Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1930, Page 40

WOMAN'S PAGE, Aprons Demanded for Many Tasks BY MARY MARSHALL. Don't imagine because women are|you would have to watch how the employed in ever-increasing numbers in | aprons sell at charity bazaars and fairs offices, stores, schools and industrial or- | to learn that you were mistaken. The homemaker needs aprons, and so does the girl who works, use, if she can possible afford it, she has a cozy little apartment or cottage of her own, where she can play at housekeeping when her day’s work is done. And, of course, she needs aprons and wants to have those that are practical as well as attractive. The apron shown in 's sketch is one that has gone like hot cakes at_sales recently. Here are the dimensions for the apron pattern diagram: A—B 32 B—C 5l B—E E-D A—F F—G A—H H—J a—b c—d E—a E—c ‘The strap is 32 inches long and about an inch and three-quarters wide. It is cut double, lengthwise, and seamed along the long edge on the wrong side, then turned inside out and pressed. Then one end of each strap is sewed to the front at C. The straps are car- rled over the shoulders, crossed at the back and fastened at D. They may be longer or shorter as needed. L 4 .. inches. culate the There are always cheap quarters in 5 e dwellings because people will to dark cramped quarters for imposing address. Salt Mackerel. It the mackerel is very salt, freshen it over night in cold water. If fairly fresh, let stand in cold water for an B B e ™ he wiory | hour. Parboll, which means cover with and exposure are also factors con- | fresh cold water and let come slowly sidered. to the boiling point, drain, and remove As a rule there is a premium of UV~ | gy ang bones. Flake and rehest in & - | rich drawn butter sauce made without est, and pent house apartments most | salt. Heat a serving platter, rice some Nearly every one desires | freshly boiled potatoes over it, pour southern exposure, and outside rooms. | over them the mackerel, garnish with Courtyard rooms are in little demand, | parsley and lemon points, and serve and so are cheaper. with a hot cornmeal bread. WITH EVERy , . *® FRESH - &4 CRANBERRY SAUCE Each spoonful abundant with red, juicy tart-sweetness—yes, ma'am, what could be more mouth-watering? ‘The number of rooms may influence price apart from price per room. ‘This is especially true if one tries to 4 cups (1 pound or quart) cranberries 2 cups water 14 to 2 cups sugar Boi. sugar and water togéther 5 minutes; add cranberries and boil without stirring (5 minutes is usually sufficient) until all the skins pop open. Remove from the fire when the popping stops: For a thinner sauce, just bring water and sugar to a boil—then add berries and let them cook until they stop popping: Send for free booklet, “Tasty Ways to Serve the Tonic Fruit."” Address, Dept. N—American Cranberry Exchange, 90 West Broadway, New York City. N PO TR Eatmor, Cranberries : | work, who will try to finish promptly? THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1930. WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office. When we used to get a kick out of hearing the train crier call the various points at old Sixth street and the | B. & O. depots? OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATRL Reward of Labor. “Helen, hurry up and get your room cleaned. You know you want to go out today. Hurry up now and see what a good job you can do and how soon you can do it.” Helen swept and dusted and arranged with lightning speed. “Just as soon as I get this room set I'm going to run | across to see if Millie is ready. Then we can go down to the old hickory tree and see if we can't get a pail of nuts before those boys get started.” “All finished, mother. Come and “Not already? It can't be very well done if you have finished in this time.” | But it was well done. Mother was pleased to say so. “And now that you have so much time suppose you clean Bob’s room. It needs it badly. He is such a careless boy. Give his room a good cleaning, too.” “But, mother, I hurried up to get my room done so I could go out with Mil- He. The nuts will be all gone if I have to do Bob's room. Why doesn’t he do his own room? He will get the nuts and I'll get none just because he is lazy and I worked hard.” “You have all day to gather nuts. I| work all day long for both of you and | never say a word. The first time I ask | you for help ‘you begin to complain. | All right. Go ahead and gather your nuts. I can do your brother’s room along with the rest. I hope some day you will learn to be a little unselfish.” “How about Bob?” “Never mind Bob. We won’t talk about it any more. Go along and gather your nuts.” Could anything be more unfair? First the child worked hard at top speed in order to save time for the outing she counted on_while her brother went scott free. He growled so much when asked to do anything that his mother avoided the asking. But the willing child was imposed upon, her day spoiled. Labor ought to be rewarded promptly. If the child finishes the task in good time, instead of saying as so many times we say, “Now do some more” say, “What would you like to do with your free time?” That will encourage a child to work well and rapidly. If the reward for work well done is more Many a lazy child would speed up tremendously if he knew that by his stint done in would be free to do what he wished to do. Experience has taught him that getting done ahead of time brings no Joy. If it is in school he has to wait and mark time. The teacher will not | allow him to finish his job and read the book he has in his desk. He must walt for the slowest child in the room. In sheer self-defense he becomes the slowest child in the room. DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX EAR MISS DIX—You say all women wish they had been born men. I don't. I am glad I am a woman. I think women have many advantages over men. One of them is we can follow the arts without being thought effem- inate, as are men. Then we can get much more enjoyment out of our families than men can. Then we can get more pleasure from our clothes, because are prettier and there is more variety. Do write an article on how women should be for being women. M. McG. Answer—T don't agree with you that women have much cause for self- congratulation in being born women, but it is a great thing to be able to reconcile one’s self to one's fate and to be contented in that sphere of life to which God has called you. At any rate, if you are a woman there is nothing you can do about it and 5o the wise thing is to concentrate upon the silver lining to your cloud instead of being depressed by the dank, dark outside of it. And, of course, to be a woman is not entirely a total loss. Some roses grow along our pathway even if our road ¥s a lot steeper and strewn with many more tacks than the one along ‘which men joyride. But you are mistaken in thinking that any one considers it effeminate for men to devote their lives to the arts. All the great painters and musicians are men and we do not despise them. We burn incense before them. Nor do I see why men should get less pleasure out of their families than women da. I agree with you that clothes are a consolation prize that fate has bestowed upon women. It must be a depressing thing to be doomed to nothing but a lot of tubular garments, each so like the others that any maker could hardly tell them apart. To have no fripperies, no frills, no furbelows. To have to be always clothed in somber colors when one's soul cries out for reds and yellows and pinks and blues. To have to suppress one's longing for glittering jewels; that is, in- deed, the fly in the amber of being a man. ‘Then a kindred advantage that women have over men is in the joy they have out of shopping. This is a pleasure denied to all but a few men. For most men shopping is an ordeal instead of the orgy it is to women. ‘The women have the privilege of tears that is denied to men and greater graft than tears there is not. There is no arguing with tears. There is no com- bating them. You can only stanch them at whatever price. When a woman is getting the worst of an argument all that she has to do is just to burst into tears and that ends it and leaves her the victor. When there is something ‘o do that she ought to do and doesn’t want to do, she merely turns on the weeps and somebody else gets up and does it for her. When she wants the moon she cries for it and somebody gives it to her. A crying man would be kicked out of court, but a woman with a good pair of tear ducts just naturally floats along through life on a rippling tide of ease. Still another advantage women have over men is that they can get away with a lot more things than men can, especially if they are young and pretty. A peacherino of a flapper with golden hair and blue eyes can spell as she likes and add up figures as she pleases and spend most of her time powdering her nose and still hold down a job. It is only after women get old and homely that they have to be efficient, whereas no amount of classic profile and slick hair enables a boy to get by if he slacks in his work. So far as achieving fortune is concerned, a woman has two chances to a man’s one, because if she doesn’'t make good herself she can marry a man who has made good. Most of the valuable real estate in this country js owned by ‘women who have married it. Also, in the profession of gold-digging, the ad- vantage is with the female miner rather than with the male, for it is lots easier to get money out of an old man’s pocket than it is out of an old woman's. Of course, women have a more thrilling emotional life than men have, be- cause, in the first place, a woman doesn’t know whether she is going to be able to capture a husband or not, and if she gets one she never knows how long she is going to be able to keep him, whereas a man always knows that he can marry whenever he gets good and ready and that the chances are he couldn't lose his wife if he wanted to. - DSy 18605 DOROTHY DIX. pyright. 1930. A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. to stand up. And as they stood, the general smiled at them a bit ironically. “Well,” he said, “we're about to set a shining example for other Govern- ment agencies to follow. I shall ask exemption for none of you.” Immediately “Mack” and his col- leagues started out to enlist. But be- fore “Mack” could, he was assigned to the White House to open thousands of letters which had swamped President Wilson. Then came the chance to fill | the job of field clerk in the Army, and he_enlisted. Soon he was sent overseas on mystery mission—confidential stenog- rapher for Gen. Tasker Bliss, American member of the supreme war council over which Foch presided. filled capsules| It was from this position that he which fixed the | saw the show, and later at Bliss’ elbow order of service for | got an inside look at the peace con- some millions of | ference. draftees in the| From that time “Mack” was destined World War. |to look in on many important imter- This sturdy-| national gatherings. shouldered, effi-| —Back in the United States after being clent, prematurely | mustered out of the Army, he was W&llu-hlh;‘ed lmmm flsm then’ !!,lrul !t invited by Elihu Root to become his stenographer in e office o 'Ovost | secref Marshal Gen. Enoch H. Crowder while Ty of Justice at the Hague. He didn't'know the first draft machinery was_ being pted et prepared. He had come down o Wash- | Joacs Dut ecoel - ty Yo learn later that Bro Ington from a Massachusetts shoe town | had. recommended him. . 16 had. done prompted by a desire to see the show. | some typing for Scott when working in He still remembers the glass bowl | CTowder's office. and the capsules. But more firmly| His work with Root placed him in fixed in his mind is what happened | the State Department. He accom] after he had finished the job of picking TH! lad who sent you, and yes, maybe you, to the trenches in France back in the days of '17 is still in Washington. But you would hardly call him a lad now. Michael James McDermott, or “Mack” as he is known to the hundreds of newspaper men in the Capital, is chief of the Division of Current Informa- tion at the State Department. 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