Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1930, Page 23

WOMAN'’S PAGE, Variety in Serving Potatoes BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. One of the things demanded of - fessional cooks who are en private homes is that they uever serve ‘Wwhite potatoes the same way twice during & week. At first this may seem CROSS POTATOES ARE AS TASTY AS THEY ARE DECORA- a bit @diffcult, especially to the home- ~maker who finds bolle&lylnd baked 'fi; - the MOVIES Special Duspatels to The Btar. < HOLLYWOOD, OCalif, January 21 (N.AN.A) —Picking: & n‘ev story is For varying reasons—! imadge because she once was highly suc- cessful in this story in a silent film, at the height of her professional rhythm, when her beauty was most mn.m and her appeal keyed to its est pitch. She feels—and very fwisely—that a talkie version would be an anti-climax. Pickford toyed with the idea, ided that the advice of friends away from it was good advice. But her choice of “Peg o’ My Heart"” takes her back in a measure to the little | its girl with curls—back into the charac- terizations that our Mary decided she would abandon. Since she does them superiatively well, I see no reason for ‘avoiding them. ¢ Norma in “Flame of the Flesh.” And this swings Norma ‘Talm: into a story with the rubaceous title “Flame of the Flesh.” It is really the NANCY PAGE Plum Duff, "o-Ho Is a Sailor’s Choice. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. . In looking over an old cook book that Peter had among his family treasures, Nancy found a recipe for lum duff. He told her when she asked im asbout it that his grandmother learned to make the dessert from an old sailor who had left the Navy. He had told young Peter that this was a special dessert for red letter days. His enthusiasm for it fired Peter to like 4, too. Accordingly his grand- mother made it when Peter came to visit her. She served it with a hard sauce made in following fashion. She creamed one-third cup butter and added gradu- ally one cup of confectioner’s sugar, freed from all jumps. This was ereamed until there was not a sus- siclon of ininess left. Then she edded one- tesspoon lemon extract and two-thirds teaspoon vanilla. The sauce was placed in a cold place. Oc- casionally she used grated nutmeg in "plau of vanilla, using one-eighth tea- #poon grated nutmeg. 4§ Here is her rule for plum duff. She one-quarter cup butter, added ‘ereamed Jone-half cup molasses and three- ‘quarters cup milk. She sifted and then ‘measured one and seven-eighths cups- pastry flour, added to it one-half tea- first mixture. seddless raisins were added. ixturé was steamed in pud A'for three hours and hot cold hard sauce. in|to a challenge. mold | ith the | PR s served come to mind, as if in response Let it be added that the professional cook is not content with the seven-day differences, but ex- tends the time to cover 10 days or two weeks. It may be well to note some of the various recipes and to consider them artly in the light of ways to serve Fomwer potatoes. These are far too apt to go into the frying pan as the simplest and most usual reheating method. The following list may well be saved for reference when seeking for ovelty. o 1t ]lv! reader would be interested in having the recipes, please write me and I will print those requested. All the recipes named are out of the ordinary. Many are French recipes. also Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, Cre- ole, etc., a8 their names usually signify. Varied Potato Reci) riddled po- tatoes (Prench), Italian _potatoes, Pomme de terre a la Creole, Red Cross potatoes. Spanish potatoes, Russian po- tatoes, Pomme de terre a la creme au gratin, Baked potatoes in cream and | potato rings and bowknots. | (Copyright, 1930.) OTHING TO SEL It is & pleasant thing to meet a man of aspect mild and sweet, who seeks the shanty where you dwell, and hasn't anything to sell. No motor cars or real estate, or patent hinges for a gate, no new inventions weird and strange, no | remedies for dtch or mange, no cork- screws of & mew design, no Volstead substitutes for wine. Oh, things have come to such s pass that I am prone to ery, “Alas,” when I behold a stranger track along the pathway.to my shacki The more_benign and mild he seems, the more I dread and fear his schemes. I fear he'll sell me bogus shares in meerschaum mines or other snares. For nearly every man I see has some- thing he would sell to me. But now and then there comes & man built on & grand and moble plan, who hasn't any- thing for sale, who doesn't crave my hard-won ki He has no dope to make hens lay, no new. machines for baling hay: he doesn’t urge me to in- vest in oil wells headed ‘;lnley we! has no liquid to restore hair I lost in days of yore; he has no salve that never fails when used to cure ingrowing nails; he doesn't come to offer me a fovereign balm for housemaid's knee. “T just dropped in,” he smiling eries, “to” say how much ‘I .like your pies. They are the best I ever ate, they s¥e all ‘wool and standard weight.” Now blessings rest upon the gent who comes on such an errand bent, to speak a kindly word of , and not to sell George Bernard's plays, brass orna- ments for milch-cows’ horns, & new device for curing corns. ' WALT MASON. {(Copyright, 1930.) AND MOVIE PEOPLE not. 3 :l’ty g u-e‘ m; éoo closely with the ready-made n story. All of vhuh"luvu leeway for a lttle surprise. Games are exceedingly popular in the colony. The vogue for lotto, which swept the village along about the time | that every girl and boy of consequence | began polis ing up their tennis game | with the aid of expert players, has had un. More intelligent games rule today. ‘They require some background, reveal cruelly a lack in literary taste, primary education, and 30 on. So they are pop- ular with & given group who cling to them in intervals between bridge play- ing as a refuge from the eternal dis- cussion on movie qualities. Haven to Flee Gossip. Also as & haven to fly to when gossip threatens to endanger the safety of professional contracts. And in no eourt of Europe is the diplomatic smile and say-nothing answer so vital as in the purlieus of the Beverly Hills, where great magnates and their often stodgy families entertain boringly. These. par- ties must be attended with the maxi- mum of enthusiasm. Actors and ac- tresses, scenarists, dialoguists, appear gay and elated, but excuse themselves early on the ground of much work to- morTow; Tepair to one another's hou: for a little relaxation and real talk before turning in. But, hist! If ord of such got about there would contracts signed and more tears sh And, speaking of contracts, Lawrence Tibbett has just signed one which gives him four or five pictures at a dizzy rate per picture. It pays to have fame in this vallage, and cuitlire has become an asset at last. If his produccrs have the understand- ing to keep him away from routine operettas and give him something meaty enough for ‘-m personality, they will make singing@ history for the screen. But the present talk is Tibbett for the singing version of “New Moon,” with Grace Moore for the leading lady—| Which is putting a Titan down to play | Jackstraws. And on the same lot Jack Gilbert | will perhaps be given “Farewell to Arms,” a story of vitality and grandeur, | a characterization fit for Tibbett. And | Hemingway never said Prederic March couldn’t sing; he never said what his| avocation was, outside of hoisting | couple whenever opportunity offered and | fighting like & god. Pirst Producer (1o old colleague)—| What do you think of my son's wife? | Second _ Producer—Well, she's good | home stuff, but very poor theater. | (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- | T Dpaper Alliance. Apple Custard, % Put some raw apples through s food chopper and measure. two cupfuls. Add one tablespoonful of lsmon juicc ané place in a buttered” baking dish. Make | & soft custard in the usual way, using 'lm yolks of four eggs, half & cupful of ’[flnuhled sugar, two cupfuls of scalded milk and half a teaspoonful of vanilla. Pour the custard over the ap- ple pulp and make a meringue of the whites of four eggs, three-fourths cup- ful of granulated sugar and half a tea- spoonful of vanilla. Arrange the me- ringue on top of the custard and bake | the, prompt appointment of good and THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. January 21, 1861.—~Alabama members of Congress, it was learned today, will await instructions from their State be- fore withdrawing. Those from Georgis will also remain here until they have received an official copy of the ordi- nance of secession adopted by the con- vention of that State. Active measures are in progress to have the course of Virginia in deciding to send commissioners to this city Feb- ruary 4.responded to by similar action on the part of all the other States. Dispatches have been sent to Harris- burg, Pa.; Albany, N. Y.; Columbus Ohio, other State capitals where the Legislatures are in session, urging able men to confer with the Virginia commissioners in the hope of preserving the Union. Ex-President Tyler will urge on, be- half of Virginia that the General Ve | ernment avold all acts or measures likely to lead to hostilities with the Southern States, pending the proceed- ings initiated by the Virginia General Assembly, having in view the adjust- ment of the present difficulties. Mean- while Judge Robinson of Richmond will proceed to South Carolina and Florida on a similar errand, as in those States there are points—Port Sumter and Fort Pickens—where collisions are more like- ly to occur immediately than elsewhere in_the South. Numerous applications continue to be made to the Post Office Department by postmasters in the seceding States for |' supplies of postage stamps. Before the orders are filled an affirmative response is required to the question whether they do now and will continue to hold them- selves responsible to the General Gov- ernment, in conformity with existing laws, for all postal revenues received by them. Thus far there has been no general interruption of mail communi- cation with the South. ‘The post office at Pensacola, Fla., will be closed, probably tomorrow, by order of the Post Office Department, in con- sequence of the interception of the United States maiis by the Florida au- thorities. Postmasters throughout the country will be notified to send to the’ dead letter office here all letters di-| rected to Pensacola. | ‘The Capitol police force has been doubled by direction of the Vice Presi- | dent and the Speaker of the House, not because they thought the increase is necessary, they sald, but to quiet the apprehension in other quarters that an attempt may be made by Southern sym- pathizers to seize the Capitol. The whole police force of the Capitol, how- ever, consists of only 12 men. WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office. N A ~ U 1 Il e 1Sl * PARIS.—There are three wide pleats at the bottom of the knee-length coat of this yellow erepe de chine print ensemble, Patou. Right the first time—it's Jean ~—RITA. 1930. Eyeli'ydny Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Human Adding Machines. “Whatever else the human mind may | be, it is an adding machine—a device | for keeping tally on quantities and | combinations of quantities, | Dr. Johnson counted the lamp posts | as he toddled along the streets of | London. If by chance he missed one | or was uncertain ™ his count, he was | uneasy until he made a recount. I/ once knew a perfectly sensible farmer who kej ount. of the blackberries he | picked each season. He clafmed that he had not made an error in 20 years. And he could produce a ledger shching his statistics. Children, es- pecially, will often keep count of the number of steps they take in going to school or to.the corner grocery store. They often try to walk from one point to another in so many steps. Some people dg nothing in church but count the pipef.of the organ, or they count the decorative designs on the windows and ceiling. If all this sounds rather queer to you. I ask only that you turn your ate tention for a moment to the 1930 tags you have just put on your car. What combinations have you made from its number? What significant associa- tions have you hooked up with, say, 2482, 3015, 30102 We are now ready to ‘F‘hllmph!r, to throw facts to the winds and take up principles. Counting is a language—more funda- me even than gestures and imaces. Counting came in long fore men invented names for the counts. In other words, the language of mathematics antedates the articula- tion of tongue, teeth, palate and voice box. Counting began when the human being in the making was able only' to tell one stone from another and to symbolize ‘that information in terms of his fingers. fingers were his first ledgers. ‘That's decimai system. | But we may go back still farther, | The impulse to‘count and to combine the countings is our natural way of figuring out that each of us is a some- body, an individual, a thing different from all other things. If we were unable to count, we would know noth- ing, for counting is equivalent to recog- nition of difference among individusl | things. (Copyright. 1930.) why we have the - FEATURES TH’! chief topic in diplomatic circles these days is that Latin America soon will come into its own in Wash- ington. p And it is no secret that the' silk- & hatted _ gentlemen from the Southern Hemisphere a r e elated. For -they| are on the thresh- old of seniority in the Capital of the United States —a thing long coveted. Within & few weeks two American Ambass: dors—Dr. Herman Velarde of Peru and Don Manuel C. Tellez of Mexico— are to assume the deanship ‘of the diplomatic corps in > ‘Washington in rap- id succession. With the retirement of Sir Esme Howard of Great Britain, Ambassador Velarde becomes dean. He will hold it only a short while, then Ambassador Tellez wili take it over. A departure as far as the Washington diplomatic corps concerned, but nevertheless it bears the stamp of logic: Latin _America is represented in ‘Washington by 20 diplomatic missions. Of late there has been a decided trend toward expansion of these missions, and investment by the governments in choice bits.of Washington real estate. In fact, ‘some of these embassies and legations are the show places of the Capital. The numerical increase in secretaries, atfaches and. their families has given ‘Washington society the ‘ unmistakable gay note of southern capitals. And finally,, the recent efforts of President Hoover to bolster the Amer- ican foreign service in Latin America toward greater prestige has given them a clinching argument to show that good fortune could offer no better diplomatic circumstance for Latin etica at pres- ent than Ambassador Tellez's succes- sion to the deanship. One of the most amusing sidelights —to Latin Americans at least—of the recent visit of President-elect Orten Rubio- of Mexico to ‘Washington oc- ‘When the Teddy Bear was all the rl,e and the girls preferred them to dolls? she’s always hungry,” o« .says WASHINGTON mother! \GINIA is absolutely the icture of health again,” says "Mrs. Harry Loliman, 101 E Street, N.W., Washington. “A few weeks ngo we had to force her to eat; now she’s always hungry. “I knew what to do.when she be- eame bilious, half-sick and listleds, because we've always known about Califoria’ Fig Syrup. 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