Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1928, Page 40

WOMA The Sidewalks RO e of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. Passengers on a Fourteenth street car turned toward the rear of the vehicle en they heard a feminine voice say, “Mr. Conductor, I want you to meet my sister, Hor- tense.” Tt seemed rather strange that the conductor was not called by name and curiosity was naturally aroused. ‘Through the ais! walked an obvious- 1y embarrassed gis of high school ag: her hair was spun in multi-colored paper curlers and her nose painted a. tiznificant crimson. For a bouquet she stalks of It was evi- t she would have preferred being any place save where she was at the particular moment. A basket of knitting and other paraphernalia swung on her left arm. Her shoes and stock- Ings were of different design and color 80 tl she presented a grotesque pic- ture as she stood at the front of the car where all might witness her morti- fication. Of course, she was being Initiated. Probably her only consoling thought was that soon she would be a tormentor herself. If it serves no other purpose an initiation is a humbling process which is sometimes good for us. * X x % ‘There are professional bridge players in Washington who earn a splendid in- come teaching the game to the less skilled. Perhaps no game save golf has seized the American public as bridge has done. What's a home today without a goif prize? While not engaged by the hotels themselves some of these teachers are known to devote their time to instruct- ing the patrons of certain hostelries where they become known, and are recommended to other patrons. e The operation of a large modern hotel is a big order. Its management must not only possess infinite tact and patience but knowledge of economics. Hotels catering to a more or less tran- sient trade are compelled to anticipate holidays and near-holidays. Election tay, for example, found several of Wash- ington’s largest taverns practically va- cant. One of them was one-fourtn filled, according to the manager. This neans a natural decrease in the num- ter of persons patronizing the dining 1om. The problem of how to provide enough and not too much must be nolved by the experienced people who are charged with the responsibility. » o % Most of Washington's cab drivers arz honest. The amazing fashion in which they “short-cut” their way through the city is indicative of this. An extra block or two will click off & few more cents but apparently they prefer to give the customer a run for his mopey. Once in a while, however, an avaricious driver will intentionally or througn carelessness find a long trail to a i fled address. It is often difficult for a | fare to decide whether it is deliberate intent or error when this happens. * ok kX How a single letter may change the sense of a telegram and cause trouble was illustrated the other day when a business man said that he inquired concerning a prospective customer who desired credit. The reply came back, | “Note good for any amount.” A large bill of goods was sold and shipped. The note came due and was protested. Upon further inquiry it was discov- ered that the message should have read, “Not good for any amount.” * ok ok X A local attorney was discussing the present jury system. “It may have its faults,” said he, “but I ara satisfied with it. 'The aver- age 12 persons in the jury box try to return a fair and 7/ just verdict. Once 4 in & while one runs Western jury, A certain case had been tried, and after a few words of advice the judge said: ‘Gentlemen of the jury, you kin go out and find a verdict. If you can't find one of your own, get the one the last jury used. The jury retired. When they reap- peared they returned a verdict of ‘sul- cide in the ninth degree.’” * ok Kk X One Washington young fellow lost $800 in small bets on the election. A local woman lost $300 on Smith. She had wagered 1 to 3 that he would win. The tendency to gamble on the result of im- | portant events is characteristic of Amer- cans. Matching for car fare is just one example of this weakness. We have seen $50 wagered on the result of a single golf stroke. After all, it is a species of adventure, and adventure spanned the continent with railroad systems and sowed the seed of gigantic business enterprises. To win, ons must take a chance. ' Patchwork Patterns For That Old-Fashioned Quilt. There are many lovely versions,of star quilt piecing, varying from four points to eight, and even a feather-edged pattern which scintillates with small points along all edges of its large cnes. The cne here given is an airy, open-looking block about 101, inches square. It is made by piecing eight small squares from two triangles each and four oblong blocks of three triangles each, then sewing them together into the block ts shown. Star blocks set together with alternate plain squares placed either hori- ntally or diagenally on the quilt, or they make a handsome coverlet with white t'rips about 3 inches wide between blocks, joining with a 3-inch square of print at the corners. ‘To make patterns, trace these two triangles onto cardboard. Then use these a5 patterns to draw around onto material. Cut a seam largez, as these do not #ilow for seams, and then sew back to the pencil line. Who Else Wants a Delicious Quick Dessert? MADAM . . . have you heard about the new “Fruit Flavored” Gelatin . . . the kind that’s made with the delicious flavors of real fresh fruit? Please do not confuse it with any ordinary zeht@n you have ever tried, or may be using. It'ssmoother ... far more delicious than any you've ever known before. You can actually taste the real Here's gelatin with body. With aroma. It’s the kind of gelatin that finicky children like fruit flavor. add hungry husbands thrive on. Here’s one that finicky children like and husbands thriveon And what a boon and blessing it is for women who have meals to prepare in a hurry. With Royal you just stir in hot water and let your ice box do the work. Please don’t wait for us to pub- lish another advertisement about Royal Gelatin, Jake up your i “If anybuddy wants to do me a big favor, he’ll explain to Bozo that a story may be worth tellin’ a hundred times yet not be worth listenin’ to more than once.” (Copyrisht, 1928.) —_— Pork Chops de Luxe. Order T-bone chops cut thin. Sprinkle them with salt, dip in fine bread crumbs, then in seasoned egg to which half as much water has been added, then again in crumbs, and saute slowly until a rich brown on both sides in any good fat or dripping. Remove to a dish. Make a highly seasoned, slightly thickened gravy in th2 frying pan, scraping off all the brown, return the | A" chops to it, and just simmer for are hour covered. Remove carefully to a hot! platter and pour sauce around. Serve with plain potatoes and applesauce. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Stewed Prunes. Oatmeal with Cream. Codfish Hash. ‘Toast, Marmalade. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Pish Croquettes, White Sauce. Baking Powder Biscuits. Brambles, Tea. DINNER. Clear Soup. Fried Scallops, Tartare Sauce. Mashed Potatoes. Cauliflower au Gratin. Lettuce, Russian Dressing. Banana Pudding, Coffee. FISH HASH. Wash and pick raw salt fish into small pieces until you have a cupful; cut one pint raw pota- toes in quarters. Put togather in stew pan and cover with boiling water. Boil 25 minutes, or until potatoes are soft. Drain off all water, mash and heat fish and potatoes until very light. Add one teaspoonful butter and one- fourth saltspoonful pepper and more salt if required. When slightly cool add one beaten egg. Cook in a little salt pork fat in frying pan until brown. Turn out like omelet. BAKING POWDER BISCUITS. Mix together and sift two cups pastry flour, two and one- half teaspoonfuls baking powder, pinch salt. Add two tablespoon- fuls butter and work it into flour with tips of fingers until free from lumps. Then add ‘about three-fourths cup sweet milk slowly, stirring quickly. Toss on board and just fold in round shape, handling as little as pos- sible. Have board well floured, pat lightly until about one inch thick, then cut in rounds, losing no time. Put in good hot oven and bake 15 minutes. Have pan Frn.sed. You may have to use a ittle more milk., It depends upon your flour. Don’t roll with roll- ing pin; just pat out lightly. CAULIFLOWER AU GRATIN. Boil fine caulifiower tender in milk and water mixed in equal proportions and salted. Prepare white sauce diluted with mHE to creamy consistency. When cooked tender, break caulifiower into clusters, put layer into baking dish, sprinkle with grated cheese and moisten with sauce. Repeat to form second layer. Scatter bread crumbs over all and dot with bits butter. Bake golden brown. Meanwhile prepare ‘gar- nish of hard-boiled eg; in fol- lowing manner: Boil four eggs hard, separate yolks and whites, Rub yolks to cream with bit but- ter and season with salt, paprika and nutmeg. = Add some finely minced ham or chicken and form the mass into little balls. When gratin is baked set dish in paper gratin holder and garnish with tiny egg balls laid on pieces chopped hard-boiled whites and serve very hot. mind right now to try it. Surprise your family with this delicious dessert tonight. Take a vote on flavor. Note the speed and ease of preparation. Then decide yourself if it isn’t worth while to insist on the genuine Royal Gelatin in the beautiful red package. It comes in five different | foolish quarrel. | Redtail screamed angrily. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, BEDTIME STORIES Sneeze at Wrong Time. The caretu) foot will sometimes trin: e best of plang will sometimes slij —Rusty the Fox Squirrel. ‘When you stop to think of it, Reddy Fox and Redtail were having a most foolish quarrel. Yes, sir, it was a most They were quarreling over something that neither of them had. Each claimed that Rusty the Fox Squirrel belonged to him, when, as a matter of fact, he belonged to no one. So intent were they on their quarrel | that for a while they actually forgot what they were quarreling about. After a while Redtail saw an oppor- {tunity to take to his wings without giving Reddy a chance to spring on his back. As Redtail mounted up into the air Reddy Fox leaped upward and his jaws closed on one of Redtail's tail feathers, The tail feather came out. Reddy Fox stood looking up at Redtail and snarl- ing just as angrily. Then Redtail mounted up, up, up and began to look for Rusty the Fox Squirrel. You see, Redtail hadn't seen Rusty dodge down that hole. Reddy Fox knew where Rusty had gone, however, and as soon as he was sure that Redtail had gone for good Reddy turned his attention to that hole. It wasn't quite big enough for him to g0 down himself, but it looked as if it might be easy dln’lnf'. and Mddg made up his mind that he would dig out Rusty the Fox Squirrel. He wouldn't be cheated out of that Squirrel dinner. No, sir, he wouldn’t be cheated out of that Squirrel dinner. So as soon as he sure that Redtail was too far y to know what he was doing Reddy poked his head into that hole and be- ignn to dig. He was digging the hole arger. Now, this was the very thing that| Rusty the Fox Squirrel had been afraid would happen. He is no digger him- self, and he knew that if Reddy should really undertake to dig him out he could do it. For this reason the first thing Rusty had done after getting his breath was to see that there was a back hall to that old Chuck house. If there were a back hall, he might have some chance. My, how he did hope he would find a back hall with a back door opening out onto the Green Meadows! Twice he found what he thought were back halls, only to dis- cover that they soon ended. He was almost in despair when he found an- other hall. It was a small one. He wondered how Johnny Chuck could have squeezed through it. It was big enough for Rusty, however, to run along in comfort. He pushed his way along, digging away some earth that had fallen down. By and by he could ' Redd: Orange) at §1. delicious fresh fruit flavors. ROYAL FRUIT FLAVORED GELATIN PARFUMEU C.. THURSDAY, BY THORNTON W. BURGESS smell fresh air. Then he knew he had | found the right hall and that in a| moment he would be at the back door. | A stone partly closed the back door, | but after a little digging Rusty could' poke his head out. My, how good the fresh air was! He didn’t push his head right out. First, he merely put his nose out. Then he poked just enough of kis head out for his eyes to give him a chance to see all around. Almost the first thing he saw was a big bushy tail a short distance away and beneath it two hind feet kicking out sand. Reddy Fox was hard at work digging that hole bigger. Rusty wanted to chuckle when he saw this. Now all he would have to do would be to wait for Reddy to REDDY FOX HARD AT WORK DIG- GING THAT HOLE BIGGER. | get way inside, then he would take to| ms heeis. And by the time Reddy had | discovered that he wasn't in that hole he would be safely across the Green Meadows and up in a tree; that is, he would be if Redtail didn't come back. Anxiously he looked all about in the sky. A speck was just vanishing off over the Green Forest. He knew it to be_Redtail. Now, there will be a slip in the best of plans. Rusty’s plan was all right. Reddy would have a lot of digging to do before he got down to the end of that hall, and when he did get there he would find that Rusty had escaped. Meanwhile Rustv would be racing across ,the rest of the Green Meadows to the woods beyond. Now, Reddy's method of digging is to dig very fast with those forefeet of his, then kick out the sand, usually backing out as he did so. Rusty sat with just his nose and eyes above the ground, watching It was just as Reddy had Superbly beautiful—the Houbigant double compact sells for $2.50, single with face powder only and extra refill for $1.50. With rouge only in four shades (Pour Brune, Pour Blonde, Carnation and R TO THE NOBILITY NOVEMBER 8, 1928 DAILY DIET RECEIPE LIVER BUTTER. Lamb liver, 12 pound. Melted butter, 12 cupful. Lemon juice, 1 tablespoonful. Prepared mustard, 1 table- spoonful, Salt, 1, teaspoonful. Pepper, 14 teaspoonful. MAKES ABOUT !2 POUND. Beef, lamb or calf liver can be used. Slice liver and cook it very gently below boiling point about 15 minutes. Drain; cool; put through food chopper, using finest blade. Season with melted butter and other ingredients. Chopped olives could be added if desired, and when used as a sandwich bread could be spread with may- onnaise and then with the liver butter. If all of liver butter is not used at once, put in glass jar and cover with melted butter to keep it. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes protein in the liver and fat in the butter. Liver has been found very valuable in anemia, and hence good for those whose blood needs building up. Lime, iron, vitamins A, B and C present. Can b eaten by adults of average or under weight. Pot Roast-Cranberries, Select a piece of beef from the top or bottom of the round, or a three- pound piece of brisket, taking care that it is not too fat. Wipe the meat care- fully and flour it lightly all over, sprinkling it also with salt and pepper then brown it nicely in a little fat, turn- ing it so that all sides will become crisp and well seared. Cook a pint of cranberries in a pint of water until very soft, then rub them through r sieve and sweeten them slightly, If very thick, add enough water to them t make a thin puree, cook for a few min- utes, then add the meat and simme* gently until-tender and well done. If no more water is added during the cooking, the cranberries wiil simmer down to a thick sauce which should be served with the meat in place of gravy. No vegetables are added to the pot roast prepared in this way, but mashec or French fried potatoes make an ideal accompaniment for it. backed out for a breatin of fresh air that something tickled Rusty’s nose, “Kerchoo!” sneezed Rusty before he could stop it. Instantly Reddy turned. He saw Rusty when Rusty dodged down. In two jumps he was over to that little back doorway. (Copyright, 1928.) A fourth grace teacher was tired. Any fourth giade teacher is entitled to | be tired. Ever teach a fourth grade? ! That's the place where the tadpoles | gather, Neither pollywogs nor toads, | neither able to swim mor to hop. with | a strong desire to do both, they are | never at peace. And the trouble is they are so uneven in their growth. This lad who today is | a baby, the pink of infancy still upon | his cheeks, may, tomorrow, be a husky young scalawag, loud, boisterous, rough | careless, dirty, unheeding as a smali savage can be. The teacher may have | counted on_him as her strong staff. | And here he fis, leading the van of | non-conformists this morning. | Another one may have been a total | savage for the past month and sud- | denly, this morning, he is a gentle studious, ecivilized person, saying: “Please vill you help me with this long-division | example? I can't seem to get it. want to get an A in arithmetic thi | month if T can.” Wonders never ceasc | in the fourth grade. Nor do the grow- ing pains. So the fourth grade teache: was tired. “Close books. Ready to recite for language lesson.” The class finally settled down for recitation. “What de vou call ‘man’ in that sentence, Tillie? A man ran. What is man in that sen- tence? Tillle, I asked you, What i MAN in the sentence, A man ran?” Tillie looks blank. Then she looks ({lnuhled. Now she is anxious. But silent. | “What s Think! Think! think!" Tillle dies on anxiety vanishes from A teacher gives her a long look. An elo- quent look. Tillie remains dead. Then the teacher draws a deep breath. Pulls her gaze from Tillie’s hopeless face and says, “Well, Susan Ann, tell her.” “Man is & noun,” says Susan Ann pertly, flirting her skirts. So smart was Susan Ann, so dull was Tillie. Dear teacher, there is no use in -'.‘ ing think, think, to the Tillies, and tadpoles of the fourth grade. They know or they don't. If they know they re- member and recite. If they don't know they don't remember, because you can’t remember what don't know. 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