large Bermuda onions. Cut | in quarters, cover with boiling salted | water and cook for 25 minutes or until | tender. Melt four tablespoons of butter, add four tablspoons of flour and stir in two cups of milk. Cook until the mix- ture thickens. Season .to taste with salt and pepper and add four hard- boiled eggs cut in quarters. Drain the onions, place in & buttered baking dish. - Juist w1 —BY JOHN CASSEL. THURSDAY, Vegetarian Recipes and Menus Pour the egg mixture over them. Sprinkle with buttered bread crumbs and brown in a hot oven. Mushroom Hash. Wash and peel one pound of mush- rooms and then chop them quite fine. Melt four tablespoons of butter, add the mushrooms, one tablespoon of chop- ped olives and a tablespoon of chopped pimento. Cover and cook for ten minutes, stirring occasionally. Then add one-half cup of fine dry bread crumbs, ohe tablespoon of lemon juice and enough salt and pepper to season. Cook slowly until the mixture 18 quite dry or for about ten minutes longer. Turn out on a hot platter. Garnish with parsiey and serve very hot. Asparagus Timbales or Loaves. Drain a can of asparagus tips. But- ter six small teacupfuls or individual custard cups and place four to six asparagds tips with the points down in each cup. Cut the remainder of the asparagus into small pleces. Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter, add two ta- blespoonfuls of flour and stir in one cupful of milk. Cook until thickened. Then add one teaspoonful of salt and one-eighth teaspoonful of pepper. When cayenne pepper, five blades of mace, the ‘uice from one lemon, and twe cup- fuls of the ovster liquor, Cover closely and simmer gently until the fish is cone, then add a plece of butter the sige of an egg that has been rolled in four, and two dozen large oysters with their juice. Bimmer for about five minutes longer and serve hof powder and one teaspoonful of salt. To one cupful of sour milk add one-fourth | teaspoontul of baking soda. Combine | the ingredients and add two-thirds cup- 1 ful of sweet milk, It will be stiffer than | cake batter, Put into greased bread pan and let stand for 20 minutes. Bake in & moderate oven for about 45 minutes Here’s one “Grown- up” drink that’s good for children! ATURALLY you can’t let. the children have caffein beverages with theirmeals, That's outof thequestion. But it /s hard to say “No” to their “Please, Mother!” Harder still if your children sre among the many who don’t like milk, Here's a simple way out of the difficulty! Serve Iustant Postum made with milk, the drink that schools everywhere are serving &y pert of the noon-day lunch, 1t's 80 easy to mske! Just put a tesspoonful of Instant Postum in s cup, pour in hot (not boiled) milk, add sugar 1o taste—it's seedy! Healthful— Nowrishing! There's 1o caffein in Instant Postum made with milk. Not the slightest trace of any drug! In- stead, you have a drink made of whole wheat and bran, plus all the body-building nourishment of milk. A drink with a smooth, rich flavor all its own, Children love it—even children who don't like milk alone! YourgrocerhasInstant Postum. Order it today—serve it to your children tomorrow! And try it yourself-—made with either milk or boiling weter, Or, let Postum be your mealtime drink for thirty days, See what adifference it makes! Then decide if you will ever go back to caffein beyer sges. Eight out of ten decide “No"} Postum 5 @t V.0, L, = the mixture is thick and smooth pour it gradually into four well beaten eggs, stirring consumlr Add the cut-up asparagus and fill the molds with the mixture. Place them in a pan of hot water and bake in a moderate oven for 30 minutes, or until firm. Turn out on & hot platter. Garnish with buttered peas and strips of pimento. Serve at once, Fruit Gelatin Whip. One package lemon-flavored = gela- tin, one cup bolling water, two egg ‘whites, one cup apricot pulp, juice of one orange, two tablespoonfuls of sugar. Pour the boiling water over the gelatin, add the sugar and stir until dissolved. Cool, add orange juice and the apricot pulp. The -flarlmt pulp may be from either canned or stewed dried apricots. Cool the mixture until it begins to thicken and then beat with an egg beater until frothy. Add the stiffly beaten egg whites and con- tinue beating until still enough to hold its shape. This can be quickly accom- plished if the bowl of the mixture is placed in a pan of ice water. Heap the gelatin whip in sherbet cups and garnish with maraschino cherries or a little of the apricot pulp or a plece oflsandlcd orange peel and serve very cold. MARCH 15, 1928, A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN, ‘Text: “Who hath despised the day of small things?"—Zech, iv.10. “If you wish to come out at the big end of the horn, you must go in at the little end,” is an old maxim often quoted to young men starting out in life, to warn them against trying to start on too big a scale. It is wholesome advice, and much neceded by young men of today, among whom there is an all too prevalent spirit of restlessness, haste and impatience. Young men today want to leap to heights that were made to climb. The day of small beginnings is despised. Young men going into business want to jump into the big end of the horn at the start. They are not willing to squeeze their way through the little end of the horn. Young people get married and want to start right out on a big social sched- ule, live in a stone-front house, hire servants and ride in a fine automobile. “Who hath despised the day of small things?” He will likely be despised In the day of great things. The fellow who plunges in at the big end of the horn will likely be found later on crawling out at the little end. The young man who begins his life work on a scale too big for him, who tries to nll!\\‘l% and forestall time, is almost sure to fail. Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND, Here i3 a pleasing deviation from the ordinary type of bay window. At each end of the bay instead of windows there are bullt-in bookshelves, and in a room which has two or three exposures to al- low for the sacrifice of light from these two spaces nothing could add more to the decorative effect. This Is such a delightful room that I want to tell you all about the color scheme, because perhaps you may be able to adapt it to some room in your own home, ‘The woodwork and walls are such a lovely shade of apple green and the floor covering is black with a “spatter- dash” effect in bright yellow. No glass curtains have been used and the overdraperies are of a black ground semi-glazed chintz with design in Chinese red, jade green and yellow, these made in a simple manner to hang straight to the sill and put up with a narrow valance. And to complete the colorful effect in this window treatment, the interior of the cupboards is finished > in Chinese red, dulled to an antique shade, - ‘The furniture is maple and the cover- ing of the chair which is shown is yel- low ground flowered chintz piped with light green chintz. dht for Breyers Bridge Package 5 Quart-Trench lee (ream Delicious Breyers French lee Cream ++ 2/3 quart . . packed and sealed in a parchment=wrapped box . . just the right amount of ice cream for a family of 4—or a party of 4110 new! It’s convenlent! I’s economicall Breyers French Ice Cream is o highe ly-nutritious food as well as a delie cious confection, Made only fr. strictly fresh eggs . . rich, real cream o « granulated camge sugar . . pure natural fiavorings . . blended and frozen with the most exacting care, And remeo er this! Every Breyers Bridge Package of Fronch Iee Cream bears the famous Breyers “Pledge of Purity”—your guaranteo of its absolute purity and wholesomeness. 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A Chinese rice bowl with its trans- lucent pattern of grains of rice called (ort;: much x;rnlu. The, nest of mixing bowls was dupli~ cated in idea but not in pattern. 3 For refreshments they g:d old-time corn meal mush with milk served in cereal bowls. After the mush and milk came waffles and coffee. Lois will want to mix tea time goodi ineone o her Dowie. . Write "o "Saner enclosing & atamped. self-addressed ive, asking for her “Tea Ham Potpie. Freshen a slice of ham about three- fourths inch thick, or use eold ecooked ham. Cut into small pleces and add two large potatoes and one large onion cut fine. Cover with water and simmer until the meat and vegetables are tender., Add more water to make the desired amount of gravy. Thicken, season to taste with salt and pepper, and turn the mixture into a baking dish. Have ready biscuits made from baking powder dough and lay them over the top. Bake for about 20 minutes in a hot oven until the bise cuits are done, and serve immediately. 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