Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1929, Page 27

WOMAN’S PAGE. Prepare for Another Christmas BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER, Merry Christmas—and while you are making this day merry, you can thrift- ily prepare for Christmas next year. Such preparation will not mar the joy of this festival. In fact, it will help, for it has to do with the clearing up of wrappings and ribbons, Christmas tape and seals. Save all the good things of this sort. It i well for the homemaker to pre- m{w this thrifty idea. A bushel or some large receptacle should KEEP THE RIBBON SMOOTHM WHILE WINDING IT. be handy for the wrappings to be tossed into as packages are opened. When there is a little lull in the merriment at the gpening of the final parcel, these dem etc, can be gathered up and 501 All of the wrapping paper that is not ly torn should be smoothed out, folded and put in a box. Manila paper that is fresh and in large sheets can be saved, but not especially with the Christmas wrappings. The manila pa- per can be used any time. The Christ~ mas wrappings go in the box for use next year. Do not discard any of the fancy paper, tissue or white paper just because it is rumpled. It can be ironed BEAUTY CHATS out when it is good as new. into balls or onto_spools or strips of heavy cardboard. It may be as well to iron these ribbons and tapes out soon, so just toss them into some other box to be untied if still knotted, and pressed at your convenience. Fancy Christmas seals that are not torn can be put into some small box for next year. Red Cross seals are the ones to discard, for each year an in- come is derived for promoting health from the sales of these stamps. It is bad form to reuse them. So throw them away. They have done their helpful duty. The other wrappings, ribbons, seals, etc,, are the sort that can well serve their purpose anew next year. Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. Just as mother is certain that Evelyn can be counted on to sleep all morning, quite without warning Evelyn refuses to take her morning nap. Right then and there it is mother who has to rec- ognize that Evelyn is climbing into a new phase of her growth and that morning naps will have to be scrapped. ‘This throws the whole day out of joint and necessitates a new schedule. In re- sponse to the plea of Mrs. B. F. S. that we print a year-old baby’s “whole day,” here it is. If your baby is near, or just past, or right at this age, cut this out and hang it on the wall for daily reference. If your baby is still an infant, or past 2 yelirs, we have schedules arranged for them which any mother may have for a self-addressed, stamped envelope, with a request for her choice. Incidentally, but very important to this full outline of a baby's day, is our feeding leaflet. If you haven't it and would like it, send a self-addressed and stamped envelope for a copy and then proper meals for baby can be inserted into the schedule. Outline for Year-Old Baby’s Day. 6:30 to 7—Baby wakes up. Dressed and brought to table. 7 to 7:30—Breakfast (see feeding leaf- let for menu). Twenty minutes to one-half hour after breakfast baby should be taken to the toilet. Then baby plays in crib or high chair or play pen until 10 o'clock. This is a good hour for giving one of the three doses of cod liver ofl. After the oll give orange juice. Or give oil right after breakfast and the orange Juice alone at this time. 10—Dress baby in outdoor clothes and put him in room where mother is work- ing, with windows open, or else in bed room with windows wide open, and let him play for one hour. A sleepy baby may take a short nap. 11 to 11:30—Undressed, allowed to ex- ercise in warm room without clothes, given warm tub bath and put into night- own and bathrobe. " 12—Lunch. (See feeding leaflet for menu.) Cod liver oil. 12:45—Put to bed for long nap, us- ually about two hours at this age. 2:45 to 3—Awake. Dressed for street. Taken out in carriage for an hour’s air- ing (or more). Good opportunity for mother to do her marketing. 4—Cup of milk and cracker. Plays in crib, high chair or play pen until time to get ready for bed. to 6:30—Undressed for the night. Washed off, allowed to exercise without clothes in warm room for 20 minutes. Put into nightgown and tathrobe and brought to table. 7—Fed (see feeding leaflet). Cod liver oil. Put to bed for the night. BY EDNA KENT FORBES wanted and be as It is better not to iron ‘Cookies. Beat egg, add sugar and ma malade and mix. ted ‘Then add melted butter and beat until thoroughly blended. Drop by teaspoonful far aj on a d cookie sheet. Bake at 75 degrees Fahrenheit for 12 to 15 minutes, Be careful not to burn. Diet Note. Recipe furnishes g powder, Can be gven occasionally to older children as dessert. Can eaten by normal adults of aver- age or under weight. Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. December 25, 1855.—Many sleep- loving citizens are consoled today by the thought that the high holiday of Christ- mas comes but once a year. At an early hour last night, the wel- coming salutes made the echoes ring. Every variety of explosion was resorted to—from the heavy musket to the pop- ping cracker—Ailling the air with sul- phurous odor and frightening even the grimalkins into sllence. Calathumpian bands made the night hideous, and oc- casionally a band of merry Christmas masqueraders would pass along the street, enthusiastically declaring, in song, admiration for “My Mary Ann,” or protesting that they would “not go home till morning” under any con- sideration. But “daylight did appear” at last, and in many happy homes this morning the juvenile inmates scampered to their stockings to see what was in store for them. Joyous were the glee-notes of happiness, as the toys were brought out, compared and admired. Then came the faithful colored servants for “Christmas gif’, massa!” How their eyes twinkled with anticipa~ tion of the good times that the ample donations assured them. And then in came other juvenile friends—why every one had so many nieces and nephews, coustns and sisters, that the genealogical tree was like the Christmas tree in the fullest bearing of the holiday season. Hark to the church bells. Many of the sanctuaries were handsomely deco- rated, and they would doubtless have been filled, had not a pelting rain set in, sadly dampening the hopes of many. There were goodly bowls of punch and eggnog in many houses, where the cordial greetings of friends showed that it was a merry Christmas, indeed. The dinners added to the enjoyment, and the poor were not f¢ . The rain continued throughout the afternoon and evening, but many pleasant parties “tripped the light fan- tastic toe,” while families were united around the social hearthstone. There was the usual number of youn busters, developed like spread-eagles upon the sidewalks, and occasionally a conglomeration of “glorious, good fel~ lows” was noticeable, piled up at the street crossings. But there were few casualties, considering the amount of powder burned. A pistol ball through a window near the United States Hotel, grazing the head of a gentleman, and there were several other unfortunate incidents. > has beeh » happy® ferivar i the y n & happy festival in national metropolis, The Stu'-’l Daily Pattern Subtle Charm. A new soft gathered fullness thiat re- veals chic femininity in the afternoon mode. Style No. 780 smartly dips its back hem. The front of skirt shows a panel effect which adds considerable length to the silhouette. ‘The flat hips and low placed fullness of skirt make it suitable for larger woman. A narrow belt nips the normal waist line of simple bodice with round collarless neck line. Sleeves are attrac- tively gathered into bow tled cuffs. It is an exact copy of Paris model in bottle green tnnxfurene velvet, with trimmi) iece on left shoulder picoted "???sd in sizes 16, 18, 20 years, n sizes 16, 18, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust. You'll adore it, too, in a printed sheer velvet in dark wine tones. 'k silk crepe is very fash- fonable and extremely wearable. dahlia is stunning in crepe Eliza- Black satin crepe with shoulder trim- g | ming piece and narrow cuffs of emer- green sheer velvet denotes new ess. Wool crepe, canton crepe, crepe de chine, crepe Roma, crepe marocain and rayon printed silk suitable. For a pattern of this style, send 15 cents in stamps or coin directly to The Washington Star's New York Fashion Bureau, Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, New York. We suggest that when you send for rtwmwg;u Jnclose 10 ;:fi" md wmm 1 or & of our new an iter Fashion Magazine. pen twine used in It will tie much will not slip when ‘Two or three large clam shells & teakettle occasionally will prevent its gathering on the inside of the kettle, When Making Cookies. If the reeipe calls for them to be | ¢ rolled and cut, use the following method: Make the dough just stiff enough to handle without sticking, then take small portions and roll out by hand into little molds, placing them on a baking sheet far apart. Now take & flat-bottomed glass or can, dip the bottom in flour and, press each cooky to the desired thifiness. If the glass has a small design on the bottom, it 2dds to the decoration. This method is much quicker than the old one of rolling and cutting, and there is no FREE PARKING SERVICE ‘The Senator from Idaho, Mr. Borah, always has taken it for granted that his ancestors were Irish. And while he has never gone out of his way to trace his genealogy, h ts a quite satis- fizum out of the fact. Now he has just discovered some- thing new and in- teresting about'his ancestry. He can claim a _former king of Bohemia as one of his for- ars, It is all news to Borah. The dis- covery was not the result of lis efforts or of any one in his family. The editor of a small paper has the honor. H. E. Roethe of the Fennimore, Wis., Times, sent the Idaho Senator a genealogical report showing that one of his ancestors was a Bohemian king. It seems that the Borahs were for- merly Bohemians. The kingly ancestor was dethroned in a revolution in his country, fled to Germany and then FEATURES A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. went to France. There one of his daughters married a prince of France. ‘The dethroned king finally went back to Germany with his family. The other members of the Borah clan married and settled there. tion of the Ameérican Borahs. The Senator was highly amused at the report. - After reading it, he im- mediately called in one of his stenog- raphers and dictated the following re- ply to Roethe: “Perhaps if this can be substantiated it may enable me to escape the charge of being a communist, & socfalist, just now being laid upon me. I “I must lose no time looking into that matter of royal blood.” Many and varied are the symbols one finds scattered around the different branches of Government in Washing- ton, each typifying the authority of that particular department. One of the most_unusual is the one to be seen in the House of Representatives when that body 1s in session. When Congress convened for its regu- lar sitting of the session, a silver and abony mace. was rllced near the Speak- er. There it will remain—symbolic of the legislative authority of the House RETAIL DEPARTMENT STORE b s R LR S S DR W R Bladensburg Road at 15th and H Sts. N.E. This was the founda- | —until the session is closed some time next Summer, ‘The mace, four feet long and worn smooth from use since its manufacture in 1841, signifies that a regular session is in attendance, and typifies the au- thority of the sergeant-at-arms. It is fashioned after the Italian fasces, and consists of a bundle of ebony, bound together by tranverse rib- bons of silver, A silver rod through the center holds the head, a large circular globe, etched to represent the earth. Lessons in English BY W. L. GORDON. Words often misused—Do not say, | “This pen is equally as good.” “As” is redundant. Say “equally good.” Often mispronounced—Matrices (plu- ral of matrix). Pronounce mat-ri-sez," a a8 In “mat” 1 as in “it,” e as In ‘ease,” accent first syllable. Often misspelled—Habeas corpus, not hebias. Synonyms—Vague, indefinite, uncer- tain, ambiguous, hazy. ‘Word study—"Use & word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: Emanate; to issue from a source. “Nothing but good can emanate from right thinkin HOURS 9 to 5:30 SATURDAY UNTIL 9 P.M. OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF Women’s and Misses’ Fur-Trimmed CLOTH COATS REDUCED! Three Extraordinarily Low Prices THE season’s smartest coat fash- ions —straightline and sil- houette models, richly trimmed with furs, completely lined and warmly interlined for Winter com- milk or a tiny bit of white milk sauce. This gives it cum another taste and color. It can put through a sieve, mixed with a bit of white sauce, then with eggs, making & most delicious souffle—it is made like any souffle, and can be an introductory luncheon dish before the meat or served as a separate Wise-Crackers of Courts and Royalty T L e R S Duc de Richelieu Jested at Expense of Louis XV and Lonis XVI. BY J. P. GLASS, Making Diets Amusing. Suppose you are on a diet. It may be to grow thin, or it may be to im- ve your skin or even to get rid of me digestive or colonic trouble. The ‘worst of any diet is its monotony. > Let's take the average restricted diet— red meat usually is out, this leaves and chicken, and white fish in- stead of meat for some meals. You can have roast lamb, lamb chops, mut- ton (though this tastes about the same to me) mutton chops, stew, chicken, hot or cold, in a hundred forms, fish, broiled, baked, boiled, minced or made into salad if your diet allows oll or vinegar or either one of these. Sup] you are allowed one green vegetable (this applies to colitis in some forms, & trouble that has the most deadly dull of all diets attached). Prob- ably that one green will be spinach. Well, spinach can be had boiled and put through a sieve (most doctors refuse to allow it unless made fine like this). It can be mixed with a little cream or NANCY PAGE "Joan Learns About World From Dolls. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Aunt Nancy decided to start a_doll collection for her little niece. Each country was to be represented by a doll dressed in national costume. ~Nancy hunted up her hand-carved wooden | «<oll that had belonged to her own great- | grandmother. It was over 100 years old. Its name was like that of a cer- | tain celebrated mountain ash wood doll | ~Hitty. Nancy wondered whether her | own doll was as widely traveled as Hitty | of book fame. One of Joan's dolls was Russian from | the top of her peasant cap of gay ker- | chief tied under her chin to the soles| of her tightly laced Russian boots. Her | dress was of whife volle with cross stitch on the full sleeves. The second doll of foreign extraction was the Dutch | maiden with her flaxen braid, her | ‘wooden shoes and Dutch cap. Joan loved her American baby doll which could be dressed and undressed more easily than the foreign doll But she never tired of hearing about the countries from which her other daliies | the palms of the hands. Steady your- course after the meat. It can be made, with milk, into a soup—spinach soup, which is delicious. There are three dif- ferent ways and three different parts of 8 meal, where the common spinach comes in as a novelty. It can even be a salad, cooked, chopped up fine, spread on the thinnest layer of egg and milk which has been allowed to cook by hardening in & but- tered pan. This is rolled up, like jelly cake—the golden thread of egg curling round inside the spinach when it has been sliced like jelly cake. JANE RACHEL—You should sham- poo every week insetad of every three weeks, and your scalp would not be too olly. You cannot hurt your hair by dampening it several times a week to form it into waves, water on your hair every day in this way would not injure it. Persons who live in a very warm and dry atmosphere, such as many do now in overly heated houses, have hair that frequently feels the need of some r‘nlguture, Just as plants do in very dry MRS. H. K.—Consult the doctor about the condition that is causing your daughter to have gray hairs at 14 years of age. The trouble may come from nervousness. It is possible also that these hairs will drop out and that there will be no further trouble, While Your Hair Grows. Are these suggestions of any use to you if you have decided to let your hair grow? You must use a hair tonic. It your hair is normally healthy, any good hair tonic will do. Remember that I'm saying any good hair tonic. For preference it should have canthar- ides in it, since this is very stimulat- ing for the scalp. 50 good for the scalp. And rubbing the scalp very gently with the finger tips— or rather, not rubbing it, but working it over the skull These things help enormously. If you brush the hair much, you must wash your brush every day with hot water and soap, rinsing with cold to stiffen the bristles; other~ wise you brush your scalp with a dirty brush. You do not want to do that! If you cannot think of ways to do your hair while it is growing, have a permanent wave. The wave takes up a great deal of length, it keeps the hafr neatly dressed during the awkward months of growing. As the wave grad- ually comes out and as the hair grows out, too, the ends can be caught under with shallow combs, at the sides and finally at the back. Don't let the hair grow too long; big knots are ugly, and the shape of the head should always show. As long as women wear hats, long hair will be a problem, for no hat fits nicely over a k knot of hair. Mrs. T. W. L—A simple exercise that will_help to correct the tendency to round shoulders is as follows: Stand facing a corner of a room, far enough away from it s0 you may have room enough to reach of the side walls with self by holding the palms firmly to tha walls, and without bending elbows or knees, sway the body toward the cor- ner with chest forward and head held high. Right your position and repeat the forward movement until you have thoroughly exercised the muscles of your shoulders and back. Katherine F. G.—You may lack some glement in your blood that is causing your nalls to peel off in layers. Consult the doctor about it, or try a suitable tonic, one which has hypophosphates in it. The best way though would be to have the doctor prescribe for you. . Peanut Raisin Tarts. (Copyright. 1929.) 1s & broad subject. Write to Naney Page, care of this paper, inclosing » stemped, 'self-addressed envelope, asking @es ner leaflet on Child Care. e care Mix one cupful of peanut butter with one cupful of fresh moist raisins and I half a pint of cream. Mix thoroughly. Fill baked tart shells and garnish with whipped cream, was the Duc de Richelieu. too much to say that he was the most accomplished, the most gallant, the most lavish individual of his age, which included almost all of the eighteenth century. And as a sort of crown for his many dazzling qualities he had a trenchant wit, albeit a synical, worldly one. stones There is the dally brushing, which is | Ric] “ONE DAY, ENTERING A CHAMBER, HE PARTICULAR PERIOD CONVERSING MANNER WITH HIS EQUERRY. The Duc de Richelieu was the most glittering personality in the court of Louls XV of France. rect to link him merely to the re! of that monarch, for his lon ginning in the day of Louis 0 But it is incor- the tragic occupancy of If ever & man really lived, that man It is not He and Louis XV were lifelong friends. One day they went to hear g famous preacher, who had the unusual courage of daring to criticize the vices “The preacher throws a good many into your garden,” Louls told helieu. “Sire,” replied the duc, “did not some MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Onrgv Juice, Bran with Cream. Chicken Livers with Bacon, Squash Muffins, Coffee. of the court, LUNCHEON. Lamb Stew with Dumpling, Canned Peaches, Mocha Cake, DINNER. Cream of Pea Soup. Cold Turkey, Giblet Gravy, Baked Potatoes, Mashed ‘Turnip. Lettuce, Russian Dressing. Hot Mince Pia. Cheese, Cof Tea. SQUASH MUFFINS. Two eggs well beaten, one cup cooked and strained squash, one cup milk, a little salt, two cups flour, two teaspoons baking pow- der, one tablespoon butter. Bake 30 minutes, LAMB STEW. One pound of lamb cut up for stew, three-fourths pound head of cabbage, two cubed toes, two carrots, sliced thinly, fipper, two tablespoons rice. Boil mb until half done in water to almost cover; "3;’. cabbage, chop- ped coarsely, d@nd carrots and rice; when almost done add pota~ toes and seasonings and slightly thicken with a little flour and water as for any stew. RUSSIAN DRESSING. One-half cup mayonnaise, one- fourth cup chill sauce, one table- spoon chopped celery, one table- spoon pimento, one tabl green - pepper. Add the chili sauce to thé mayonnaise, beat well, then add the celery, and green pepper, whici been chopped fine. life, be- | becs CAME UPON HIS WIFE OF THAT IN AN EXTREMELY FAMILIAR also fall into your majesty’s park?” Richelleu was married more than once. He was not K‘-'mculnly critical of the conduct of ‘wives, probably ause he was himself guilty of many infidelities. One day, entering a cham- ber, he came upon his wife of that par- tlcular period conversing in an extreme- ly familiar manner with hl:.flucrrk‘ “Fancy, madame,” he calmly, +how awkward you would have felt had any one else but myself come into the room!"” His cynicism did not prevent him from discharging the equerry. Not long afterward the Duchess de Riche- lieu died. Thinking the duc had for- given him, the equery begged to be re- instated in his old job. It happened that at this time Riche- lieu had wooed and won the daughter of the Prince de Guise, but the en- lu:etmenz had been kept a complete sec “How d:g {o;x know,” hnm asked the equerry, “that I was going - ried again?” i g One evening while he was governor of Guienne he was at the opera when @ young lieutenant rudely rushed up to his box and complained that a brother officer had insultingly spat in his face. “What step shall I take?” asked the youth. “Fie,” he replied, “go and wash it.” He accurately described In a_single sentence the three reigns through which he had lived. When Louis XVI asked him how public aglmon compared his reign with those of his predecessors, the duc replied: “Under Louls XIV no one dared utter @ word, under Louis XV they whispered, under your majesty they talk aloud.” The duc, it should be added, died before kg,hg ple ceased talking and a began . (Copyright. 1920.) Veal and Fish Salad. Remove the skin and bones from two salt herrlpg or equivalent amount of other fish' and mince fine. Cut into Cubes one cold bolled beet, one onion, one large pickle, two hard-boiled eggs and two cold botled potatoes. Add half & cupful of cold veal or other meat, eut fine, and mix all well with the fish, Moisten with sauce made of vinegar, mustard and pepper. Let stand over- night in a porcelain dish. Stir once more thoroughly and see that all is J"lcg'. mhben garnish in conum.rltl.‘ rings Chopped parsley, whites of eggs, yellow of eggs and beyeu —e. Pineapple-Cheese Salad. Mix together one No. 2 can of crushed pineapple, three-fourths cupful of sugar and the juice of one lemon and a pinch of salt. 'Let come to a boll, then add ome envelope of gelatin viously Soaked in one cupful of cold water. Beat vigorously, and when beginning to set, add one cupful of grated cheese and one cupful of cream whi . 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