Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1929, Page 46

WOMAN'S PAGE’ e —————— Making a Feature of Cream Soup BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. . The manner of serving the soup course of dinners or luncheons has varied from time to time and the hostess who would keep abreast of the | fashion in table appointments wishes to know what is the accepted mode. ‘The soup plate, which was used so THERE IS SOMETHING SUGGES- TIVE OF THE CLASSIC IN THE DIGNIFIED LINES OF THIS KIND OF CONTAINER FOR SOUP. constantly in the days of our mothers and grandmothers, became a thing of the past in circles of fashion and bids fair to so remain. The bouillon cup took the place of it and is still much used, although it is not the latest thing. Straight Talks to Women About Money BY MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN. Why Budgets Fail. Meny families have tried budgeting and condemned it as a failure. This is not fair to the budget or to the family. ‘There must be something to a system of financing your business, in this case your household, if the Government uses it, and if every large company uses it. ‘Most budgets that fail are victims of indifference, neglect, or faulty use. One reason why budgets fail is be- cause all the family income and ex- penditures are not included. This leads 1o squabbles, and soon the entire budget rded. One way to obviate this is to discuss the plan with the entire family, so their co-operation and interest may be attracted and held. Some families only budget for a short time. Naturally this soon-leads to dif- ficulfles. Expenses either outgrow cur- Tent income, or the budget seems like 2 needless check on hazard spending of loose cash. While it is wise to muke estimates for each month, a budget for the year is best. Too much detail in a budget often causes the mother who manages it to throw up her hands, and say, “It's more bother than it's worth.” She may be right, too, in the cases of some Wdfiu ‘we have seen. Classes of items rather than the items themselves should be listed. Then groups may be formed so ‘one knows what each side of the house« hold is spending and costing. Taking over at a swallow a budget plan that has been successful with an “average family” is also a cause of failure. Develop your own plan to meet _your own needs “and situation. | go with almost any kind of service | | Al *’ D THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C.,” THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1929, ‘The dishes now Wost favored for soup service are a departure from both soup plates and bouillon cups, yet have a suggestion of both about them. They are, in a sense, a cup, in that they| have upward curving side and that handles are present. On the other hand, they are shallower and larger than the cups. In shape they are more squat than bouillon cups and the sides bulge more. There is something suggestive of the classic in the lines of these dishes | which go by the name of “Cream «soups.” Matching service plates as well as saucers come with some of the sets. There are those especially designed to plates. Colored glass tableware, especially welcome on the Summer table, includes | the “Cream soup” kind of dish, where | the assortment is large. Some sets | which I have seen include both the boullion cups and the eream soup | service. Unless one is very well to do, | there seems no need of having more than one kind, as the difference is not extreme, _Picture how pretty the table looks with a cream of pea soup, for instance, in a pale rose-colored dish set in its turn upon a saucer and serv- ice plate of the same ware and color. | If one wishes to continue the idea in other table appointments candlesticks of the same glass are sometimes avail- ble. A compote dish or a holder for flowers can figure as part of the table | decorations. il The semi-porcelain “Cream soups” | come in some attractive designs and are among the less expensive kinds to buy. and so well thought out that their use with china service dishes is not in- congruous. e (Copyright. 1920.) LY DIET RECIPE RUSSIAN CREAM. Flour, 4 cup. Sugar, !4 cup. Milk. 114 cups. Egg, 1. Almond flavoring, 1 teaspoon. Serves four or five portions. Mix flour and sugar together and blend well with 1, cup of the cold milk until it forms a smooth paste. Heat the remaining cup of milk and then add the flour and sugar mixture, stirring well. Cook until it thickens, stirring constantly. Remove from_ stove, add beaten egg. Mix well and return to stove and cook about two minutes. Cool. Flavor with extract. Serve in parfait glasses decorated with whipped cream. DIET NOTE. Recipe as given furnishes pro- tein, some starch and sugar. Lime, iron and vitamins A and B present in the egg and milk. Could be given to children over 6. Can be eaten by normal adults of average or under weight. The whipped cream garnish would of course add fat. The budgets of others are only useful as suggestive guides. Overestimating the family’s income will doom a budget from the start. Underestimating the income by a large figure will sometimes undermine the family’s confidence in the budget, too. Budgets that fail to provide for all needs are naturally found useless. List the fixed and known needs first and then ask for suggestions. Remember it is better to revise a budget, simplify it, or agree to almost any modification than lose it entirely. Regardless of the. experience of some it remains the best means of knowing what living costs, what we spend and what we spend it for, and of controlling expenses that exists. If you have dis- carded yours, try again, maybe we've | explained one of the causes of its fail- ure above. . Potatoes on Half Shell. Select good-sized potatoes of uniform size and shape. As soon as the pota- toes are baked cut them in halves lengthwise. Scrape out the inside, be- ing careful not to break the skin. Mash the potato, season it with salt, pepper. butter and cream or rich milk, and beat until it is light. Place the mixture in the skins, brush the tops with butter and put the potatoes in the oven for a final browning. For variety, sprinkle grated cheese over-the potatoes before they are browned or add a very little chopped green pepper to the potato mixture. They are so pleasing to the eye | | the evening before and sl SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. Daddy say I better gib up tryin’ ter understand why flies don't fall off the ceilin’ and study somefin’ somefin’ about, like 'petcheral motion. (Copyright, 1920.) NANCY PAGE Wedding Dresses Are Lovely in Old Ivory Tones. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. art wedding | e was umng; Lois all about it. The bride had on a | wedding gown of heavy satin in old | Nancy had attended a ivory, the color was deeper than cream. The dress was made with full skirt, short in front and long in back. The bride’s veil was of old lace and she had old lace cuffs on the sleeves. These cuffs reached from wrist to elbow and were tight-fitting. There was a yoke of lace, but not a deep one. One of her bridesmaids had a dress with a lace bertha or cape which came half way to the waist in back. The effect of the old ivory heavy satin and the creamy old lace of the veil was really exquisite. Lois then began her tale: “At the wedding I attended yesterday afternoon the bride wore her veil in a new fash- ion. She had a wreath of orange blos- soms fitting tightly around her head and over it was worn the wedding veil with the tulle well off the face. Butat Angela’s wedding she had her veil made with a close-fitting cap of tulle. Then the tulle veil was worn over that in the fashion of a nose veil. She told me afterwards she had considered wearing a tightly fitted folded chin strap of tulle. It could have been done nicely with that particular type of veil and cap arrangement, don't you think?” And Nancy and Lois were soon deep in the discussion of brides they had seen, their own weddings, and weddings of friends still to come. Where is there a woman who does not thrill at the thought of weddings? Write to Nancy Page. care of The Star, inclosing a stamped. self-addressed envelope, asking for her leaflet on weddings. (Copyright. 1929.) I knows | DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX l Parents Who Educate Children Above Them- selves—Question of Children Given in Adoption. DEAR MISS DIX: Is it not possible for one to be overeducated? Nothing can | be finer than the motives prompting parents to send their children to schools that give them the advantages they never had themselves, but do they realize that in doing so they are sacrificing forever the camaraderie of their children? To graduate from college and to return home full of great ideals—ambition, knowledge—to find nothing changed but yourself; to discover that the pleasant connections of home have become impregnable barriers within which one must be confined; in other words, to have outgrown the nest is tragic. 1t is not lack of affection or unseemly pride or baseness of any sort to wish to leave, but how can one get away without feeling guilty of ingratitude or without injuring those whom one least desires to hurt? ALL BEMUDDLED. 1 think no men and women ever do a more herole thing than.do those parents who give their children a better education than they have, well knowing that by so doing they are breaking the bond of comradeship between them. But I think the parents who make this sacrifice do it deliberately, t their children’s wellbeing so far above their own that they are Vi v r own good and even to make the still further :fl‘:‘r‘i‘;fig(‘en:)fmx:sl ‘t‘l‘f?l‘r‘)guf‘o !l?:flt)htel'iu‘m in l’he home nest and that they are glad to | have their youngsters stretch their wings and fly away. Just how great is this sacrifice of parents who raise their children above themselves. only the parents themselves know, because there is a curious vanity B s akes every man and woman supremely desire the admiration of their Children. ‘They want their children to regard them as oracles, to look up to them O fefer to them, and it Tequires superhuman courage and self-abnegation to Zive this up and t put themselves in a position where their children will look down upon them and criticize them. Answer: because they pu the children turn out very successfully, this hurt to the parans;,;n?nunmg' g atoned for by the pride the father and mother feel in their children’s achievements, and in their boasting about John's fame as a doctor or a lawyer or the money he has made in business or the fine position that Mary holds or the big match she has made, they are repaid for the fact that there are no other man and woman in the world with whom they are so little acquainted and of whom they are so much afraid and with whom they feel so ill at ease as they do with Mary and John. The situation is full of difficulties for both the parents and the chlldren All of us know fathers and mothers who have pinched and scrimped and saved and gone hungry and shabby and worked themselves almost to death to send their boys and girls to college and whose retard has been to be patronized by arrogant, self-conceited sons and daughters who criticized father's and mother's grammar and pronunciation until they were afrald to speak. Who interfered with all their mode of living; who turned out all of the old, comfortable furniture that was endeared to them by a thousand memories and assoclations and installed in its place back-breaking cubic or arty stuff which ran father back to his office for a comfortable place to sit and made mother take to the kitchen for a famillar cook stove on which to rest her eyes. ‘Worse still, we have seen boys and girls come back from college to deride their parents’ ideas on every subject under the sun and to break the parents’ hearts because their children were following after new gods. And we have seen children whose parents had lifted them above themselves, trying to repay the sacrifices that had been made for them by staying at home \n‘sln bexnvlronmem that they had outgrown and in which they were utterly | miserable. ‘They were bored to tears by the home conversation that went round and round the domestic circle and the neighbor's back yard and had never a new thought in it or an inspiration. They had nothing really to say to father or mother, who no longer talked their language. And no matter how much they loved and respected father and mother they winced at father's and mother's grammar and table manners. S0 it seems to me that the only way out of the muddle is for the super- educated children to go away and follow their own fortunes. That does away with the daily friction between them and their parents. It gives the youngsters a chance to go to their own country, for which their parents have paid the | passport, and it leaves the parents free to lead their own lives in their own way. | i DOROTHY DIX. DEAR DOROTHY DIX: I am a distracted woman who needs your advice. My husband is a wonderful father of our six lovely children, who range in age from 2 to 12 years, but he has been out of work and we are poverty-stricken. Our relatives suggest that we allow some very wealthy families to adopt our Children, as this would give them opportunities for an education, but we love them so much that we cannot bear to do it. Should we sacrifice our own® happiness for them. . A. M. Answer: 1t is & monstrous thing to think of giving away your children. You would never know a minute’s happiness if you did, so don't do such a rash thing. Rather than do so, humble your pride and ask aid of some charitable organization until your husband can find work and you can get, upon your feet again. Perhaps you could put some of your babies in a children’s home, where they will be well cared for until times are more prosperous with-you. As for its being any advantage to your children to be adopted by rich people, that is problematic. In my opinion no amount of money, no fine clothes and indulgences can make up to a child for a mother's and a father’s love and tenderness and understanding. Perhaps the rich people who adopted your children might bring them up properly, with the right sort of ideals, but again they may be frivolous and ight-minded people who would lack the patience to make your boys and girls fine men and women. Nor does it follow that because a child is brought up by wealthy people who can give it so-called advantages, you secure its success in life. About the greatest advantage that you can give any child is poverty, the necessity to put forth every effort and use all of its talents to get the things it wants, the necessity that makes it stick to a hard job and fight on with its back against lgfiawlll. Most of the successful men and women in this country were poor children. So don't give your children away. It is best for you and best for them. ROTHY DIX. Keep them with you. DO (Copyright. 1929.) People Are Married for Keeps. ‘There was approximately one divorce to every 10 marriages in the United States during 1927. LET'S STOP IN HERE FOR SOME GROCERIES, ANNE WOULDN'T ANY OTHER LAUNDRY SOAP HAVE DONE AS WELL, ANNE? in tub or washer ... clothes come whiter OH, THAT REMINDS M NEED SOME LAUNDRY SOAP NO! RINSO SAVES SCRUBBING AND BOILING ... AND GETS THE WASH WHITER, TOO THE GRANULATED SOAP ADVERTISEMENT SOLD LOTS OF RINSO TODAY, MRS. RANDALL. 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When John Newrath's place, on C street between Third and Fourth streets northeast, was a rendezvous for prom- inent statesmen seeking & good meal. Swinging Tower of Eiffel. The Eiffel Tower of Paris sometimes | ¢}, swings as much as 3 feet in a wind- storm. It is nearly 1,000 feet high and is composed entirely of a rather open arrangement of iron shapes. The tall buildings of the United States, al- most as high, with a much greater area of exposure, are moved but a few inches under the same conditions. 'FEATURES.” DIET AND HEALTH BY LULU HUNT PETERS, M. D. Age and Reducing. “I have decided to try to count my calories. I am 5 feet 1)z inches tall and weigh 160 pounds, so am 20 to 25 pounds overweight. I have heard, how- ever, that a person over 40 really can- not reduce, on account of the thyroid gland disturbance after this age. I would therefore like your advice, and T ask you please to not publish this let- ter in the paper, but to answer me personally. . X 4 As I cannot answer your letter per- sonally, I am disregarding your re- uest, Mrs. T., first, because I want to lisabuse others of the notion that there is any limit to reducing, or that there is a glandular cause of obesity; and, second, I realize that you would like to have an answer and there is no valid reason why it shouldn’t be pub- lished, as I never use the names of cor- respondents. The best way T can answer you is to run_the following letter which came in the same mail with yours. “Dear Dr. Lulu: I want to thank you for your book, ‘Diet and Health.” I am past 60, and nursed an invalid husband for five years, so I became fat from sitting indoors and (I see now) too much indulgence in calories. I am only 5 feet 3 inches tall, and last July weighed 185 pounds, and panted and blew when I went upstairs until I was ashamed. I followed your instructions and in six months my weight went down to 156 pounds and I ceased blow- ing. I can walk or climb stairs as well as ever. My sisters want me to keep but I think 150 will be better. ““My niece, who is 5 feet 5 inches tall, and never had weighed over 100 pounds, | has tried your advice for gaining, and | she now weighs 131, according to the ! ‘Y’ scales, and is delighted. “MRS. N.” You see, Mrs. T, Mrs. N. is con- siderably older than 40, for she is over 60. And we have had thousands of | letters from both men and women over ' 40 who have reduced (some even over 70), and profitably, too. According to the rule of 110 pounds for 5 feet in height (in stocking feet) and 5!; pounds for each inch over ;hnt., y‘vz\;ltare around 40 to 45 pounds verweight, instead of 25. Bette: l"fit lc!h i 0. the disturbance of the thyroid gland, or any other gland, does not cause obesity. Solely overeating for the needs does that little job. How- ever, obesity will cause a disturbance of the glands, no doubt about that! Mrs. M.—The meibomian glands are ofl glands in the upper lids. an out- let of one becomes stopped, the con- tents accumulate, and is known as a meibomian cyst. Your doctor probably gave you 1 or % per cent yellow oxide of mercury, which is & good ointment for inflamed lids. If the swelling does not subside a slight operation—slitting the mucous membrane (on the inner side of the lid) and expressing the contents—can be done easily. It is not a dangerous operation in any way, and can be done without any anesthetic, at your doctor’s office. These cysts do not disappear, usually, unless they are removed sur- gically. Chocolate Souffle. Mix one tablespoonful of flour with | one tablespoonful of butter, add three- fourths cupful of milk, and stir over heat until thickened. Melt ane and one- half squares of unsweetgmad chocolate over steam and add to the cream sauce with one-fourth teaspoonful salt, half a cupful of fine stale bread crumbs, half a cupful of sugar, half a teaspoonful of vanilla, and four well beaten egg yolks. Beat well. Fold in the well beaten egg whites. Pour into a greased pudding dish and bake in a moderate oven for an hour, or until well set in the middle. Serve hot with hard sauce. People are wrong about moths they should moth- the cloth itself Most women know that moth-damage is caused by moth-worms and not by the flying moths. But many believe also that they must hunt down these moth-worms and kill them. The modern way is to stop worrying about the worms, but to mothproof the cloth—treat the fabric itself. You can do this with Larves, the great modern dis- covery that will stop moth-worms from eating your clothes, which is more than moth-balls, cedar- chests, tar-bags or insect-killers can do. 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