Evening Star Newspaper, December 18, 1929, Page 39

HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 192 FEATURES. The Sidewalks of Washington BY THORNTON FISHER. e ey WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. S. Patent Office. Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. Feminine Fashions Win Popularity BY MARY MARSHALL. A letter. “Dear Sir: I am sure nine | neath a microscope and perhaps you 60.—President Bu- | people out of ten envy the man who | will never use brown sugar again. Un- December 18, 1860.—] | has traveled and visited odd corners of | der a powerful glass, there will be seen ! chanan has ordered the Macedonian |the world. I envy the man who stayed | myriads of horrible monsters as large | vy | | and another man-of-war to be in readi- | at home and is established in a good | as beetles and having the appearance of | O sail on short notice, ostensibly | business. The description of the second | crabs. Four dreadful legs, with claw- | for foreign stations. Their real .desti- man you mentioned some weeks ago | pincers at the ends of them, jointed in years | four parts as with armor, and bristling _ Women have given up_ their rather charms and personalities to best ad- @bsurd attempt to be boyish. They have vantages. Parasols, scarfs, muffs, ear- | forgotten that they ever thought it |rings, bracelets, dainty handbags—all | Smart to be mannish. They have even | these et cetera of dress are now su- outgrown the short-lived period of |premely important. And fans, which, wanting to be schoolgirlish. Judging |have been rather out of the picture from fashions as they are at present | within the past season or so, are back almos; fits this writer. When 14 B the - ® |fans, but smaller fans of chiffon, silver cloth or lace. The fan should, of course, be chosen to go_with the dress. To carry a small lace fan of the Victorian sort with an ultra-modern dress would be an ab- surdity. To carry a large, brilliant fan with sweeping feathers with a pastel- colored dress of the picturesque, dainty type would be just as absurd. There i& no longer any question about muffs. You may not see many of them, but when you do you realize that the: are part of the present fashion. Thi week's illustrated circular gives a_dia- |gram pattern, from which you can cut | {one of the smart new small muffs, and | directions for making. If you would like | a’copy. please send your stamped. self- | addressed_envelope to Mary Marshall. care of this paper, and it will be for- warded to you | | (Copyrizht, DAILY DIET RECIPE CHEESE BALLS. Grated American cheese, 114 cups. Mayonnaise, 34 cup. SERVES ABOUT 12 PORTIONS. Mix together grated cheese and mayonnaise. Shape mixture into balls, using about one_tablespoon to each portion—or balls could be made slightly smaller. Serve three cheese balls to each person. Good protein addition to vege- table or ecven fruit salad—use- ful for lunch or supper. DIET NOTE. { Recipe furnishes protein and some fat. The fat would de- ° am o TWO LOVELY FANS—THAT ABOVE OF BRIGHT RED CHIFFON, EM- BROIDERED ~ WITH SEQUINS. THAT BELOW OF SILVER CLOTH AND GOLD LACE. Tevealed here and in France, the aim of women now is to be feminine—and, take it all in all, this is an entirely commendable aim. With this return to feminine fash-| dons come back into importance numer- ous accessories which from time out of mind, in various countries of the world, have been evolved to set forth women's MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE MERRICK. HOLLYWOOD, Calif. December 18 |character Ligi Barf is now for an actress '(N.AN.A) —Louis Bromfield will be brought to this village to write stories for Ronald Colman. ‘This reaching out for the writers who deal with more than a rapidly moving series of events heavily overlaid with sex, as did our movie writers of yester- day, reveals more clearly the trend of the talkie than several pages of disser- tation could possibly do. Bromfield is one of four or five lead- ing American novelists. His art is proven. His characters have dimension. He dignifies the simple problems of ex- istence. They are, after all, the ones ‘which beset rich and poor alike, due to | ec;ll(lnca]ly our human limitations. What we will do with Bromfield Hollywood remains to be seen. In the old days he would promptly have been put writing the libretto of an operetta. For that is the way movies worked yesterday. Playwrights concocted ve- hicles for toe-dancers, and librettists were put doing dialogue for heavy drama. But there is the beginning of order merging out of topsy-turvy land. If Theodore Roberts were still alive, what a character Gramp Tolliver would have been for him! What a JABBY | | pend on amount of oil in mayon- l‘ as vitamins A and B. Can be in | her warmly, despite the spectators. | Eddie Quillan returned to Hollywood | | studio_executives are patting them- in_favor—not only large feather | 1920 naise. Much l:m~ present as well eaten in moderation by adults of normal digestion who are average or underweight and by those wishing to reduce if non-fattening mayonnaise were used. | with more than a straight nose. We | have a few of them in movies today. | Talk made that necessary. | “'But just to prove that we are still| Hollywood the hectic, despite all these | | moves toward order and sanity, let me describe & shopping scene on the boule- | | vard yesterday. 3 Merna Kennedy, choosing a picture frame with her fiance, James Hall, | standing beside her and warmly ring-| ing her about with his manly arm. The | crowds surge about them, package- |laden, staring. “Like it, darling?” “Un-huh!” she nods ‘Then have it. dear,” and he kisses her red curls Done in the real Hollywood spirit. looking so thin and pale that I wa: moved to ask just what a personal ap- pearance tour meant. I discovered that | in the course of six weeks he had made four, five and six stage appearances, daily. Had— Posed for 943 still pictures. Spoken at 22 luncheons. Appeared at 19 radio stations. Guest of honor at 16 cafes. Been greeted officially by six mayors. Autographed 2,000 photographs. And lost & total of 99 hours’ sleep. It won't be long now before the cellu- loid settlement will welcome Lawrence Tibbett back in its midst again. The Metropolitan baritone has had a very| full year, and a concert tour must round out its varied angles. selves on the heads for “discovering” | this boy for pictures. His “Rogue's | Song” is going to be one of the big| | successes of the Spring season, I hear | | from confidential sources. | They signed up a baritone because | When J. T. D. Pyles carried on Wash- ington’s first chain stores? Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND. Upholstered chairs and sofas have been in use for a long time in every home, but upholstered beds are some- what different, and while not exactly new, they are used more rarely. In the illustration is shown a bed of this type which could be worked into a scheme for a “‘woodless” bedroom suite. The bed or beds might be like this, the dressing table a skirted affair, and the chair an_overstuffed one with a slip cover. The only wood to show would i be the legs of'the bed and chair. Of course, this could not be done in any room but a guest room, where a ches of drawers would not be required. Some upholstered beds have a woodc: frame outlining head &nd foot board: which is finished in the natural wooc or enameled to harmonize with the fabric. ‘The type of bed shown is most attrac- tive if covered with chintz or crettonne, whereas those with the wooden frames should have a covering of richer mate- rial, such as damask, satin, taffeta or brocade. Quilted materials are very lovely. (Copyright,1920.) MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Soothing Bedtime Stories. nation, however, will be the harbor of Charleston, S. C. It is understood that one or two of |the President’s cabinet have advised | nim to send these vessels of war to sea at once. with sealed orders. When “off | soundings” their commanders would {learn from their orders that they were to go to the relief of those Federal troops that are “invested” in Fort Moul- trie, Charleston Harbor. A beautiful flag—the Stars Stripes—was hoisted upon the staff over the Perseverance Engine House in Cen- ter Market space this morning with a streamer upon which was printed “The Union Forever.” The market was full of people, including persons from nearly | every Btate in the Union. The flag and | streamer attracted wide attention and | drew forth the commendation of hun- | dreds. | The flag and streamer were elevated by special order of the Perseverance | Fire Company, which passed a resolu- { tion to this effect at a recent meeting. The Franklin Fire Company, which yetserday had its flag at half-staff in honor of the memory of a venerable and respected member of the company, today at noon ran the flag up to the top of the flagpole. i “If anything will defeat the prospect of some action by the committee of thirty-three, likely to have a powerful effect in_preventing the border slave- holding States from following the con- ton States out of the Union,” says The | Evening Star today,” it is the current | disposition of Southern members of the committee to desert their brethren and those from the North who are earenstly | laboring to obtain satisfactory action by the committee. “If all from the South ugon the com- cannot doubt but that some harmonious and satisfactory report will be made. Otherwise Massachusetts, Maine, Wis- consin, et al, stand a fair chance of being able in the committee’s report to defeat the hope of the speedy action on the part of the people of the North (in the nature of additional constitutional guarantees to the South on the slavery question) necessary to prevent the bor- der slave-holding States from following the cotton States out of the Union.” o= Baked Hash. Put through a food chopper enough | meat to make two cupfuls when ground, four medium-sized raw pota- | toes. two stalks of celery, and one | medium-sized onion. ground ingredients one beaten egg, | half a cupful of gravy, and one cup- ! ful of stewed tomatoes. Add salt and | pepper to taste, then put the mixture | into a greased baking dish. a moderate oven for 30 minutes. Green Pepper Stuffing. Moisten one quart of dried bread crumbs with one cupful of stewed to- matoes and add enough hot water to make the crumbs quite moist, Melt "nough butter to make one-fourth cup- ul and two tablespoonfuls of bacon fat, \dd one small onion chopped, enough reen g:&per to make one-fourth cupful \ter g finely chopped, two table- poonfuls of chopped parsley, one tea- spoonful of salt, a_pinch of pepper, | life to be found in a drop of water. | then pour over the bread crumbs. Mix thoroughly and use as stuffing. | and | mittee will but remain at their posts we | Mix into these | Bake in | of age I went to sea on a tramp bound for the Orient. Before I was 18 I was a full-fledged A. B. and had visited al- most every corner of the globe. Before I turned 19 I was a boundary rider in Austraiia and during my two years there “enjoyed” the hardships of the bushwhacker. Five months after I turned 20 I was mate on a trading | schooner bound for the South Seas. ‘Was shipwrecked two years later dur- ing a hurricane in the cannibal isl- ands of Malaita. ‘Then the “quiet” life of a plantation manager for eight years, taming more savages than a mis- slonary would hope to do in 80 years. Obeying the wan- derlust again, I shipped on a four- master bound for San Francisco, reaching that port after a stormy, back-bresking pas- sage lasting 173 days. That was nine years ago and I am not yet 40. What have I to show for all this? Nothing but memories, which do not help bring home the ba- con. Would I have been better off had I not had the wanderlust in my blood>" We omit the writer's name. Does he | mean better off financially? Perhaps, | and vet he is rich in experience. Man: | men have capitalized their adventures Joseph Conrad, for example. Our cor- Tespondent is still a young man and many readers will envy him. * K K * Sectional feeling is said to exist no longer in this united country of ours. Unquestionably the feeling of bitter- ness has happily left us, but there will always be a feeling of pride existent between residents of one section and dwellers within another. This feeling is right, and concerning it no one will complain. But one likes to hear jokcs on sectionalism—if they are good ones Apropos of this comes the followirg narrative, which may be new to many: An old Confederate was speaking after a dinner. The Confederate would have to be old and most likely, of course, it would have to be after din- ner. That is when most jokes or stories are told. The wearer of the gray was smiling. He began his tals with the preface that the story might not have been true, but propably it was. “Gen. Grant was nearing Petersburg,” the speaker said. “He was stopped along the line of march by a small col- ored boy, who asked the Union chieftain where he was going. ‘Petersburg, Richmond, heaven or hell’ Grant answered. “‘Well, Longstreet is in Petersburg.’ the boy soliloquized. ‘You can't go there. Lee is in Richmond; you can't go there. And Stonewall Jackson is in heaven. You can't go there. I ’spects lynu are going to hell, fo' they ain't TAMING THE SAVAGE S no Confederates there. * ¥ X X Recently we printed a description of | Now & reader sends this one in: “Place a lump of brown sugar under- | with sharp-pointed spears, are in front | of the monster, and his head has a | long pyramidal form in two joints, with | five finger-tips at the terminus, where | the mouth should be. The body is oval- | shaped and marked almost exactly like that of & crab, only upon the rim of an inner circle, upon the back, there are with 2 at the tail and 4 snakelike ten- tacula, exceedingly fine. in the articu- lation, and no doubt intended, like a puss’ whiskers, to be feelers, ta warn the animal of danger. of the beast even more than the ob- verse, but it also shows the wondrous mechanical genius of the maker of it. Each limb is pad- ded with a mass of muscle at the base of it, which gives the impression of immense power, and over the muscle THESE CREATURES' ARE RAVENQUS. “These creatures are eager, restive and ravenous; al- ways falling foul of each other, or at- tacking great clumps of sugar, as large in reality as a mathematical point. With the pincers attached to the end of cach proboscis they take hold of and | tear each other, repeating in their small vay the enormous tragedies of Tenny- son’s primal monsters.” list now. R evey A reader sends in the following epitaph: “Here lies Mayor Parker, ‘Whom the Lord saw fit to slaughter— He died without any fears, Was buried without any tears, And where he's gone and how he fares, Nobody knows and nobody cares.” AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. 1 “A woman puts in half her life hopin’ for a perfect man, an’ the other half tryin' to improve the one she got.” (Copyright, 1929.) 12 more of these long, sharp spears, . “The reverse side shows the ugliness | We've erased brown sugar from the The WORLD'S MosT LUXURIOUS PERFUME GIFT CREATIONS . IN ATTRACTIVE PRESENTATIONS. LEATHER CASES AND ENSEMBLES $3.50 TO $20.00 Set the Stage for Santa Claus The holiday season means “open house” « . . informal gatherings . . . dancing . . . old friends and new friends comhe to wish you the greeting always old . . . but ever new. Use ‘Murco’ Paint Products to help make it a more colorful season. Murco Magic can be applied in a jiffy . . . and all Murco products make everything glow like the Christmas tree ... Check up on things that need painting . .. then come here for your supply this week. JMurphy G INCORPORATED 710 12th St. N. W. National 2477 |his opera and concert record showed |that he certainly could sing. But the | | big surprise came to them when they | | discovered they had an actor whose | magnificent scope sent some of the most | established dramatic stars scuttling to | cover.” A few of us opera goers found | | that out long ago. Tibbett and Chalia- | “I didn’t mind bein’ sick so much, #ill that nasty cop came along and said, *That'll be enough outta you!'” (Copyright, 1829.) MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Canned Raspberries Dry Cereal with Cream French Toast Coffee LUNCHEON. Salmon Croquettes, White Sauce Green Peas _Graham Bread Mince Turnovers Tea DINNER. ‘Boiled Spareribs Cabbage Parsnips ‘Turnips Boiled Potatoes Buttered Beets Orange Pudding Coffee FRENCH TOAST. Cut stale bread into slices. Beat one egg, add one cup of milk, a pinch of salt and one- half tablespoon of sugar. Soak the sliced bread in the liquid and when softened take up on R griddlecake turner, drain slightly and fry till a delicate brown in butter, turning once. Serve hot with maple sirup or orange marmalade. SALMON CROQUETTES Drain a tall can of salmon and remove the bones. Mince the sal- mon with one slice of stale bread- crumbs, one hard-boiled egg, one tablespoon of melted butter, a dash of salt, pepper, one-fourth teaspoon of nutmeg, also a dash of red pepper, one tablespoon of lemon juice and one of pepper sauce. When blended well tc- gether beat in one egg, shape into oval cakes with corn meal or rye meal and fry in deep, hot drip- pings. ‘White sauce—Two tablespoons butter, two tablespoons flour, one cup milk, one-fourth teaspoon salt, speck pepper. Scald milk. In a saucepan measure butter and melt it. Add dry ingredients and stir until smooth, then gradually add the hot milk. Return to stove and let thicken. ORANGE PUDDING. Put one cup of milk in double bofler. When hot, add a beaten egg yolk into which you have stirred_one-fourth cup of sugar and a heaping tea<poon of corn- starch. Cook until it is thick, but don't let §t eook too long, as it will then grow watery. Slice one orange very thin, then cut into small pieces. Pour the cooled custard upon this. Just before serving beat one egg white Stiff and put {t on the pudding in dots. pin can sing and act concurrently. But | |it's & trick seldom found, even among | | the best of them. ! The years of opera have brought him | ‘tremendous fame, but one picture | brought him a mansion in Beverly Hills and a Iot of other nice things. Movie | magnates know the meaning of this in money. She—Where was you during supper? He—Babe, honestly, I ain't done a thifig. She—I ask, where was you during supper—you and that cheap, ignorant blond you was fussin’ over? (Copyright, 1929, by North American News- paper Alliance.) Excellent Meat Loaf. Wipe two pounds of lean beef and one pound of fresh pork with a damp cloth before grinding in a food chopper. Boil two eggs hard and remove the shells. Break one raw egg into a mix- ing bowl with the ground meat, one cupful of cracker crumbs, two-thirds cupful of sweet milk, half a cupful of minced parsley, one-fourth teaspoonful of onion extract, and salt and pepper to taste. Mix the ingredients well, and form in a long lcaf with the hard-boiled eggs in the center of the loaf, placing them lengthwise so that when the loaf is sliced the eggs will be sliced cross- wise. Place two thin slices of bacon in a baking dish lengthwise and place the | meat loaf on them. Bake for about 3 |hours in a moderate oven. Baste | occasionally - -ith drawn butter made by | pouring one cupful of boiling water | over one tablespoonful of butter. Pour two or three spoonfuls over the loaf | about every half hour. When done, the loaf should be a beautiful dark brown. Set in a cool place until cold, then slice very thin. BE MARTIN SAYS | | | ,,,’V(’,';:’zm( Yeoms aconp Vi T QNI SALAD Wi TH REAL We never hear nothin’ about Tacna- Arica any more, an’ I wonder if it con- One mother says: The bedtime story should be a quiet, fairly uneventful one. Let it be told in an even, soothing tone. Fentastic stories, dramatically related, may so arouse the child’s imagination that he will be unable to go to sleep promptly or they may bring dreams that will cause his nerves to suffer. (Copyright, 1929.) Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. ‘Words often misused: Avold the word “grouchy Say “disgruntled,” “sullen,” “sulky” or “ill-humored.” Often mispronounced: Master. Pro- nounce the & as in “ask,” not as in “at.” Often misspelled: Lacks (wants, needs), lax (not tense, loose). Synonyms: _Jocular, jocose, jocund, jovial, jolly, witty, funny, comical, droll. ‘Word study: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word eaci day. Today's word: Eclat; brilliancy of effort. “He delivered his speech with great eclat.” Fruit-Nut Coffee Cake. Dissolve two cakes of compressed yeast in one and one-fourth cupfuls of jukewarm milk. Add four and one-half cupfuls of flour, measured after sifting, and when the flour is partly mixed with the liquid. add one-fourth cupful of shortening, half a teaspoonful of salt and one tablespoonful of sugar. Mix until smooth, turn onto a floured board and knead into a round smooth ball, Which takes about five minutes. Place in a greased bowl and brush the top with melted butter. Let rise in a warm place until double in bulk, usually for about two hours. Butter a tube cake pan well and sprinkle brown sugar over the butter. Over this sprinkle a layer of cropped pecans, raisins and candied cherries using about half a cupful of each, Mold the dough into the pan and let rise until double in bulk. Place the pan in a hot oven, reduce the heat after fifteen minutes and continue bak- ing for about an hour. — Our Neighbor Says: To make a_ delicious orange drink, place a slice of tart orange, peel and all, in a cup and fill the cup with hot tea. New waffle irons should be washed with soapsuds and rinsed carefully. If this is not done the first waffles made are likely to be discolored. To give lemon gelatin a deep red color, add cranberry juice to the liquid mixture. Pour over a lump of unslacked lime the size of an egg one quart of cold water that has been boiled and cooled. Let stand sev- tained too much alcohol? Another fine thing about fox farmin’ —it don’t break your wife's back. (Copyrisht, 1929.) i eral hours, strain through cheese- cloth and you will have & quart of lime water. anism is inside the 8, KANN SONS 8th & Market Si €. BROO & 5P OW you can give her a real surprise this Christmas.You can give her more lasting joy than she ever got in one gift before. You can give her the most beauti- ful and most practical Frigidaire ever built. 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