Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1928, Page 39

w OMAN'S PAGE, Christmas Candle-Light Party BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. THE TREE AND CANDLES FOR THIS GAME ARE CUT FROM CREPE PAPER AND CARDBOARD IN THE SHAPES INDICATED IN THE PICTURE. At Christmas time when all the young folk are home from schools and colleges, festivity is in the very atmos- phere. Parties are every-night occur- rences, with plenty of afternoon affairs to round out the day’s good times. To help in some of the occasions two games are offered today. Both have to do with Christmas candles. In the first game the hostess sup- plies each girl .with a candle which may be an ordinary white one, or gay red, or there may be candles of all colors but of uniform size. If no candlesticks are provided, it is important to have non-drip candles. A frill of heavy lace paper can be wrapped about the lower end of the candle with the lace flar- ing so that if any wax drips, it will be prevented from falling on the floor or on dainty gowns, At one end of the room there should ®e a single tall red candle. The girls form in line, each with her candle, and march the length of the room and by the candle, whete each her Christmas torch of cheer. line should now become straggling, with | Chrisi spaces of many feet between paraders. ‘The line follows the leader who takes them over a circuitous route through ‘various rooms. Meanwhile the men have recelved wee fans, which can be cut from red or different colored pasteboard. «The men are stationed all along the route but not close together. It is the object of the men to fan out the candles, while it is the object of the flr].lo{o keep kept in moton by the men as their small fans will permit. The girl who succeeds in keeping her candle burning the longest is said to be the brightest and merriest, for she carries her Christmas cheer the farthest into the coming months. She wins a prize. The man who succeeds in fan- ning out the greatest number of candles is considered the most captivating, and also wins a prize. Pairs of fancy ¢an- dles make appropriate prizes. The next game is lighting the Ohrist- mas tree. Each rl.n er is provided with a candle made of white cardboard with a flame painted in red and yellow to give the glow. Through the center of the flame is a pin and on the candle itself is & number. ‘The hostess has cut a Christmas tree from green crepe paper, and decorated it with various colored paper cirtles, and shapes pasted flat, to_represent tree ornaments. A fancy flower pot appears to hold the tree, which in reality is sewed to a sheet, This is against some wall. game consists in lighting the tmas tree. The one succeeding in topping the tree with a candle or com- ln‘dnelrut to it after bel bllnd.(old“el: an wnlxkfi from a place a prize, n of the oppo- site sex who comes next nearest wins another, with a consolation prize for the one whose candle is farthest from the tree. The first two prizes must be on the tree itself, the other may be anywhere in the room. Oandlesticks, fax sets, including candle- and many tapers, are suggested while a candy Christmas BEAUTY CHATS A Our New Figures. Once upon a time I begged my read- ers never to-wear corsets, but to let their figures go without stays or sup- ports and to let the waistline spread if it wented to. Those were the not 80 very distant days when the quite straight up-and-down dress was coming in, without a noticeable waistline, and & Things ‘Waistlines are coming back and hips gre outlined. In many ways the new styles are not so pretty as the old, for the new ones lay such emphasis on chopped-up lines that often the effect §s as though a diligent dressmaker had seen how she could cut a complicated pattern from a piece of cloth. Lines, not line, are the object. But we must pave change, for even the best of the #ld style grows monotonous in time. In even this short period corsets BY EDNA KENT FORBES has spread too much, buy corsets of this type and then wear your dresses 50 they to the hips, with belts or sashes around the part the stays out- line. kYou achieve a (nhlon:b;l&l;fleg‘:, you keep your figure from g slouchy: you do not injure your health in any way. Such stays are usually not more than 6 to 12 inches wide, with garters to hold them well down over the m Some are mere fronts and sides, strips of elastic across theé back to hold them together. Yet brief and light as °|the Union trans) Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. December 17, 1861.—The Leslie, one of the Government's naval vessels, went down the Potomac from the navy yard tonight to the flotilla which is atrolling a portion of the river below rashington. She expected to return tomorrow morning after gaining infor- mation about the new Confederate bat- teries which are reported to have been placed on the Virginia shore of the river between Freestone Point and Shipping Point, on or near what is known as Timber Branch. It is believed that they have been erected in an effort to command th mouth of Mattawoman Crepk, on_the Maryland side of the river, up which rts convey stores for Sickles' Union Brigade, which is en- camped on' that creek’s shores and in the vicinity. The Confederates, according to latest reports from down river, have com- menced firing upon every Union vessel that passes up or down along this stretch, but thus far they have not succeeded in hitting any of them. Great activity still prevails at the navy yard here. Steamers are being rapidly overhauled for war purposes and put in first-class repair. Four steamers were sent out from the yard, thoroughly repaired, yesterday, and today it is ex- pected that repairs on the Wyandank will be finished. Projectiles are being manufactured rapidly at the yard, and as fast as gun castings are received from foundaries in the Northern States they are being bored and rifled here and made ready for mounting on naval vessels, It was rumored here tonight that Col. Charles Field of Kentucky, now in command of & Confederate cavalry regi- ment, but formerly a captain in the 2d United States Cavalry and an instructor in cavalry tactics, was killed by & picket of Gen. Blencker’s Division. ~There is no confirmation of this nlwrt yet. The dull sound of artillery of large caliber which has occasionally been heard here within the last 48 hours comes from guns of long range placed in battery recently by the Confederates at Centerville, Va. This is the first occasion since the Civii War started that Confederate guns have been distinctly heard in ‘Washington. they are, they do in a way mold the figure und hold it more erect’ than no pport at all. But do not wear stays above the waistline if you are slender. C. H—Yoyr proportions are correct except those of the hips, which should measure a few inches less, but since younreonlyl‘l!nu' of age, you will correct this before you have ly thave changed character. It is now pos- sible to buy any number of styles in stays that mold the hips and support the abdomen without in any way com- pressing the waistline. If your figure grown up. & SERIDRAENE. DRSS Six New York hospitals will aid Co- lumbia University in its program for training head nurses. The Daily Cross Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1928.) 8. Salt-water fish, 9. Chopping tool. 10. Meadow. Exist. Frozen water. A lim] 12, 13. 14. 15 Vehicles on runners. 17. A snare 20. The perfidious friend of Othello. 23. Money sent in return (plural), 4. A short poem. . ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE . United States coin. . Let go. . Obtained. . African antelope. . Part of a circle. . Female sheep. . Lick up. . Distress signal, Metaphysical term meaning com- pleted mrceui:auon: o::e English equiyal of a w uséd b Aristotle. . Down. . The brightest star in a constellation. 8hort poem. . Scotch for “dle.” . Charge for a firearm. . ;ll‘;xxzu professing ignorance in re- n. . B e b presen . In time before the t. . Primary color, . Girl's name. . Military aviator of prowess. “Fluff didn't like my telling her she wuz gettin’ too old to act her ) What seems like a wise crack at the lt:x;z, often sounds like a foolish break r.” WINTERTIME BY D. O. PEATTIE. Christmas cards, beginning to artive in heavy contingents already, are usu- rich in sentiments, old E the fat sides of the Christmas goose, and the dragging in of ye goode olde yule logge. Even holly and mistletoe are old English—as far as customs go. Few people in America have a goose on Christmas, the turkey being out modern barnyard victim. Probably no family will dine on a boar’s head, in this country, at least. Boar's heads went down with more appetite and gusto in the days when people ate meat with their hands, threw the bones to the dogs under the table, and even Charles the First buttered his bréad with his thumb. But there is one of the cammodities which we can all enjoy, providing we have something better than a gas log or a radiator to cheer the yule season. That is the good old log. Of all the material delights of the Christmas sea- son, the log on the fire is the most spiritual. It gives more than warmth. It gives gayety, light and cheer. How shall one make the yule log better than just any stick you lay upon the fire? Well, there are many ways, but to my mind a little fat pine for kindling, some of the salts that burn in brilliant colors for magic, and of chestnuts for amusement, will ;u ice to put the elfish touch upon the og. DAILY DIET RECIPE MAPLE LOAF CAKE. Butter, 3 cupful. Brown sugar, 1 mplfll. Maple sirup, %2 cupful. Eggs, 2. Mglfi 1 cupful. Flour, 2% cupfuls. Baking powder, 3 teaspoonfuls, Nutmeg, % teaspoonful. Salt, 1, teaspoonful. Currants, ¥, cupful. Walnut chopped, 1 cupful. MAKES 1 LARGE CAKE. Cream, butter and sugar. Add sirup and beaten egg yokes. Bift together flour, baking powder, salt and nutmex. Add this alternately with the milk to the first mix- ture. Add raisins, currants and nuts. Fold in stiffy beaten egg whites Bake in_a moderate oven, 350 degrees. Ice as dseired. DIET NOTE. Recipe contains protein, éar- bohydrate, fat as well as lime and iron. The vitamins have been damaged by the action of the baking powder. Can be eaten by no adults of average or under weight. Willie Willis BY ROBERT QUILLEN. . A high officer in the army (ab.). . A coquettish look. ! . A supernumerary (theatrical term). . Be in debt. 31. A number. 33. A kind of tree, 34. Boy’s name, “1 know where the vase is that Mamma thinks maybe sorebody stole, but she ain't got no use for & busted vase.” 3 Are Wonen Responsidle for the Divorce Evil? AY, DECEMBER 17, 1 FEATURES. Finds the Blame Rests on Their Husbands. DorothyDix' “Source of Divorce Evil Is Women Themselves Cries Masculine Observer, But Retort Cites “Man’s Fickle Fancy.” 1 I HAVE received a letter from a very intelligent man, who writes: “I wish I could make you see the wisdom of striking at the source of the divorce evil, and that that source is the women themselves. The middle-aged women are not rushing of their own accord to the divorce court. They are b2ing forced there, and rightfully so, by men who will no longer sacrifice their lives to the institution of marriage and what women call ‘duty.’ “Middle-aged professional and business men are not casting aside their falthful wives for empty-headed flappers. Cases like that are unusual. More likely they discard their wives for intelligent and refined women nearly their own age. “Middle-aged women are in a slough of a certain feminine mass con- sclousness. They all dress alike, look alike, think alike. Watching a lot of them one day pouring out from a woman's club, I saw a most wretched spectacle. The only noticeable difference was that some were fat and some were thin. All were improperly dressed. No rouge. Their complexions were mottled, oily or sallow, and I knew that women who could look like that had little to offer their husbands in the way of intelligent opinions or companionship. I knew also that sooner or later they would face the divorce court. “At middle-age women should make the very, very most of any asset they possess. They should be well-groomed and smart-looking. They should be on their tiptoes, up-to-date, progressive. We don't think as we used to. We are learning to reason out our problems, and lectures on Shakespeare, Browning or Tennyson will not solve the pment-dny.domesuc problem. . . . “LD"!.' has taught most middle-aged women nothing. They have not learned to reason. They have not found out that there is only one way for a wife +to hold her husband. She will have to train her mind to get his point of view. She must never rest from trying to hold his attentfon in an interesting and attractive way. “Why? Because it happens that law and tradition have placed the male of the species, more or less, in a state of bondage which is foreign to his nature. He rebels when he thinks that in every direction there is some law or code that seeks to bind him to this woman's strong possessive and domineering nature. “She tightens the bonds by continually asserting her authority, and it is quité natural for him to strain at the leash, and to underestimate the woman who thus binds him. This state of affairs has placed the wife in the trying position of having to make the most effort, the most sacrifices, and forces her to bear with all sorts of idiosyncrasies if she wants to keep her man. That is why middle-aged women are bound to suffer unless they come to understand that a happy marriage depends upon themselves.” Thus does & man tun; a strictly masculine searchlight on the middle-aged wuan;n. and attempt to explain why so many marriages go on the rocks in midstream. He is right when he says that the middle-aged woman seldom seéeks the divorce court of her own accord. Nearly always she is driven into it by her husband, who is weary of het, and who wants to swap partners. It is not true, however, that he generally forsakes his wife for another middle-aged woman, no matter how intelligent and refined she may be. Check over your divorced man acquaintances, and you will see that the ladies who figured as co-respondents in their divorce cases were almost invariably young and slim and pulchritudinous, and possessed of those charms that the middle-aged wife had lcst. Nor can I agree with my correspondent that the majority of middle-aged women are a dowdy lot who take no interest in their clothes, or their personal n})penmce. On the contrary, it is the middle-aged women who are the mainstay fimthe beauty shops, and who enable milliners and dressmakers to roll around in ousines. “ .o IF he could see the agonies that millions of women who are fat and 40 are going through in order to keep a boyish figure and & schoolgirl complexion, and if he had to pay a few of the bills they run up, dressing like flappers in the vain effort to keep their husbands’ eyes from straying from them to some younger and fairer form, he would offer them a shoulder to weep upon instead of lambasting them. For, alas, they are attempting the impossible. They are trying to stay the youth that is going. To be as beautiful at 40 as they were ltrfi?o, !To be };resh and new and alluring to a man who knows their whole box of tricks by heart. ‘The thing can't be done. Nor can any woman who has borne a man children, and who has toiled and scrimped to help him make his fortune, be always as bright and entertaining and as full of P‘ep 4s the woman who has nothing else to do, but amuse him. Matrimony 18 no vaudeville performance. 4 Of course, it is.true, as my correspondent states, that the wife is placed in the trying position of having to make the most effort, the most slcflflce':. and to Giorcs cout, Dut ths I DIy Deckuss t 1o more Impariant to B to reun Hae 0 ] simpl ause more im; home together than it is to a man. B e It is not that the mmdxe-:fied wife 18 less attractive than the middle-aged husband, or that she is less intelligent, or that she is less careful of her personal appearance. Taking it by and large, thé middle-aged woman i8 just as easy on the eyes as the middle-aged man. If you have ever looked down from a gallery on a stag banquet and observed the aggregation of fat, paunchy, bald-headed men who were feeding, you didn't feel that it was anything to write a song about, as Mr. Galsworthy would say. 1t you listened to their conversation, their dissertation on their cars, their radios and the stock market, you found that it was no more thrilling than that of their wives about the cook and the baby and the length of skirts. Probably their wives were just as bored with them as they were with their wives, The middle-aged woman, however, doesn’t stray off after cake-eaters as a husband does after flappers because she has more sense of responsibility than the man has. She feels that she must hold the family together and consider her children’s interests. Besides, shé has less temptation. Pretty young girls to vamp every marriéd man who has money, and scheme to marry him, but no boys hang around the middle-aged woman, and the chances of the middle-aged | divorcee’s being able to marry are slim. ‘There are many reasons why the middle-aged man gets tired of his middle- aged wife, but it isn't fair to blame the woman always for the man’s fickle fancy. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1928.) Pork Chops-Pineapple. Cocoa Bisouits. Sprinkle the pork chops with salt and pepper, dip in beaten égg. and then in sifted bread crumbs, Place in a bak« ing pan with enough fat to keep them from sticking. Also put slices of pine- apple inl the, pan, allowing one for each teaspoonful of salt, two tablespoonfuls of sugar and four tablespoohfuls of cocoa. Rub in two tablespoonfuls cf shortening. Add énough milk to make Sift two cupfuls of flour with threo |1 teaspoonfuls of baking powder, half a |m chop. Bake for 30 minutes in a mod- erately hot oven. Then arrange on each ¢hop a ring of pimento, fill the center of each ring with seedless raisins and bake for 30 minutes longsr, basting often with the fat in the pa a firm, but not stiff dough, or about two-thirds cupful. Turn out onto a slightly floured board, roll to the desired thickness, cut with a biscult cutter, lace close together in a pan and bake DaPglish Yuletide Tables —can offer no greater treat than SCHNEIDER’'S OLD ENGLISH FRUIT CAKE. It has a: reputation of over Fifty Years’ standing, and owes its Exceptional Quality to finest Imported Fruits and other choice ingredients. Order your supply now. At Grocers’, Delicatessen Stores and Market Stands. The Chatles Schneider Baking Co. 413 Eye Strect. Northwest Washington D: i WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MA: Registered U. 8. ‘When agents called at the door and took orders for crayon enlargements, and the latter were usually framed in massive gilt creations? P THE GREAT RELIEF o———= - g “The smoke of battle cleared away soon after the election day, and peace resumed its reign. Campaigns are all drawn out too long; we start with reso- lutions strong to be serene and calm; we won't indulge in roar and shriek, but every blessed word we speak will be a healing balm. And for a while we do maintain an attitude that’s safe and - sane, we argue without heat; with fine | politeness, grace and tact we point out many a vital fact and figures good as wheat. The neighbors, too, with whom we talk, at wild and angry statements balk, though they may disagree; and every one is so polite, denounces wrong, defending right, it is a sight to see. But wearily the campaign drags, and pretty soon our patience sags, our tem- pers are at fault; we've used our argu- ments so much the best among them needs a crutch, they are so lame and halt. We've talked around in rings and rings, & thousand times the same old things we dismally have sprung; we've tolked so long our jaws are tired, in deep statistics we are mixed, we've spavins on each lung. The neighbors whom we daily bore with arguments are growing sore, they meet us with a frown; and old-time friends line up as foes, and some one soon resorts to blows, and knocks a neighbor down. It's plea- sant when it ends, gadzooks, and we can talg again of books, of pepful motor cars, of works of art and writing inks, of song and love and kickless drinks, and fifteen-cent cigars. WALT MASON. (Copyright, 1928.) SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. I kep' my fibe cents yesterday at Sunny School. Muvver say 'at dest the same as stealin’, and it's in the Bible “Don’t not steal!” I telled her we ain't 'at fer along in the book. (Copyright, 1028.) Prices realized on Swift & Company sales of carcass besf in Washinston, D. C.. k ending Saturday, December I5, ranged from pound_and —Ad BEDTIME STORIES Buster Closes a Door. By accident is oft revealed The thing we thought was auite concealed. —Buster Bear. “I could go right in there and come right out again and it wouldn't make queer little loghouse. ‘““There is meat in there—pig meat—and I want it. There know anything about it. It won't takc me a minute to get in there and get that meat and get out again.” Still he hesitated. He couldn't forget that Bobcat that had been made a pris- oner in that loghouse. How that Cat had been made a_prisoner, he hadn't the slightest idea. But it made him suc- picious. There was something queer about that little house. ~ Yes, sir, there was something queer. Back and forth and round and round that little house Buster prowled. Most of the time he was two or three feet away, but occasionally he would go clese enough to sniff at the logs of which the house was built. It was a very small | house. There were no windows in it. The front door, which was open, was the only door. What it could be for and why the meat had been left in it was more than Buster could understand. That piece of meat was clear at the back. In order to get it Buster would have to go wholly in. Once he stopped and poked his head in. Then in a sud- den panic he backed out. But nothing had happened. Everything was just as it had been before, Buster sat up and stared a long time at that little house. Finally he had a happy thought. “Perhaps there's a way in from up on top,” thought Buster. “I'll climb up on that house and see what it is like. I might find a way in up there. Cer- tainly it will do no harm.” So Buster climbed up on top. When he got up there he discovered nothing but two or three sticks. They were ar- ranged in a curious way. At the very front a little pile of logs, one right on top of another, seemed to be held up by one of these sticks. Presently Buster reached out an exploring paw and touched one of these stioks gently. Nothing happened. It was just such a stick as the other sticks. Buster reached out and hit it sharply with one of his big paws. In fact, he hit it so hard that any difference,” said Buster Bear, as he | stood in front of the open door of the | isn't anybody around and nobody will | BY THORNTON Ww. BURGESS pened fast enough then, though jus' what it all was Buster didn't know excepting that those piled up logs began to drop. He himself made a bound off the roof and ran away to a safe dis- tance, Then he turned to look back Everything looked all right, excepting that those sticks and logs on top of the roof were no longer there. Buster walked around in front, still at a safe distance. Then his eyes opened very wide. He could no longer see into HE NO LONGER COULD SEE INTO THAT QUEER LITTLE HOUSE. that queer little house. The door was closed. You see, what Buster had taken to be just some logs piled up really was a door made of logs; a door held up by the stick that he had struck. When he had knocked that stick out, the door had simply dropped. That queer little house wasn’t a house at all. It was what is known as a pen-trap. If Buster had gone inside and tried to take the meat that was fastened there at the back, he would have sprung that door just as he did. The main differ- ence would have been that he would have been a prisoner. As it was, Bustre was very lucky. It was a fortunate thing for him that he had climbed up on top and meddled with those sticks, instead of going inside and meddling with the meat. he knocked if off the roof. Things hap- BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. The influenza outbreaks at present giving some anxiety to the people in various parts of the country, notably California and some of the Southern States, are evidently not the severe type of disease that overwhelmed the country in the great epidemics of 1918 and 1920. It is probably nct the same disease at all. The present epidemic is unlikely to become dangerous in any locality. From all the reliable information at hand today I am inclined to believe that the present alarm is nothing more than an exaggerated view of the usual annual prevalence of our old friend, the cri (common respiratory infection). I believe the doctors are for' the time being calling it “flu,” mainly because patients come to the doctors complain- ing that they belleve they have a touch of this “flu.” You may not understand how this can be, but if so. You've never practiced medicine, that's all The health authorities are still as helpless as ever to cope with real influ- enza, of course. We know no more {about the nature or cause of that mys- terious and terrible disease than we did | when the great epidemic paralyzed the | country. A generation ago we recognized influ- {enza as a specific disease, caused by & clearly described and distinguished | bacillus, and we believed it was usually, |if not always, & respiratory infection, “rcgudlus of the part of the body that | suffered the brunt of the attack. I recall that one of the characteristic | features or signs by which the physician | thought he could distinguish certain cases of pneumonia from influenza was {an absence of leucocytosis; that is, the | increased number of white blood cor- puscles in influenza. In ordinary pneu- monia there was a marked leucocyto- sis, Besides its diognostic_significance, we assumed that this peculiarity meant | that the patient made a feeble fight | against influenza, as compared with the way the white cells recruited to battle the invaders in pneumonia. All this seems to have been a wabbly assumption. At any rate, one hears no mote about it in modern practice. Not that I care whether other doctors ever acknowledge my' term, the eri, or whether they ever accept my teaching about it as.a good, practical working rule for the management of such cpi- i demics. But please belleve that if any Happy.' ... It’s a cheerful drink, Pale Moon. The golden color, the sparkling bubbles, the mellow, unforgettable savor—delicious but elusive, somehow suggests laughter, fun, and good times. Children may safely drink all they want. Pale Moon Company of America, Inc., 824 Sou St., Philadelphia, th Second Pa. SERVE ICED! PAaL EM (Copyright, 1928.) New Disease Wave Differs From Big Influenza Scourge of my neighbors develop this 1928-9 brand of “flu” I am going to try to keep out of their spray range, conversational or longer ranges (though I do not think any of my neighbors would be such vicious beasts as to cough or sneeze upon me when they had cri). Our ignorance of the specific cause of real “flu” should occasion no more anxiety than does our ignorance of the actual nature of what you and your doctor may conspire to call a “cold,” or maybe the “grip.” In any case, the public can do but one thing—we must stand our ground and try to dodge the spray. (Copyright. 1928 Halibut Pie. Cut into pieces as large as an egg two pounds of halibut, place in a bak- ing dish, pour over hot white grape juice barely to cover and cook in a moderate oven for half an hour, or until the fish is done. Remove the fish to a two-quart pudding dish lined with a light ple crust already baked. Add to the grape juice & dozén oysters and a dozen mus both broiled, and enough bread crumbs to make a medium batter. Beat into this two beaten eggs, cook until these are set, pour over the fish in the pastry shell, cover with a sheet of the same light g{as't!:y and cog bon the upper shelf e oven un rown top. ve in the baking dish. g s ———ai . Special Scalloped Potatoes. Boil separately until tender, twelve small potatoes, or six large ones sliced, two onions, peeled and chopped, and two peppers, green and red, with seeds removed. Drain, mix together, add one tablespoonful of butter and place in a baking dish. Make a cream sauce, using one tablespoonful of butter, one and one-half tablespocnfuls of flour, and one and one-half cupfuls of milk, and pour over all. Grate some cheese on top and bake, for 30 minutes in a moderate oven. Just before serving, sprinkle a tablespoonful of minced parsley over the top. Albert Joyce, a 20-year-old boxer, re- cently died from head injuries received during a bout in Melbourne, Australia. SPARKLING DELICIOUS DIFFERENT The new-time drink J. E. DYER & CO. 3330 M St. N.W., Washington, D. C. Wholesale Distributors