Evening Star Newspaper, September 9, 1928, Page 51

i THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON. b . SEPTEMBER 9. 1928=PART Your ‘Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. The lecturer had just closed the door, | laugh at it now, but I thought then | leaving behind him a sadly discom- | that life was & most awful thing to | -fited set of mothers. For one hour he | have to live through, and I was never, had lectured them stirringly on the | never going to get married.” :necessity for the sex education of their | children, and while he was speaking «each had inwardly admitted that his arguments sounded logical and reason- able. Bat with the first step of his departure the reaction had set in. “Their life-long prejudices, sorely shaken ‘up, now began to settle back into their mcpustomed grooves. But it left them uncomfortable. “He's absolutely right,” said Mrs. ‘Taylor. “IL is a perfect sin the way ‘we close our eyes to our children’s need for education from us, not from out- #iders. We think because we say there isn't any. Most of us are too blind or too stupid to remember our own | adolescent growing pains.” | “The trouble is,” sighed Mrs. Grant, *“that it is so perfectly right in theory. ‘What is hard is carrying it out. Most of us are so tongue-tied in front of our children. We want to be honest | .and matter-of-fact and give them the | right information, but we're only too | glad when they don't ask us.” “If you start when a child is young,” said Mrs. Taylor, “then the rest just | piles up naturally. You answer the little child's first question about where babies come from, and every child is bound to ask that even before school times arrives, and you set the right foundation. By the time adolescence is reached they are certain you are a fountain of wisdom and they’ll come to you first for any information they want.” “Our. own education has been all ‘wrong,” said Mrs. Green. “I had the funniest ideas about everything, and yet I couldn’'t ask my mother because the first time I broached the subject she stared at me as if I were a mon- ster. After that I pretended to be in- nocent, but I asked one of the older girls who lived near us, and the reams of mis-information she gave me I re- member to this day. Poor thing, she ‘was, more than willing to tell me every- thing she knew, but her own informa- tion had come from equally unreliable sources and most of it was hearsay and full of superstition and the most gro- | tesque ideas about physiology. I can ‘They all laughed. “I imagine most | of us have had exactly that kind of | an education, and some of us haven't | | lived it down and never will. It isn't | possible to ecrase wrong ideas, even { when we know they are wrong. That | | ought to make each one of us more | { Lhan ever determined to spare our chil- dren. Of course, we all talk as if every child was a girl. If it'’s hard to talk to our daughter, whose experiences | are the same as our own, how on earth | can we talk to our sons?” | “Leave that to the fathers,” spoke up Mrs. Lyman. | a long walk and broke into the subject. He admitted that he ought to have started it earlier and that he never had felt quite so close to Bob as he did after that talk. Now when Bob invites his father out for a walk I know that he has another question to pop at him.” “I sent my boy to the doctor,” said Mrs. White virtuously.. “I don't think a father competent to advise a boy.” “Mercy me, why not?” said Mrs. Taylor, indignantly. “Mothers don't always know how to handle every problem, but they aren't ashamed to admit it and scout around until they find out all they can on the subject. Why should a man throw his responsi- bilitles on the doctor. The very best doctor can't take the place of a boy’s own father, because it is more than just information he needs, it's the feeling that his father is his friend and pal.” “I think the whole thing is perfectly disgusting,” said Mrs. Drake, severely. “There is far too much talk about sex. You just put ideas in a child’s head.” Suddenly they all knew how right the lecturer had been. Too many par- ents still cling to that blind idea that where there is no talk there is no thought. | “I'm glad we can at least admit that there is some other viewpoint than our own.” whispered Mrs. Taylor to her neighbor, “even if we still neea | help on how to broach the subject to our children, we're willing to learn.” Light and Heavy Foods Give Variety to Everyday Menu Appetite goes before hunger is satis- fled. That briefly is the objection to the meals served by quite a number of American housewives. In fact, all of us are apt occasionally to plan meals that give a feeling of repletion without real satisfaction. And there is a feeling of deep physical content and bodily repose that comes after having eaten a dinner of just the right sort, due to the fact that as the edge of the appe- tite has been dulled the food hunger gf ;he diners has been completely satis- ed. Serve split pea soup as the first course for dinner and the appetite of most of the diners will be fairly well satisfied—while still they have not had a satisfactory meal. Follow it with a substantial roast, with hearty vege- tables and no one feels particularly en- thusiastic. On the contrary, serve a clear soup, or a vegetable soup not too thick with vegetables and seasoned with care, and the digestive juices will be stimulated, the way prepared for a heartier course because the appetite has not been satisfied. For this reason care should be taken in choosing the first course, which should consist of a light soup more notable for its flavor than its actual nourishment, a fruit cocktail or some sort of a hors d’'oeuvre, such as caviare, salt fish, deviled egg, shredded cabbage, etc. Such hors d'oeuvres should, of course, be served daintily and in small portions—just enough to tease the ap- petite without at all satisfying it. Vegetable soup is chosen for the first course Monday, making this without meat stock—using strained tomato juice instead and adding celery, onion, a very little potato and the water in which lima beans have been stewed. There is no soup or appetizer course suggested ‘for Tuesday, though you might serve .a little’ grapefruit in fruit cocktail cups if you like. For Wednesday celery and iolives and for Thursday an hors {doeuvre consisting of sliced onion, yeliced tomato with a dab of mayon- naise, and skinless, boneless sardines canned in oil or tomato. If you have the appetizer served on the plates be- forehand use just cne sardine, two !slices of onion and one slice of to- .mato. If you cannot get fresh to- § matoes a little tomato aspic is appro- priate. With this you may have rye §bread or crusty French bread and but- : ter ;always tends to stimulate the appetite £more than the soft-crusted sort because iit provokes a free flow of saliva, since {1t requires more vigorous chewing. Mixed fruit cocktail suggested for Friday may consist of almost any un- Remember that crusty breld[ ‘Written menus to place on the table at the beginning of the dinner—still often used in England—first came into use over 400 years ago at the home of an English nobleman famous for his lavish and well cooked banquets. By knowing just what fare the cook or steward had planned for the occasion the nobleman and his friends might see how heartily they cared to partake of the first courses. If a much-liked dish of a substantial nature was coming toward the end cof the meal one would consequently eat less abundantly of the first courses. But if the later courses were less sub- stantial or not the sort of thing one cared to eat in abundance than one took one’s fill of the first courses. In the cleverly planned dinner now- adays no such menu or previous knowl- edge of the bill of fare should be need- ed. It is the part of the one who plans the meal to provide not only a delicious meal but one properly balanced. Over- lavishness is as much a failing as meagerness. Soup and appetizers should be seryed in moderate portions and the rule that second helping of these courses should not be asked for is a ood one. I;Some housewives follow the Euro- pean custom of serving crackers and cheese and fresh fruit as a final course for dinner. One may Or may not par- take of these additional foods. The advantage of this custom is that if one has not had enough to satisfy the ap- petite in the other courses then one may do so with this final optional course. But as no special preparations need to be made in serving cheese, wafers and fruit one feels no compunc- tions about eating them if already sat- isfled. You may see no advantage in the custom of serving the fruit course at the end of dinner, but if there are in- dividuals in your family, active young folk who really need more food, you should not have second helping of dessert to offer. Instead when the ap- petite is still not quite satisfied, offer fruit—or, if you like, @ bit of crackers and cheese. Claimed to prevent railway crossing i accidents by locking the gates on ap- proach of trains, a device has been in- vented by R. Bymes and E. Putnam, j railway men of England. what to do for any pain. If there’s a headache, the trained nurse gives a tablet that re- lieves it. That tablet is Bayer Aspirin. Experience has taught her it is quickest. The doctor i has told her it’s quite harmless. Safe to use yourself—any time and every time there’s an ache or pzin. Keep Bayer Aspirin | ! handy; take it at the first sian of headache, cold, neuralgia, etc. At all drugstores, with proven directions ; Bayer is the genuine, ade § sweetened ~fruit—such as grapefruit, § seeded hard grapes. diced apples, etc. § For Saturday dinner bouillon may con- veniently be the canned sort which ishuuld be served very hot in bouillon ; This is especially appropriate if s out to be a cooler Autumn day. If not you may serve a little jellied bouillon™ sprinkled with parsley § Tomato appetizer for Sunday dinner may be made in this way: Cut rounds of white or whole wheat bread the 1 size of a tomato. Toast them on both sides and spread with a little cream gchoehc Then place on top one slice fof tomato and a dab of mayonnaise and serve at once. Sprinkle a little chopped parsley on the tomato slices if you nave it. The heartier sorts of soups are ap- | propriate for dinner when the second { ‘course consists of lighter dishes. For instance, if you are serving sliced cold ! meat with potato salad, or something of that sort, then the heartier soup is satisfactory. After the heartier second course or the heartier soup and lighter second course the appetite for more subtsantial dishes has presumably been satisfied. Still you may not have taken enough nourishment to satisfy the body's need for food. and you may not have had sufficlent bulk For this reason the lighter sorts of salad are appropriate The nature of the dessert should de- pend on the heartiness of the preced- ing courses. “Ed talked to Rob | isn't any adolescent problem that there{ when he was fourteen, took him out for | | flour products, they really are entitled | too acid condition to substitute fruit | with cream at breakfast for cereal. BY BETSY CALLISTER. 6 REAM may be bad for the "' remarked a plump luncheon the other | t day, “but it is very good for sliced peaches.” Cream is indeed very, very good, and | whipped cream, judiciously used, is even | | better. But cream is also high in price—very high priced in most large cities—and so instead of thinking of it as something to be used every morn- ing for breakfast and as freely as sugar or flour or milk in cooking, most of us | have come to regard it as something of a luxury. | And let me tell the plump girls this: | that though cream is rich in fat it is | generally decidedly wholesome, and if | they cut down on starches, such as | bread and potatoes, macaroni and other to a little cream now and then. For thin folk cream is usually one of the best of the fattening foods, better than a great abundance of starches, because white flour products have an acid re- action and cream has just the reverse. A doctor I know advised a_patient who needed to take on weight and was at the same time suffering from a Sliced peaches and cream, baked apples | and cream—sounds pretty good, doesn't it? One _advantage of whipped cream | over plain cream is that it goes just twice as far—and if you are planning | to have a half pint of cream for dessert | once a week the economical thing to do is to use it in some sort of whipped | concoction. And most people like these | desserts very much indeed. | The task of whipping cream is a | simple one—and if you cannot get the | thick sort just for whipping you will find that the thinner sort will do | instead. | It is important to have the cream | and the dish in which it is to be | whipped, as well as the whipper, very | cold. Best to keep them all in the refrigerator for an hour or so before using. One way to make thinner cream whip stiff is to add the white of a fresh egg. This makes the cream whip more casily and adds somewhat to the bulk and nourishment as well. The egg white should be very cold also and should be broken right into the cream before whipping begins. Another way of making thinner cream whip satisfactorily 1s this: Have a bowl with the cream in it and a whipper—also a_ soup plate or small platter Whip the cream, and as the froth appears on the top take it off with a spoon—a large slit spoon is good for this purpose. Put this on the plat- ter or soup plate and go on whipping and taking off the froth until no more appears. The cream that is left may be used for coffee or cooking. Use this accumulation of frothy whipped cream precisely as you would use the more solidly whipped cream of the heavier sort. Many persons prefer it because of its lightness. If the heavy cream you have to use is so thick that there is darger of having it go to but- ter in the whipping process you may whip it lightly, taking off the froth in the same way. Some housewives plan to have a half pint of cream—or a pint for a large family—served a certain day every week and pian that day to have some sort of whipped cream dessert. There are so many different sorts of whipped cream dessert that there is no need for monotony. = I have bzen collecting all sorts of favorite whipped cream dessert recipes for some time. and now I have selected the 12 that seem best and have them ready to send to you for the House- wife's Help this week. If you want your copy be sure to send me a stamp- ed, seclf-addressed envelope and I will send them to you at once. And by the way, you will find that some of them make very nice party refresh- ments instead of ice cream. (Copyright. 1928.) S Triangle Scarfs Now that women have become at- tached to the triangle-shaped scarf, the furriers are offering scarfs of this shape made of mole, ermine and other pliabje furs. Flat stole-shaped fur scarfs are also likely to gain favor and these as well as the triangle shapes are fre- quently adjusted by means of the metal or composition slide. 5o Mode for Evening Shows Most Change In the Autumn collections of all the prominent French dressmakers one notes the tendency to make the mode for evening wear substantially different {rcm that for daytime wear. In general for evening, skirts are longer and wider and waists are higher, while to a great extent the daytime mode re- mains what it has been. ! Beauty That Attracts | —so enchanting and allur- ing it commands the admir- ation of all. You can possess this soft, fascinating appearance instantly thru Gourauo's ORIENTAL CREAM Made in White - Flesh - Rachel { 3 i { e iNurses know Aspirin facture ' Ferd. T. Hopkins & Son, New York T T = mark of of Made of Flat Fur b WHIPPED CREAM ADDS FOOD FOR THE EYE AS WELL AS FOOD FOR THE BODY, AND TURNS A PLAIN DE RT INTO ONE FIT FOR THE MOST EXACTING TASTE. Whipped Cream Is Valuable Food 79 THE DAILY HOROSCOPE Monday, September 10. As the day advances planetary in- fluences will become better and better, according 1o astrology, which finds benefic aspects strong in the afternoon. ‘The rule is fortunate for the transac- tion of small affairs. It is a time to catch up with trivial matters long ne- glected. The morning may present insignifi- cant details that seem to thwart effort, and for this reason should be employed for routine matters. Although a new working week begins, the day is not promising for those who seek employment. Delay in effort may htearlsucm" than quests under adverse stars. There is a sign of great promise for brain workers while this configuration prevails. Writers and speakers should efit. Aviation is subject to a rule of the stars which promises a more general use of airplanes as the Autumn ad- vances. ‘The mind is likely to be alert and ac- tive under this sway. The evening is ominous for orators, and actors, as well as all who would appeal to hearts and brains. War and invasions are forecast for remote sections of Europe. Turkey. also, may be sorely beset by enemies. Many manufacturing interests should benefit trom the planetary government during the coming months. Persons whose birth date it is may bring insignificant changes and new interests. New friends are promised. The subjects of this sign usually know how to keep secrets. They will be help- ful in political campaigns. Children born on that day are likely to be magnetic and popular. They are usually methodical and faithful to all their obligations. Many successful writers and musicians are born under Virgo. (Copyright. Travel Coats Show Increased Fullness From Paris comes information that some of the smartest of the new travel coats there are made with much full- ness. This is achieved either by means 1928.) | of the flare from the shoulder giving something the effect ot the box coats of old, or is produced by a pronounced wrap-around arrangement. For motor and steamer wear these new coats are said to have the advan- tage of making a rug unnecessary. The scanter, shorter coats of the conven- tional sort make some kind of rug nee- essary for comfort when traveling, and when these coats are chosen for this purpose there is often a rug to match the coat. Transparent Velvet Is in High Vogue The frock of printed transparent vel- vet will very soon be as ubiquitous as the printed chiffon frock was through- out the Summer Many of the smart- est are printed in small tapestry de- | signs and these may be used for street A A T LET Your old living room suite made over and newly covered at a saving of about 50% of the cost of a new one. 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One of the most attractive was of transparent velvet printed in softly blended tones of the fashionable vanilla range of browns, made in one’ piece, draped “en forme,” with a rather low U-neckline back and front. The only trimming consisted of irregularly looped brown velvet ribbon on the right shoulder and the left hip. Earn Money by Shopping For Busy Men and Women 1If you want to earn a little money— perhaps more than a little—and have home duties that make it impossible for you to devote all your time to it, it is advised— Don't try to break into something in which there is already a great deal of competition. Because where there is keen competition it is the woman who can devote her whole time to the work who naturally wins out. Think it over and do something that other- wise wouldn’t be done at all—earn money that isn't being earned by any one at present. A line of work that has proved quite remunerative to one woman is sug- gested. Qualifications needed? Tact, sym- pathy, good judgment and taste. A fairly large circle of acquaintances is helpful but not necessary. It would also be necessary to live in or quite near a fairly large town, with a tele- phone connection within the local area. It is not a proposition for the woman or girl who lives in the country. This work consists of shopping for men—or busy business women. And the best time to get started is fairly soon so that you can get in the swing of it by the time people make plans for Christmas. ‘To begin with, you should call at two or three leading stores—general department stores if possible—and see commission what sort of a sl you can arrange. It may be that if your account exceeds a certain your commission will be larger. At some stores you may not be able to get any commission at all. Once you have established your little business you will probably have no difficulty in getting such discounts. Then if you really are in earnest, have some cards printed—with your name, address and telephone number. Under your name the simple word “Shopping” will be sufficient. Make personal calls on all the busi- ness men you know. Make these calls short—just long enough to tell these acquaintances that you are ready at any. time to do their shopping for them—and that you will be willing to call to talk over plans for purchases at any time. Suggest that you will be glad to buy office equipment as well as more personal things. From the classified section of the telephone book you might get the names and addresses of doctors, lawyers and other professional men whom you might plan to call on even though you do not know them. And always leave your card and ask the busy business man to keep it where he may refer to it some day when he has shopping to have done and doesn’t know whom to have it done by. Keep the run of the department store advertisements for special dis- plays and special announcements. Visit the stores where you have shop- per’s discount with your eyes open. Make note of the attractive, tricky new things that are to be had—little things that most man s ‘wouldn’t even notice. Some women have a rare knack for seeing these things and im- mediately sensing their possibilities. Meantime, if you have time, find out the name of the chairman of the purchasing committee of the local in- stitutions. If they are men the chances are that they are too busy to want to bother with the detail of this work. One woman who has succeeded in this work does all the purchasing for a local country club and has been in- trusted with all the buying—aside from the food—for a thriving country motor- ist inn Having made your rounds once you should keep a list of the more hopeful prospects—that is, the men who seemed to feel that they would give you shop- ping to do later on. 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