Evening Star Newspaper, May 13, 1930, Page 26

WOMAN’S PAGE Cake From Home Chocolate Flour BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. Of all the various ways there are for leftover of cake, the one I shall tell you of today sounds to me most unusual. The home-maker had as much as six or seven pleces of choco- late cake, unfrosted, which were stale. Being a resourceful woman, she decided WHE LITTLE CAKES ARE DELICIOUS EOR TEAS. let the pleces get thoroughly dry d use them as I shall describe. She found she bad to give the pieces extra dehydrating by breaking them up into bits and spreading on pans in the warm oven to get crumbly. Then, with a rolling pin, she rolled the bits to a fine powder and sifted the crumbs in the flour sifter three times. After each she rolled again the fragments it were too large to go through the MOTHERS AND THEIR CHILDREN. Her Very Own Plant. ©One mother says: Little Louise used to be fascinated my ts, but instead of treating nicely she was very rough with them, pulling off the petals and buds, #0 that I was quite discouraged about $rying to have any nice house plants. But one day grandmother came to visit, being a wise idmother and knowing Louise’s habit, she de- sided on a method of curing her of a lovely pink geranium that it was to be her very and that she could have it room if she took care of it. her how much water to it and how she should move it the sunlight for a little while each . Louise was delighted. The mc!; this plant cured her of spoil- .. (Oopyright, 1930.) meshes. ‘This chocolate powder she used as flour in the following recipe, and had delicious drop cakes: Chocolate Flour Cakes.—One and a quarter cupfuls chocolate flour, half cuptul pastry flour, three-quarter cup- ful sour cream. half cupful sugar, one egg, half teaspoonful baking soda and one-quarter cupful broken nut meats. Cream the sugar with the sour cream. If sour milk is used, butter should be added to give richness. In this casel cream one tablespoonfu! of butter with! the sugar and then add the sour milk| gradually. To either mixture, as given, beat in the egg yolk. Sift the two flours and the soda together. Sift again, this time beating the prepared flours gradually into the liquid mix- ture. This will make a very stiff dough. Add the broken nut meats, and, lastly, the egg white, whipped dry. Drop the mixture in small spoonfuls onto hot buttered pans and bake in a quick oven. Seven minutes is time enough for them to cook, since the major part of the flour has been baked previously. All that is required is for the drop cakes to set, so that they will not fall. Make & frosting of one and a half tablespoonfuls rich milk or cream and enough confectioners’ sugar gradually stirred in to_thicken sufficiently to spread well. Ice the cakes and put a nut meat in the center. These make deliclous afternoon tea cakes or those to serve with iced punch or iced tea or coffee for evening refreshments. As the housewife had both the stale cake and the sour cream on hand, these cakes cost practically nothing in fresh outlay and were “different” in a way homemakers like. It must be confessed that she waited to make the cakes until she had sour cream and enough rich sour milk to combine with the chocolate flour. It is in such ways the competent housewife stresses thrift. (Copyright, 1930.) Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. ‘The days of long curls for girls and frowsy heads for boys had at least one compensation. We didn't have to drag. the protesting child to the barber every few weeks. And without doubt this is a ceremony most mothers view with positive horror. All the little rewards and sacks of candy to be shopped for afterward are usually forgotten when the child is once seated in the high, high chair, swathed to his neck in the big apron, and then the glittering, clicking scissors approach his head. If he doesn‘t cringe and scream and de- mand to be let down he is a strange child, or his mother has wisely pre- pared him in advance for just this moment. Mrs. T. U. F. has two children to deal with—twins. “Can you tell me anything to do that will hel™ to keep my little twin boys from going into hysterics when their hair is clipped?” she asks. “We go through this ordeal every three weeks, and all three of us srs limp when it is over. What shall I do?” One thing to be considered when such a situation arises is what fright- ens the child. In most cases it is fear of the scissors. The mother in her anxiety to prevent the child’s disas- trous use of scissors is very likely to unfire_u upon him the awful things that will happen if he uses the scissors. ‘When he sees the strange man coming'| toward him clicking the blades to- gether all these horrid possibilities rush into his head, and there isn't much wonder that he screams. We must al- ways remember that whenever we make & child fearful of any object or situa- tion we may have to reckon with it in the future. Fear should never be im- planted in & child’s mind. Caution, yes, but not fear. I_would suggest in your case, Mrs. T. U. F, that you buy each little boy & blunt pair of scissors to be used daily. You didn't mention their ages, but they can cut paper even at 2 years, and by handling a blunt pair of scis- sors they will lose their fear of it. The next time they go to the barber let the boys take their own scissors along. Having lost their fear of the scissors, they will feel less distress at having their hair shorn. TFoo much talk about barber and use of the word “cut,” which has such a terrifying meaning to the child, should be dispensed with. There i3 no particular necessity of dwelling on the impending operation. Just let it come about naturally. You might say, “We're going to shorten your hair & little.” This doesn't sound nearly as gory as “cutting” or “clipping.” Tomato Rarebit. Put two tablespoonfuls of butter in & saucepan, and when melted add two tablespoonfuls of flour. Pour on grad- ually three-fourths cupful of thin cream, and as soon as the mixture thickens add three-fourths cupful of stewed and strained tomatoes mixed ‘with .one-eighth teaspoonful of baking soda. Add two cupfuls of finely cut cheese, two eggs slightly beaten, and & little cayenne pepper, salt and mus- tard. Serve on graham toast as soon as the cheese has melted. going to the| bea THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE. Youthful and Practical. It features the higher belted waist- line and full-flaring skirt. ‘The slightly fitted basque bodice but- tons down the front, which gives it & sportive air. The turnover collar and dee'pnflsred-hlmk cuffs are youthfully smart. Inset lac agonally at either .15’35"& plr‘or:td. :li'lphmnyme flat hip line. Style No. 489 is of patterned tweed- s S like wool jersey in violet-blue coloring that reminds one of a damask table- cloth. It's quite the newest vogue for street and general wear, and offers such a smart definite change. The lingerie collar and cuffs of linen are in the natural shade. The edges are trimmed with grosgrain ribbon in blending blue shade, which also makes the pert bow tie. The belt is blue suede. ‘This jaunty model comes in sizes 14, 16, 18 and 20 years. In the medium size, 3 yards of 39-inch material, with 3 yard of 35-inch contrasting and 3 yards of binding, is sufcient. Orange-red lightweight tweed with ‘white pique collar and cuffs is especially smart for Spring. Navy blue, flat silk crepe, with white organdy collar, and printed silk crepe in almond green tones, with eggshell collar, are attractive. Pique, Shantung, linen and cotton brodcloth are appropriate. For a pattern of this style send 15 cents in stamps or coin directly to The Washington Star's New York Fashion Bureau, Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, New York. ‘We suggest that when you send for this pattern you inclose 10 cents addi- tional for a copy of our new Spring fashion magazine. Fish Cutlets. Heat half a pint of milk and add to one tablespoonful of butter rubbed smooth with two tablespoonfuls of flour. Cook until thickened, then stir in the yolks of two eggs which have been well ten. Mix with one pint of cooked fish picked in fine pleces, and add & teaspoonful of salt, a little pepper and a few drog of onfon juice. When cold form into cutlets, dip in egg and bread or cracker crumbs, and fry in hot fat. Paking dish by poiting in the. i Arst pul n a layer of the sauce, then a layer of fish, and so on, until the materials are used. Cover the top with crumbs, dot with butter, cover with a thin grating of American cheese and place in the oven until thoroughly heated and crusted & golden brown. Cucumber Catsup. Pare and grate two or three large cucumbers and one large onion, then mix them after discarding the juice from the cucumbers. Add one table- spoonful each of salt, pepper and grated horseradish and one cupful of vinegar. Do not cook. This catsup may be bot- tled without sealing. is the new idea D. C., TUESDAY, MAY 13, 193 DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX D!:AR MISS DIX—W1ill you please tell me how my daughter may become popu- lar with young men? She is fairly attractive in looks and brilliant in her school work, but she is 18 years old and has never had a date without my invit- ing the boy to the house. After being invited he never calls again on his own accord. I spend my time planning how to induce young men to pay her atten- tion. Must I leave it entirely up to her or must I continue to try to help her? ‘WORRIED MOTHER. Answer—My dear lady, if I knew the formula I could make a fortune out of it. Also, millions of grateful mothers and daughters would erect a higher monu- ment to me than has been erected to Washingto: n. Alas, T know no more than you do about the secret of that attraction that draws every man she meets to one girl, while another just as pretty, just as sweet and charming, men pass by without ever giving her a second look. Nor do I know any arts or wiles by which a girl who lacks attraction for men can supply it. It is folly to tell her to make herself beautiful. Nature settled that question and, anyway, it isn't a matter of beauty, because often you will see a pretty girl who never has a date and who papers the wall at parties, while some homely girl has dates galore. It is useless to tell a girl that if she wishes to be popular she must dress well or that she must be bright and chatty and vivacious or that she must be a good sport or that she must give the boys the glad hand. There are plenty of girls who dress like fashion plates who sit up at home and plenty of lively girls whom men avoid as if they had the plague and plenty of girls who have their own cars and can swim and play tennis and golf and bridge who never have any other companions than other girls, and plenty of girls who run after boys who run from them. ‘There are plenty of girls who are just girls, with no points about them that are superior to those of other girls, and yet every man they meet falls for them and gives them & rush. So there you are, and if a girl is attractive to men she is attractive to them and if she isn’t she isn't, and there is practically nothing she can do about it. And still less that the mother can do. Of course, it is every mother’s duty to help her daughter get a good husband if she can, and she can best do this by making her home attractive to young people and drawing as many boys and girls into it as she can. This gives daugh- ter a good background, and will do more than anything else to draw her into ahe'::lglc circle of the young people who have dates and go about to places and o things. ‘The boys and girls can't very well leave Sally out of their fun when they have just eaten Sally’s mother’s chicken salad and sandwiches or they are going somewhere in Sally’s father’s car, and so mother can adroltly work Sally into the crowd by feeding it and making her home the jolliest place to which it can go. If mother is wise, she doesn't confine her entertaining to boys. has some very attractive girl staying with Sally, who is a stalking horse for Sally. Many mothers are afraid to institute this contrast between their own daughter and a popular girl, but in this they are in error. It is better for Sally to run second than not to be in the race at all. Fortunately, the vamp can only have only one date at a time and the leftovers become the perquisites of Sally. A woman who lacks vivid personal charms to draw people about her will always find her best bet in the cooking pot. Any woman who is noted for her dinners or her suppers will be popular. Then her next best bet is to surround herself with the most attractive women and the best-looking she can get. That way she shines in reflected glory and acquires a charm from her surroundings that no one stops to analyze. Many a man has proposed to a girl that he never knew he loved until he was influenced by her mother's pies and purring with contentment and affection for all the world. In trying to help her daughter to be popular with men, & mother must be careful not to overdo it and not to frighten men away instead of tolling them in. ‘There is no other creature on earth of whom men stand in such deadly terror as they do of the managing mamma who is out husband-hunting for her daughter. ‘The mother should also consider the daughter’s feelings. ‘To a sensitive girl no humiliation is more acute than re: g that her mother is throwing her at the head of every man she meets and that she is forcing men to pay her attentions against their will. And it is horrible to a lg1.rl to know that her mother considers her a failure because men pass her by and because she doesn’t marry. But, Worried Mother, why should you worry about your daughter not having beaux? Suppose she isn't attractive to men. You say that she has a brilllant mind. Why not let her alone and let her follow her own bent and be happy in her own way? There are so many things in the world nowadays besides beaux and matrimony. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyrisht, 1930). A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. RESENTING one of the United M. A. and LL. D.—honorary degrees She always | ha, States Senate's profound thinkers and skillful users of words: ARTHUR HENDRICK VANDENBERG. His hero, ideal and greatest American is Alexander Hamilton. There nothing about Hamilton that he doesn’t know. He has written _books about him. He has read everything written about him. He will talk to you about him for hours. He believes with all his bheart that no man can know Hamilton and not be a better, safer and more depend- able American cit- stitution United States,inin- dissoluble union, in unselfish public service and in the in- tegrity of the Republican party.” You can gauge the extent of his hero worship by reading “The Greaf est American, and “If Hamilton Were Here Today.’ He started thinking for himself while still a youth. Thought on Roosevelt and Rooseveltian policies once caused him to lose his job as a billing clerk. His acquaintance with words was be- gun while writing news stories out of the Grand Rapids, Mich,, city hall. He learned to master them while writing editorials on national and international affairs and books on Alexander Hamil- n. He is & self-educated man to some extent. The only schooling he ever had was & high school education and one year at the University of Michigan Law School. Yet he can put after his name BECAUSEIT CAN DEFINITELY HELP YOU COMBAT TOOTH DECAY in recognition of achievement. At the age of 22 he was editor and gubluher of the newspaper with which e started as editorial office boy. Twenty-eight years later he was in the is | United States Senate, sitting where the man who gave him his first big job had sat. L He is a striking figure on the floor of the Senate—even handsome. His black hair is graying fast and his head is growing bald. He wears big, black spectacles which he puts on and off in- cessantly while he talks. He is tall and straight. He smiles a great deal, but seldom laughs heartily. His voice is one of the best in the Sen- ate. It can be heard beyond the gal- leries out in the corridor. He hates to be interrupted while speaking—Ilet's it be_known often. In debate he is vehement and sar- castic, yet always polite. He assumes an afr of impatience in argument— pleads with questioners to let him de- velop his side and then he will answer all objections. To see him and Pat Har- rison lock horns—as they have fre- quently—is a delight. He works hard, takes his job serious- ly, plays little. When time permits he slips out to see the Wi Sen- ators play a base ball game. If he has nothing to read about Alexander Ham- ilton in the evening he may be induced to play a rubber of bridge. Chocolate Loaf Cake. With sour cream—Four tablespoonfuls fat, one cupful sugar, one egg, one tea- spoonful vanilla, one-fourth nful salt, two squares chocolate, melted; two- thirds cupful sour cream, two cupfuls flour, one teaspoonful soda and one- third cupful broken nuts. Cream fat and sugar. Add other ingredients and beat three minutes. Pour in loaf pan lined with waxed p-fltr Bake 35 min- utes in moderately slow oven. Tuar’s why you should carefully choose your dentifrice. Do SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. Are you sure 'iss gent'man's a prize fighter, Tommy? I aren't interested in eskin’ a ord'nary gent'man can I be his sparrin’ partner. (Copyright, 1930.) Home in Good Tasie BY SARA HILAND. Do you know, you can do all sorts of tricks with windows if you do not like the way the architect of your dwelling has planned them: and this ippens more than once to the modern home furnisher. Some windows are too low and have to be “faked” by putting a valance on- the wall above the casing; others are too high and must be shortened by placing a valance over the upper part of the window, the top being just even with the top of the casing. ‘The window in the {llustration, how- ever, is entirely different in its problem. It is one of those little recessed affairs that do nothing toward an interesting effect. This was made into a very charming window, however, just by the addition of a cornice board which had been arched slightly and was wide enough not to show the straight edge of the top of the recess. Straight-hanging curtains of sheer muslin were put on the windows, and the draperies were hung outside the recess and from beneath the cornice board, which was painted to harmo- nize with the drapery material. This window, with a clock on one side and long narrow shelf on the other, gave good balance to the room. (Copyright, 1930). Marmalade Rnll_; Two cups flour, four teaspoons bak- ing powder, one-half teaspoon salt, four tablespoons lard, two-thirds cup milk, one-half cup orange marmalade, two tablespoons soft butter and one-half teaspoon cinnamon. Mix flour, blk.ln’ powder and salt. Cut in lard with knife and mixing with knife add milk until soft dough forms. Pat it out until one-fourth inch thick. Bgl’ead with other ingredients. Roll uj like jelly roll and cut off one-half-inc slices. Lay rolls, flat side up, side by side, on greased pan. Bake 15 minutes in moderate oven. Serve warm. FEATURES EVERYDAY PSYCHOLOGY BY DR. JESSE The American Mind. 1 ‘Wlmout fear of falling a victim to the too frequent bombast of national pride, I believe that we can honestly say that modern psychology comes | pretty close to being & by-product of| American ingenuity. | It grew up with democracy, sky-| scrapers, subways and all the other things that mark American industry |and life as something different from those of the older countries. Not long ago I talked for some hours| with an educated, alert and observing | Frenchman who is making a tour of| this country. He admits he cannot grasp the meaning of industry, the rapid | | transportation in our cities, the rush| and push of life. We are to him some- thing like a busy hill of ants—doing everything, saying nothing. 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