Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1930, Page 31

WOMAN’S PAGE' Stale Gake for BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. ‘The emergency “company” dessert C€an sometimes be evolved from very simple ingredients and prove dressy and delicious. Unfrosted cup cakes, fresh stale, are capable of many palatable Frosted cakes are less well FRUIT “SHORTCAKE" TEMPTS THE MOST FASTIDIOUS PALATE, AND | gAN BE MADE WITH CAKE LEFT- be by | off the frosting before adding whatever topping of whipped cream or fruit is to be chosen. An impromptu_ strawberry shortcake delights at any time, but particularly when that del firuit is out of sea- can be ited eng(cam - the cakes are shapely and will | sauce is well made, and will prove de- | liclous. | playing, Benny? yestiddy. Ive got a neffew, I sed, and | Emmly Tasty Desserts that kind of service dish is best to be used. Someiimes the cakes are those which got broken in removing them from the pan. In this event a layer of the cake should be arranged in a sher- bet cup, the center filled with fruit, | cream, marshmallow, and a circle | awaiting the final | ‘When no cream, fruit or marshmallow are avallable, the choice of a chocolate A teaspoonful of cornstarch, mixed with water and stirred in slowly, will give body to a sauce made of an| ounce of cooking chocolate, to which a | little water, a tablespoonful of sugar | and a teaspoonful of vanilla have been added. Another dessert possible, even with fragments of old cake, is made by adding to it some chopped prunes, nut meats and a little cream. It is well to remember when cakes| are being frosted to leave a few indl- | vidual cup cakes without any icing, in | order to make use of them for a dessert | dish in any one of the ways mentioned. | Note.—So many have been the re-| quests for the potato recipes mentioned in an article in this department that the space will be devoted to giving a number of them for readers to enjoy in the near future. Daper Alliance.) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Im & unkle now on account of my sister Gladdis having a baby, being my neffew, and this afternoon 1 was stand- ing at our frunt window thinking of a unkle, and the fellows was playing out in the street, me thinking, G, if I wasent a unkle Id proberly be out there yelling and argewing just like those guys. And I thawt, O well, I gess I mite as well go out and watch them out in the air, anyways. Wich I did, and they was playing sides kicking Puds Simkinses foot ball, Sid_Hunt yelling, Come on and get in | x&.d Benny, we need one more on our | e. Aw, T dont feel like playing, I sed, d they all velled, Aw, come on, whats matter with you? and I sed, go on and play, dont mind me. And I kepp on standing on the cerb feeling like a unkle, the fellows yell- ing, G wats & matter, are you getting to be ;Lnna ;t&cx up mn tudd:n, are you? erent , me not paying any attention to them, thi , Ge, before I was a unkle Id of thawt I was being insulted. And I kepp on watching them and maybe I might empire the game for them if they asked me, and Emmly Star started to wawk pass, being | the bewty looking new gerl in the cor- ner house, saying, How is it your not | Im a unkle, I sed. I been one since Star sed, Well my goodness, is that anything wonderful? and I sed. Certeny it is. Well then I must be at least 5 times more wonderful than you because Ive got 3 neffews and 2 neeces altogether ud'ewnun.mmyamnhmmu.m Like fun, I sed, and she sed, Go and mother if you dont bleeve me, sed, Well anyways, youll never unkle. wouldent try, she sed. And she kepp on going and I got in Proving stand alone when placed on a flat plate, the game. R nuthing is werth being con- ceeted about. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE ‘BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. Eating for Resilience. The word resilience conveys the idea of bouncing. When a guy’s first baby is born, if it isn't a mere child, the conventional announcement is a bounc- ing boy. Well, that idea will do very well. We doctors mean something like that when we speak of the resilience of the tissues: we mean vitality; power to Tecover; ability to come back. What determines, not wholly, but to a_considerable degree, ome's resilience. ‘When we are very young we're 5o resili- ent that we scarcely think about it at all; but when we are within sight of middle age, one way or the other, we. to realize there is some such property in one’s constitution or makeup. I realized it first and quite definitely When I discovered here a year ago that I could no longer run a mile—or at Jeast I it when I was only a little over half way around. Now two years 2go I ran he mile. So there you are. | Two Had I not tried it I might not have known that I was slipping. Don't fool yourself about this. brothers and sis- ters. There are miles everywhere, and {free of charge; just go out and try and run one before you kid yourself you're still resilient or fit. Although I have since come back, to the extent of run- ning the mile, I am not so sure it was just neglect of exercise that hum- bled me in my own estimation. I be- lieve now it was partly due to my fondness for the delectable carbo- hydrates. Like many other doctors, some of them perhaps as good as I think I am, I do not always do as I would have of do; sometimes I neglect to take my own medicine. Like all doctors who fail to take care of their own health, 1 plead the demands on me and my time and all that. But the real reason, no doubt, is my inordinate fondness for carbohydrate in the form of bread, | MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Stewed apricots, cornmeal mush with cream, vegetable hash, graham muffins, coffee. LUNCHEON. omelet, hot ~baking Cheese powder biscults, crushed pine- apple, sand cookies, tea. DINNER. Vegetable soup, lamb chops, stuffed baked peppers, French fried potatoes, tomato salad, Prench dressing, cottage pudding, pineapple sauce. VEGETABLE HASH. ‘This also can be made with leftovers. Chopped beets, car- rots, sweet potatoes, parsnips and mashed squash and white pota- toes are all good ingredients with or without a little onion. Use about as much white potatoes as all other vegetables combined. After mixing thoroughly, put into frying pan with & small piece of butter, perhaps a teaspoonful. It would depend upon how much .h‘snlt slightly y. SAND COOKIES. Cream together 1 cup butter and 1% cups brown sugar. Add the beaten volks of 2 eggs and the white of 1. Sift together 31 cups of flour, 1 teaspoon soda ns cream of tartar potatoes, candy, sugar and the like; then the torpor which such diet in- evitably produces makes me skip the exercise, first just today, then for a few days, and ultimately as a fixed habit. So here I am hitting 50 and making & great to do about running a mile. I'm ashamed of myself. After all my preaching and everything. But | I want all our boys and girls to know that I am honest about it, and that I'm just a fair average dub, and if I can come back, why, any one with makings, the premonitory indica- tions of a breakdown or the develop- ment of degenerative disease already upon him or her, can come back along the same route I am taking. I am to try—I promise no more than it—to follow old Dr. | Langstroth’s regimen. Here it is with- | out mincing any more words: e Monss | e (00ds. | foods. "AST— | LUNCHEON— One-third head of lettuce 16 One tablespoonful of oil Two fresh vegetables. One pat of butter. A Berlin post office has been equipped with automatic letter boxes, and when letters in them have reached a certain total weight they are conveyed auto- matically on a traveling band to the sorting room. a old man, you aint get- |, SUB ROSA BY MIML Style of the Month. ‘Woman was a long time getting ready for the short skirt. She began by lift- ing her skirt when she crossed the street which made the thing short for the time being. Then she had an ankle-high skirt for bad weather in the days of the Rainy Daisles. There was also the bufurcated skirt, for bicycling and a funny contraption used for mountain climbing. This was a sort of belt from which dangled clasps with which she could hitch up her skirt when she began to make the ascent of the mountain. Of course, she dropped the skirt when she was back in civiliza- tion the way a ship drops its sails when it gets into the harbor. This up-and-down skirt, seems to have been something like the kind of duds we are supposed to wear today. In the daytime outdoors, we may wear the kilt and play Highland Lassle, but by night and indoors we are supposed to trail the long train around. Now it seems that the Fashion of the Month Club is going to forecast styles and give us the proper elevation of the skirt. Most women want the skirt where it is now—in the region of the knees, Some others want it longer just to keep step with the styles in Parce. So we have it long on one side and short on the other. Now, that is the worst ever. We want our dresses to be long or short, not long and short. The trouble with the side-trailer, as we might call it, is that it makes for the uneveri hem line and gives a woman an unsteady appearance. It must have been bad enough when there was a train hung on behind, like a caboose on a freight train, but it's ever so much worse when the train is on the side like the bath tub on a motorcycle. ‘When we stop to think about it, it is absurd to have our styles vary with each jump of the calendar. It's all right to read a different kind of book each month, but not to wear a different style of skirt. It would be better to have the belt with the dangling clasps and change the style every hour by means of reefing than to get a new frock every time the moen is full, Of course, the trouble is that men dictate the styles for women and then 80 on year after year and wear the same cuts of coats no matter how foolish & man's costume is. It gets worse when the men in the case are the slick tatlors and fashion makers from across the a. Now that we have found the proper style for both beauty and grace, we ought to stick to it will-nilly on the part of the men. We have attained poise in coiffure and costume and we don’t want to lose our balance just to be in style. A woman should look like a statue, not like the leaning tower of (Copyright, 1930.) Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND. ‘There is something about the quaint and charming plece of furniture shown in the illustiation that reminds us of the old-time Weish dresser, where the family wter, dishes and glassware were laid out in shining array. But it is really a bookcase, for it is rather small, being but 4 feet 6 inches tall, with a top measuring 9!2 by 17 inches, The shelves are placed 10 inches apart, therefore making it possible to take care of books larger than the reg- ulation size, while the lower part is large stack of magazines. ‘This is the kind of & little bookcase that is sure to “save the day” by lend- ing itself to an awkward corner which is diMcult to furnish. It might be well to place a comfortable chair within easy reach from it, and a bridge lamp would not be amiss with these pleces. Maple has been used for the con- struction of this piece, which gives it the effect of early American furniture and makes it possible to use it with pleces of that period. (Copyright, 1930.) My Neighbor Says: Cut waxed papers to fit the bottoms of cake pans. No greas- ing is needed; the cakes come easily from the pan and the pan is quickly washed. When preparing oranges for & dessert pour bolling water over them and let them stand § minutes. This will make them much easier to peel. Keep on the shelf of your sink a pint jar filled with all sizes of cork stoppers. They come in handy many times when you open a bottle and break the stopper. Save all wax-wrappings to rub your hot irons on instead of using beeswax. a Coffee like you desire in has it up. il thin, cut out and with a mixture of fter bi WILKIN QUALITY There’s no substitute for qual- ity. Sooner or later you will start to use or come back to Wilkins which has the rich, smooth quality a Coffee. No Coffee -can maintain a con- sistent popularity as Wilkins without quality to back two | v MOVIES AND MOVIE PEOPLE BY MOLLIE HOLLYWOOD, Calif, PFebruary 18. —The Calvin Coolidges, who thought | they were arriving in Southern Cali- fornia in a most inconspicuous fash- lfon yesterday, found themselves the cen- ter of a throng at the depot. | Every studio in the Industry extended | an invitation for the former President and his wife to visit its lots. At the| present telling Mr. Coolidge has not indicated which stars he will “choose” to see. Alastair MacDonald has been the other lion of the week. British stars have made him their meat, and he has | seen first runs of the all-British film, “Journey’s End,” to his great edification. ‘They tell in the English colony in| Hollywood that Sheriff's play has had | & most interesting career from its in- | ception. Written for amateurs, it was considered rather thin material at its original presentation. Picked up by a second group of amateurs, because the cast was trained and it was the easlest thing to hand, it had a second show- ing. At this second showing was a gentle with more perception than the| lads who first gave it—a professional 'ntie, who got the London rights to it | or & song. But Sheriff proved himself a genuine Briton when it came to the gelatin ver- slon. He preferred to sell for something like 75,000 less to his own countrymen to keep the product sacred to the B. I lots when scenes are being made, and an occasional surprise. The entire com- pany, in convulsions at the funny faces of Bert Wheeler during a scene in which s ng:y knife-thrower was plercing his silk hat with poisonous-looking daggers, Iater learned that the comedian ‘was squealing as the result of a long scalp wound. “Take perfect!” shouted the director. “Bert, you were never funnier.” “Can the compliments,” was the brusque retort. “Your gypsy winged me.” But they sewed him up and the scene went on. ‘When some of the stars were giving their favorite dishes to a correspondent recently it came out that Bebe Daniels ferred combination salad; Richar , apple pie, with cheese; Hugh Tre- Swiss cheese; Ivan Lebedefl, Hun- rian goulash. He progressed to Walter Catlett—"Oh, I prefer a feed-bag full of oats and bucket of water!” Ronald Colman’s new picture ealls for | an English butler. The studio cast one. but at the last moment they discovered ' EVERY EXPECTANT MOTHER SHOULD KNOW THESE FACTS MERRICK. hemken:w nothing about the tricks of his trade. The studio was in & jam. ‘The prin- | cipals in the cast stood there in (ulll make-up. The cameras were inter- locked. Everything was ready. And no butler who knew the slightest thing about buttling. Neither was there an| ex-butler in the group of some 100 extras on the lot that day. John Howell, technical director, | stepped forward modestly and said: ! “I will slap a little make-up on and | do the job." “What do you know about it?” “I was butler to the Duke of Con- naught for six years, sir His references were accepted. The company were later discussing how amusing it might be if every one connected with pictures would revert to his original calling. Richard Wallace, one of our best dircctors, was once a mortician. And the multi-millionaire head of his concern once sewed fur pelts together in a none-too-well ventilated basement. (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- paper Alliance.) AUNT HET — BY ROBERT QUILLEN. “I never had a hired girl much. 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R, Squibb & Sons BRIDGE TALKS BY MRS. JOHN MUNCE, JR. Continuing the discussion of the plays of the declarer, we now ceme to the leads toward the minor tenace, or the king-jack and others, We have seen that there are many advantages in leading toward the ace, queen com- binations, and this also applies to the other tenaces. | When the -honor we are frying to catch is on_the left of the tenace, nothing can be gained or lost by lead- ing either way. but when this honor is in the hand on the right of the tenace, & trick may be gained by mak- ing the right lead. The lead toward the king-jack may get you two tricks, if the ace or queen is on the right, but you cannot lose, because should the hand on the left hold both the ace and queen, so that you take no tricks, the result is the same as had you led from the king- jack, and as your chances of winning are even with those to lose it is always worth trying. When it comes to leading toward what is known as the double tenace, or ace, queen, 10; this presents another particular problem, and that is, whether to play the queen or 10-spot on the first trick. Again the answer is de- termined mathematically. If declarer and dummy’s hands contain a total of elght cards or fewer, you should take the double finesse, namely, play the 10-spot. But with a total of nine or 10, you should take what is known as the single finesse, playing the queen. It is obvious, therefore, that the lead should be toward the hand containing the double tenace, and should second hand play an honor, the play of the hand containing the double tenace should be governed accordingly. The majority of beginners find it easy to understand the advantage of leading toward most high-card com- binations, but do not seem to appre- clate the fact that king-queen should be led toward and not from. This being a two-card sequence, it seems to | be in the class with the ace, king; king, queen, jack; and queen, jack, 10- spot. But it is quite as necessary that the lead be made toward king-queen; or king, queen and one, as toward the tenaces, and you will gain by it in half of the hands in which it is tried. To illustrate the advantages of leading | toward tenaces and king-queen suits, the following hands are splendid ex- ambles. South, the declarer, holds: Spades—A, K, 10. . Hearts—A, Q, Diamonds- Clubs—10, 6, ‘West, the leader, holds: Spades—9, 8, 2. Hearts—9, 8. 2 Diamonds—A, i Clubs—K, J. North, the dummy holds: 3 FEATURES.' A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. I'!'A permissible to look at a Repre- sentative through opera glasses, but you're certainly courting trouble if you try such a peek at a United States Senator. The near-sighted woman visitor to the Senate gallery recently, Wwho wanted a close-up of the Senator she had read so much about, was soon told by a door- keeper to put her opera glasses back in her purse and keep them there. H she been in the House gallery she could have brought out & spy- in_safety. m"ax:;i t deal seriously its y & great deal more than does the House. Rules governing the conduct of those who pay Senators a visit, although unwritten, are rigidly enforced v.:hout respect to person or position. One of the more prominent members of the House, for example, stopped by the other day to hear a speech. Some- thing was said that he wanted to re- member. He pulled out an envelope and “started to make a memorandum on the back. He hadn't gone Tar_before he was spotted by & doorkeeper and ordered to put away pencil and paper. His ex- planation of who he was and what he FOOD PROBLEMS BY SALLIE MONROE. Guest Meals. Left-over meals can be as good as you want to make them if you will follow a few simple riiles. Never have a meal entirely of left- overs unless they are so disguised as not to be recognizable. For instance, suppose for dinner you have left-over, warmped-up stew. Then don't serve the same vegetable you haci the day before. If you warm over the vegetables, then change the stew from n‘ :nw into croquettes or a shepherd's B Introduce some novelty into a left- over meal by using such nicknacks as market, radishes—some fillup to the appetite and pleasure to the eye. Salads help to make left-over meals interesting, for they are cfllx and tempting and good to look at. ‘meal of rather stodgy left-overs can be re- fruit or vegetables. A rather unusual dessert, too, can Clubs—9, 7, 8. The decalaration is one no trump, and first lead is the 4-spot of clubs. By applying the rule of eleven declarer realizes he can take the trick with the 10-spot in his own hand, and he there- fore places the king and jack in the leader's hand. He therefore leads a small diamond toward the dummy hand, which contains two honors, and takes the trick with the queen. To the next trick he leads a small heart, and finesses the queen in his own hand. The next lead is a diamond toward the dummy hand, which trick is taken by the king in dummy. Now declarer leads a small diamond, letting the ad- versaries take this trick with the ace. compensate for a left-over me: is not very interesting. Somet! little out of the o 3 et] perhaps, a little more expensive than you usually allow yourself. | To the following trick the original lead- | er leads another small club, which de- | clarer takes in dummy with the queen, then leads the small spade from dummy and finesses with the 10-spot in closed hand. Then declarer leads the 3-spot of diamonds from his own hand, over- takes it in the dummy with the 4-spot, and then leads a small heart to the closed hand, on which the dec] finesses the jack. By playing the finesses in this manner, declarer was Ibl;'w make a small slam, due to the leads. —— A $30,000,000 plan to unite Southwest England and South Wales in an elec- tricity supply area covering 17,090 square miles has been prepared by the British electricity commissioners. | “Give & man plenty of rope and he 'always can be towed home.” (Copyright, 1930.) was doing availed him 1tt! And when he went storming to the e of genial Dave Barry, the Senal rgeant-at- arms, he was politely but firmly told at Senate rules are Senate rules and lp_gly equally to all. here are curious things one cannot do in the galleries of Congress. Espe- clally is this true in the Senate. There the visitor is forbidden to write anything at all. Parcels of all sorts must be left out- side, for fear that some one will sneak in_a camera, pistol or bomb. Reading of newspapers, books or magazines is prohibited on the theory that what is going on down below should be of sufficient interest to hold one's attention. At intervals of two feet around the rail are little signs inclosed in glass warning visitors that they must not lean or put their hands there. F bBolonners and placards of all sorts are al And there are many others. But, respite the many little regula- tions, it is rare that trouble is had with the gallerites. In almost every in- stance a simple warning of violation is sufficient. The late Senator Warren of Wyom- ing at one time in his career had in- curred the enmity of a man who de- lighted to come to the gallery and make faces at him. One dl?' he be- came so obnoxious that a colleague of the Wyoming Senator urged that the heckler be ejected. But Warren in- tervened and he was permitted to stay. ‘When the last special session was brought to a close, Senator Heflin of Alabama requested that the press gal- lery be cleared. One of the newspaper men laughed out loud at the la- bama Senator when a parliamentary ruling went against him, and he was greatly angered. But his request was refused. Right Idea! celery or olives or, when they are in deemed by an interesting salad of raw | that This four-year-old athlete is the son of Mrs. R. H. Jobling, 120 E St. N.W., Washington. She says: “Robert’s won- derful condition shows my idea is right. “Whenever he’s the least cross or upset, or has a cold, I give him a little California Fig Syrup. It always bright- ens him up; regulates stomach and bowels; gives him a hearty appetite. 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