Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1930, Page 38

WoM —06 Decorative Christmas candies of a be made by any ‘the directions These candies bring a high price in the shops, They can be sort can woman who will follow given today. 2= 1930 o GREEN HOLLY LEAVES WITH RED BERRIES, WREATHS AND CHRIST- TREES IN WEE FLOWER POTS, ARE SOME OF THESE PICTORIAL CANDIES. used as specially ornamental pieces to put boxes in with homemade chocolates and the usual kind of homemade bon- bons to lend beauty, or a rather flat box, holding but one layer of candy, can be Dosing. . Dosirg the children becomes a habit if we are not careful. Somebody tells mother that when Bobble had the sniffies she always gave him a dose of Bo-and-So’s elixir and it worked like megic. So-and-So's elixir was bought an- put on the medicine shelf in case Bobble got the sniffes. “Every Saturday night I give my children a good physic, and they’ve not lost a day in school for two years. Mix- and-Mix tablets are perfectly great. Just try them.” Giving the children medicine gets to be an ion in some families. The medicine cabinet is bursting with bottles and boxes, all waiting for the first sign of indisposition in the children. Does one sneeze?—he gets a pill; does one cough?—he gets a spoonful; does one say he is tired?—he gets a hot bath and & powder at once and is put to bed. Instead of teaching illness, we must teach health. Instead of telling & child how sick he is, feeling his pulse and taking his temperature every day, sigh- ing and shaking heads, we have to tell him he’s quite all right, give him his meals on time and turn him out to play as a healthy child should play. When he is ill he will not need to be told about it. Neither will his mother. the meantime teach him to be healthy. Do not allow ill health to be the topic | 8est of conversation. Never allow any one to describe symptoms of iliness, opera- tions, sufferings of any sort before the children. Listening is bad for anybod. but it is especially bad for little chil- dren who are highly suggestible. I have known a boy of 17 to have every symptom of appcndicitis but the tem- perature because he had heard a vivid description of a severe case. Talk health before children. Praise health. Do all you can to achieve it. When a child shows unmistakable signs cf illness stop feeding him, put him to be: in a quiet room, speak cheer- fully to him, and call the family nhysi- clan. Do not emphasize the illness, but work toward health by every means in your power. Sometimes an illness is handled in such a way as to give the patient an idea that his iliness is triumphant achievement. Illness con. fers a certain distinction upon the pa. tient if we are not guarded in our at- titudes and our words. Once an f{liness is over, accent the ccn-~lescence. Lose no time in being r “Mldren recover very fast if we "3 lem to do so. Our tendency is 1 ong their weakness by petting coddling long past its necessary duration. Ilinesses come. But they do not stay. ‘They need not be admired and wel- comed and bade to spend the rest of the season. They are to be shunned, to be gotten rid of just as soon as possible. Health is the word. Give children no medicine unless the family physiclan has ordered it. If he is the t kind A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN, Animalism. “If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” I Cor., 1522, I am Uw.ng this text, not for .its reference to the resurrection, but to call attention to the phrase, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” tle is evidently quoting the phrase from the Epicurean manual or . There are multitudes of people who are still following this old Epicu- Tean theory of life to which he refers. le y only gospel that to them is the gospel of the Some believe that this life ends all, that there is no more beyond, and that the one thing to do is to have a good time while you can. many who profess to beiicve in religion its teaching of immortality, and yet live as if this life were all, ign-ring their spiritual natures and seeking only passions. What, fools human beings make of themselves, bartering away their souls little seeming pleasure in the few gyl‘ol this | mortal life, What Making Fancy Christmas Candies BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. OUR CHILDREN BY ANGELO PATEL But there are to gratify their animal appetites and | ns. AN’S P(AGE. <iE EVENING filled with an assortment and form a gift box de luxe. Before starting to make the candies all ingredients must be at hand. A|-' mond paste can be bought in small cans. One can goes a very long way. ‘There should be an assortment of nuts and vegetable colorings. The fondant can be boiled or be the French or Mex- ican style of uncooked fondant. Boiled Fondant.—Three cupfyls sugar, spoonful cream of tartar, or omit this, and add one tablespoonful light corn sirup. Put the water and sugar over a low fire and stir until the sugar is dis- solved. Then raise the temperature to the boiling point and add the cream of tartar Remove instantly, and as soon as active bolling ceases pour onto |a large platter. When it is cool enough |to dent when the finger is pressed into |it stir with a spatula or wooden spoon until it is creamy. If it separates be- | fore it creams, wet a cloth in cold | water, spread over the fondant and| |leave it for a few moments. The damp- ness should bring it back again. Should it not, reheat and proceed as if a fresh batch. This can be made before the candy is to be shaped. It should be put in a closely covered jar and allowed thus to ripen. a Uncooked =~ Fondant—Three table- spoonfuls rich cream, confectioners’ sugar and butter size of a walnut. Pour the cream into a small mixing bowl and gradually stir in the sugar. As this is done, add the. butter, slightly warmed so that it will mix easily. When the | mixture is so heavy it can be shaped, enough sugar has been worked into the cream. Whichever fondant is used, separate |it into small portions and color and | flavor each differently. Orange color- | ing calls for or#nge flavoring. Use but little, lest it softens the fondant too much. If it does, work in a little con- fectioners’ sugar to make the correct consistency. Alm( t.—A ond Paste Fondan way to make this is to add a 8 of the t‘putc to two spoonfuls of fondan with & few drops of cream if needed. By the paste with the fondant, less of the former will be required an a more delicate paste fondant result. Form pleces of the fondant colored green into wee cones and axf\: them, wide end, into melted coating chocolate. Fancy Christmas Candies.—These are called almond paste acorns. Form green almond paste fondant into flattened leaf shapes. On each press a round little ball of orange fondant to repre- sent an orange on its leaf. Form holly- shaped leaves and press five wee balls of red fondant on each for holly. Roll orange or any colored fondant into egg shapes or balls; roll in finely groun nut meats or chocolate shot. Cut a line in the top. Press the fondant back a little and stand a blanched almond or pistachio nut upright in it. A wee tub-shaped piece of red fondant with slivers of candied citron {med ede:v”wn into the to est Dl needles makes & c‘o‘l)gr(ul co‘ung('ecdon for Christ- mas, as also do rings of green llénond te sprinkled with green sugar. Brush m top of the wreath with sirup boiled to the crack before sprinkling on the sugar and it will stick. (Copyright, 1930.) of rhyddul for little children, . his icine will be reduced to the mini- S50 S ety fresh air, and diet , and sunshine and such healthy thoughts as bring vitality to the child’s body. A well planned routine, & healthy outlook e, & devotion of health, is the best way to prevent illness. Medicine is only an emergency measure. With Capelet Collar. Here’s one’ of those aprons youll enjoy wearing when you have a few things to do about the house. It is easily slipped into and will not crush your frock. T's youthfully flattering too and so unusual. . ‘The capelet falls so prettily over the shoulders. ‘The neckline is slenderizing with the pointed front treatment. For the original model, a gay chintz In | Was used with vivid bindings. ‘There are many other delightful sug- ions as men’s striped shirting, pas- tel cotton shantung, dotted cotton broadcloth, printed dimity and printed awn. Style No. C-808 is designed in small, medium and large, The medium size requires 17; yards of 40-inch material with 734 yards of binding. It's made in a jiffy! ‘The front and sides of the apron are cut in one plece. The cape collar and pointed front yoke cut in one. We suggest that when you send for your pattern, you order a copy of our large Winter Fashion Magazine. It should be in every home for, of course, cvery woman vonis to lock her b without great ~xpense, and this boo points the way. It also contains excel- lent Christmas suggestions. Price of book 10 cents. one cupful water and one-eighth tea-| SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. Nom, fank no paifs, T dest ob socks, you. I don't want to buy want ten-cents worf (Copyright. NANCY PAGE Dolls’ Dresses Which Come On and Off Easily. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. 1930.) ‘When Joan was just a wee bit of a girl her Aunt Nancy had started her her to have a doll from every country. Although Joan was less than 6 years old, she had the start of a creditable collection. Ome of the oddities which Nancy was keeping until Joan should have grown older was .);a.ll’ nut dolls. These came from New Hampshire. friends in Mix thoroughly and soften|she had nothing but take her young gnn:gurntwmmwhln:sndwln- low_shopping. “Oh, Aunt Nancy, see that doll, and look at that pretty baby one over there!” Every minute or two Joan was squeezing her aunt’s hand in écstasy over some new treasure which she saw in the window. Aunt Nancy bought a doll's trunk, a small chest of drawers, a miniature clothes rack or hanger. The dresses which were part of the ‘were ed so that Joan t them on and off her dolls any ald from grown-ups. That meant that the buttonholes and buttons were not too tiny. Only grown- up and skilled fingers can ipulate the microscopic fastenings. ‘The clothes were washable and most of them were so made that they would lie out flat and straight after launder- ing. This meant that Joan could wash and iron the clothes herself. Aunt Nancy could hardly wait for Christmas m to dawn so that she could see Joan's face. Uncle Peter said that Nancy had planned that par- ticular present for herself rather than for Joan. Maybe so—just the way fathers buy electric trains for their young sons —_— Ginger Bread Men. Melt half a cupful of shortening, add one cupful of molasses and half & cup- ful of sour milk, then add four cupfuls of flour, one teaspoonful of baking soda, one teaspoonful of salt and two teaspoonfuls of ginger sifted together. Mix to a soft dough, chill and roll to about one-fourth inch in thickness. Cut in the shape of a man by means of a tin cutter. Put in currants or raisins for eyes and draw a nose and mouth with the point of a sharp knife. ' | Sprinkle the coat with blue sugar and the trousers with red. Bake in a me- dium oven for 15 minutes. To color granulated sugar, rub vegetable liquid coloring into the sugar, allow to thor- oughly dry, then run through a sieve. March, 1888, will long be remembered for the frightful gale on the American seaboard, in which 138 vessels were blown ashore and about 20 abandoned by their crews. Cough Is Easily Mixed at Home | You'll never know how quick- ly a stubborn cough or chest cold can be conquered, until you o this famous recipe, It is used millions of homes, because it gives more lprompt, foclfin relief than anything else. It's no trouble at all to_mix aud costs but a trifle. Into a pint bottle, pour 2% ounces of Pinex; then add pl granu- lated sugar -;-rup or strained honey to make a full pint. This saves two-thirds of the money usually spent for cough medicine, and gives you a purer, better remedy. It never spoils, and tastes good—chil- dren like it. You can actually feel its pene- trating, soothing action on the in- flamed throat membranes. It is als® absorbed into the blood, where it acts directly on the bronchial tubes. At the same time, it promptly loos- ens the germ-laden phlegm. This three-fold action explains why it brings such quick relief even in severe bronchial coughs which fol- IOVII' cold t!pidemil‘l, inex is a highly concentrated compound of genuine Norway Pine, containing the active agent of creo- sote, in a refined, palatable form, and known as oné of the great- § est healing agents for severe coughs, chest colds and bron- 333 chial troubles. ox Jonot ececnt a substitute for 75, Tt is guaranteed <, 252> «to give promnt relief OF 5 money refundnd, IDIEN] for Coughs, STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DIAR MISS DIX: I was very much interested in what you wrote about a wife sacrificing her husband to her children, because that has been my sad experience. I have always loved my wife dearly and done everything in my power to make her and my children happy, but she has absorbed herself in her children and I have existed only as a provider for them. We have two sons TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1930. The Woman Who Makes Good Who started her career as a the highest paid business women in FEATURES, BY HELEN WOODWARD. hi ind who mmm-An became one of and two daughters between 27 and 19 years of age. was 15 years old his mother has made Ever since the eldest boy him her companion to my exclusion. panion, and his mother is lost. Scon the rest of the children will no doubt marry and then thelr mother ated we are almost strangers I would advise all want to keep them. to each Answer: I call this letter to column, and especially do I commend it to the prayerful consideration of all young mothers with their first bables, Will be very lonely, for we have become so alien- other. brides to make companions of their husbands if they A LONELY HUSBAND. attention of every woman reader of this the It sounds a note of warning that they will do well to heed, for there is no re apt to fall into than that of absorbing them- selves 50 much in their children that they forget they have husbands to whom they have any duty at all. vanity to have their noses Because they are fathers desire their soclety nor to Men almost invariably resent this. put out of joint by the first infant that comes along. they have not ceased to care for their wives nor to enjoy going about with them and they cannot under- It hurts their stand why their wives have suddenly lost interest in them. Of course, the explanation of instinct is stronger than the love to be attractive to their husbands. amuse them. They spend their evenin, the kind of food on the table that dren go on larks and leave credit for giving the children what father. ‘The mother calls this chumming she is doing her husband in having ex: failed to give him the companionship a has a right to expect from her. is suitable for infantile digestions. Tun their houses and their lives to suit the children and not their husbands. And when the children grow up they make a sort of closed_companions! With them that excludes the husband. In many homes the mother and children are chums and the husband and father is made an outsider. father behind. Mother always they want, though father pays because she impresses on the children that she is getting what they want out of this is that in many women the maternal instinct. Such women never make an effort They never dress up for them or try to gs watching the baby sleep. They have They hip Mother and chil- ts the Jx‘e bills, up with her children and is filled with on the collection of dolls. She wanted | self-righteousness because she does it, and she never once thinks of the injustice cluded him from her life and in having nd understanding and sympathy that he But in the end retribution overtakes her, for in a few years, 20 or 25 at most, of hickory | her children are grown and leave her and then she is left desolate because she has alienated her husband, she has lost touch with him, and she has nobody to Men with money are always able to maintain their dignity, particularly if they have the independence and quick Wit of Samuel Bernard, the great French financier. It is related that Bernard was vis- ited once by the Marquis de Faviere, who was noted for being excellent at borrowing money, but very lax in re- paying it. The audacious marquis said: “I am going to astonish you greatly. I am not acquainted with you, but I ask you to lend me 500 louis.” “I shall astonish you still more,” said Bernard. “I am acquainted with i:-kx"wd I will lend you the sum you The financier came from the most humble beginnings. His father was a painter. Samuel built an immense for- tune—so immense that kings came to him for loans. Louis the XIV, “Le Grand Monarque,” that haughty sovereign who said, “The state—I am the state,” was the first king to seek a favor from him. Louis needed money at the time of the War of the Succession and needed it badly. He and his ministers decided that Ber- nard was the man who could supply the want, but would he do it. There is one means by which much can be accomplished—judicious flattery, It was employed in this instance. One day news spread over Paris that Sam- uel Bernard had been received at Marly, where he had spent a full quarter of an hour walking with Louis XIV, in his garden, with the monarcn chatting most pleasantly. Grand as Louis was, he was willing to humble himself for money. Samuel fall back upon when her children are gone. ODD DRAMAS OF HISTORY Monarchs Bow the Knee to Humbly Born Financler. BY J. P. GLASS. DOROTHY DIX. GRAND AS LOUIS WAS, HE WA:IgIX‘LLmO ‘TO HUMBLE HIMSELF FOR Bernard offered him a loan. It was graciously accepted. The financler's ner must have hid supercilious thoughts. When Louts XV reignea over France he, too, felt the need of a large loan and carelessly sent a note to Samue! Bernard asking for a few millions, I Wwas not necessas guruous to this -born money grube T, The financier rebuked him. “When something is wanted from one,” he said in a note he wrote the King, “the least that can be done is to ask for it in P ot XV uis » 50 to speak, bent the royal knee. He invited Bernagd to court, re- ceived him Jivlenmtly. and had him shown over the place. The shallow, de- bauched court jested and jeered at the intruder’s expense, it never occurring to it that Louis XV was the star actor in the farce. Bernard didn't mind. For the second time he had made a king lower himself for money. He went away contented and the next day sent the cash Louls so badly wanted, (Copyright. 1930, Fig Nut Sweets. Cover Gne cupful of dried figs with boiling water and let stand for 10 minutes. Scrape off the outside skin, add one cupful of finely cut nuts, roli into a loaf and slice. Make a syrup with half a cupful of sugar and one- fourth cupful of water. Chop some coconut rather fine and leave plain, or toast in a moderate oven. Dip the fig slices into the sirup and roll them in the coconut. TWO-TO-ONE TWO-TO-ONE T WO -TO-ONE TWO-T! i ! N And- nerves, like other %) , in his mind, to be | din; “This,” says Bunny, with an air, “!;hn cousin of mine—the Australian Te. His Erglish accent's all T lack To make us twins in front and back.” Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Subconscious Thinking, A great many people believe that they are able to think things out in their sleep. This bellef is by no means un- founded. There is real sense and often enough, something very practical about the saying, “I'll have to sleep over it.” It is now generally conceded that most of our thinking goes on subcon- sclously. It is also conceded that some of our best deductions come like a flash out of that mental nowhere called the m?:cur nsclous thinking 1s consclous generally, ompanied by a mun, s &:w “that.” presence of goes a sort of emotional tone or setting. If it were not for your emo- tions, you would not know that you are living. Your emotions will also account for a lot of your poor conscious think- ing. That's why you have prejudices. ‘The thing that makes your subecon- sclous thinking non-conscious is the fact that you are not for the time being bothered by your emotions. ‘The very moment your dream thoughts arouse your emotions you are awak- ened. Your dream recoilections are re- ferred to the emotions which tend to control your ideas. You make certain allowances and may arrive at valid de- ductions. Just as day dreaming, it's your sense of reality that breaks through and explodes your air castles. When you ask time to sleep over a question you are simply asking permis- slon to think it over unemotionally. (Copyright, 1930.) Dessert Sauces. Marmalade Sauce—Cream half a cupful of butter with half & cupful of | sugar. Add one cupful of orange mar- | malade and beat well. Then add one egg yolk well beaten. Use on any pud- g dessert. Grapefrult Hard Sauce—Cream one- fourth cupful of butter until very soft. Add one cupful of powdered sugar while beating constantly. Add one tea- spoonful of grated orange rind and one tablespoonful of grapefruit juice and b;tuliunm light and creamy. Set to cl Apple Rice Dessert. Wash one and one-half cupfuls of | rice and cook until flaky and tender in boiling salted water. Drain, then add four tablespoonfuls of corn sirup and three tablespoonfuls of white sugar. Grease a baking dish and put in a layer of rice. Pare and slice three apples and place a layer of apples over the rice. Continue until the dish is full, cover, and bake in a slow oven until the apples are tender, or for about 30 minutes. Re- move the cover during the last 10 min- utes to brown the dessert. Serve with Fate Plans a Career. I once knew & young man who care- fully planned in advance everything he did. He had his career mapped out in detail. He studied short- hand fand book- keeping, although he never held a job in either. He studied stock mar- ket hum al- thoug! e never sold any . He studied manufac- turing, although he had no_connection M%]: hctori. 1 Helen Woodward would al it have becn inter- esting if he had been a student by tem- perament. But he wasn't. He just dug and planned because he ~wanted to know everything that might some day be useful for a career. More, he cultivated only people who would be of use to him. He never ate lunch with anybody, he never even took & walk with anybody, unless he thought he could use him, He said he woud Dot marry until some one came along Wwho fitted in with his scheme of suc- cess, The result was rather disastrous. He makes a fair salary, not a big one, and heflh‘gs no '"md‘d-ry IR C} & poor, of a , thought himself stronger than fate. He thought and he has failed because he BEAUTY CHATS aneoum make fate do as he wanted The people who make a real splash in the world are those who know instinc- tively that fate is stronger than they. Knowing that, they do the job that lles before them and wait for the unex- rocud. When_ that comes along they OIE to take advantage of it. over your own life. Isa't it true that the best things in it have come to you unexpectedly? That when you tried to look around the corner and plan, you wasted your time? Years ago I had a qudrrel with one of my customers; no words were ex- changed, but our relations were cool. I thought I had been treated badly. One day this customer came to me and asked me to work for him again. I said no. Then circumstances rose that made it absolutely necessary. I went back, but with rebellion in my heart and secret tears. Well, that tummed out the “most profitable and kindly relation I ever had in business. And it led directly to all the most profitable work I did later on. We never know just what we are do- ing. We think we do, but we go gayly to our worst disasters and sadly toward what tum out to be our biggest suc- cesses. ‘That sounds hopeless, but it is the reverse, It's rather restful, isn't it, to think we aren’t altogether responsible for ourselves? Girls having problems vie counection with Vork ey Wrie i e Waodward: re of this paper, for her personal ad- BY EDNA KENT FORBES Here are some more menus for the woman who wants to reduce and who has no talent for thinking out meals for herself. Or for those who cannot work out & calorle ratio for themselves. For instance, here’s s holiday or & Home in Good Taste BY SARA HILAND. It is no trouble at all to plan an unusual dressing table grouping if there is an alcove opening off the bedroom. In the accompanying illustration is an example of how charming such a com- bination can be. Two small, low, three-drawer chests may be placed so as to touch each side wall of the alcove, leaving a space the center for a full-length mirror. A small upholstered chair may be made to fit into the space between the chests whenever the mirror is not in use. ‘The walls in this room might be fin- ished in an ivory ground paper with lattice design in light green, the wood~ work being finished to match the green. For the floor covering beige Wilton could be used, and the furniture could be finished in a parchment color, with the drawers lined with lacquer red. The knobs might be black to lend a note of in | 1 contrast, and one chair (that in front milk or cream. of the mirror) could be covered in lac. quer red chinta. Sunday dinner: Raw oysters, roast turkey, green beans, lettuce salad and fruit cup for dessert. With this meal one slice of toast or bread, without but- ter—or else four smallish Next day, minced turkey for lunch, lettuce and stewed dried apricots. Dinner again: Clam juice cocktail, brofled beefsteak, hlrnl'g and a large grapefruit salad, whi serves as dessert. And for lunch next day the steak left overs put through a T, mixed with onion, tomato and Fra ‘:mmb;.md n‘g'edl umder. and wi perbaps, an apple an: salad—ihe. ma " m made wif ol!ven:llfl, but with the best quality 4 apple . for the lunch—broiled or botled fish and a salad made of all left over turnip, endive, salsify and artichokes available all winter, non-fattening fresh bles can always be had. sure. Diet 18 very flodmod! xfit "Thm mu"u cases pe: 5 where salt is taken fl‘(#;ethe diet, be- side that of meats and stimulants, Sallie H. K.—Oil on the always attract soil, and it ol o vour hag of your the bflatfi of a MAKES SOME GOOD SUGGESTIONS need food. Calcium and Phosphates, the same elements which go into the making of strong bones and teeth, are]known by modern science to be vital to the health of the human nervous system. So mothers who have long known the value of milk and fresh vegetables (foods naturally richin Calciumand Phosphates) are now adding more Rumford-cooked foods to their family’s diet. For even an average Rumford biscuit contains four times the Phosphate and half the Calcium of a large glass of milk. "‘:m'“m ANY Order Rumford from your grocer to- Ezeoutive Offices dayand startgiving your family mealsthe RUMFORD, B. L ldynntnges of baking and cooking with this pure all-phosphate kaking powder. .. | =) 'RuMFORD = N H ALL- PHOSPHATE BakinG Powper YTHE TWO-TO-ONE LEAVENER fini Mrs. Santa Claus has gone modern. Tired of being a stay-at-home . . . sewing frills on doll dresses and painting blushes on their china cheeks . . . she’s taken a hand in her husband's business. And (don't let this get back to Nicholas) they do say she’s much more helpful than he is when it comes to mak- ing suggestions to Christmas shoppers. And she says, “Give people gifts that are as useful as they are lovely . .. give them Westinghouse electrical appliances.” For what Wirin, O matron or maid — or even bachelor — wouldn’t appreciate an exqui- sitely designed percolator . . . a gleaming toaster . . . a sandwich grill to turn the most informal party into a delightful feast? And, surely, every woman will appre- ciate the gift of easier, shorter ironing hours—made possible by a Westinghouse Iron! These are just'a few of Mrs. Santa Claus® suggestions which the Westinghouse Dealer nearest has on display and which he will be glad to show you when you visit him. See hint today!