Evening Star Newspaper, December 8, 1930, Page 28

513 ** New Sort of Sk BY MARY All foolish fashions—as well as the sensible ones—eventually come to an end. That is why some of the perfectly ridiculous things that women do in the name of fashion are taken up with en- thusiasm. Women realize their own absurdity in following these foolish WOMAN'’S PAGE. ip Is Described MARSHALL. absurd as it could be. It was a step back to barbarism or worse. But that foolish fashion has come to an end and girls who would have scorned slips and petticoats a few years ago are insistent now on having just the right sort of slip for every dress in the wardrobe. The sketch shows a new sort of slip that combines all the characteristics that a new slip would possess. It is edged with lace—which is a necessary ' concession to femininity. It is as trim as can be over waist and hipc with- out drawing in the least. It is cut low at the back and under the arms and | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY. YECEMBER 8, 1930. SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. Would It Make for Greater Harmony if Hus- band and Wife Were Better Versed in Each Other’s Business >—No! A WOMAN has applied for a divorce from her husband, alleging in her com- plaint that he subjected her to cruel and inhuman treatment, by always “wanting to stay at home and cook and do the nousework. Ah-ha. Just as T prophesied. Haven't I been warning you for years that | this thing of men and women poachirg on each other's preserves wasn't going {1t is so constructed as to give plenty | fashions, but they also realize that as| soon as the novelty wears off the fash- jon will be g In our cpinion the fashion for wear- next to no underclothing was as Gifts to Be Made in Short Time BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. of room at the hem w out being bulky, and of course it is a wrap-around. A slip of this sort would not be at| all hard to cut out without a pattern. ! Simply make a single front plece shaped | lo rise upward a little in front of the arms, and shaped in a little at the! waist and flared out slightly toward the | hem. The two back pieces are cut! precisely alike and lap as you see in| the sketch, being held by narrow rib- bons tied the front. The ribbon from the right side back section passes through a small slit at the left side. NANCY PAGE Homemade Mints Popular at Bazaars, BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. Nancy's candy repertoire included two kinds of mints—the dropped and | the pulled variety. The dropped ones | are those which are flat, about the size of a siiver quarter. They may be col- ored and flavored or left white apd made spicy with- peppermint. The fondant recips which Nancy used is one which is in her candy leaflet. It calls for two cups sugar, one and one-quar- ter cups water, two tablespoons light corn sirup. The method is outlined | in the leaflet. After the fondant has | been kneaded and put away to ripen it is taken out, put in the upper part of a double boilr. Flavoring oil, not essence, is added. Then -the mixture is melted over hot water and later dropped from the tip of a spoon onto a greased flat surface or onto waxed paper. The patties should be loosened from the paper as soon as they have e firm. In changing the color and flavor use pink for wintergresn, green for lime or spearmint, red for clove or cin-| namon, pale yellow for lemon, deeper yellow for orange. Be sure to use the oil, a drop or two, and not the essence, for flavoring. ‘The pulled mints start with three cups sugar, one cup water, two table- spoons corn sirup. The mixture is cooked to temperature of 265 degrees Fahrenheit or to the hard ball stage. Then the mixture is poured into greased pan. When cool enough to handle, 10 drops of ofl of peppermint are added and the ecandy is pulled to a slender rope. This is cut into small pieces and these are packed away in covered jars. The mints are covered with a mixture of two cups powdered sugar and one cup cornstarch. The mints ripen as they stand and by the end of a week are rich and creamy. ‘The dusting powder of starch and sugar is brusheg off and used again for a second batch of these crzamy mints, Here again, Nancy knew that green coloring and oil of spearmint should be used, or the candy could be colored pink and flavored with oil of winter- Nancy has & “Candy” leafiet which will be sent to you upon receipt of a stamped. | self-addressed envelope. Send your request o Nancy Page. care of this paper. | (Copyright, 1930.) SOME OF THE SMART WAYS IN W ‘Today begins a series of articles on , gifts that cost little and which can| be made in a very short time. These | ‘will be graduated according to the time | necessary to make them. That is, these that it is possible to make a number of in an evening will come last, while | those that take the most time, aithough this be but little, are in this issue. | A smart design-pattern is offered to- : day. It is an amusing interpretation of an old “Mcther Goose” verse. It can be used in several ways, chief | of which is for ornamenting kitchen towels and kitchen accessories. For | towels one section, or “repeat,” as this | is called, can be outlined in the center | of one end of the towel. Or the sec- | tion can be repeated (as the name “re- peat” indicates) and a border can be extended along the entire end. The | way is the quickest and is suf- t. len Use outline or chain stitch, as pre- ferred, to embroider the design. From one to six of these towels, 50 worked, make a welcome gift for a young or older homemaker, and is just the thing to give a girl for her hope chest. An embroidered set cf three articles, & dish towel, a hot dish holder and a For the hot dh;l t J IIne the spoon design, and bin | in full makes a gift to delight a young HICH THE DESIGN CAN BE USED. line the top portion and interline with thicknesses of outing or domet flan- nel. Bind with tape, preferably in the same color as the embroidery cotton. The spocn holder is made from a strip of the toweling folded into an envelcpe shape with a straight flap, Transfer the spoon portion of the de- sign as described to the flap of the case and work it. Bind the edges to match the holder. Or the holder can be one long strip of the linen folded to give the right height for the spoons. Through cne thickness of one end but- all around the folded edge. Across the lengthwise center run a strip of the binding tape (or a fold of the toweling) and catch it down to form spaces through which to run the spoon handles. Have 6 or 12 places for sp-ons. A set of giay kitchen curtains in a solid color with a border of this design bride. Carry out the color scheme of her kitchen in the curtain textile and work the design in black. ‘The pattern-design can be had by writing Lydia le Baron Walker, care of this paper, and inclcsing 5 cents in stamps and self-addressed and stamped envelope. (Copyright. 1930.) Orange-Mint Cocktail. Separate six small, slightly sour oranges into sections and remove the thin skin with a pair of scissors. Chill thoroughly in the refrigerator, place in cocktail glasses, sprinkle with pow- dered sugar, and add three tablespoon- fuls of lemon or pneapple juice mixed with two tablespoonfuls ~of sugar. Sprinkle with chopped fresh mint and f;mhh with an upright sprig of mint 'utbv center of the glass, serves to make for peace and harmony. and that the more closely each sex stayed | put in its own sacred sphere the better for all concarned? Of course, the theory of reducing male and female to a common denomi- nator, and of giving boys and girls the same education and training and back- ground is an alluring one. It has its points. It would scem that it would make ater congeniality if men and women were familiar with the same subjects T emtressod"in the same things, and that it would Infuse mgse pop ints matrimony if both husbands and wives were expert mechanics. or” If they were first-class dressmakers and could put in a happy evening together working out a perforated paper pattern. Probably this view of the subject is more appealing to women than it is to { men, because the chief reason they find domestic life dull is that their husbands neither understand nor appreciate their work and take no interest whatever in it except in the results. They desire a clean and well kept house, good meals and small bills, but they do not even want to hear about how these are attained. Whoo-hoo? Muvver! Will you look in 'at big book an' see what nonsense means? My teacher said to me, “Sonny. stop yer nonsense!" sn' I don't know | which ob the fings I was doin’ her | wanted me to stop. The average husband may push back his plate and exclaim irritably at dinner: “What, roast beef and mashed potatocs again? Is there nothing else in the market?” When shown & new dress or hat he may say: “Gosh, they look as if your worst enemy had picked them out for you!” But when his wife asks what he would like to eat he murmurs vaguely “anything,” and when she inquires what color he thinks becomes her he only subsides with a snort into his newspaper. Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND. ‘To such a wife it would seem a prospect of a Heaven on earth to have a husband who took a real heart interest in making out menus, and who would consider it a treat to go on a shopping orgy with her instead of having to be dragged into a department store and wearing an expression of agony during the ordeal. How nice, she reflects, it would be to have a husband who would hasten home, from the office to heip get the dinner and who could prepare a meal, not to say one dish, without getting every pot and pan in the kitchen in a mess. And how blissful it would be to be united to a man who could tell you whether vour hat was on straight, and who read the fashion notes in the paper and could intelligently discuss the length of skirts and the normal waistline and whether belts are to go up or down. But, alas, like so many other visions of the perfect husband, the domestic husband is a pipe dream that, let us pray, will never materialize. For if there ever comes a time when husbands invade the kitchen there is going to be an exodus of wives to the divorcs court. There are some things that wives will bear and other things that will make even a female worm turn, and one of the things no woman will stand for is to have cooking criticized. Nor do T believe that men will yearn for wives who can play their game | as well as they do it themselves. Many women drive cars better than their ! husbands do, but I have yet to see a man who appeared to enjoy his wife's back-seat chauffeuring. And it is notorious that when husbands and wives | are in business together they nearly always quarrel. i ] Beauty experts tell us that there is no better place to set a “make-up” table than right in front of a window where the cruel, cruel daylight may bring out all of the bad points to be carefully considered and disguised. ‘With this result in view, the dressing table shown in the {llustration has for a background a very beautifully draped | window. Really no other place in Lhei room could have been better for this dressing table. | The walls and woodwork of this room pave been finished in a soft shade of peach and the floor has been covered | with a powder blue rug. | Glass curtains of peach silk gauze bang straight to the sill and the over- draperies are of soft quality of taffeta in powder blue to match the floor cov- ering. For the skirt of the dressing tablé cream Chantilly lace has been used over peach satin, the glass top having beneath it powder blue brocaded satin —a very exquisite combination. The bedspread in this room matches the| dressing table skirt and the furniture is covered with plain blue satin of heavy quality. The truth is we all like to be supreme in our own domain. We like espe- idnlly to have our little show-off trick that our husbands and wives can't do, nd we resent the criticism that comes from expert knowledge. DOROTHY DIX. A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. SHTON COKAYNE SHALLEN- before fall No, 3 “outside the breast- BERGER will be turning his face | works.” foward Washington again soon—pros-| In 1923 he was back again. Three - ngresses—the Ixty-elgnth, Ixty- e o ack s e 18 & man “Who | [gii}ind Seventieth—passed into his- IWhabw s ‘rapti- tory before this veteran fell for the himiihe Tas in fourth time “outside the breastworks.” Nebraska . In ‘the At the age of 67—on March 4, 1929 Noraste fib tiend - QA k.. | he took his seat on the floor of the e B B Conerens Wit ottt ) cntieth Congress. min- e | Utes he would leave for his home In | Nebraska—Aston Cokayne Shallenber- | ger, private citizen, Fred Jchnson was there to take his place as the fifth dis- trict's representative. His friend and colleague, Representa- tive Howard, arose and asked permis- sion of the Speaker to say farewell. He was given two and three-quarters min- utes in which to do it. rd: “The Governor frequently falls out- side the breast- works in_political baitles, but his face is always to the fore.” Well, the “Gover- nor” will come to Washington next March 4 to take _}I—oney Wafers. Cream half a cupful of shortening with two-thirds cupful of sugar, add an egg yolk, half a cupful of strained honey, then two cupfuls of pastry flour, | two teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one teaspoonful of salt sifted together. Drop onto a greased baking tin, flat- tening slightly. Brush with the beaten the oath as Repre- egg white. Bake in a hot oven for | sentative from the about 15 minutes, depending upon the 'Afth Nebraska district—his fourth trip size. Add one fourth cupful of chopped | for such a purpose in the last 30 years. “The Governor lives out in what we call the short-grass country of Ne- braska,” said Howard, “and I can recall the time before his coming when no Democrat was able to raise his head | higher than the buffalo grass in nuts to the mixture if liked. e = Party Small Cakes. Cream one-fourth pound of butter with one cug(ul of flour well sifted. Add three tablespoonfuls of sugar and / one teaspoonful of vanilla and cream the mixture well, then add three-fourths | cupful of broken nut meats. Drop very | small portions into ungreased pansand | bake in a rather hot oven. Remove from the pans, and while the cookies are still warm sprinkle them with pow- dered sugar. These make excellent | party cakes. | | went back to Nebraska. The first was back in 1901—in the Fifty-seventh Congress. Two years later he fell “outside the breastworks” and But five years later he ran for Governor and was | successful. Three years in the Gov- crnor’s chair whetted his appetite for the United States Senate. ka. you people are acquainted with ffalo grass you will know that it grows very close to the ground. $ “But the Governor has a habit of | coming back. And he will come again two years from now if he shall want to | Come, and he will bring Norton (a { Nebraska Democrat also defeated) back with him. “Because all the world seems to feel In 1912 he made a bid for a seat in that body, but—"outside the breast- works” he fell for the second time. |that two years from now there will be But “his face was to the fore.” Three [a righteous revolution that will bring more years saw him in Washington as | back many good men." a Representative again. This time he | Well, the “Governor” is back again. was destined tq serve in two Congresses | And is Nortor Fresh and Clean ROMPING through the house is great fun for the children, but hard on the clothes. And con- stant scrubbing to get them clean soon makes the colors fade. Children’s clothes keep their colors, look better and wear longer when washed by Manbhattan’s famous Net Bag System. First they are sorted into individual net bags according to color and ma- terial. Then, in the washers, hot suds from pure Palm Oil soaps swish through them, followed by many rinsings of soft filtered water that remove every speck of dirt. Nothing torn, no buttons yanked off or broken. And Manhattan’s famous Collection and Delivery system gives you this service in just three days. Phone to- day—Decatur 1120—and start send- ing your entire laundry to Manhattan. PHONE DECATUR 1120 MANHATTAN LAUNDRY FEATURES. The Woman Who Makes Good BY HELEN WOODWARD, Who started her career the highest Eat and Run—Into Trouble. What do you do with your lunch hour? Eat a sandwich and then go shopping. The only time most girls have for shopping is during | the hour at noon. | As a com;queneoE ou gulp down & lyl.ndwlch or a choc- olate malted milk, :‘mnmn typist and who became one of women in America. &s possible. That takes time, no mat- ter how efficient a shopper you are. But in addition to this most girls do an amazing amount of futile and un- necessary shopping. They work in a business district where walking about in the streets is uninteresting and dusty. The shops look inviting and so a girl bolts down her lunch, not because she wants to buy something, but because she wants to go into the stores and feast her eyes on preity things. And we all know that after you have looked at enough of these for some muysteripus reason dash to the shops, buy a little thing Monday, buy an- other little thing Tuesday, and a “Australia,” Puffy says, “I believe Is laughing at me up its sleeve Because a donkey from New York Called me ‘Perambulating Pork.’ " ODD DRAMAS Hugo, Merimee Thiers and Rachel, the Tragedienne BY J. P. “I KNOW_NOTHING ABOUT VERSES,” HE SAID RUDELY, “SO I WON'T GIVE THE CUES.” It was a January evening in 1843 in Paris and an Academician was giving & dinner for the purpose of introducing | Beranger, the great French lyric poet, to Mile Rachel, the famous tragic actress. Victor Hugo was there, Prosper | to Merimee, Thiers, the historian, and many other celebrities. Rachel came late. She entered im- portantly, and her manner peeved Merimee, who remained in a corner and refused to join the others, who | greeted her admiringly. Merimee won- dered why he had come. He and the tragedienne had been cool to each other for a year, not speaking. Rachel had a weakness for declaiming | at social parties. After dinner Be-| ranger told her he thought she was wrong to fritter away her talent in salons. “There is for you only one true public,” he sald; “that of the Theatre Francais.” Rachel thanked him for his advice. She appreciated it, she said. And to show her appreciation she at once de- claimed the first act of “Esther.” Some one was needed to give her the cues. A copy of Racine was brought. “Give it to M. Merimee,” said the ac- tress maliciously. Merimee did his best to make the situation embarrassing. “I know nothing about verses,” he said rudely, “so I won't give the cues. Perhaps some of the persons present who are in that line can scan them better than I can.” Every one looked at Hugo. “Oh, no!” he excused himself. “My eyes are bad.” Others declined for various reasons. It finally devolved upon the master of | the house to sacrifice himself. Rachel, dressed in somber black and standing between the piano and the tea third little thing ‘Wednesday. ‘The hurried eat- ing, the rush to the stores, the strain of buying in a hurry because you are afraid of being late, all these send you back to the office tired Then you have to start in to do a stiff afternoon’s work. As a consequence at about 4 o'clock indigestion starts in or a headache. It's no use telling you not to do this because you must buy becoming clothes, and you must try to get them as cheaply OF HISTORY Helen Woodward GLASS. grow angry. She started once more. Just then a servant opened the door b:hind her. Urgently signaled to with- draw, he retreated, but left the door unlatched. It began to swing gently d fro, accompanying the actress & melodious creaking. Rachel continued, but with a swoon- ing expression. Meantime Hugo and Thiers got into an argument, which everybody could hear, over Racine. “Racine,” sald Hugo, “had a narrow mind. Tt was Corneille who was the| master intellect.” Thiers wished to annihilate Hugo at one blow. “You say that” he re- marked, “because you are the master intellect”—business” of Hugo modesily hanging his head—"of an epoch in which Delavigne is the Racine.” Hugo's head bobbed up indignantly. Mlle. Rachel finished her act and | sald farewell in a huff. Outside sh swore softly and fluently. she exclaimed, bitterly; “onl, (Copyright, 1930.) Sausage-Sweet Potatoes, Parboll two pounds of sweet potatoes for 15 minutes, in strips like French fried potatoes. Place in a d baking dish. Put half a cuj sugar with one-fourth cupful of water, two tablespoonfuls of fat and one tea- spoonful of silt in a saucepan and boil for three minutes. Pour this sirup over the sweet potatoes. Bake in a moderate oven for about 40 minutes. Put one pound of saurage on top o the potatces. Cook for half an Eo longer, or until the potatoes and sau- sage are thoroughly done. o Pecl and slice them | ful each of white and brown | table, assumed a_theatrical pose and began to recite. But in the middle of it all the host dropped both his copy of Racine and his spectacles. Ten minutes passed before the performance |} could be resumed. Rachel began to|men: Prices realized on sales of carcass beef Swift & Compan; for 2 i you lose the desire to buy any of them. It's an amusing pastime, but really it is a lot better to eat your-lunch slowly and to eat something hot. If you will eat a cup of soup or a hot cereal as part of your lunch, even in the Sum- mer, you'll find you won't be nearly so tired at night, especially if you eat it slowly. I know, as T had a horrid time of it for years because I did all these foolish things. It wouldn't have done me much good at the time if some one had told me what I'm telling you. But 1 have to tell you and I hope you will do 1t for one day anyway, say tomorrow. If I were an employer of women I would allow every girl to leave the office on one day a week two hours early for shopping. I would know that this wouldn't be kindheartedness. It would merely assure me that the girls after return from lunch would be re- freshed instead of exhausted. Girls having problems in connection with their work may write to Miss Woodward in care of this paper for her personal advice. Copyricht, 1930.) DAILY DIET RECIPE CAVIAR. Caviar, three ounces. Mayonnaise, two tablespoons. Cream, three tablespoons. Lemon juice, two tables) Minced onlon, two tablespoons. Toast strips, eight. SERVES EIGHT PORTIONS. Have toast in strips about five by two inches. Spread caviar on toast. ~Mix mayonnaise and cream together. Add lemon juice. Dress caviar strips with this and sprinkle finely minced onion over top. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes some protein, starch, fat. Lime, iron, vitamins A, B and C present. Can be eaten by normal adults of average or under weight. Abundant Juice Refreshing Flavor Wholesome and Delicious These essentials combine to make ATWOOD GRAPEFRUIT The Ideal . Table Luxury LOOK FOR THE NAME Wholesale Distributors W. Chas. Heitmuller Co. 923 B St. N.W, WAS TON, D. C. PINEAPPLE TARTS Drain the from 2% cuy DOLE 1 Crushed Pineapple and to it add % cup sugar, 3 tablespoons flour and a few ains salt mixed together. Add f:mon juice and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Cool, In the hustle and bustle of holiday times new recipes are always welcome. And new recipes for which the ingredients are easy to buy—well, they’re a joy, of course! And that’s the kind this one is, which calls for DOLE 1 Crushed Pineapple—sweet, juicy Hawaiian Pineapple that makes your mouth water to look at it. It’s easy to buy, because, James D. Dole has made it so —for your convenience. Since nature gives different grades to pineapple, Dole grade-marks it accordingly. He stamps the name DOLE and beneath that name a number 1, or 2, or 3 right in the top of the can— to let you know exactly what grade you’re getting. So buy your holiday pineapple by the DOLE grade- mark system! Buy all your pineapple that way, whether it’s Sliced, Crushed or Tidbits. add crushed pineapple. Fill pre- viously baked tart shells with this mixture and garnish the tops with whipped cream and tiny red skinless grapes or mar- aschino cherries. Makes 6 tarts. COMPLETE GRADE-MARK STORY—and 39 recipes HAWAIIAN PINEAPPLE COMPANY Honolulu, HAWAIL Sales Office: 215 Market Street, San Francisco in our booklet “The Ki Thae ingdom Grew out of @ Little Boy's Garden". For your free copy, mail coupon. HAWAIAN PINEAPPLE COMPANY, Dept. N-11 315 Market Street, San Francisce, Calif. esesessssseeeassninasisnsenessssennane CUYcavsanancasassassasenssBiBltessomnenseastill % 1 »