Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1929, Page 54

WOMA 54 Changes in Afte ‘The method of giving afternoon teas, receptions and coming-out functions held in afternoons has undergone rad- ical changes. There is less formality, but no less deliclous edibles. The guests do more .of the serving of them- selves and are waited upon less. One excellent change is that those who pour aré not expected to devote all their e to this task. While there may not be as many assistants as for- THE GUESTS ARE EXPECTED TO HELP THEMSELVES FROM THE m’?ts‘. DAINTILY SET UPON THE merly, there are many more who pour. ‘This allows these intimate friends of tihe hostess or the debutante to circu- late about amcng their friends and to dance, if that is part of the program. Guests should not, therefore, occupy the attention of friends while they are helping. BY LYDIA I.' BARON WALKER | is the worst of all. N’S PAGE, rnoon Functions do so for & ific and limited period. Sometimes minutes long. Sometimes they are 20-minute periods. The latter is pref- erable and more often decided upon. Half-hour periods are the longest, and these are apt to be assigned when there is no dancing and also when the helipers are adults, 5 Each person who pours or serves at a table where there are ices and punch 18 also expected to be felieved at the end of the specified time. It is for the helpers to keep track of the time and be ready to assume the duties on the dot. The hostess, when inviting friends to_assist, which is a recognized honor, to lend a hand at coffee yrn, chocolate or_tea pot. The guests are expected to help them- selves from the food daintily set upon the table. A man or another woman may pass a plate of sandwiches to her special group of friends, or each may help himself or herself. A man usually serves the woman or women with whom he is talking. It is for the hostess to have some one—a caterer, assistant or maid of some sort—who will see that every dish i8 kept supplied. 1If the tea is small, a single heiper may be sufficlent, but it is wise to have two, one in the kitchen and one in the room where the table is laid. There should be one man | or maid for each table. It will be seen that there must be one or more persons in the kitchen to do the continual pre- paring of extra sandwiches, etc., and to keep the cups, saucers, goblets and individual plates washed and ready to be used again. I Guessing Contest | A stranger climbs my garden stile, and joins me ’‘neath my rhubarb tree, and says, with wide and balmy smile, “I'll bet you don’t remember me!” I meet all sorts and brands of bores, they throng my garden and my hall, they in- terrupt me in my chores—and this one I surely don't re- member him, I canhnot put his name across; it m: he is Sunny Jim, it may be he is Charlie Ross. I may have known him long ago, that much I'm willing to allow; a thousand men I used to know, whose names are all forgotten now. The smiling stranger seems to think I ought to welcome him with glee, as he exclaims, “Well, strike me pink! I see you don't remember me!” He seems to think I ought to sprain my poor old jaded intellect, and try again and yet again, to get his moniker cor- rect. But who he is I do not care, I would not give a cent to know; I do not offer him a chair, and I'll be glad to see him go. I say, “I do not know your name, nor if we ever met before; I do not like this guessing game, for I am old and tired and sore. I wish to think of noble odes and epics grand, and works or art, of minstrels on the moon- lit roads, a-chanting songs that melt the heart. I wish to think of sunsets fine that color all the Western sea, and vou come snooping up and whine, ‘Tll bet you don't remember me!" I may have known you in the past, I may have known you for a day; but such impressions do not last, like morning mists they float away. If you would promptly speak your name, and tell me who you are and why, I'd welcome you and my good dame would offer you a pumpkin pie.” MASON. Each person who pours is asked to WALT (Copyright, 1920.) KEEPING MENTALLY FIT BY JOSEPH JASTROW. The Tired (?) Business Man. “We may ask whether that person so sympathetically regarded by the Ameri- can public—the Tired Business Man— is really tired. May it not be that the initials should be changed from the familiar T. B. M. to B. B. M, the Bored Business Man?” On my own account I might hesitate to raise so unpopular a suspicion. But I find it in cold print as the deliberate question of a British psychologist, Sir John Adams. I agree with him that the distinction is important—very impor- tant, and not altogether complimentary. You are supposed to be tired because you have worked pretty hard; you may be bored because you have been unfor- tunate enough to have b2en button- holed by one of these dull people who compete for the record by saying least in _most time. If your business really and deeply interests you, you won't be bored by it, and if you are not bored, you won't tire easily. It is very true that lots of business men are on a constant strain for long hours and need to relax, but relaxation doesn't mean to stop all thinking. It should mean a change of the subject, but to a worth-while sub- Ject no less. Perhaps a lot of business isn’t as tiring as it is tiresome. Drudg- ery we cannot avoid, but we can more eagerly look for relief in something interesting, and what you find interest- ing depends on your interests. And if your stock of interests is meager and a poor assortment, you are going to be Teadily bored. ‘The type of show that seems to be specially arranged for the recreation of the T. B. M. suggests that it is less adapted to a tired brain than to a brainless creature. From stupid wise- cracks to pairs of acrobatic legs flour- ished in unison across the stage in a centipede chorus, and from meaning- less songs sung in a cracked voice whose only virtue is that you can't under- stand the words, to slap-stick comedy that was probably the reason why Cain slew Abel and dates from the same epoch, the entertainment (?) goes on. Fo the tired man who really has B. B. M. who would he bored by any- thing more brain-taxing because he lacks any sustalning interests outside his business, which might serve for recreation, that is freshening for the next day's work. The same B. B. M. in order to get away from shop, con- tinues to talk shop in his free hours. Nobdy objects to good rollicking fun, for that really recreates, and a good laugh is as much an aid to mental fit- ness as to digestion. But to appeal to & sense of humor or to a Sense of the dramatic or t0 any other phase of worthy human interest assumes an in- terested human. If business men will cultivate wider interests, they will not be 50 easily bored when office hours are over, and those who provide for their entertainment will find that the ma- ligned T. B. M. is really tired because he is bored by what he has seen so often that it’s monotony which makes him tired. Recreation is stimulating unused interests. (Copyright, 1920.) ettt Special Baked Potatoes. Select large fine potatoes, scrub them well with a brush, brush with melted fat and place in & pan in the oven to bake. ‘When just done to & turn, slit & large cross on the flat side of each, puil slightly apart, sprinkle with salt and paprika and insert in the middle of the cross a good sized lump of butter or half a crisp hot sausage. Serve at once, ac- companied with a green salad, coleslaw or sliced tomatoes. Baked Bananas. Remove the skins from six bananas. Place them in a shallow pan. Mix one-third cupful of brown sugar with one tablespoonful of melted butter, one tablespoonful each of lemon juice and orange juice, and two tablespoon- fuls of mixed grated orange rind and lemon rind. Pour this mixture over brains enough to manage his business well, this array of talent (?) is an insult to his intelligence. The T. 3. M. is not supposed to park his brains wnen he checks his hat or puts it under his seat. It's that saree brain that is seeking recreation and will find it by ‘way of an appeal to the many interests | outside of business that a busy brain | accumulates in the course of a busy | life. All this seems more suited to the MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Courtesy Given, Received. One mother s { ‘When my child ask me to do them some little favor, I do it without any hesttation, even though the request may seem simple or perhaps something they might have done themselves. But, in re- turn, they obey promptly when asked | to do an errand or some little task. So I find they have learned the valua- ble lesson of “Give and Take.” (Gopyrishts 3929 the bananas and bake for 20 minutes {in a slow oven, basting during the | baking. | with baked ham or roast beef. Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. December 5, 1864.—S. Harding, for- merly of the United States Navy, Who married the famous Confederate woman :fifi Belle Boyd, has been brought to city as a prisoner from Martins- rg, Va., where he was captured by the Federal authorities a few days ago. Harding's difficulties began when he ‘was placed on board the prize steamer unygouml, on which Belle Boyd was a nger. He was instructed to take the vessel to one of the ports of the Northern States. On the trip he per- mitted the captain of the Greyhound to escape, for which he is understood to have been dismissed from the naval tells them just when each is scheduled | SeTVl ce. After Belle Boyd had been restored to liberty she went to Europe. Hard- ing joined her and they were married there. . Harding now says that since his mar- riage his wife has been discarded by the Confederate sympathizers in Eu- rope, but that she continues to circu- late in the best of society. He says he has Instructed her to have nothing tore to do with the Confederate cause. The military authorities heré are tak- his assertions with a of salt. rding’s relatives reside in Brook- Iyn, N. Y, and he alleges that they are 1 displeased with him on account of his marriage to & Confederate agent. He asserts that his wife is still in Burope, and says he Is writing & history of her life and adventures, and also that he is engaged in writing a novel, the title of which is “The Wreck.” As a reason for going to Martinsburg, Harding says he wished to bring his sister-in-law, Manie Boyd, whom he desired to take North for the purpose of educating her. The military au- thorities do not accept this explanation as the truth. They suspect that his wife is in _this country and that she was somewhere in the vicinity of Mar- tinsburg at the time of his capture. Harding claims to be wealthy, but only $14 was found on his person when he was teken into custody. He is & medium-sized man, with dark hair, dark hazel eyes and a thin, smooth face. ‘While he was being conducted to the old Capitol Prison here, he talked freely, referring several times to his wealth and education. SUB ROSA BY MIML Button! Button!! I have no idea what they are doing in children’s parties to amuse the young of this jasz age, but I don't believe they are still playing the good old game of “Button, button, who's got the but- ton?” In that pastime of the nursery the game was to get the button as it was passed around without letting the oth- ers in the ring know that you had it. ‘Then the great question was, Who has 'he button? Buttons are out of style in the mod- ern girl's wardrobe, for why should we harness up in a frock when we can slip into it? The modernness «f wom- en is shown in all sorts of ways, but in nothing better than the new type of toggery. This is significant for the absence of hair pins, hat pins and but- tons, for we can't be bothered. But the button game, what of that? It seems that nowadays it is played in such a way that a man goes the rounds of his girl friends pretending to give each one the button like the person who was “it” in the eldd sport. But in this case the but®a is the man's heart. No doubt you're in that old game in its new form, and just as likely the question in your mind is who gets the button from the man who pretends to be lg'lvlng it here, there and everywhere. Only one girl can get it at best, and what girl will that be? Assuming that marriage is your goal and you prefer a home to a studio and comfort to a career, how are you to get that button when it is in play? Don't expect me to tell you about the wiles of winning a man or the best recipe for vamping. No, for that would be unworthy on my part and unwise on yours, if I gave and you took such advice. At the same time it is safe and sane to tell a girl that men still admire modesty and are most likely to drop the magic button of the heart into meek hands. A man may enjoy the society of a bold and talkative girl for a while, but that isn't the same as desiring to sit opposite her at a table for a lifetime. A giddy girl may make a fine dance partner, but when it comes to sitting out the long dance of life the meeker maid is more likely to be in demand. Men are really domestic animals when you come to know them, so that it is the girl with the instincts of home mak- ing who will make the grand appeal. She is the one who is most likely to get that all-desired button, ‘The bachelor button is ocertainly a swell flower as it blooms out in the fields alongside the buttercups and daisies. e bachelor man waits a long time before he makes up his mind, but all the better. He's pretty likely to stick around once he's settled in the home. The bachelor button will stay on if its sewed tight enough. (Cop: Rht, 1920.) Individual Sponge Cakes. Beat the yolks of six eggs until thick and lemon colored, then add one cupful of sugar gradually and continue beating, using an egg beater. Add one table- spoontul of lemon juice and the grated rind of half & lemon, then add the whites of the elxs beaten stiff. Fold in one cupful of flour mixed and sifted These are delicious served | into individual pans or ramekins and with one-fourth teaspoonful of salt. Pour | bake for 30 minutes i & warm oven. | | | THE Ei’ENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1929. PARIS.—The broken lines of this fhaterial s chiffon lame, sheer and clinging, e I&cmuges on several modeis. heel-length dress make it easy to wear. Molyneux puts mglu;x cape PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. Acid in Your Blood. Much “acid waste” has been elimi- nated, figuratively speaking, since Gar- rod conceived the theory that gout was caused by an excess of uric acid in the blood and tissues. (Mind, casual reader, I say theory and the theory ascribed the ess to an excess of uric acid, not to the mere presence of uric acid, | thy which {8 normal). That was nearly a century #go. It is not 0 strange that many laymen should still cherish the notion of avolding foods which pre- sumably contain much material likely to form uric acid, when we observe that not a few ghyalcmns in practice today are prescribing funny diets or funnier “uric acid eliminators” in numerous conditions that baffle the doctor's diag- | ABE MARTIN SAYS Mixin’ banditry with a steady Job is one o' the new ways o’ mectin’ the cos. o' high livin’, Say what you please about the Demo- cratic party, it comes in mighty handy now an’ then. (Copyright, 1929.) My Neighbor Says: A griddle will not smoke when you are frying pancakes, or the cakes will not stick to the grid- dle if it is rubbed with a small bag fllled with salt before the batter is put in. Always test the fat with a plece of bread before putting in croquets. When the bread burns, the fat is sufficiently hot to fry croquets. Save a part of a roll of paper after a room has beep papered. When patching is needed, the paper will be readily available. ‘To soften shoe polish that has. ‘hardened, pour a little turpentine over it. | SEE YOU USE RINSO, TOO ¢4 S Quick, easy with the suds that wash clothes whiter! EVERYONE knows how famous Rinso is for washing clothes whiter—without scrubbing or Eoiling. Its rich suds—thick and creamy in hardest water—are great for dishes, too, Wait until you see how the grease soaks off! A hot rinse...and dishes dry clear without wiping: Try Rinso fe? ;ots and pans, for pllnta wood- nostic ability, when the patient is will- ing to believe it is somehow due to uric acid or some such acid in his system. Even in our leading American medical textbooks published only 25 years ago one may find the quaint teachings that were built upon the frail foundation of Garrod's discovery, that in some cases of gout the proportion of uric acid in e blood was really increased above the normal. In various illnesses, some of them serious, the normal alkalinity of the blood is diminished, and sometimes this may be corrected by suitable diet, exer- cise and the like. But brobably no patient would ever suspect from his symptoms, and no idle bystander would suggest, that the illness in such case is due to any kind of acid waste or poison in the blood or the system. This is a health column, and accordingly I shall not even mention any of these {llnesses in which there may be a lower- ing of the normal alkalinity of the blood and tissues. Chronic or recurring skin inflamma- tion, known to doctors as dermatitis and to the mz{ as eczema, is quite commonly nu along—that's the only term for it—nursed along for years on the assumption that it is somehow due to acld in the blood. No assumption is warrantable unless based on chemni- cal tests of the blood. In most cases of eczema so regarded, the actual cause i8 allergy—peculiar sensitivity to some food or foreign protein substance. This can be determined only by carefully conducted skin tests with homeopathic | quantities of the different proteins. MATTRESSES RENOVATED Best Service and Prices. COLUMBIA BEDDING CO., Inc., 219 G St. N.W. __ National 5528. Big Chief ! Healthy Boy! LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPR. had a fearse head ake before laying back in his private chair Yee if thinks this eir welcome to it with my and I wont expect them to pay G, pop, what does it feel like? I sed. Me never having had one, and pop sed, Its not so bad, considering. Its ony like a bination of 4 thousand rivetters sand rail splitters split- and 900 clumsy children fall- m“p-mn he sed. thinking, G, it must be fearse. And Lthawt, Gosh, I wonder if I could cure it by hipmotizm, I wonder. top of his hed, saying to myself, Flip flop bibbitty bop, Benny the grate hopmo commands your d ake to go away. Repeeting it over gen 3 times and then saying to pop, low does it feel now, pop, do you still feel it any? For Peet sake dont start to ask me z:gmh questions now of all times, pop Proving it wasent tured yet, and I started to give him another treetment, waving my hands in back of him, say- ing to myself, Hay hay zippitty zay, Benny the Grate says go away. And I started to wave my hands so strong one of them axsidently smacked a pritty g00d of a smack on the top of the hed where he is just hed and no hair, pop shying, Yee gods, thats the crowning touch, thats all I need ot fill my cup to oves ing. u:vell G, pop, wait and Ill explain, I Actlon comes before werds, pop sed. Wich it did, being a lot of cracks with his dlpfer, lpop saying, Well, I axuall, bleeve I feel a little better, I bleeve ail Tpeeded was a little :é(erc\u. a 0 sir, G wizz, pop, it was hipmotizm, Ised. And I mmum how and he ad- mitted it and gave me a dime to im- prove my feelings. ‘Wich it did. JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in Etiquette. BY JOSEPH J. FRISCH. WHEN DAD MADE A REMITTANCE OF THE RENT, GOES UP MUST COME DOWN’ APPARENTLY DOES NOT APPLY TO RENTSY The word rémit requires neither make nor send in connection with it, for re- mit means to send or transmit money in payment. Apparent (ap-pare-ent) means clear to the understanding; easily seen: evi- dent; as, a man may bs apparently friendly, yet malicious at heart. Spinach in Molds. Line custard cups or muffin rings with cooked and seasoned spinach. Break a whole egg into each spinach mold and bake in a moderate oven until the eggs ate set. Turn out up- side down and cover with cream sauce made with one tablespoonful of flour, one tablespoonful of butter and three-fourths cupful of sweet milk. anemia—and many other causes result cosmetics, for Carbohydrate foods should | FEATUR Two Kinds of Acne. ‘There are two varieties of acne that I want to talk about, for I have had a lot of mail recently describing this dis- ease in one form or another. Acne vulgaris, or pimples, is the most common trouble. I like its descriptive name! It is a bacterial discase of the fat glands. Often it is caused by black- heads, in any case, germs get under the skin and infect it. Result, ugly splotches and marks, and eruptions. Faulty diet, constipation, general| in acne. Anything which tends to close up the pores and prevent their func- tioning results in acne dirt, or tos many be cut down—the sugars and starches. Sugar, candy, cake, pies, ice cream, jam, jell;l, potatoes, rich fried foods and such. Instead, milk, fermented milk, eggs, vegetables, a little bread, clear soups, meat and cheese once a day, should be taken. X-ray treatments are wonderful in clearing up a skin that is troubled with acne, and many doctors prescribe it. The skin should be cleansed with warm water and soap, and rinsed with cold water to tone it up, or warm water should be used, then almond meal should be moistened and rubbed into the skin and then rinsed out with fairly hot water and then the face should be rinsed with cold water. Avoid cold creams and all makeup as much as pos- sible. You must dry up the overoily condition of the skin. Use only castile soap, or the almond meal. Don't ever use tar soap, though tincture of green soap can be used, sparingly. Drink ?l;{lty of water each day, several glasses ull. Dieting Down. If the cold air of the Winter days gives vou a keener appetite than usual, content yourself with remembering that cold days also take up more energy, and that if you eat more, you also use up more of the energy you have con- sumed in the way of food. Yet even in Winter, a diet of 1,200 calories a day is a good one for the overweight woman to reduce on, though if she is very big indeed and if she leads a strenuous life, she can go as high as 1,500 calories. Reducing is simple, but only those who have gone through a course of it successfully will believe that. I advocate a lot of hot foods in the Winter, for a reduction diet. Salads and uncooked green things and butter- milk are all right for Summer, but in the Winter, the body must be heated. A reduction diet is deficient in heat. That is, if you ate a plateful of hot sausages, with pancakes and mashed potatoes, and ended up with a cup of hot chocolate, you'd have fed enough heat calories into you to keep you warm for some time. The weight you'd put on would be terrible, too! As you can't gain heat by fattening foods on a diet, make it up by having all your foods hot. Drink two glasses of hot water first thing in the morning. | Lessons in Engli BY W. L. GORDON, Words often misused: “Do not con- fuse “later” (comparative of “late”), with “latter” (second in order). Often mispronounced: Boudoir. Pro- nounce boo-dwar, oo as in “bot,” a a: in “arm,” accent first syllabl holten misspelled: Adher ear. here, not | Rare, Word study: “Use word three times and it is yours. Let us in- crease our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: Inci- dentally; casually; without design. have incidentally dwelt on these TR scarce, unusual, | G ~H [EA Nlflfllfllflfl!ifllplfllfll\ll BEAUTY CHATS | green vegetables hot. | dose has to be constantl, ES. BY EDNA KENT FORBES You may have orange juice, which won't be hot, of course; you can have hot black coffee, urbugtered hot toast or a bolled egg. Yoyt ¢7-a have as much hot consomme <~ you #ant for lunch or dinner. You can have non-fattening You can have & little_hot meat or hot chicken. You can have quarts of weak hot tea and lemon. 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