Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1930, Page 32

WOMAN'’S PAGE., Standard Ways of Serving Potato BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. ‘more potato recipes are given in response to the many letters Teceived r!queall.n'f & continuation of them. It is gratifying to hear from 80 farm readers, and I want to thank you mow for the interest expressed well with the egg white beaten just enough to prevent its being coagulated. Make two clefts in the top, having them bisect each other, as in hot cross buns. Brush these well with the egg and set in a very hot oven to brown quickly. Remove carefully with a grid- | dle-cake turner. Cut. pimento into long, | thin strips and put in the clefts. | Garnish the serving dish with parsley. If preferred, the potato can be put into paper mm&mu instead of being formed into balls. Be sure that the potato is piled higher than the cups to prevent the paper scorching when the potato browns. These potatoes are especially appropriate to serve on Good | Priday and Easter. Mix one tablespoon each of minced | | onion, celery, pimento and sweet pep- per with two teaspoons salt. Stir light- | |1y into four cups of hot riced potatoes | moistened with two tablespoons melted | | butter and one-half cup hot milk. PH"} on a dish and sprinkle lightly with minced parsiey and paprika. With a potato scoop make as many potato balls as will be sufficient for the number of persons to be served. Boil until tender, but not soft. New potatoes are best. Make & nest of new cabbage cut into tiny slivers, as for cold slaw. Dress with hot Russian sauce. On the cabbage put five potato balls, or three if the scoop makes fair- ly large balls. Sprinkle with paprika. This is a delightful potato dish to set before the family at Easter if the THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, You better lay low a ‘ittle longer, | puppy. You made a bad break whep you chewed up them cigars ob Drand- pa's. (Copyright, 1930.) LITTLE SISTER BY RUBY HOLLAND B, O, TUESDAY, DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX “What a Splendid Thing It Would Be If Every Community Had an Endowed Home for Aged People,” Says Writer. EAR MISS DIX—Why don't our philanthropists, who give so generously to alleviate the sufferings of humanity, do more to make the last days of old people happy and comfortable? Why does not every community have in it a home for aged people that is not a poor house, but a home that has an endow- ment large enough to enable it to offer board and shelter to old men and women at a rate that they or their children could afford to pay? This would enable them to keep their self-respect and not have the stigma of pauper placed upon them, and it would be a veritable temple of refuge to which so many forlorn old people could flee. A A G Answer: Would that any word of mine could awaken the public conscience in this matter and bring about the building of such homes as you describe. There is & crying need for them, and too long have we evaded our duty to those who have the strongest claim upon our protection and our sympathies—the old men and women who have done their lifework faithfully and well and at the end have no place to go in which to spend the twilight of their days. We are all concerned with the welfare of children. Cold, indeed, is the | heart, and hard as stone, that does not melt at the touch of baby fingers. Even | the most callous are touched by the helplessness of infancy. So we have orphan | asylums and child-finding societies and “boarding mothers” who take children | and try to give them a mother's care and a home atmosphere, and intelligent and great-hearted men and women devote their lives to trying to devise methods of caring for friendless and parentless and homeless children. -— This is fine. No one w a cent that is spent upon them, or an effort that is made in themmm hands of children lies our future and we do well when we do the best we ecan to fit them for their great re- sponsibility. But the old have an ecually great claim upon us. They are as helpless as babes, and they are mo:: iuriorn and pitiful than any child can be, because they realize their helplessi ss as a child does not, and because no hope MARCH WHO REMEMBERS? 18, 1550, BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 5. Patent Office. ‘When Monta Bell, famous motion pic- ture director, was a pupil at the Cranch School, Twelfth and G streets southeast Codfish on Toast. and Spring. quite a enough to s sight as a o little body. t. TOCUS. Half of fear is i ignorance once enabled me to fear tiny creature who_could not possibly harm me, though I could easily harm her and in my childhood would have done so. How simple, with the heel with a stick, with a SPRINGTIME Spri to most persons means flowers . It took me, I know, many years of close nature observation to, broaden my mental attitude toward, But now, little by little, I have: come to look for certain harbingers in: ther subkingdom. ‘Whenever, depending twirling oak leaf that has clung on through the Winter, I see a little gray spider letting herself down to earth, as ough she arrived, like & Martian, from the sky, I greet her with as much asure as 1 hear the first rattle of from some: pussy willows in the little thickets of the river bettomlands. I have conquered my horror of spiders that the small, indus- trious, gray fellow who comes forth with the first warm weather is as welcome a orance, and only I sometimes think that there is not half as much wonderment in the human BY D. C. PEATTIE. mind as there should be. My father was amazed at the telephone; I am amazed at the radio; my son will be amazed at I know not what. But we have grown so used to the miracle of life that we have almost ceased to ask ourselves what it is. If life is a miracle then so is the returning Spring. If Spring is a miracle, then so is little Mistress Spider, as she spins her mar- velous thread out of her own body or, with a nice, a housewifely, economy, she winds it in again when need be. ———— Banana Shortcake. Mix two and one-half cupfuls of pastry flour with two and one-half level teaspoonfuls of baking powder, half a teaspoonful of salt, half a cupful of shortening, and about three-fourths cupful of milk. Spread onto a buttered tin, but do not roll. Bake, then cut open and add the following filling: Mix the white of one unbeaten egg with one- fourth teaspoonful of salt, one cupful of granulated sugar, and two large ba- nanas mashed. Cut the bananas fine and mash with a fork. Put onto the art of the preparation nanas on it. Put the split half of the shortcake on, ipreading with the rest of the mixture. Put siiced bananas on top. hild's. cabbage is formed into several nests #ilds thelr horizon as it does & childs, _ and the balls are a trifle oval like eggs. HE humblest child in an orphan asylum may be a merchant prince or a This recipe is adapted from an old % great banker or & famous lawyer or doctor, even the President of the United Rustian ssuce; and is iquite “different States. He who sups on bread and milk may feast on terrapin. He who wears from the usual Russian sauce or may- a patched and shabby uniform may be clothed in the finest raiment that money onnaise. Make a white sauce of one can buy. He who has known the bareness of an orphanage may yet be lapped tablespoon butter, one tablespoon of in luxury. These things are common happenings. But the poor old man and flour and one cup milk. To this add woman have nothing to look forward to. Their tale is told. No fortune awaits one egg yolk, one teaspoon chopped them around the corner. parsley, one-half teaspoon grated horse- ' radish,’ one-quarter teaspoon wugar, 10 drops lemon juice and one-quarter Simmer some flaked salt codfish the day before. In the motning prepare rounds of buttered toast. Heap on each a tablespoonful or so of the cooked cod- fish and place in a shallow pan, and pour over them some mock hollandaise sauce and bake in an oven until heated through. To make the mock hollandaise make a white sauce of one tablespoonful of flour, one of butter and one-half cup And if it is our duty to cherish infancy that may do so much, surely it is | of milk. Add a half cup of butter, raw RUSSIAN POTATOES MAKE A VERY ATTRACTIVE DISH. not only in the Tuesday recipe articles but in each day's schedule. Season two cupfuls of mashed potato with salt, pepper and just one sprinkle of mace. Beat one egg yolk and stir into the mixture. Form into six balls. Put in a buttered baking pan. Brush OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRL Sick Child's Lessons. Frequently the teacher gets a request from home: “Please send my child's lessons home every day. He is sick in bed. We want to keep up with his class.” Unless the doctor in charge of the ehild indorses such a request we do not grant it. A sick child cannot study. Any attempt at it is likely to make a bad matter worse. Eyes are very sen- sitive fo-the cendition of the body and should not be subjected to any strain when the child is ill. Study is likely to cause a rise in temperature and increase the serverity of the illpess. Headache and other ills are likely to follow in the train of such unwise effort. Durgg‘ the iliness the child's body and d are easily fatigued. The body is in need of rest and a mind free from worry and responsibility. Rest, quiet, sleep are always an essential part P the reason most fellas don't know when they've had enuf is because as long as they know anything they ain't had enuf. —_— husbands will bear watchingl 5 15 deys when fasb- ions are so feminine —so favorable to lovely curves and so romantic with sheer fabrics and revealing laces. When clothes follow nat- aral lines, complexions must be “natural” too ‘The basis of beauty, as you know, is thorough, daily pore-cleansing. Do try Armand Cieansing Cream— it's so much lighter, daintier —cleanses so deeply and wipes away so freely, l';;: no , greasy You'll love the trailing fra- grance too — orange bloom to dream on! At good beauty counters, 50c and $1.25 ARMAND CLEANSING CREAM teaspoon mustard. When piping hot and just before serving, pour this sauce over the shredded cabbage and then place the potatoes on top. (Copyright, 1930.) My Neighbor Says: After putting water and soap into the washing machine let it run for a minute or two to dis- solve the soap befors putting in the clothes, if you wish the best results. Stale cake crumbs sprinkled over the top of a custard before putting it into the oven to bake give the top a delicate brown and the custard a different flavor. Wash only a small portion of a linoleum-covered floor at one time. Wash the linoleum with warm water and mild soap, then with clear water and dry it well. It this is done the finish on the linoleum will be kept in good con- dition. If your wire clothes line has become rusted give it & coat of white enamel. of the cure. To ask & child to stus it by wnd by The esd oegins 1o y and by the cl to get well. Each day he is a bit better, gq cannot get abou. to play, he cannot ex- ert himself much as yet. Now we begin offering him some occupation, some- thng interesting to make him forget his troubles. If he has been very ill we do not mention study. We offer him pic- ture books, games, perhaps knitting— boys like to knit if it is their kind of knitting. ‘When the child is able to get about the house we begin offering him lessons, a little at a time. We increase the work according to his progress toward health. We try t¢ have him feel well and fit in his mind so that he will not want to dwell in iliness. We do anything we can to help him fortget he has been ill. ‘That means we do not tell stories of his escape from the grave where he can hear them. The less said about illness the better, ‘When the child is well enough to talk about school work we visit the teacher and take stock of the child's position. We plan with the teacher in order to send the child back to school well up with his classes if that is possible. If it is not, if the child must lose the term because of his liness, let it go cheer- fully. A healthy child can always make | anxiety you show about it the better. | anxiety to force work upon a body too up a term’s work. ‘He will take your attitude toward the matter, so the less After an iliness a child’s vision may be a bit weak. Try to preserve his eye- sight, conserve it, at this time, without saying too much about it. Watch his hearing and if there is any sign of slowness there, delay any school work until the hearing becomes perfectly normal. Lessons are important, but the health of a child is far more so. Consider all that when next you have a sick child and do not allow your eagerness or his 1ll to profit by it. | More Joy every home! Portsmouth, Va. ECAUSE of the richness of White House Coffee. .. more cups in every pound. Beocause of its finer Jlavor, more joy in every cup! And because the watch- word of its makers is “QUALITY FIRST AND AL- WAYS,” White House Coffee has behind it a record of 40 years of ever-increasing popularity! And now that the natural coffee bean has dropped in price, you may buy this old favorite . . . supreme, as always, in QUALITY .. . at a new low price...a price which puts White House within the reach of Buy a can of WHITE HOUSE COFFEE today because you like good things. ‘WhiteHouse Coffee DWINELLWRIGHT COMPANY Boston, Mass., Chic “I wish Willie an’ me lved where Jimmie does, ‘tause the trains go right by his house where he can watch ‘em from his windas.” (Copyright, 1930.) Shrimp Bisque. Shell, wash well and boil three pounds of shrimps. Remove from the water and save the stock. Put the shrimps through a food grinder. Fry in a little butter three green onions and two cloves of garlic finely chopped, then add the shrimps, one tablespoonful of tomato paste, four tablespoonfuls of cracker meal, and a little minced parsley. well and make into balls. Season with salt and paprika. To the stock add two tal fuls of butter and three table- mon of flour. Brown well and add stock. Season well with paprika and salt. Add the shrimp balls. Serve with crackers. Scotch Eggs. Make the sauce first. Melt half an ounce of butter, add half an ounce of flour, pepper and salt to taste and one- fourth cupful of gravy. Add this to one-fourth cupful of cooked meat cf fine. Mix one-third of an un- cooked egg and add it to one table- spoonful of bread crumbs. Shell one hard-boiled egg and coat the egg with the meat mixture, molding it with the fingers. Brush over with uncooked egg ?nd roll in bread crumbs. Fry in hot at. JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English BY JOSEPH J. FRISCH. THE RETURN OF FAMILY ALBUMS 1S PREDICTED. WHERE WILL WE PUT THEM WITH SO MANY ASH-TRAYS CLUTTERING THE HOUSE ? - - \ 5‘ e B. B. M.—“Where shall we put them?” is the required form, not “Where will we.” In asking a question. always use “shall” with “I” or “we.” “Shall we go?" “Shall I remain?” “When shall I see you again?” “Where shall we meet?” “Shall we eat?" ice in this column is too limited to ex. in all the uses of “shall” and “‘will' d 8 self-addressed, stamped envelope to Jolly Polly for a concise and easily under- stood set of rules. per Cup! Mix | equally our duty to reward old age that has already done its bit. For most of these old people have done an honest day's work. They have tolled from their youth up until their dim old eyes could see no more to do their tasks. They worked hard. They helped build houses and make roads. They stood behind counters and cooking stoves and wash tubs. They made the world a more comfortable place to live in and life easier for us, but theirs was the work that brings in no big pay envelopes. They were just hewers of wood and drawers of water. The world rewards that labor with a pittance that barely keeps the wolf from the door, and strive as they may they can never lay up much for their old age. Or perhaps misfortune came to them. False friends may have betrayed them. Undutiful children may have robbed them. Bad investments may have swept away their little nest egg, and in the end when they are too old to work they face the world with empty hands. How little .wo do for these old people. A few alms houses where they can be sent when starving, and they would rather die than go there, because their one fetish is self-respect. The one thing for which they have sacrificed during all their lives has been this ideal of independence, this passionate desire that when they were old they would not have the brand of the poor house put upon them. And sometimes we are even cruel enough to separate in their old age the husband and wife who have lived together for so many years that they have literally become one and have no life apart from each other. SEaR UT leaving aside the desperately poor, for whom, perhaps, there is no refuge but the poor house, we have the class of semi-poor, who have a little income, enough to take them out of the pauper class, but not enough to support them in decent comfort. They have to live in miserable quarters. They have to scrimp on food and clothes and fire. They may not be able even to cook their meals or to look after each other when they are sick, and it is for them that an endowed home such as my correspondent suggests would mean a heaven on earth and the making of the last lap of the journey smooth and easy instead | of a rocky road down which the old feet must stumble. T cannot think of any institution which would do more good, or which | would add more to the sum of human happiness than such an old folks’ home. It would prove a haven of refuge for the old people who have no children, and | it would solve the problem that brings about as much sorrow and suffering as | anything else in the world, that of the enforced presence of old people in their children’s houses. For almost never are the old people welcome guests to their in-laws. Nearly always they are the cause of friction and strife, and not infrequently the cause of divorce. They themselves are unhappy, and they make their children and their children’s husbands and wives miserable, but there is nowhere for them to g0 except the poor house, and pride shuts that door, But all would be well if they could go to some institution where they paid their way, s in a hotel, but where the price was made within the reach of their own or their children's meager income. DOROTHY DIX. EVERYDAY PSYCHOLOGY BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Is This Your Type? Are you constantly on the lookout for the latest styles in wearing apparel? Do you mix well in company? Can’ you describe the dress and gen- eral appearance of a stranger With whom you have talked for five min- utes? Do you imagine you would make a good detective? Can you readily recognize voices over the telephone? Is your handwriting bold, long let- | ters, etc.? | Dou you frequently consult books on etiquette? | Are you interested in biographies of | great men? | Do you wonder what people are think- ing about as you pass them on the street? Do you like to loiter about hotels and | railroad stations as a pastime? Are you fond of animals, especially dogs and horses? Can you tell the difference between 1929 and a 1930 model car, 300 feet | with a healthy “yes,” you may put your- | self in the “sensation” class. In other words, you get your stock of informa- tion first-hand from what you see, hear taste, touch and smell. There are something like 57,000,000 others like | you in the United States. DAILY DIET RECIPE BRAN WAFERS. ‘Washed bran, 1 cup. India gum, 1 tablespoon. Salt, 5 teaspoon. Mineral oil, 3 tablespoons. Mix bran, India gum and salt. Add mineral oil. Add enough water to make a mixture that will spread easily. Spread on pan greased with mineral oil. Mark in squares, Bake In slow oven until’ erisp. DIET NOTE. ‘These wafers have no food value but are useful in the diet of a diabetic. Also could be used in laxative diet. | swer these 12 questions | minutesago this floor was dull and worn She thought she couldn’t have Waxed Floors SHE thought her floors weren't good enough to wax — that it would mean lots of work — and would cost too much. Then a friend told her about fa- mous Old English Wax. (That was yesterday.) Today she has thé most fovely floors in her neighborhood — with just one polishing too. as if by magic and lasts for weeks, Most high-grade prepared waxes are made by the blending of hard im- ported (Carnauba) wax and the soft- er, cheaper domestic waxes. Genuine Old English Wax sells for the same price as most prepared waxes, but it contains twice as much Carnauba wax. That is why it polishes twice as beau- tiful — wears twice as long — and is most economical. Try it! At hard. ware, paint, eiiys depts stores. Made by The A. S, Boyle Co., Cincinnati, U.S. A It is no work at all Any housewife can have beautiful loors — just like the most modern homes. It is no work at all — just put a little Old English Wax on a soft cloth and apply to any kind of floor — hardwood, softwood, varnished, shellaced, or painted. Ina few minutes it will dry. ’lj;icn run a soft cloth or an Old English Polisher over the floor and watch the lovely gleam that comes Old English Wax PASTE OR LIQUID POLISH yolk of one egg, one tablespdonful of lemon juice and salt and paprika to taste, Indian P_uFmg Put one quart of fresh milk in a double boiler and when it reaches the scalding point sift in four tables) s of fine cornmeal mixed with e same quantity of wheat flour. Stir thoroughly and cook 2 hours. When done, set o o0 well beaten eags, & sabl of four wel n eggs, & tal of butter and & mupmntulem’lt. Bake a delicate brown. Take from the oven, and when it has with a meringue made from the whites of the eggs, beaten stiff with four table- spoonfuls of pulverized sugar. Brown in oven. MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN, Vivian One mother says Vivian was very anxious for & writing desk of her very own, and as I did not feel T could afford to buy one at that particular time I made one from a dis- | carded washstand. I removed the door of the cupboard to provide leg room, but left the three her books and | towel rack an make it the ri papered off all ve it “several coats of ivory !nlm!f‘w match the rest of her furniture. slp.n in. I took off the sawed Add the yolks ul cooled, spread anyone who - KNOWS YoU sometimes hear that some other loafis “as good as Bond Bread.” When people want to speak in the highest terms of anything, they say that “it is as good as gold.” Of course, it is not as good as gold unless it is gold, and no bread can be as good as Bond Bread unlessitis Bond Bread. The home-like loaf drawers for her to keep off the legs to ht height. Then I sand- the old paint and It is | not only a source of pleasure to her, but « distinct asset to Vivian's room and u‘ little friends. {is also the admiration of all of her} (Copyright, 1830.) Golden Rich Delicious Taste the aPPetizing Cream Flavor in “C]tateau" NZa It’s an old Canadian cheese-making pro- cess that gives “Chateau” such creamy mellowness—makes it not cheese, but a new deBicious cheese food. It’s the golden- orange color, too—the mild delicate aroma. And the taste—rich, keen full- flavored. Comparableto thebest Cheddar, yet milder—d(fferent. Delicious with toasted crackers. As a sandwich. It spreads like butter, slices neatly, cleanly. “Chateau” is also adaptable to dozens of cooked dishes. Ask at your foodstore today for “Chateau”—a Borden product. 2 1] THE ARISTOCRAT OF ! After all—there is no bread like | GENERAL BAKING COMPANY changes its name and dress . . and becomes “CHATEAU” potatoes au gratin It’s our old familiar dish, escal- potatoss with chome— different made with B2 below and cook yet how ‘Chateau”| Follow the reci tonight thin sliced potatoes—all butter- brown and rich with ..