Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1930, Page 39

WOMAN’S PAGE. Selecting Best Household Methods BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Every housewife delights in hearing of ways and means for doing house- work and home dressmaking, cleaning and cooking in thrifty and competent ways. Household hints are read with avidity, but it is often as much to find out whether her pet economies are in- cluded and her expert way known as that she may follow the suggestions offered. ‘This does not meéan that she has no intention of . improving her methods. An expert housewife is open minded and ready to put to use what she can of the ideas given. The failure to fol- low the suggestions is not from disap- proval of methods, but from inability to do more than she already is doing. If & home maker were to follow all the excellent hints she heard or read, she would soon be swamped with the accumulation” of regular work not ac- complished. . For instaince, if she were IT IS NOT SURPRISING THAT THE HOME MAKER READS HOUSE- HOLD HINTS. to wipe off the cook stove after each meal, draw on the cover to the ironing board each time she stopped pressing, even though she knew she would re- quire to use the board again that day, if she were to untie each string and fold every paper and bag as soon as parcels were opened and article put| away, if she were to tear off and clip | all pages together there were not writ- ten on and so make substitutes for memorandum pads at no cost, or if she were to do all the thousand and one odd jobs that are thrifty and fine, each day would be spent thus. And so it will be found that there must be a process of elimination follow- ed in such matters. It is beyond the mer of any one person to follow all ts. What is needed is for each home maker to make a selective use of the hints and ideas. They should be read and listened to when experts are talk- ing, and then from the ideas there should be culled those only that will prove actually helpful and economical. No home maker, experienced or inex- perienced, should feel discouraged be- fcause other home makers fellow plans which she finds not feasible. No two home makers do their tasks in exactly the same way or economize time, labar or money in precisely the same way. Each has pet methods that have become 80 because they fall in with her special needs. It 1s for each to be interested in dis- | carding good ways for better and to| eliminate imperfect methods for im- WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Resistered U. S. Patent Office. =When sawmills didn't have to wait until a ecircus came to town to dispose of the sawdust? The “write” way to health! o, gt et creamy — er’'s spells goodness and health. Schindlers “fresh roasted’ ut Butter | bottle. She never takes it except at bed proved ones. One way to avoid pit- falls is to read and to learn what are considered the best and most approved methods of work. Women, therefore, ;l‘mw wisdom when they read household ints. Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. ‘This department harps to the point of boredom, we sometimes fear, on the ad- the old ones become firmly established. There is a real advantage in teaching a baby to use a bottle the second or third month of his life before nursing has be- come so fixed that he refuses food any other way. There is just as great a need to divorce the baby under one year from the bottle habit before that, The following letters illustrate my rea- sons for this insistence better than pages of advice. Mrs. C. R. F. has a litle girl of 17 months whom she admits is spoilod. “For one thing,” this mother says, “she won't even lie down in bed without a time. How can I break her of this? “She is so restless at night and has the bottle in her mouth almost con- stantly. If I take it away she wakes up. Is this nervousness or just a habit? She wets about every 20 minutes in day time. Is this natural?” Now by way of contrast follows this letter from Mrs. F. G. “My baby is nearly 13 months old. When about 8 months of age I started feeding him by cup at all but the night feedings. At 92 months I took the bot- tle away. He is tucked in at 6:30 and sleeps until 7:30. Has a bath, break- fast of orange juice, oatmeal and a cup of milk, sometimes buttered toast or zweiback. At noon he has several kinds of vegetables, graham cracker and milk to drink.. Sometimes a cracker and milk at 3:30 after his nap, which lasts until then. At night his supper is similar to breakfast. Are there any criticisms?” None at all, Mrs, F'. G. I think every- thing is just as it should be. Now for Mrs. C. R. F’s problems. ‘The bottle habit is just a habit and not nervousness. There is undoubtedly some degree of undernourishment or even some rickets present since the child is unable to sleep through the night. No child past 1 year of age, often mnot beyond 8 or 9 months, needs a nigt feeding. If he does, something is wrong with the day time feedings or with his general condition. Please write me and inclose a_self- addressed, stamped envelope so I can send you our leaflets on “Cup Feeding” and on “Feeding.” Meanwhile stop the bottle, as nothing at all is gained by continuing it. If the child doesn't drink milk in day time use it in the solid foods, giving eggs, meat, cottage cheese, milk soups, milk puddings, milk in and over the cereal and on vegetables. This will use up from one pint to a quart a day and give the child plenty of nour- ishment. Have an examination to see that everything is all right otherwise. You did not mention the child's weight or present way of feeding, s0 it is hard to judge all that might be wrong. Frequent wetting is quite natural with children. DAILY DIET RECIPE 5 GLACE DATES. Dates, 10 ounces (one pack= age); nutmeats, one-fourth cup; granulated sugar, one cup; white corn sirup, one cup; water, one half cup. Makes about one and one- fourth pounds. Stuff each date with a bit of nutmeat, wrapping the date completely around the filling Cook sugar, corn sirup and water until the sirup just be- gins to discolor (300 degrees F.). Be careful not to let it scorch. Remove from fire immediately and place it in pan of hot water 5o that sirup will not cool too fast. Dip each date into sirup, Let drip a moment and then place on heavy waxed paper or & buttered plate until cool. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes sugar for fuel or energy value, a little protein. Lime and iron as well as vita- mins A and B present in the nuts | | and dates. Can be eaten by nor~ | | mal adults of Ivtllfie or under weight and. by cl of 8 | years and over, | vantages of starting new habits before | te; too, has become a difficult habit to alter. | ti THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, 1 Fashions of Today BY MARIE SHALMAR. Glove manufacturers tell us that our hands are growing larger, basing their statement on the fact that while size six gloves were formerly in great demand this size is now far less usually request- ed than six and a half, and the num- ber of women who unbashfully ask for size seven is steadily increasing. Undoubtedly hands of American women are increasing in size because it is an uncontested fact that the average stature of women is greater in this gen- eration than in the last. If your daugh- T is an inch or so taller than you are you should not be surprised to learn that she wears gloves a size or so larger, bly the most significant factor in this apparent increase in glove sizes is the fact that women no longer w gloves that are too small. No up-to- date: woman has patience to put on gloves that need to be coaxed into posi- fon. She wants gloves that can be slipped on in a casual sort of way, and she feels, too, that her hands actually appear smaller and better proportioned if gloves are large enough to be worn easily. Even long evening gloves are worn large enough for comfort—and from the Ppresent point of view there is something rather repulsive about the glove that is so small that it appears tight. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Palatable Spinach. One mother says: “I wish I knew why children don't like spinach,” complained a friend of mine not long ago. Well, so do we all. But perhaps they would like it better if it were fixed up in the manner I in- vented to make it appeal to my chil- dren. I cut three or four slices of bacon into small pleces and fry them with a little finely chopped onion. Then I add two tablespoonfuls of flour and brown_it, stirring to prevent burning. Next I add two cupfuls of milk and cook until thick, then add a can of spinach which has been well drained and chopped. Sometimes I add hard- boiled eggs when I want it especially nice, and I find “this dish makes one of the most nourishing and qm?uln :xlmcheon dishes which my dren ave. (Copyright, 19 Orange Sponge Cakes, Beat the yolks of four eggs well and then beat with one cupful of sugar until very light and let stand for 10 minwtes. Sift three-fourths cupful of }nfltry flour with half .a_teaspoonful of cream of tartar’ three times. Beat the whites of the eggs very stiff and dry, add the juice of half a large orange, the sugar and ‘egg m! the grafed rind of half an orange, then gradually the flour, Bake in a very slow oven in an unbut- tered pan or muffin rings and let cool upside down;- balancing the pan on something so that the cakes willinot touch. This makes two dozen small b . Quic years by ROWNATONE | GUARANTEED HARMLESS TOMORROW telish but @ fosd—grown in living brimful of vitalized energy. "packaged sund the Far West. 1t is full of vitamins eral solts, which promote health, Generous serving every day. grocer hos it. | Jrom ARIZONA e e e Luncheon and Dinner Serve Head Lettuce Allow half a head of crisp lettuce to each member of your family. For lettuce is not a sunlight, " put up for you in Nature's laberatory by the blazing sun of and min- strength and youthful vigor. To keep well et @ Icoberg head lettuce is now at its best. It comes direct to you in iced cars from Arizona and the famous Imperial Valley. 1t reaches you os fresh, crisp and sueculent bs if plucked from your own garden. Your Natures Concentrated Sunshine and CALIFORNIA ¢ — EAT IT EVERY DAY of Famous Men Hamilton’s Affair With Mrs. Croix Dealt Hard Blow to Mrs. Hamilton, —et BY J. P. GLASS. == @1 “HA ICE_IN ORDER TO KEEP THE AY MILTON PAID A PRICE IN ORDER TO K. PLOTTERS AW, When at last Alexander Hamilton de- cided to ask Miss Elizabeth Schuyler to be his wife he deemed it first nec- essary to write her and tell her of his irregular birth. He felt that she loved him. But what would the aristocratic Gen. Philip Schuyler and his family think of their union? i He sent the letter by an orderly. Miss Schuyler scribbled a hasty answer and bade the orderly ride back to Hamilton as for his life. uler note was a summons to her T, ~I am sure your birth will make no difference to my father,” she told him, “but if he should object—why, we'll run away.” She had precedent. Her own sister, Angelica, had eloped to marry John Barker Church, Gen. Schuyler was pleased to accept the brilliant” young man for his son- in-law. The wedding of Hamilton and Elizabeth was the most important social | event of the Revolution ‘Wonderful as the career of Hamilton was to be, it was not to bring Elizabeth Hamilton unalloyed happiness. In the years that followed she had many a heartache. Her husband found it, hard to resist feminine attractions. He never ceased to love his wife, the mother of his eight children, but he gave her more than one trial to bear. Greatest of these was his affair with the lovely Eliza Croix. But perhaps Mrs. Hamilton never would have learned of it had he not later succumbed to the attractions of a much inferior, though beautiful woman—a Mrs. Reynolds. After a short acquaintance, Hamil- ton, then Secretary of the Treasury, discarded Mrs. Reynolds. At this point her husband turned up. Blackmail was the idea and Hamilton paid a price in order to keep. the plotters away from his wife. But the Reynolds were mot through with him. ynThey were allied with his political enemies. An effort was made to prove him guilty of mis- use of funds. When that failed Mrs. | Reynolds wrote to Mrs. Hamilton & | detajled account of his intrigue with Mrs, Croix, Mrs. Hamilton had borne previous humiliations patiently. But now she boiled over. She forced Hamilton to throw, not only Mrs. Croix, but all other women, out of his life, It was the only nllbernatlve, he found, against a separa- tion. The Reynolds affair even be- came public property. But it was not the only sorrow poor Mrs. had to bear. Tragedy trudged on the heels of Alexander Hamilton, great though he was. In 1801 Mrs, Hamil- ton's eldest son, Philip, was kiiled in & | duel. ‘Three years later her husband | died at the hands of Aaron Burr. (Copyright, 1930.) Ch;e:e T(;;l}.iel. Slice some white bread fairly thin, cut off the crust and spread one side with mayonnaise and the other side with melted butter. ‘Grate some American cheese - and uuondwflh ;dl. a little cayenne pepper. give a reddish . B tween the bread and. press. together, cutting through into three dwiches to ‘each two slicés of bread. Place in the oven under the flame and toast on both sides, T Earl Haig, 11-year-old son of the late British field marshal, recently ned a Shrine of Youth in St. Giles Cathe- dral, Edinburgh, Scotland, and deposited in it the banner of the Order of the Bath which belonged to his father. D. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1930. Household Methods BY BETSY CALLISTER. The small table has a very distinct and valuable place in the economy of house hing. Unless you have con- sidered the matter carefully you cannot realize how much more convenient a room is in which there are enough tables than & room in which there are not enough. Of course, in the living room & big table, about which the whole family can gather, is sometimes more homelike and comfortable. But even so, a couple of small tables would add to the general comfort of the room, and in some rooms several small tables and no big onés are the best arrangement. This does not mean that you need wonderful furniture heirlooms in the way of old mahogany tables nor that you need much money. There are plenty of inexpensive modern tables to be had. For one thing, there are unpainted wooden tables which you yourself can paint, following the advice of the man who sells you the paint if you don't know anything about the subject, or else just blindly going at it and putting on several successive coats of some good varnish_stain, letting each coat dry thoroughly before putting on another. Then there are all sorts of really very attractive little tables to be had in the shops. For as lijtle as $8 or $9 there are small stands of various sorts, one with two small handles at the ends, by which the table is picked up and car- rled around. AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “I don't know of nothin’ mo ug vatin’ than the hives, unless it's wai in’ a man tryin’ to thread a needle. (Copyright, 1930.) FEATURES PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM Here's a letter that appeals strongly to my sympathy—I said sympathy. Ac- cordingly I'm going to do my best to answer it in a satisfactory way: Dear Doctor: T . . . only please give me your advice on this, please do me this favor. I have taken six treatments of electric needle to remove superfluous hair on my chin and lip, but it just removed the coarse hairs and the fine hairs then became heavier and also I notice a fuzz that was not noticeable before. The elec- trolysis specialist told me that in time the fine hairs ;lll ?et coarse and the fuzz will w_heavier, Do you {rho‘nk 1 ought to continue the treatments? If there were only a few hairs on my chin § would cut them, as cutt does not develop more hair, but only makes the old hair coarser. I use peroxide and ammonia—will that make it coarser? I also notice on my neck many fine hairs . . . specialist says it takes time, but I think she wants my money. Please tell me if you know of any one who has had this work done and was really cured. You cannot imagine how happy I would be if I could hear from you in answer to these questions. With thanks for your kindness. MRS. M—— Honestly, I do feel sorry for any girl who has such trouble. At the same time I know of some very fine looking ls who have it and still manage to h.ppi and I want to pass along the secret of the way they do it. lectric needle treat- Electrolysis (el ment) is the only practicable remedy | for rfluous hair, the only means hair safely. Formerly I of d 14 | felt that only a physician was compe- tent to apply electrolysis, but I found that some of the best skin specialists turn such work over to assistants or acquaintances who are not physiclans. So I hereby withdraw any aspersions I have cast upon the nonmedical operator who uses electrolysis for the destruction of hairs. tihctory emedy, except. o Jocalized o , except for localize tufts of hair. For a growth of hair over the whole chin, lip or face it l:.!mer- ally unsatisf: 3 use it takes so long to make any headway. ~ray treatment is seldom resorted to for.mere cosmetic rurpou bh. Te- sponsible operator. ‘woman fool- hardy to submit to any kind of ray treatment for superfluous hair in the hands of a person without professional standing and responsibility. If the treatment should cause a disastrous blemish, where is the victim to wf“ satisfaction? I warn all women with superfluous hair. to beware of all shady or quack treatments. One girl who certainly looks lovely BRADY, M. D. assures me that were it not for her trusty pumice stone she would be a veritable bearded lady. She says a plece of fine pumice stone, larly applied, keeps the hair down all right and she declares that after the first few applications this is not so irritat- ing as it sounds. I know of several girls who shave regularly with a little safety razor such as is commonly sold at toilet goods counters for feminine use. A razor is more satisfactory from every point ol view than any of the chemical depila- tories or hair solvents. Come to think of it, I'm not so sorry for the girls who have superfluous hair, but only for those who take it too much to heart. £ ot Fish Squares. Make a thick cream sauce to which has been added one beaten egg. The mixture must be thick enough to spread and hold together the cooked or boiled | fish which has been pulled into flakes. Spread out the mixture and cut Into squares and fry in deep fat. Serve with tartar sauce. Mushrooms may be addec to the fish to make it richer. 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