Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1928, Page 27

WOoM Impromptu Refreshments in Summer BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Impromptu tinually in refreshments demand season. freshments. Yet it is in are con- in Summertime. The chance guest and the unexpected visitor are among the pleasures that come most frequently in the vacation To add zest to the occasion, there is nothing like some simple re- the hot ‘weather that a hostess feels less like exerting herself 1o prevare food and AN’'S PAGE® THE EVENI STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, e fTYE [y RFG. U, & PAT. OFF. 0 favorite drink, or possibly the mixing of some stewed fruit juice or grape julce to quickly transform it into a fruit punch. For refreshmens that are a bit more elaborate than these suggested above, fresh fruft sandwiches are excellent. The filling is made by crushing berries, when seasonable, sugaring them and | spreading between thin slices of bread |and butter. Peaches should be put through a food chopper, chopped in & chopping bowl or mashed and sugared. | Plums as well as peaches can be so prepared after being skinned. Pears should have just a few drops of lemon added for each sandwich. These re- quire less sugar than the other fruit sandwiches. It will be seen that al- most any fresh fruit one happens to have on hand can be used for these sandwiches, and if there is not enough of on= kind, two, three or more can mixed with equal success. If one has plain cake, sponge or any light cake, even if it is stale, it can be used in place of the thin buttered |bread. A bit of cream, whipped, or marshmallow cream can top the cake | sandwiches. The serving capacity of ice cream can be doubled by making it into jce cream sandwiches. A little chocolate melted with sugar and di- luted with a little milk—three table- spoonfuls to one and a half squares of The STYLE POST is the marker on the road to being smart Fur Cape Collars. The popularity and becomingness of cape collars on Spring and Summer coats are jointly responsible for their continuance in the Winter mode—on fur coats as well as cloth ones ;\x:)\e‘rlu‘:: ?mlm?xtll‘l for example, is a fabric-like fur which takes the cape chocolate and three tablespoonfuls of | collar gracefully. A Fall coat of black sugar are good proportions—can be |proadtail with a cape collar shows vari- poured over the ice cream sandwiches ety by the addition of contrastingly and refreshments to tempt the most | fluffy cuffs—in either gray or beige fox. | fastidious appetite will result. i (Copyright. 1928.) | A fresh fruit salad served with crlnmrkr;s ln|d ler:\:nnie and 'A)'pp;,d] w rownies makes hearty refresh- Hanis tec e see s amne| | NANCY PAGE luncheon. If for the latter thin slices of buttered bread are preferable to the b 25 crackers, and a dish of olives or a glass Does of homemade jelly or any homemade relish adds piquancy. (Copyright. 1928.) SUB ROSA BY MIML Your Log Fire Burn? Here’s How! BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. One of Roger's friends was soon to be married. His work was in the forestry division. That meant he and his bride would live in the heart of the woods away from big cities, which rather complicated the sort of wed- Clever Girls and Stupid Men. Janet worries over Ethel, her sister. Ethel is ihcredibly clever. She has a ‘would dream of 3 state of fury over doesn’t understand it. g THE LEMONADE SIRUP COME IN HANDY IN EMERGEN- i : ] § E £ i beverages. Therefore it is well to know ways and means of getting these things without too much effort. Preparedness is the watchword in these minor affairs of the home as well as in the major ones. The home- maker should be ready for emer- gencies, which, however pleasant they are. still call for quick thought and ac- tion. The larder must hold certain stocks of things which can be assem- bled without delay, without much labor and which will be dainty and tempting, cool and refreshing. Homemade dainties are at a pre- mium, and so those that can be kept ready, such as cookies and brownies, recipes for which have been given re- cently, are a satisfaction to find in the cooky jar or cake box. So also does it simplify matters if for beverages a foundation sirup of lemon and sugar, boiled and bottled, is kept in the re- frigerator. This requires nothing more than the addition of water to make a f § & n g 58 2§« W My Neighbor Says: Pruit stains may be removed from table linen by rubbing them with camphor. Do this before wetting the stain with water. n thickening cream soups al- a tablespoon each of butter flour to every quart of soup. e safest way to melt choco- late is to put into a small frying pan or saucepan over a low fire r the oven. If it is to be mixed vith a liquid, the best way to meit it with a little of that liquid first and stir to a cream. When it is necessary to iron a ry garment at once, try T ethod: Dampen it roil tight, wrap it in a cloth and then i paper, and put into the oven while the irons are 3 Evaporation wili cause it to be orougt ly dampened in a very few minutes. But care must be taken that the oven is not hot enough to scorch the garments (Mimi_will be glad to answer anj ries to_this paper, re envelope {s_incl Il be 'slad to send - Conversation” and “How to | consciousness ') *1t is a matter of record in the history of the coffee trade that Seal Brand was the first coffee ever packed in sealed tins. CHASE & SANBORNS SEAL BRAND COFFEE Seal Brand Tea is of the same highaguality ;| Bre an ding presents which could be given. Roger suggested a pair of andirons. Lois agreed that the gift would be fit- < | ting, especially as the bridegroom-to- be had been their guest at dinner a short time before and given them a ‘lon dissertation on the correct way under the irons. Lay two small logs parallel with a space between them. Lay small sticks at right angles to these two logs. Lay a large log on top of the lll?nporl made by these of kindling wood. Start the she burns—always and always. As an additional gift, Lois sent the bride a wood carrier. The one she chose was made of heavy tan denim. Leather handles were placed at the middle of the two opposite ends. The laid on the holder crosswise, handles are put together and is_lifted ly and securely. home, having Nancy Page has a wedding leaflet which tells “about the detalls of the cerer A Write to care of this paper. inclosing ad d_envelope, asking ngs. (Copyright. 1928.) A piano with a walnut case was sold rm"l:fly at Weybridge, England, for 72 cents. W ///l‘\\\\ biscuits . . . Sunshine Sunshine fire. ! lightly crumpled paper palate. The royal password is. boldly to your grocer. S Looss.wgLes miscurr co. | DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX When TIs Middle Age?—Folly of the Wife Who Flies Into a Jealous Rage Over Her Hushand's Business Associate. EAR DOROTHY DIX—Is & person young or old at the age At | I of 32 years? | what age is a person considered middle-aged? MA BEL W. Answer—Certainly a man or woman is young at 32, In these times one doesn’t get to be mlddfe»agvd until one is 50, or over. The greatest modern ur;- | provement is the lengthening of the span of youth. It has brought more happi- | ness to humanity than the automobile and the radio and the telephone and the ships de luxe and all the other joy-givini inventions combined. For what are these compared to the pleasure of still being up and doing and in the thick of things at an age when our grandparents had retired to the chimney corner with nothing to do but to meditate upon their latter end? andmother telling me that her first child was | born when she was 17 years old, and that her mother-in-law was scandalized because she refused to put a cap on over her glossy black hair and give up going to parties. It was not then considered seemly for a wife and mother to go about and enjoy herself and have any interest outside of the home. In those days a woman was middle-aged at 20 or thereabouts. If she was unmarried at 25, she was esteemed an old maid, and at 45 she was considered an old woman who was done with earthly vanities. Imagine how' that curtailed one's happiness! No wonder people died early. They had no incentive to go on living. No vital interest to keep them pepped up. Nothing to look forward to but the grave. They simply perished of dry rot. T can well remember my But we have far different standards now. We regard people in their teens as mere chits of children. At 25, they are flappers and cake-eaters. At 32, they are still boys and girls. At 45, they are just beginning to get middle-aged, and from then on they are as old as their arteries and their artifices. We have laid the awful specter of calendar age, which used to keep the | whole human race in terror. We have shown it up for the bugaboo it was, and | nobody is afraid of it any more. Indeed, we have inaugurated an era of perpetual youth in which everybody dresses alike and does the same things. Instead of buying a black bombazine dress and a bonnet that ties under the chin and flat- heel shoes, grandma gets sport clothes that are exactly like granddaughter’s, and you can'’t tell 19 from 90 by the length of the skirt. { sitting at home knitting baby socks for her great-grandchildren, gmm}:::e ;;dn;)ak;ng alworld tour, and instead of grandpa doddering over his cane as he hobbles down the street, he is out on the golf links after half a day at the office, where he makes the youngsters sprint to keep up with him in turning out work. ‘Why, le used to waste three-fourths of their time getting old before their time, :m§ &:’; have quit doing it. They keep young by keeping themselves busy and interested and amused and by thinking that they are young, for we all write our own age tags and we are just as old as we think we are. And, anyway, age isn't a matter of the number of birthdays you have had. It is the way}yuu mf'm and feel. It is your ability to learn, your ability to alter your point of view, and so long as you can change your mind you are young. But when you get set in your ways and have fixed ideas, you are old. There are people who are born old and who are in reality centenarians in S, there are other people who are still girls and boys when they their cradles, and peop! DOROTHY DX are 90. I Ty DEAR MISS DIX—I have been married eight years and we have one child. Our home life has been ideal until recently, when a woman in her 30s came to work in the same office with my husband. He took a great fancy to her and was always telling me how sweet and good, how pure and innocent she was, and what a lovely smile she had, until finally it ¥ot on my nerves and I exploded and told him just what I thought of him and of her. This made him so angry that he tore the ring he had given me off my finger and struck me. Afterward he apologized and begged me to forgive him, which I did, but he still insults me if T mention her name and gets furiously angry. I have asked him to leave this place and get work somew else, but he refuses. . I love my husband dearly, but I feel our home is “soin' heart is filled with bitterness when I think of his insuiti What shall I do? A WORRIED Answer—"For man is tinder and woman is tow, and mmew begins to blow,” and the tragedy of it is that it is 50 often the e | the conflagration that burns down her house of happiness. That is what you have done, my poor friend. You have taken the surest possible means of alienating your husband from you and making him fall in love with the other woman by your suspicions and your accusations and your attacks upon her. Evidently there was nothing between your husband and this girl except a mild mutual attraction, or else he never would have told you about her. Certainly he would never have sung her praises to you if this feeling toward her had not been one of platonic admiration, and if you had agreed with him that she must be a perfectly lovely young woman and asked her up to dinner on Sunday, there are 99 chances to one that it would have petered out into a harmless friendship that would have been a pleasure in his life, and nothing more. Perhaps you :'nuld h:en have liked the young woman as well as he did if you had got to now her. ‘You must remember that when men and women work together day after day there is bound to be some sort of relationship established between tuem, and they make things either pleasant or unpleasant for each other. on t‘he mnnmd my me for ranger. AND MOTHER. comes and Many men and women who work together in the same office find each other intelligent, interesting, stimulating. They come to have the sincerest friendship and affection for each other, based on mutual helpfulness and kindness and gen- erosity, but that does not mean that they are in love, or entertain any sentiment toward each other to which the most jealous husband or wife could object. So my advice to you it to try to get this point of view, which is eviden your husband’s. Apoligize to him for the nuultg?m offered him in believing nfl{ he was not capable of having a disinterested friendship with another woman. If you don't, as sure as fate you are going to drive him to her and fan his fancy for the girl into a genuine passion. And for heaven's sake quit nagging him about giving up his 5 is quite right to refuse to do so, because, .oodtmhl u:lhl:fl !2 get m d:;: of unemplofment. Besides, wherever he went there would be women in the office. ‘The only difference would be that next time he Would have sense enough not to tell you about one that he happened to thlnku'u nice. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1928.) Pineapple Salad Dressing. Strain the juice from one small can of crushed pineapple and combine with any other fruit juice available sufficient to make one and one-half cupfuls of id. Combine with two tablespoon- fuls of vinegar, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one well beaten egg and one- fourth teaspoonful of salt. Cook over a slow fire until the mixture thickens, stirring constantly. Remove from the beat with an egg beater un- til cool, then add the crushed pine- apple. This dressing is delicious served on any fruit salad mixture or vegetable Queen’s taste and you, madam, are the Queen Young queens and old queens, wife-queens and mother -queens, go-to-business queens and stay-at- home queens . . . all queens who love fine-tasting Hearken! Bakers guard the taste of their biscuits with jealous care...with such care, for example, that they even make their own flavoring extract. Day in, day out, taste must never, never vary. Biscuits crave an audience with your Sunshine . .. Say it n /lin ITS ISCU 'AUGUST 7, 1928, RBY FANNY Y. CORY. Diaphragm and Circulation. This is a talk about varicose veins I am quite firm on the point, in spite of the allusion to the diaphram. What SONNYSAYINGS ’ | | | lon earth has the diaphram to do with | varicose veins, you may ask. The dia- (phram_has much to do with varicosi- |tles. So much that, I dare say, we might do away with varicose veins about as readily by fitting the victim with a new or even a used diaphram that is in good working order as the doctors do in many cases by injecting the ‘vein. Why not, when it has gone varicose? Tt will be of no further use late the blood and presently obliterate the vein. It will be of no further use to the owner, and there are plenty of |other veins to carry on the circulation, |in the lower half of the body. Better than this chemical oblitera- tlon, or surgical excision of varicose veins, is prevention of the trouble. Somehow I have the feeling that the main cause of varicosities lies in or near the diaphram, if you know where I mean I think competitive-examinations as a rule are a sad joke as a test of gny- body’s knowledge ‘or mastery of a given subject, but if I had to select from a miscellaneous group of persons the one with the best understanding of physiology I'd use this question as a test. Tell me in the next three min- utes all you can about the diaphram I reckon this would quickly disqualif: most of the wiseacres and highbrows. The diaphram is the principal breathing muscle, also the principal laughing muscle, also the principal singing and speaking muscle. besides being useful when one has to cough, sneeze, sob, Cry, gasp, grunt, snore and various other things unpleasant to mention. It is a muscle stretched across the trunk like a tarpaulin over the liver and stomach and things. When it contracts it squeezes down on the liver and stomach and other abdomi- nal viscera and pushes out the belly, incidentally drawing air into the t ‘Who-hoo! Muvver! ‘'Iss ocean is going down berry fast! Does yer s'pose It's got a puncture some place? (Copyright. 1928 Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Mrs, R. A. writes: “I would like to| offer a method of preparing lactic acid | ‘milk which is easier and gives a| smoother product. The biggest, in fact, | the only drawback to this formula is that the thick milk does not readily pass_through the hole in a nipple. A | small baby can draw on it until tired | and get nothing. «Place the boiled water, corn sirup | and lactic acld in a container and add the bolled and cooled milk very slowly at first, stirring constantly. With a lit- tle experience a product can be made which is not much thicker than sweet k. l m“‘whzn weaning time arrives onc | drop of acid is removed from the | fortula each day until the child is on | BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. to forestall a vacuum there. The dia- phram is a flexible wall between the chest cavity and the abdominal ca- vity, an_arched roof for the abdomen. Of all facetious allusions to the dia- phram the most humorous are the corset fitter's, because they ars ausde |80 serfously. Animals’ apparently do not have varicose veins. Savages, as nearly as I can learn, are rarely, if ever, 8o af- fected. The absence of the condition in animals has been ascribed to evo- lution, but this theory does not ex- {plain the absence of the condition among savage races. I have a theory that accounts for both—I1 believe va- | ricosity is mainly due to the bad habit {of upper chest breathing. Owing to lour unhygienic clothing and harness |we civilized folk, particularly our women, tend to suppress the natural function of the diaphram, which is abdominal or belly breathing. Cer- tainly this accounts for many func- tional difficulties among girls and women, for by regular daily practice of belly breathing, the Mosher habit, | thousands of such sufferers have found the remedy. I believe natural belly breathing has a pumping action on the blood in the dependent veins and is essential to return the blood from these veins. If an individual thinks he can get along without natural belly breath- ing. such as animals and savages in- variably practice, he should include in his budget also a substantial estimate for the treatment of varicose veins. (Copyright. 1928.) S Curry of Scallops. Brown an onion in some butter. Mix in some cold water a spoonful of curry powder and a spoonful of flour. Put this into the butter and onion. Add enough water to make a good sauce. Into this put the scallops cut into pieces. Let everything cook together. The fish should be washed in several waters to get them entirely free from | h boiled rice. who starts | sweet milk, with no trouble at all. The | mothers who made the formula by the other method secured a smoother milk | | by adding. the acid with a medicine dropper.” Answer—Thank you for the sugges- tion. I have never had any trouble getting a smooth product by adding the acid d by drop, as advised, to the cold milk, instead of adding the milk to the acid as you suggested. At any rate it is worth trying both meth- ods and use the one at which you are most successful. Suggestions for en- larging the hole of the nipple by means of a red-hot darning needle so that the milk could pass through more easily the oris article pub- lished about this milk. My own son was fed on it for some months, though it was prepared from the Bulgarian KILL all those pests with Dethol. This wonderful in- secticide never fails. 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