Evening Star Newspaper, April 15, 1930, Page 40

WOMAN Raiment for Daughter’s Wedding BY MARY ‘The first time it occurs to many young women in their forties that they are approaching what used to be called “middle age” is when they go forth to buy suitable raiment for a daughter's THE MOTHER OF THE BRIDE MAY FEEL APPROPRIATELY DRESSED AT HER DAUGHTER'S WEDDING IN THIS GRAY CHIFFON WITH MATCHING LACE HAT. wedding. It is easy enough to lend helpful suggestions as to the dress for the bride and her bridesmaids. But the proper outfit for this role of bride’s mother is another matter—and a rather depressing matter at that. ere was an old rule that black Today in Washington History BY DONALD A. CRAIG. April 15, 1808.—Three acres of land composing Digges Point on the Mary- land side of the Potomac River below Washington—a bluff overlooking the water where Piscataway Creek joins the Potomac River—were purchased by the Government todav for $6.000. The tract 15 th be used for the etection ot a fort protect, the City ot Washington and #lso Alexandria and Georgeiown, in ease any British ships attempt to ascend the Potomac River. It is probable that additional land | will be needed at this point later, if it | is decided to maintain a permanent fort there. There has been much _excitement, with considerable talk of war with Great Britain since last Summer, grow- ing particularly out of the forcible de- tention and search of the United States frigate Chesapeake by a British war vessel just outside the capes of Chesa- peake Bay. MARSHALL. should never be worn at a wedding, but the undoubted smartness of the black afternoon gown has led to the setting aside of this rule in many instances. But the bride’s mother ought not to wear black if for no other reason than that it strikes too sharp a note of con- trast with the soft tones of the brides- maids’ dresses. We suggest a bolero frock of gray chiffon, not because gray is a subdued, middle-aged color but because it takes frrst rank among smart tones this Spring. The slightly flaring ankle- length skirt is youthful and at the same time dignified. If you have & younger daughter you will doubtless be interested in this week’s help for the home dressmaker, which shows how to add side godets, a sash and shoulder frill to a last season’s dress. If you will send your stamped, self-addressed envelope to Mary Mar- shall, care of this paper, a copy of this circular will be forwarded to you. (Copyright, 1930.) NANCY PAGE Welcome Food More Than Flowers BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Edith Armstrong had surely had a long siege of sickness. For weeks and weeks she had been lying flat on her back in the hospital. Now she had reached the point where she could sit up. Life began to take on mnew in- terest. She asked for mirror and brush. A new bed jacket with its soft silk frill prompted her to ask for a little tuck-in pillow. But while life began to get rosier, her appetite still lagged. Nothing tempted her. Even though the nurse told her she must eat to get strength and even though trays, the food still went almost un- touched. One day when Nancy called she watched Edith pick at her food and leave most of it untasted. Nancy had an idea. When she reached home she called the caterer. “I want you to f'x up an attractive lunch for three people. Send it to the hospital so that it gets there shortly | before the noon hour. I'd like you to | send cream of mushroom soup with | scme crisp little crackers, individual | cricken timbales, small rolls, a jellled fruit salad with mousseline sauce and | ice cream molded in fancy shapes. Add & few small cakes and some pretty flower patties.” Nancy told the nurse | what she had ordered and saw to it | also that two of Edith’s friends hap- the nurse fixed the most tempting of | Household Methods BY BETSY CALLISTER. No one has ever devised a method by which the housewife might be spared the dally task of sweeping up crumbs and dust from the living rooms of her house if she wishes it to remain at- tractive. The weekly sweeping is not enough. Sometimes the dining-room rug or carpet needs brushing after each meal. The old-time method of strewing the rooms with rushes, so that what- ever dropped from the table filtered through the rushes to remain beneath until the rushes were cleared out, may have had time-saving advantages, but surely not advantages of a hygienic sort. Some housewives take a dustpan and small brush broom and bend down to do this daily brushing, as less dust is raised this way than with a broom. Better still if they possess a long-han- dled dustpan so that it is not necessary to stoop over to use it. The carpet sweeper is of much value in this case, providing you take time to care for the carpet sweeper. It is cer- tainly unhygienic to leave dust and dirt from your floors indefinitely in the brushes and pan of the carpet sweeper. Moreover, unless the carpet sweeper is cleaned out often it ceases to be an efficient sweeper. You can buy toy carpet sweepers that prove very useful for brushing up crumbs about your dining table and about the tea table in your living room. With Cold Roast Beef. Cut the lean meat of some cold roast beef into small squares, removing all fat and tough parts. Take a quart or a pint of stewed tomatoes, according to the quantity of meat used. Boil one- fourth pound of macaroni in water until tender, then drain. Add lert-over gravy to the tomatoes. Put into a baking dish "alternate layers of macaroni and meat, pour in the tomatoes and gravy, cover the top with fine brend crumbs and bake in the oven until the crumbs are well browned. The proportions de- pend upon the amount of meat, and additional gravy may be obtained by boiling the scraps of meat in a little water, seasoning, then adding to the tomatoes. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Stewed Fign, Parina with Cream. orned Beef Hash. Oatmeal Muffins. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Broiled Tripe. Spinach. Graham Bread. Sponge Cake’i_ Orange Sauce. ‘ea. DINNER. Tomato Soup. Broiled Calves’ Liver and Bacon. Baked Stuffed Potatoes. String Beans. Lettuce, Russian Dressing. Baked Indian Pudding. Coffee. OATMEAL MUFFINS. One egg well beaten, a little salt, very little sugar, two table- spoons shortening. Add to left- over oatmeal (cooked) one-half teaspoon baking powder; stir well, and to this add flour and milk till of the right consistency to drop from a spoon. The mixture should be rather thin. Any cooked cereal may be used this way. SPONGE CAKE. Three eggs well beaten, one and one-half cups sugar; beat five minutes; one-half cup cold water, salt, one teaspoon lemon extract, one’ scant cup pastry flour, one scant cup self-raising flour. Bake in moderate oven until it shrinks from pan. A great deal depends Historic Failures at Assassination Mystery Surrounds Duke of Orleans’ Decision Not to Murder Richelieu. BY J. P. GLASS. “THE ASSASSINS WERE FURTIVELY WATCHING THEIR MASTER.” ‘The beginning of the reign of Louls XIII of France saw a struggle for su- premacy over him between his mother, Marie de Medici, the queen regent, and Cardinal Richelieu. It did not last long, for the King, though weak, was intelligent enough to know that the interests of the kingdom were best understood by Richelieu. Marie retired not only from the King's counsels, but from the court and from France. In the end she was to die in poverty. opened on the appointed day. Louis XIII and the cardinal came out to- gether and descended the grand stair- case. At the foot of the staircase waitea Montresor and Saint Ibal, the men chosen by the duke to execute his de- signs. A little way off, chatting care- | | lessly, were the duke and the Count of Soissons. It had been agreed that Montresor | and Saint Ibal would await a signal from Orleans. SUB ROSA Beauty, Beware! It seems as though we were trying to make the world safe for beauty. Beauty shows are still rage. Al the photographers are busy. Beauti- flers are being sold by the ton. We are more anxious to get beautiful than to_get busy. If a girl has the complexion which is supposed to belong to youth, ha: a face which attracts attention, and a form which spells grace with her every move, she i3 to be congratulated, but hardly to be envied. There are so many like her that she cannot stand out alone. One disadvantage of beauty lies in the fact that the girl may mistake her face for her fortune. She may use it in getting a job which she can’t keep or in getting a man she won't want to keep. Her beauty gives her a false impression of her worth. It's the old story of handsome is versus handsome does. But even when beauty is not relied upon for success in business or matri- mony it can be a drawback. We ex- pect beautiful people to say beautiful things. If a man looks like a sheik and his friends say, “Go West, young man, and set Hollywood on fire,” we expect him to be clever in conversa- tion, or at least to be a wisecracker. But Mr. Good Looking is often a nit- wit. He spends so much time on his hair that there's none left for his head. He works so hard on his necktie that there isn't time for anything above it. The best he can do for his country is to pose for soft-collar “ads.” We hate to think anything like this of beautiful girls, but we can't deny that they are often so many dolls full of sawdust. They look at themselves so much that they don't see what other people are like. When they shake the powder puff they throw dust in their eyes. Beauty has its place in this drab little world, and there's more of it than we imagine. But beauty should act like & pair of wings to raise one to a higher level, not like a pair of crutches to help a lame mind to hobble along. The Greeks were daffy over beauty, but they knew that Venus wasn't as clever as Minerva, and that Paris, the cake-eater in Homer's Illad, wasn't in it with Achilles. Helen Wills made a hit without being fllmed, and as for Charley Lindbergh—well, you can't find his equal among the Hollywood boys. Cherish and keep the beauty you have. Don't count on it if you have it in excess. Don't ignore it if you think you have only a wee bit. Beauty must be taught its proper place. (Copyright, 1930.) Strawberry Mousse. 5 Crush two cupfuls' of strawberries, | mix with one cupful of sugar, and let stand for 45 minutes. Meanwhile, soak two teaspoonfuls of gelatin in two tablespoonfuls of cold water, and melt over hot water. When the strawberries are ready, add one tablespoonful of lemon juice and the gelatin to them, then combine with one cupful of cream that has been beaten stiff. Place the mixture in a freezer, pack in three parts ice to one part salt, and let freeze for three hour: Serve in tall sherbet glasses with wafers, for the assassination? Did his courage fail him or did he recelve some warn- ing of serious consequences to himself if the project went through. Such history &s is available records that_Richelieu never dreamed of the deadly peril through which he had passed. But this does not fit the char- | acter of the man, He who suspected everybody certainly must have made | fitting deductions when he saw four of | his worst enemies loitering in his path that day. By what means did he thwart their designs? What psychology did he en- BEDTIME STORIE Mrs. Quack Goes Hungry. Through caution there is little lost: 80 pause and always count the cost. —Mrs. Quack. Mrs, Quack had sat on her eggs all day. For some time now she had been looking forward to the hour when she could slip away and get a little needed exercise while she fill her crop with good yellow corn, put in the Smiling | Pool for her by Farmer Brown's Boy ‘The more she thought of that corn the hungrier she grew. She would wait until the Black Shadows came creeping out from behind the Purple Hills. That { is the hour she likes best. It is a beau- | tiful hour, a peaceful, quiet hour. | _“I'm nearly starved,” thought Mrs. Quack. “Pretty soon now I can slip out. My, but that corn will taste good! Caoy HAVE BEEN THE END OF HER. I don't know when I have been as hungry as I am now. I think I'll start in just a few minutes.” Mrs. Quack was just preparing to leave the nest when those quick watch- ful eyes of hers saw a shadow pass just a little way beyond her. Instantly she looked up to see what had made shadow. A moving shadow is som thing to be suspicious of. At least, it is to all the little people of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows. Mrs. Quack looked up just in time to see a great, broad-winged bird outlined against the sky. There was no sound of wings. Had that bird been a shadow, it could have been no more silent. “Hooty the Great Horned Owl!" mut- tered Mrs. Quack under her breath. “I wonder if he has kept on, or if he has come over to the Smiling Fool to hunt It looked to me as if his wings were set to alight somewhere near. I have a feeling that he is already sitting in the top of a tree very near at hand Oh, dear! What did he have to come now for? I want my dinner and I don't dare move with him around.” Farbo Water Paint. | right ever the old | wallpaper. | It won't rub oft. | Apply it yourseli. HAD SHE MOVED THEN, IT WOULD | BY THORNTON W. BURGESS Mrs. Quack sat_there quietly for a long time. The Black Shadows came creeping out across the Green Meadows and through the little swamp. It grew quite dark. Mrs. Quack grew hungrier and hungrier. There had been nothing further to indicate that Hooty the Owl | was around. For all she knew, he might | be far away In the Green Forest by this time. Still, she remained on her nest. “Oh, dear, how I want that corn!” said she to herself, “I suppose it is silly of me not to go get it. Somehow. I have a feeling that Hooty Is sitting |in & tree not far away, waiting and watching. T don’t know why I have | that feeling, but I do. So here I am | going hungry just because of a feeling. Suddenly, without the least warnin | the voice of Hooty the Owl rang out. | It seemed to Mrs. Quack that it was | right in her very ears. Really, it was from a tree between her and the edge of the Smiling Pool. In spite of herself, | Mrs. Quack moved ever so little at the | sound ‘of that sudden terrible hunting call. She touched a dead leaf and it | rustled very faintly. Neverthele | ond later Hooty the Owl was hovering | almost over Mrs. Quack. She looked up |into his great, savage, yellow eyes, and it seemed to her that they were glaring right down at her. Had she moved then, it would have been the end of her. . Had so much as one of her small feathers stirred, Hooty would instantly have seen her. But she didn't move. And being in the Black Shadow under the broad skunk cabbage leaves, Hooty failed to see her. He passed on, turned and went back to the tree from which he had come. Twice after that Hooty sounded that savage hunting call. But Mrs. Quack was prepared and she didn't move a particle. So far i e evening she continued to sf ing to move. t until a very late hour that she heard Hooty's cail far away in the Green Forest and knew | that he had left. Then she ventured out to get her dinner. (Copyright, 1930.) 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Your grocer has Kellogg's ALL-BRAN in the red-and-green While the struggle lasted, she was not alone in her enmity toward the cardinal. | Her_son, the Duke of Orleans, who! would ascend the throne if Louis XIII | The King and the cardinal came all _ | b ackage. Made by Kellogg in Battle the way downstairs. Richelieu attend- | 1o Dyenn or Seanss o onefinoms. . | s 4 L ed Louis until he entered an adjoining | * His death would have been disastrous | 9 on your oven being evenly heated to let it rise. Orange Sauce—Rub one-half Military companies have been raised in the District of Columbia under the militia law, and many young men have Joined and are drilling enthusiastically. Meantime, however, many persons are exerting all their efforts to avoid an armed conflict. It will be remembered that several calls were issued here last Autumn for meetings here of citizens in favor of settling the differences with Great Britain by arbitration, but ap- parently -nothing came of them. Something like 2,000 men, organized in 15 militia companies, have been raised in the Federal District, while Maryland, Virginia and the other States are raising their quotas, ceclled for by President JefTerson. The citizens of Washington City have | been much exercised over the Chesa- peake incident. A fund was raised here for the relief of the sailors who were in- jured in the affair. More than enough ‘was contributed for this purpose, and it has been decided to use the surplus to help pay for a monument in the Navy Yard in memory of the *heroes who fell before Tripoli” in 1804. This monument has been ordered ai the expense of offi- cers of the Navy, and is to be brought from Italy in the U. 8. S. Constitution Tor erection here later this year. ‘The new fort, which it is proposed to erect on the Potomac River at the mouth of Piscataway Creek, will opposite Mount Vernon. It is regarded as an ideal point to erect defensive works to protect the cities on the river above it. DATED pened in just at the moon hour. In playing_hostess, Edith_ate more food than she had done in weeks. The nurse called Nancy to thank her for her happy thought. (Copyright, 1930.) MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Tapping Tunes. One mother says: ‘Whenever any of my children begin idly drumming with their fingers or tapping with their toes, I say, “If you must tap, tap tunes!” They are only too glad to do this. It consists of thinking of some popular or patriotic plece of music and making it evident be | by well marked and rhythmic tappings, either on the table or floor. The one who calls out the name first is privi- leged to try the next tune-tapping. (Copyright, 1930.) Co:[fee distributed like s Look r edie Croreight 1990, by Saadard Brands Loty a perishable fresh food on the cdn ’ cup butter with one cup granu- lated sugar until very light and creamy, then add very slowly one cup each of orange juice and boiling water, Serve at once. STUFFED POTATOES. Select potatoes of uniform size, wash and brush over with melted butter or fat and bake until done. Cut off the ends, remove the pulp and mash it smooth, adding but- ter, pepper salt, the juice of an onion, a teaspoon of very finely minced celery leaves, a teaspoon of sugar, a dessertspoon of chopped pecan nuts and a heap- ing tablespoon of finely minced cold boiled ham. Stuff the skins with the mixture, place on a but- tered tin, reheat in the oven for a few minutes and serve. died without issue, also hated the ec- clesiastic, whose genius was making him the foremost statesman of Eul;?f When_every other struggle to dislodge Richelieu had failed, he resolved on as- sassinatiop. It was then 1636. The headquarters of the King were at the castle of De- muin. Orleans, plotting with his ad- herent, th~ Count of Soissons, planned to kill his enemy as he came from the daily council with the King. The duke enlisted the services of two of his gentlemen for the murder. 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