Evening Star Newspaper, November 25, 1929, Page 36

WOMAN’S PAGE. Cornucopia Used as Centerpiece BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER ARRANGE THE FRUIT AND VEGETABLES AS IF POURING FROM THE CORNUCOPIA CENTERPIECE. ‘Thanksgiving decorations have come to assume a place second only to those for Christmas. They are quite similar in shape, but not in the elements of which they are composed. Thanks- giving decorations are made from fruits, vegetables and some greens. Evergreens are seldom used. Fall leaves and foliage of the plants bearing the colorful fruits are more in accordance with the sea- son. The idea is that of a plentiful harvest, not the continuity of life as expressed by the evergreen. One of the best ways to suggest abundance is by using the cornucopia or horn of plenty. The latter name was glven because the horns of oxen and its were used as drinking cups, which, ed to overflowing, represented plenty. Cornucopia Centerpiece. A table decoration for Thanksgiving can be made of a cornucopia laid in the center of the dining table. From the mouth of this “horn” there can pour forth apples, oranges, grapes and all of fruits artistically arranged. Or ‘ruit may be mixed with vegetables, or icootables alone can be used. The important thing is to have the colors gay enough, and artistic enough in their combination to give'a festive note to the table. Use a twisted cornucopia, if you can find one, or make one from colored paper, Heavy crepe paper can be shaped easlly. Cornucopis Favors. Small individual cornucopias put st each place make attractive favors. Fill each with bright candles and let them spill out on the table at the mouth of the cornucopia. The contents may be salted nuts, if preferred, or, most ap- propriate of all, the contents may ge popcorn, some kernels white and others colored with vegetable coloring. Molasses or sugared popcorn may be used. If the contents are white, be sure to have the cornucopia of gold, silver, or some brilliantly colored paper, (Copyright, 1929.) sorts th: A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. CONGRESB has had many silver- tongued orators, but it seldom has one to speak in “music’s golden tongue” with the accomplishment of Senator Felix Hebert, Rhode Island. Like most new members in the Senate, he has been more content to listen than to talk. But when he spoke the other g:y it was through e the only lull from a ceaseless ta World War dead. The Senate had recessed and a number of the members had gathered around the tariff exhibits spread out on tables in the chamber. Senator Hebert paused before a violin. Perhaps he just couldn't resist the temptation. Perhaps he thought that there might be “charms to soothe the savage breast” of the tariff debaters. ‘Tucking the instrument beneath his chin, he stroked the strings with a bow. The chamber, where a moment before the angry click of the gavel and talk of rates had sounded, filled with soft melody. Colleagues halted and an appreciative gallery lingered. It was no idle flourish on the Sena- tor’s part. Music is not his hobby; it is his art, and, had there been a viola on the table instead of a violin, he ‘would have played it as well. Music is a part of the Hebert family life. Mrs, Hebert is a planist; Cathe- rine, eldest daughter, also plays the piano; Adrian, next in line, is a violin- ist; Marguertite plays the ’cello; while junior Felix Edouard, sophomore at Georgetown University, is the third violin player. Back in West Warwick, R. I, ‘where Senator Hebert was & dgdnn for 20 years and built a reputation as a law- yer specializing in insurance legislation, the usual evening entertainment was built around a concert by the family oup. nlanuhmgmn. when Hoover was in- augurated and the Senator began his six-year term, a speclal concert was given by the family for a group of visiting notables, including the Governor of Rhode Island. ‘The old group is broken up now, though, and there is usually only a trio to entertain select friends in the Wash- ington home of the Heberts. Ardian recently was admitted to the bar and has entered practice in Providence. ‘The Senator has no one but him- self 1o congratulate for his interest in music, Asa boy he learned to play the violin, but not because his parents forced him. It was his own desire. ‘Talents of the children were de- veloped under the guiding hand of Mrs. Hebert. While each was young, lessons JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English. BY JOS. J. FRISCH. “ FROM WHENCE DID THIS BOOK COME 2" ASKED DAD, AS HE READ THIS BIT OF PHILOSOPHY: +A DAILY SOAKING IN DISH-W WATER WILL OFTEN PRESERVE A WEDDING RING. » ;e onm YeFscl “Whence (or from where) did this book come?” is the correct form, not in music became part of the daily rou- tine and she never allowed their interest flag. Violinists like their father, the sons also follow in his footsteps profession- ally. Adrian has passed the bar and the youngest boy is pointing to legal train- Hebert had been heard from in before he became a member of the senior chamber. As an authority on insurance legislation, Senate com- mittees had called him in for advice. State legislatures found his know- ledge valuable and he even has ap- peared before provincial legislatures Canada on the subject, which, besides music, is his favorite. o, Ssmin soen lighting, w] would seem & lfle‘x‘;u:nlln this modern age of elec- Mclt"y-.l still survives in the Nation's Capital. guh night when the sun vanishes early behind the hills beyond the Po- tomac, the lighters may be seen at their task along many of the fine residential streets. “Traditions to the contrary—for it dic- tates that a lighter must be a totter- ing old man—they are usually young boys, earning & bit of &ln money, who ply their routes wi ladder and matches to brighten dark streets with the soft light of gas lamps. Visitors in the region express no con- cern when, over in Maryland, they find oxen still being used to pull the plow. But gas lights in Washington! They are amazed to find the city, to them the symbol of a progressive Nation, bowing not to the progress that is always taken for granted for the Government center. They are surprised to learn that every night, when lights are needed, 8,958 ?;! lamps have their mantles set to glowing by hand. yAnd, should they travel over to his- toric Georgetown, they would find more distant relics of the past. For several of the lights are mounted on poles 50 ancient that they ca mud-scrapers where the pedestrian, floundering through the mud of an un- paved street, was often wont to stop and clean off his shoes. But all these thinfl will vanish, as they have in most cities, and four years from now there will be no gas lights and no lamp lighters in Washington to carry one back to what would seen Civil ‘War times. It was in September, 1925, through the active work of Capt. John E. Wood of the United States Army Engineer Corps and then assistant engineer Commissioner for the District, that the program was sanctioned by Congress for the gradual replacement of the old lighting systems. ‘The city then had, in residential and business districts, a total of 21,933 lights, 11,478 of which were gas lamps tended by hand. Today, with area after area being modernized according to the program, there are 27,059 lights, 8,958 of which are gas lamps. Ar- terial highways and main sections were taken first and others will be taken in turn. Washington has 494 miles of lighted highways and gas lamps illuminate 152 of Jhe total. It will take four years, if Congress author- izes succeeding budgets, before the gas lights will be replaced. %y Decmber, 1931, there should be 27,420 lights in nlfhny service. Only 5,100 of these will be gas lamps. In the downtown district there will be improvements, also, but fiickering arc lights, as now, will continue to be used, Engineers n{ that arc lights, with their bluish, winking light, are a desirable contrast to the steady white light in the show windows. The parks, coming under different | jurisdiction, are already like little cities | of fireflies.” Miles of winding roadway | are lined with modern lights. Quick Meat Stew. Cut up into rather small pleces the “From whence did it come?” Whence means from what place. Philosophy (fi-loss-0-fy) means practical wisdom, the knowledge of the causes of all phe- nomens, both of mind and matter; the lmu:l zt xlsd;m as lend‘:nz to Lbe!mmh 1« ilosopher a man of prac- t.fcru wudx?m: one who schools himself to calmness and patience unn’fr all cir- cumstances, B left-over meat from cold roast beef, duck, w. or & mixture of two or more . Put into a saucepan and to every three cupfuls of meat add one- fourth eupful of butter, two tablespoon- fuls of onion juice, half & cupful of dark grape juice and a heaping table- Mdmemt]el . Btir for 15 minutes, then serve Vit Shopped cudumber piokles, at their base | T THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, MONDAY, NOVEMBER Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED, Put the Babies to Work! ‘When mothers say to me: “Tell me how I can get my children to help me with the dally tasks, without whining?” they have really put the whole question of how to live with one’s children. There is one way which never works in any family and that is to make work a serious, unpleasant business, which isn’t any fun and which any child will escape if possible. A beiter plan is to make it a whole- hearted game, which is more fun to play than any other game. This attitude is lost after five years. Before that time the child longs to imitate every adult activity and if al- lowed to do so will become a veritable dynamo of energy in the household. If told to “run along and don’t bother mother,” he or she runs along and when older the mother can plead, im- plore, hold out inducements, and shame the child for laziness all without noticeable effect. Begin early to let children help and they will grow into & sense of responsibility and find taking care of “their” house fun. 1If it is just mother's and father's house that is another question. Mrs. H. i8 a notable example of the housewife who never finds it too much troublé to let the little ones help. She says: “Here are some of the things my small family, all under 4, do without being told. Last week I was busy with the laundry before they were up. When I came in they were dressed, they had swept and dusted and gone around the rugs with dustless mop and left it as clean as any grown-up could. They found a clean dress for baby and had her dressed. They had put their night clothes and sheets in a pile to go in the wash. “All played outdoors all morning and after lunch took their naps. In the afternoon the oldest folded the clothes as I took them from the line. In the evening they helped get dinner, which to them is more fun than anything they can possibly do. One set the table, the other stirred the 'flv{, the third cut bread and then they all scrambled to see who would reach the pantry first, for the winner has her choice of a vegetable for dinner. I let them carry things to the table and though I often tremble, none has ever spilled a drop. “They are full of energy, at one moment running along the peak of the garage, the next digging worms for pets, the next gathering flower seeds to put in envelopes for next year’s planting. . They are never still. In cidentally what would a doctor expect a mother to have in a medicine chest?” Answer: The fewer drugs the better, and all fresh. I suggest gauze, &b- sorbent cotton, adhesive tape and a good scissors, mercurochrone or fodine, carron ofl, vaseline, boric acid crystals, bicarbonate of soda and some . simple laxative. One could meet almost any emergency with these and also our leaf- let on “First Ald For Bumps, Burns and Cuts” would be excellent to keep right in the medicine chest for ready perusal in case of need. A self-addressed and stamped envelope will bring it to you, and at this time of year it ought to come in handy. NANCY PAGE Candied Sweet Potatoes Suit Slender Peter. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. ‘The entire Page family was exceed- ing fond of sweet potatoes. Nancy liked them best when they were served baked in their skins. But for variety she had three or four other recipes in her file. One called for candied sweet pota- toes. In making these, Nancy boiled the potatoes in their jackets, She re- moved them from the fire before they were quite dope. She peeled thm and cut them in lengthwise strips about & half-inch thick. ‘While still warm, she oblong glass baking dish of the drip- ping pan order. Then she poured over them enough maple syrup to half cover them. A cube of butter about one- quarter inch in size was placed on top of each potato. Nancy tried to have only a single layer of potatoes in the dish. A little salt was sprinkled over the potatoes. Being warm, the butter and syru were somewhat absorbed. After a half hour Nancy turned the slices over. en she put the dish in a slow oven, t them in an CANDIED btAtor, where the potatoes simmered and ab- sorbed eyrup for an hour and a half. ‘This afternoon I went around to Mary ‘Watkinses house to see if she was on her frunt steps, wich she was, and so ‘was some other gerl, being almost as pritty as Mary Watkins and pritty neer prittier, and Mary Wallkins sed, This is my cuzzen, Benny, her name is Priscilla. Please to meet you, I sed, and the other gerl sed, The same to you. And pritty soon some lady came out of the house and the gerl went away with her on account of it being her mother, and Mary Watkins sed, Izzent she sweet, izzent she pritty. And I was going to say, How can she help it, being a relation of yours. Ony 1 dident, just saying, G, yes. ‘Thats what everybody says, Mary Watkins sed, Hasent she got bewtiful lovely hair? Yes, G, I sed. ‘That what everybody says, er{nwnt- kins sed. I knew you'd think she wi pritty. Lots of people think she’s prit- tler than I am, she sed, and I sed, ©' well, I don’t know. Well, if you dont know, that meens you think she is, Mary Watkins sed, and I sed, Why does it, the heck it (xm"d certeny it dont. Why does it? sed. Well at least it meens you think its possible, she sed. Who sed I do, G. wizzickers, why do I? T sed, and she sed, Because if you dident think it was possible, then you'd know she wasent, wouldent you? Wasent what, why, what? I sed. Good nite, gosh, you started saying how grate she was and everything, dident you, holey smokes, dident you? I sed. Well what if I did, thats a diffrent thing, and Im xnmg rite in, she sed. Wich she did, me thinking, Good nite, whats you know about that, O PARIS.—Casual, cool and crepe de even hemline, signed by Maggie Rouff. clothes of its lengts are growing fewer. Psychic Adventures of Noted Men and Women. Three in Pumpelly Family Had Strange Dreams in Connee- tion With Death. " BYJLP. “WHY, NETTY, IT SAYS HERE THAT FROM THE ST. MARK'S GRAVES.” Raphael Pumpelly, the distinguished geologist and author, at one time pro- fessor of mining at Harvard and at an- other period State geologist of Michi- gan, recorded three psychic experiences of an extraordinary nature. A man who made a great many prac- tical contributions to his country—he, for instance, made the discoveries which produced the greater part of the fron ore industry of Michigan—he was certain not to have approached phe- nomena of this sort except in a com- mon-sense way. & Tae experiences occurred in his own family. ‘The first came while he was visiting his sister in New York City. One morning, on coming to the breakfast table, his sister said: “I had an awful dream last night. I dreamed that I was standing in a church and that a continuous procession of men flled by me, carrying on litters something covered with sheets.” Her husband had been_ looking through the morning paper. In a mo- ment or so he exclaimed: “Why, Netty, it says here that they are removing the bodies from the St. Mark's i Now neither Prof. Pumpell nor her husband, had heard of any in- tention to disturb the graves up to that moment. ‘The strange fact was that their first g‘mg‘ buried in the churchyard of . Marl Prof. Pumpelly’s wife, many years later, had an unusual experience. They were then living at Capri, separated from America by the Atlantic. One morning Mrs. Pumpelly told the mellol that during the night she dreamed of her sisters and her brother, Otis, who had been dead sev- eral years. They were in tears and when they saw Mrs. Pumpelly said: “We must tell Eliza.” From Prof. Pumpelly’s record it would appear that his wife did not learn ‘what it was that was to be told her. But that day she recelved two cable- ams. The first informed her that er favorite brother, Horace, was very 1ll. ‘The second said that he had died. Perhaps even more remarkable was the episode in which Prof. Pumpelly himself figured. It was while he was crossing Siberia. He had performed important ro!oflc work for both China and Japan. At the time he was She turned them occasionally, and|bound to served them almost translucent and am- ber in color. Sometimes she combined crosswise slices of cooked potatoes with eighths of raw apples. Brown sugar and but- ter were added and the dish was baked until the apples had cooked to a sauce. She worked out the same idea with cooked pitted prunes and sweet pota- toes. This was the least successful of the three, however. A rich dish_like this calls for ereen salad. Wrile to Nancy Page, care of fhis puber, nclosing . stamped. . sell-ad- dresged envelope, asking for her lestlel on salads " Prices realized on Swift & Com| any sales of carcass beef in Washington, 3 . for 'week ending Saturdey., November 33, 1929. on_ shipments sold out, ranged from crisp 15.86 cents to 2550 cents per pound and av- eraged 20.69 cents per pound—Advertisement. My Neighbor Says: Pireplace bricks can be cleaned of soot and dirt, even if in very bed condition, by brushing them vigorously with a broom and ap- plying a mixture of one pint of strong household ammonia and two pounds of powdered pumice stone in a gallon of soft Soap. Apply this with a brush and let it stand for an hour before rubbing it well into the surface with a scrubbing brush and rinsing it with clear water, When serving cream ecarrots, for a change add a few stalks of celery diced and bolled and one onion, bolled and cut up fine. It silver salt shakers become corroded hlnve :’l"l:m buffed at IXLY large jewe p. They can rmade to kaor{ like new. One pound of granulated equals two cupfuls. One pound of powdered or confectioner’s equals two and A few nights after leaving Irkutsk he dreamed that he had arrived at his native VflhE of Oswego, N. Y. Walk- ing up to his home from the station, X found his father and mother standin in the doorway and showing, he says, “signs of great relief.” “This was natural, considering the nature of his work and the difficulty of recelving communications from him. ‘But the fact that impressed him in the BRAIN TESTS ‘The words below are in alphabetical arrangement. A space is left between each pair of words. Underneath are other words. Mark the number of the space in which each should be inserted to conform to the alphabetical arrange- ment, or write the words in the spaces: (1) abacus, 15) credit. absolute. dre essential. a8 —. (28) % ‘Words to fill in: Banner, dread, ghoul, daisy, abound, etiquette, farce, boasts, canopy, crash. ‘The time limit on the above test Is two minutes. Answers, Banner (8), dread (18), ghoul (28), daisy (16), abound (2), etiquette (24), farce (26), boasts (10), canopy (12), (Oopyrisht. 19300 b il heck. Proving you genrelly cant often tell what a lady means by what she says, chine is this nile green dance frock of Look well at the hemline, l{xo;;hlc WINTER BY D. O. PEATTIE, In late Summer arrives each year the little brown creeper, well in advance of other Winter visitors of the feathered sort, to take his apartment for the Winter season, and because he is about the liveliest bird I know except the wren, he makes the season a gay one, though it will be passed among leaf- less trees. For sheer, restless energy, perhaps, the wren surpasses him, but in industry the brown cree] is far more effective, and with less flurry about it all. Beginning at the base of one tree, he climbs steadily and spirally up, con- stantly pecking in all the fissures of the bark for insects (when that fare is in season). No sooner has he reached the top of one tree than he drops, like an old brown leaf, to the base of another, and begins again, I do not know what he finds to eat at this season of the year, unless it be the eggs of insects laid in the crevices. Without a bill of length or strength for driving through the bark, like the woodpecker family, it cannot, however, reach the subcortical marauders. Even 80 we ought to be grateful to this little fellow, who helps to keep down man's insects. greatest rival-—the . Lest any one think that the ereePfl spends a barren existence in looking continually for dinner, it is necessary to u{ that his somewhat sepia existence is colored for & few weeks in Summer by romance, and then it is that he varies with a tender, windy, little song of four notes, the monotonous cheep- ings which now are his only song, since deserting the breeding unds uj the mountains. i e GLASS. THEY ARE REMOVING THR RODIRS Cranberry Demr: Grind one cupful of raw cranberries and one cupful of raw apples in the food chopper, then mix in two cupfuls of sugar and let stand for at least one hour. ~ Just before serving add half a cupful of chopped nuts and top with whipped cream. This tastes very much like fresh strawberries and is just as good and fresh the following day. dream was that an aunt who was an occupant of his parents’ home and whom he dearly loved was not present on his arrival. 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