Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1928, Page 55

L . B Your Baby BY MYRTLE M Nu the baby for at least the first six months of his young life is the most valuable gift his mother can bestow upon him. We once aroused some iflable wrath by saying that if a weil mother wanted to nurse her baby badly enough, she could. Having been properly chastened to that early rash- Ness, we now concede that there are some mothers who want to enough, but cannot. The danger of be- ing too lenfent with a mother’s excuses is that. the mother who doesn't want to is just waiting to pounce upon some convenient alibi to put to her own uses. We want to discourage that. Having admitted nobly that there are mothers who have tried valian! d failed, we proceed to the mext step. Next to mothers’ milk cow's milk is the best food for the infant. There are some few babies who cannot take milk This is an individual idiosyperasy, and very exceptional. If the mother is careful with her first formula, and fol- lows a cautious program for strengthen- ing the formula, there should be no! trouble with it. The mistake made by some mothers is in underestimating the real difference between breast milk and cows' milk, and in thinking because both are fluids and have the same name one ean be fed exactly like the other. Cows' milk, as has been said times without number. is not designed to feed s baby, but a calf. A calf grows much faster than a wee human and so the elements in the two milks are differ- el proportioned, and one cannot o or minimize these differences. When the mother laments that she s feeding her four-month-old baby “six ounces of whole milk with a little its” and there are other’ disagreeable results, it is plain that there is a very good reason. A baby of this age cannot be expected to digest whole milk, unless some acld is added to it, as an aid to digestion, and S0 the mother who trles it is doomed to failure. Undoubtedly she will blame cows' milk and assert that “my baby can't digest it,” when it is not the food, but the way it is fed that is at| THE SUNDAY STAR. WASIINGTON, D. €, MARCH 13, 1928—PART n D —— EYER ELDRED. Provided one does offer milk diluted so that it will not tax the baby's diges- tion. there are other considerations. Adding water dilutes not only the milk | but the sugar in the milk, and babies | need sugar to furnish their energy needs. Breast milk has a lot. To add too much sugar will cause disturbances, but without sugar the mother will notice that the baby puts on weight slowly, unless she overfeeds milk, which | he can't do without upsetting the baby. here is very often & tendency to over- look this element and then wonder what is wrong with the formula and why the baby doesn't gain as he should. | Lime water used to be a more com- mon ingredient of milk formula th it is t~day. Formerly we fed raw cows’ milk, if possible and the lime water helped to break up the tough cows' milk | curds. Now we boil the milk for three minutes or more, and the same result is obtained. There is & common misconception of th> purpos: of using lime water, 50 | many believing that it is put in the formula to “help the teeth and keep | the baby from being bow-legged.” It is truc that we must have calcium (lime) in order to furnish the baby's bones and teeth with the right material, but that is not found in lime -vater.| Instead we find it in abundance in | cows' milk. buttermilk, cheese, vege- tables, some fruits, and so on. Milk is the food upon which children must rely for their calcium neceds. It is the | lack of enough milk in the diet, or of cod liver oil which makes it easier for the body to make use of this organic calcium. that causes a deficiency in lime for bone building. Having come by a very roundabout route to the final comment we want to “put it home" with a punch. If | you can't nurse your baby, and have tried faithfully, the most satisfactory | substitute is good, fresh cows' milk, | diluted with water. with sugar added, | and the whole boiled for three minutes; put n the right number of bottles: cooled rapidly and kept on ice. Then, after all that, there is nothing left to do but feed it to the baby. ‘2 BEAUTY TAKES BIG SHARE OF DRESS MONEY There are women here and therc ¥ho actually spend as much for| “begnity” as they do for all the rest of their clothes, hats, wraps, frocks, shoes, | etc., put together. women's epending money foce. to.the | s &pen: money goes e | hairdresser and beauty parlor opera- | tors than ever before. Maybe it was like that in ancient Egypt or in Rome —>dut certajnly none of us can remem- ber a time when women spent so much on their hair, their hands and their | several ters remarked the other had from $250 to $500 a | her clothes and her | to $125 a year at the | uty parior. | cost of buying | present-day demand | wonder the | for $15 or T $3 many women | the hair-’ not because | well—but | Almost every | she spends in | | ance lot me say that many of the things { NI CONs > OF these retreats and perhaps the entire | SMALL 'CHES amount cught not to be charged off | to clothes and personal appearance, | Some of it ought to be charged to| amusements as well. { And perhaps some of it ought to be | set down in the coiumn of your budget where you charge up doctor's bills and | medicires. It's an actual fact that an efficient beauty docior can work mar- | vels in calming jumpy nerves and gen- depression—and three or four | “beauty treatments” at this time of the | F SOUP COL ORK. THERE IS A BREAD ANI ANY” DINN DER THAT COMES THE P! FOR THE SPOON, KNIFE AND FORK FOR THE ROAST COURSE, AN XT COURSE, OF MEAT AND VE( ETCH 1S SET FOR A FOUR-COURSE FOR- SOUP, ROAST, SALAD AND DES- SHOW THE CORRECT SERVICE ACE LAID FOR THE OUP PLATE, SOUP SALAD ) BUTTER PLATE, FOR MANY OF ER, SERVE BREAD AND BUTTER. E AS IT APPEARS FOR THE TABLES; THE ROAST COUR THE DIAMOND AS IT TE, WITH A DOILY AND SERT SPOON AND FORK. ! vear are frequently worth as much as bottles of Spring tonic. A man, they say, is as young as he feels—and it 1s just as true that many women feel as young as they look. | | § T tsot really “putting on side” to d if the beauty expert i l have some one employed to wait on Tock ad st she has made | lock or persuade you that she e | you look 5 or 10 years younger than you | I know some hostesses are, then she has truly earned her fee | hesitate. Husbands may sa: "They and a tip besides. | know we don't keep servants, so why when a regular maid is not em- Still for the woman who has to look | try to throw a bluff. Let's have a good | her very best on a very small allow-| fll;{tg'fimer served the way we always Peris Gan be. done eectively” ot otas | e bt eoe o eheoming: ostess, fhrt: self than to limit yourself to the cheap- | gons. hats. It is perfectly possible to cook a ence, of course, in the appearance of the . Once the skirts to her 1f not actually | Otherwise anything went, and | would have amazed any | that *were mot | Martha Wash- | -petal frocks ! ites, cOWbOys uis X' daefinite in the his- | of some definite country is chosen as the theme l‘: guests or l?:dmnu? are expected even requ! choose their mml accordingly. This suppose, Prance, where for & long time defl-| incidents have hami ues. i ] [ i uary, of op- | wvariety of picturesque cos- | It was the French occupation Africs in 1847 i masculine nit i 71 ‘The women appeared either | phase of the Prench fashion Louis Philippe period or in na- | Uve costumes such as might have been | in Northern Africa at that time girls, slaves, with . there & ch vivandiere of the sort that followed the French army n its Even for a rather small private fi:‘y there is much W be gained by choos- ing some wich definite incident ag this a: & basis for costuming L Incidents that might work out sstis- furtorily for the smaller party would be some social happening in the early his- | Uiy of the Wwn where the party 1 W e given, as the wedding of some famous 4 belle st some old mansion, or & gover- nor's bell actuslly sttended by ances- Lors of many of the guests U be present. But even more varied effects may be gained when choose wme perind, | Lue that of the Besux Arts baull, that 17 in native and sophisticated € . The same advantage might he zained from choosing an early episode in Virginis history, when you would ve Indians early settlers visiore om England, frontersmen. Or an eisode in early California history when yirg would have gold minere, Kasterr wtlers. who had gone overland in cov- 4 wegons, le from the old mis- Eons, Hpenish lers In New York s few weeks sgo there us & venefit fancy dress lce carnival ‘ general scene for this carnivel was ne eourt of Cetherine the Great of Joussis, Wansplanted 1o Bt Morilz in 1138 kbt et 4 Lol coiiany. o e of the | big enough for the lamp would do very | est sort of frocks and 1 wryth:M (& urt“latlw ubkbe(.nd ve e ng ness ore Placmg the guests arrive, but it does help tre- men for the hostess to have some- one to relieve her of the anxiety of serv- tual meal time. In of Lamps Factor in Charm The way the lights in your rooms are placed makes a very real and big differ- rooms. Not alone at night, but in the daytime. For lamps are either an ad- ditional charm or a blemish in the day- time. Some lamps that really serve the very well at night are nothing ut ugly blotches cn the room’s land- scape during the day. And it may be | out the meal. just the placing that is wrong. I know ot , the maidless company din- one room which &t night is most cozily | ner may be entirely satisfactory. But lighted. One of the lights comes from | personally I think that when 1t is a tall, wooden standard lamp with a | possible to cut down on the expense wide old-gold silk shade. At night the | of the dinner enough to cover the cost color of the light !hruu&h the shade 18 | of the temporary maid, the plan’ is lovely. The corner of the room where | rather a good one. Instead of serving the lamp is placed is the right corner | jce cream and strawberries—serve a —at night. But in the daytime it is all | gimple homemade dessert. Instead of wrong. The shade is too wide for that | having an expensive roast have some particular corner, for there is a door | dejectable made meat dish. Thus you there through which, during the day. | can casily save the amount needed for people come and go from the dining | the service and the task of giving the AL s i always rubbing | i dinner will be considerably lighter. e ey SOmEtmeS UPDING | © When setting the table for a formal To that esse the lamp ought to be | dinner a service plate should be placed ed—or else iffes | directly in the center of each place, ':;W he i A i dmh,renl m“'a Ahould |itre edge coming an inch from the edge chosen. parchment shade that | 'b€ Vi | of the table, At the right are placed has not such a wide spread, but Is suil | 9f U0 WAE TL ST be i required for a fish course, soup spoon and oys- ter !or{k, kmhv.he lf," is plm? nl:nt the Y de of al | salad fork then the dinner fork, next The Ahade o A np Should. O | the small fork for fish and then the tons of the room in mind | table napkin. The water goblet should be placed just beyond the tip of the dinner knife, For formal dinners there 15 no bread and butter plate because butter is not served at all, though a dinner roll may be served with the soup course. However, many Americans are not quite content without bread and butter for dinner. Then the bread and butter plate should be placed just be- yond the forks with the butter knife lald across ons side, For formal and if you can well afford the 40 or 50 cents—then why shouldn't you do it? The conversation will probably be a Jot more stimulating if you are able to keep your place at the table through- well. It would make the lamp much more compaet lain t parchment or silk shade 15 usually In a room with dark or light monotone hangings rchment shade with flowers or other design painted on it is good. In the chintz-hung room you may find that a shade with a design painted on the inside, which does not show in the daytime, but which comes out when the lamp is lighted—and when the colorful chintz at the windows has receded into the background—is tl best choice You know. bottle lam) luncheons the service plate should be placed in the same way as for dinner, then at the right the large knife, a smaller knife if needed for fish course and a boulllon #poon. At the left first the salad fork, r of course, about the water- They are made of old water hottles, really-—or modern re- roductions of the old bottles, You have them fitted out with electric fix- ings, and then with a shade—and then you tint the water in the hottle what- | ever color you w it 1o go with your oom-—deep amber, ruby, blue, violet or | green. And when you want another | tint, you empty out the water, put in | some fresh and change the eolor Auction of Antiques 2, Miles South of || Alexandria, Va., on Fort Humphreys Road. Busses Pass House, March 23 and 24 10 AM. Examples of Chippen- dale, Hepplewhite, Sher- aton and Farly American | of Curly Maple, Mahog- any and Walnut, Currier Prints, China, Glass, ete. Oriental and Hooked Hugs, Dear Public: I spent a weele with Spring Coats, Dresses store in the city. to choose. ment Plan, Yours truly, y By avder of I r GEORGE W, REYNOLDS| Lunch Served hy | Graverton Community Club Terms: Cash Auctioneer: J. U, Kinehloe || young men, An inspectio And, if desived, you may have your tions charged on our saticfactory Budget Pay- the wewest and smartest then the dinner fork and finally the fish fork if required. The glass and bread and butter ‘rllu and napkin {are placed as for dinner. The tum- blers are filled just before the meal 1s served and there is a roll or ball or well chilled butter on the butter plate. Usually spoons for coffee, tea or des- sert are not placed on the table to start with. Coffee spoons are placed at the side of the cup and saucer when | the coffee Br{)med. ‘The spoon and ! fork for dessert are placed onc at cach side of the finger bowl, which is placed on a small dolly on the dessert plate which is passed to each person. After the plate is placed in front of you by a servant you remove doily and finger bowl to the left of the plate, lay the siiver I‘:gsma side of the plate, and so leave plate bare to receive your dessert when it s passed to you. Salts and peppers are usually placed. one set between each two guests—so that there need be only half as many as there are guests. Some use a tape measure in setting table—so as to get every- thing tly even. I have known e enced servants who could lay the le for any required number of guests and not deviate a quarter of an inch in the exact placing of each cover and the arrangement of the various articles. A good rule to follow is this. No less than 20 inches for each person—with as much as 30 if possible. If you have an extension table you should put in enough lepves so that more than 20 inches may be allowed between persons. To have the table so large that dis- | tances between covers are over 40 or 50 inches the effect will not be so cozy and conversation may lag as a result. {In dining rooms furnished with long refectory tables—with host and hostess sitting the length of the table apart and perhaps only one guest on each side— there frequently is a sense of formality that is rather depressing. ‘The rule is somctimes made that not | more than three knives and three forks should be placed at each cover to start with. This does not include oyster fork or bread and butter ‘tnife when used. When a long course dinner calls for more than this amount of silver the additional pleces are brought in as re- quired. Hostesses glve much thought to thelr service tes nowadays and these are frequently of the finest, most expensive sort. Bometimes of silver or gold. The | fact that no food is actually placed upon them and that, therefore, they do not have to be submitted to washing with | scalding water and soap makes it pos- sible to use for this pu plates of exquisite though not very durable col- oring. ‘They do not have to match the |rest of the china used and lrrqm-n'.}y |a set of service plates will show a dif- | ferent design for each plate. They are | somewhat larger than the dinner plate, | It is usual to have them left on the | table until the fish course is reached-— | that s, they remain under the appetizer | course of oysters, clams, fruit, & canape | ar mixed hors d’ocuyres, ahd under the e P AP March 16th, 1928. I hawve just returned from New York, where ] my buyers purchasing and Millinery. Newver before in the history of this store have I offered such wonderful style rials at prices comparable with those of any and mate- I wish you would visit the store soon and malke your selection while you have such a wide varicty of beautiful models from which rlec- Milton K. Ney. The men's clothing department is showing Spring styles for men and niy welcome EIGHTH AND PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE NORTHWEST A b AN NN N ey, Setting Table for Formal Dinner G{r'nSuoLcL | soup plate. When the plate containing | | the next ceurse, fish, an entree, or the | main meat, course, is placed in front of | the diner, the service plate is removed | cases out of ten, works alon For the simple dinner served without the ald of a mald the service plate would be rather inappropriate and its | removal at the proper time would only | add to the complication of serving. Whether creases should show in the dinner tablecloth s an open question. | Some fastidious housewives have their dinner cloths froned perfectly smooth | without a crease and kept on wooden | | rollers to prevent creasing. O if folded | | the creases are pressed out before the | cloth is laid. Others permit only the | one center crease, having the cloths | once folded and then rolled, while oth- ers see no objection to the appearance of the neat ereases that come when the |cloth is folded in convenient size for | the linen shelves. It an all-over cloth is used a husher or felt should be placed beneath it ‘This felt it fairly thick is sufficient pro- tection to the table for the slightly | warmed dinner plates, but if really hot | platters or vegetable dishes are to be| | placed on the table, then pleces of as- | tos should be laid between the table and the husher. A good plan is to make washable muslin cases for these asbestos pleces so that they will not possibly scratch the table. 1f dollies or runners or a lace cloth are used then of course there is no felt, and in order to protect the table It is usually desirable to place some sort of | protection beneath each place dolly. (Copyright, 1 $120 Cash DOWN Flghtoon Monthe o Pay Here, at last, {a what overy housekeeper has been wnll{nu for. an electric lroner that fits into the kitchen o into small space anywhere- an ironer that can be rolled out of the way when not in uwe, Let un show you how ennily and quickly froning is done with l‘lll little wonder wchine, Be fortably, guide the plecen, The Coffield irons every thing ~ruffled things, wmen's shirts, children's clothes. Requ no special wiring seated ecom DUPONT CIRCL "n 1336 Connectic | light and color and g FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY— ALLOWANCE FOR YOUR OLD IRON J. C. HARDING & CO., Inc. ut Ave. N. W, "™ Housewife Must Have Two Sets of Brains In an old family recipe book there is a recipe for croquettes that begins with the list of needful Ingredients with the words— “Two sets of brains—" Not within the present generation at least has any one ever tried that recipe, probably because the idea of eating brains, even those of a calf, seems rath- er terrifying, but there it stands—and on more than one occasion in turning the yellowed leaves of the old book in search of an old family recipe it has occurred to me that is just what every housewife ought to have to bring her work to agything like perfection—two sets of brains—two distinct types of in- tellect. One set of brains would be the sort | possessed by the accurate, methodical, orderly, precise, mathematical person, |and that set of brains should be called into play every day for the ;‘zllnnlnl a{ | the work, the reckoning of accoun! making laundry lists and sorting the linen, keeping things in order and mak- ing the various dishes that require ac- curacy rather than imagination. The other set of brains of the sort possessed by artists and more tempera- mental folk should be bm:zhl into play when it came to making and ar- ranging flowers, writing the little notes that the woman at home is suj to write, seeing callers and providing the various members of the family with the needful sort of home atmosphere. Nowadays unmarried women, sunts and _sisters, and grown daughters, usually find employment outside the home, and so the housewife, in nine , or with the help only of a servant or so. ‘There must have been some compen- sations for the older order of thi where unmarried members of the fami- 1y expected to spend most of their time in the home of some near relative or congenial friend. Bringing Art Home. Now that uniforms in color for maids have appeared on the market it is easy to have a maid to match your | dining room color scheme. Lamps with wishing globe bases are luminous in a dark corner. Like the gazing globes in the garden, they reflect ve & glowing bit | of life to & dull spot. Another bit of iridescence is a Venetian glass bubble which, filled with colored water, will animate®any room with the fairy sug- | gestion of a captured and domesticated soap bubble. New wrought iron tables with glass tops and receptacles underneath for holding flowers or ivy are an attractive | addition to the sun room. The flowers seen through the glass top give a dec- | orative value to the top of the table and views from the front and side are equal- | ly delightful. Gny notes in llving rooms are pro- | vided by groups of objects of one color | on end tables. A fascinating and bril- | liant collection on a table beside a /b davenport is a cigarette box, a tiny buddha ash tray and a match box of red lacquer. QGreen jade or antique gold, if not so striking, 1s just as beautiful | and the quest of such combinations re- || sults in many interesting tours of the | shops. | Electric Home Ironer Free Home Demonstration K BUILDING THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Monday, March 19. Early tomorrow sinister stars frown upon the earth, according to astrology, but later the planetary aspects are benefic. Under this sway there may be & sense of nervousness and irritability and quarrels are easily sf 1t is not an auspicious day for be- ginning journeys, for delays are indi- cated, especially for those who travel by water. Ofl ‘again will come into general at- tention, for there will be many contrary | opinions regarding its commercial | aspects. 1t is a fairly fortunate day for seeking positions and efforts made under this rule may lead to first-rate employment. Newspapers and magazines again are | subject to the best possible direction of the stars. Many changes are indicated for all riodicals and they will be for the! tter, it is forecast. ‘Women now come under a fortunate sway that will enable them to make the best use of their talents. Educational reforms will engage at- | tentfon, and child study will develop into practical benefits. Africa is to benefit through aviation and this year will mark great develop- | ment. Terrible accidents have been foretold | by the seers as one of the probabilities | in the early Spring. Fires also will} cause great losses. | Persons whose birth date it is may | discover that an apparent sorrow leads | to great happiness in the coming year, | which should be generally lucky. | Children born on that day probably | will be extraordinarily intelligent and | abie to succeed in the learned pro- | (Con Cold Out Doors Means Hot Houses It is a curious fact that in colder climates a higher indoor temperature is usually desired. In the United States and Canada, where cold Winters pre- | vail, an indoor temperature of 70 is' usually desired, while in England, where Winter climate is less severe outside, | an indoor temperature of 62 is consid- | ered adequate. | ‘Though it is only within recent years | that hot-water heating has been used in this country, hot-water heating is of great antiquity. The baths of ancient | Rome, history tells us, were heated by means of hot water run through metal | ipes. | One of the greatest drawbacks to | modern steam and hot-water henung‘ is that they tend to make the air ex- | | tremely dry. Well, some people say,| ““ damp alr is injurious, why shouldn't | | dry air be benefcial? The answer is. | of course, that in this matter of hu- midity, as in most everything else, the golden mean is best and the house heat- | ed by steam without some provision for !lu;plyln( moisture is entirely too dry is a very simple matter, indeed, t provide the necessary moisture. Som radiators are equipped with metal con tainers that fit anom?u:uously behinc them in which a supply of water ma: be contained. But lacking equipmen! it is & simple matter to have some open Jardinlere of water in a safe place be- side your radiators. These jars or jar- dinferes should be emptied and refilled | every day or so. You will be surprised to see how soon the water is evap- orated from them, how much faster than would be the case were they left about in Summer when the radiators are not in operation. | Lacking such dishes of water, the thirsty air takes moisture from any | place it can get it—from our furniture for one thing, warping it and cracking ' it in & shocking manner; from our | skins, making them dry and some- | times causing an unpleasant itching ! sensation, and from our lungs and | throats, rendering them an easier prey | to colds and other Winter disorders. Prune and Nut Ice Cream. Soak one pound of prunes over night | in one quart of cold water. Cook until i soft in the same water, adding to it as it boils away. Remove the stones, put the pulp through a sieve and add one and one-half pounds of sugar, one cup- ful of lemon juice, one-half a cupful of chopped nuts and one-half pint of thick cream whipped, stiff, and one-quarter teaspoonful of salt. Freese like any other ice cream. 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