Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1931, Page 24

Window plants and those in Winter rooms wherever they are placed are pe- culiarly decorative because they are liv- ing elements of beauty. They must be tended almost like household pets. If they are not given the proper amount of care they droop and die. If they 7 are lovingly tended they respond and flourish as if they understood that a friend was watching them expectantly and was encouraging them to do their best and appear their most beautiful selves. ‘Without going into any special bo- tanical treaties on the care of plants, JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in Etiquette. BY JOSEPH J. FRISCH. SOMETIMES THE DINER HAS TO WAIT WHILE THE WAITER DINES. O. F. B—Only if a thing is inexcus- ably wrong is a complaint made to the ‘waiter, and then as quietly as possible. If a person wishes to make himself ap- ridiculous, he needs only to rear 1f in his seat and loudly shout, “Send me the head waiter!” Such ac- tion is both amusing and disgusting to others in the room. Send a return envelope for Polly’s leaflet, “Restaurant Manners.” My Neighbor Says: To clean wallpaper, first brush the walls thoroughly with a duster tied over a long-handled broom, and wipe them with clean cloths until all the dust is re- moved. Then cut a stale loaf of bread in quarters and with the pleces lightly wipe the paper, holding the .bread by the crust. Begin at the top and rub downward—never up Or Across. Lemon juice sprinkled over cooked spinach makes it more palatable. If you soak new clothespins in cold water for half an hour they will not split and will last longer. White curtains that have be- come yellow and brown from the sun can be dipped in diluted coffee and become a pretty ecru. The darker you wiz. the cur- trains the stronger the coffee should be. ‘To make your rose bushes and grapevines thrive, empty your dishpan of greasy water at their roots each day. (Copyright, 1931.) Care of Plants and House Pets BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. | for several hours. T a few suggestions for p'ant lovers who know little about particular needs of their plants may be welcome. If you will notice gardeners at work you will see that they are cofistantly raking the ground about plants, keep- ing the top soil loose. This is im- portant, for the roots then can absorb the moisture in the air. They require less watering. So with an ordinary kitchen fork loosen the top soil in flower pots. In these small containers, small in comparison to the beds in which plants grow out of doors, plants require more water anyway than they do in the open. The heating agents in houses consume the moisture, and sap the air of this vital element. So water plants frequently. It is bettter to give them small drinks of water each day than to deluge them one day and then let many days intervene between drinks Occasionally put a few drops of am- monia in the water. There are various good plant foods also on the market. It is advisable once a week to stand the pots in cool, fresh water and to spray the foliage. An ordinary bath spray is satisfactory and adequate. Let the plants remain standing in water This treatment is the nearest thing to a rainstorm that the plants can get. MENU FOR A DAY. . BREAKFAST. Orange Juice, Cereal with Cream, Soft Cooked Eggs, Rice Muffins, Coffee. LUNCHEON. Parsnip Stew, Crackers, Pruit Cup, Hermits, DINNER. Stuffed Peppers, Delmonico Potatoes, Creamed Carrots and Peas, Romaine Salad, French Dressing, Baked Orange Marile, Coffee. RICE, MUFFINS. Stir two cupfuls cold boiled rice and two cupfuls warm milk until smooth, add one tablespoonful melted butter and the well- beaten yolks of three eggs. Mix and sift two cupfuls flour, one tablespoonful sugar, one and one- half teaspoonfuls baking powder and one-half teaspoonful salt. Add to the rice and milk and beat until smooth and firm. Heat muffin_ pans hissing hot. Fold the stifiy-beaten whites of the eggs into the batter, turn at once into the pans and bake in a hot oven for 15 minutes. PARSNIP STEW. ‘Take four slices of fat pork (salt) and fry a good crispy brown in the kettle in which you intend to make the stew, then add four good, large parsnips, which should have been pre- viously cleaned and soaked in cold water for some time; lengthwise and quartered, one-fourth inch enough hot water to cover; add Cook slowly for about Just before serving add a pint of hot milk and a few crackers split, on top, and you have a dish fit for a king and very inexpensive. ORANGE MARIE. t oranges, eight Eigh dates, stoned and chopped; one table- ul. coconut, one table- spoonful raisins, one tablespoon- ful chopped walnuts. Cut off tops of oranges. With a sharp paring knife hollow out & small portion of each orange near the top., Then work the knife around to lift out pieces of the remaining pulp, until orange shell is clean. Mix orange pulp swith dates, coconut, raisins and nuts. Return to erange shells. Place oranges in a baking dish with one-half inch of water in bottom of pan. Bake in a slow oven for 45 minutes. Take out of oven and put on each orange a spoonful of meringue made from: One egg white, stifly beaten; one teaspoon sugar. Sprinkle meringue with coco- nut and return oranges to oven to brown. Serve hot or cold. A marshmallow may be used to top each orange in place of meringue. (Copyrisht, 1931.) 1level teaspoon Rumford 1 tablespoon floar right consistency. Heat butter in finely chopped bacon to dough. 2 cups cooked spinach (chopped) 2 tablespoons grated onion 1 cup dry bread crumbs 1ege. beaten 5 Co., leas lkfll:. CLIP COUPON AND MAIL TO s & Ceresota Flour Not Bleache e e e e e o e e TWO-TO-ONE LEAVENER TWO-TO-ONE LEAVENER' “Well! of all things! SPINACH Pancakes them—you will find that they taste as good as they sound SPINACH PANCAKES Pinch of salt 1 can spinach or use freshly cooked spinach Beat eggs, add Rumford previously sifted with flour and salt. Then add spinach, which mrst be well drained and squeezed out to give NANCY PAGE I When a Girl' Sends Valentines to Boys. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. As it neared Valentine's Day the |a conference. | Should they send valen- tines to all the boys they knew? Should they send any? Should they send senti- mental ones, foolish ones, cheap ones, expensive ones; Deep down in each | girl's heart wa& the desire to send a | special valentine to a special boy, but was it wise? Shouldn’t the first expres- sion of feeling come from the boy? Wesn't there the possibility that the boy might receive special valentines |from a number of girls? Suppose the boy was embarrassed by the attention, especially when he planned to favor some other girl with his special valen- tine. Oh, the girls could see all sorts of dire possibilities. They wished that they might be as | frank and open in sending a valentine to a boy as they would be in sending one to & girl, but they realized that such a thing was impossible. Tradition and sex play a large part in the growth of conventions and actions of which | Mrs. Grundy can approve. One girl suggested that the valentine be sent to the boys anonymously or with disguised handwriting on the en- velope, but fortunately the other girls had sense enough to see how furtive stich an action would be. Were they glad they decided against sending valentines to boys? Well, rather. Especially when they saw what theix big brothers did with the ones they received. The boys showed them around to other boys and girls as proofs of their popularity. and boasted of their conquests, ‘Thank goodness. the Good Taste Club girls were not held up to ridicule nor had they lost their self-respect. Creamed Salt Pori. Slice the pork about one-fourth inch thick, pan broil it, then remove to & | hot serving dish. ¥or eight slices, pour off all but one or two tablespoonfuls of the fat, then with this and one or two tabl fuls of flour and one cupful of milk make a thin or medium white sauce. Pour it over the hot pork or lay the pork slices on top of the sauce. Do not allow to stand, as the pork will soften. Pan-fried pork may be cut into half-irich squares before mixing with the sauce. This is°n savry dish and good to serve with griddle cakes or in a ring of rice or potatd. “The slices should be placed on the ring. Cheese Salad Dressing. Add one beaten egg yolk to one c\fiul of cottage cheese and stir well. Add half a cupful of salad oil to one teaspoonful of mustard, half a tea- spoonful of salt, two tablespoonfuls of | vinegar or lemon juice, and a little | paprika. Beat all together well. A smoother dressing can be made from cottage cheese which is made with Junket in place of using cottage cheese. This dressing would be somewhat like a stiff mayonnaise. Good Taste Club girls went into many | and SPINACH skijlet and bake like small pancakes. ‘Tarn over earefully to brown lightly on other side. If desired, add SPINACH BALLS 2 tablespoons grated chesse 1 tesspoon Rumford Baking Powder Also 1 egg, and erumbes, in which to dip balls before frying Combine all ingredients and let stand 10 minutes to swell bread erumbs. Shape into balls. Beat second egg in bowl in i eup water. Roll balls in erumbs, dip them into the egg, then roll them in the erumbs again and fry in deep fat till brown. Drain on soft paper. These two unusual spinach dishes will help take the ‘‘taboo™ off spinach...Send for the latest New Use Booklet ‘‘Giving Delicacy and Flavor to Daily interesting recipes for Rumford cookery. THE RUMFORD COMPANY, Essoutive Offices, Rumford, R. L + ALL- PHOSPHATE Cooking’’—it’s free and full of BaxinG PowDERr Vi o R e THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX DEAR MISS DIX: I am married to a widower with one son, & boy of 10, who is very fond of me. Now, here is my trouble: People are always saying to me, “Don’t you object to your husband talking about his fir§t wife? Doesn't it make you jealous?” ‘The only way he ever mentions her is incidentally in telling me of some little incident that happened. He never throws her up to me. Another thing my friends say is that my little stepson should call me mother, I think that since he remembers his real mother, what he calls me is up to him, don't u? Do you think my friends are right in what they say? MRS. G. C. Answer. No. I think your friends are & fine bunch of meddlers and mischief makers, and that the less you listen to them the better for_your peace of mind and happiness. Why shouldn't your husband mention his first wife to you? Why shoulf he avoid her name in conversation as if it was offering you an insult for him even to refer to her? his past life had been associated with her. You knew that he had been married and that many years of His marriage to you did not eliminate everything that had happened from his memory, and you would be a perfect idiot if you resented his talking of the things that had taken place during that time. Certainly a widow or a widower is guilty of extremely bad taste if they are continually calling attention to the virtues of their first mates and instituting invidious comparisons between them. Naturally any woman would resent her husband telling her how much better bread his first wife made than she did, or that his dear dead Maria ran the house on air and never had but one hat a season. Nor would any second husband enjoy having his wife fling her first husband in his teeth and reproach him for not making much money as darling John did, or forbid his smoking because John never smoked. But for a husband or wife to get jealous because a spouse tells about the time he or she went up the Nile with Mary or John, or recounts what Mary or John did on some particular occadon is silly and unreasonable. It is the live rivals who are still on the job of husband and wife snatching that second wives and husbands have to fear. under a ton of granite in the cemetery. Not those who are tucked away Nor is there any reason for you to resent the little boy not calling you mother. Plenty of children call their mothers and fathers by their first names, or by some nickname, 80 it is no lack of affection or respect for you. Let him call you what he will. The only thing that is important is that there should be love in his voice, and there will be if you are tactful with him and kind to him. ’ DOROTH * % Y DIX. * % l)!AR MISS DIX: I have a fair trade in my beauty shop and live very nicely on my own money, but I am very muchs in love with & young man who has asked me to marry him as soon as he is earning a fair living. I have set the mark of $145 per month, but his prospects are poor for reaching that figure. Would you suggest that we get married and I keep on with my work? My job is monotonous and I have sworn that I would never do it after I married. Do you think I would be satisfied to live on the little he now makes? HELEN, Answer. T should certainly advise you to stick to your beauty shop after you are married if your prospective husband is making so little. It 1s easy to accustom ourselves to luxuries, but hard to learn to do without them, and.after you have been used to pretty clothes and dainty belon"l.nn and good food you will find it sl very disillusioring to have to come down to things that you enjoy. bbiness and doing without all the As for your work being dull and monotonous, so is all other work by which we earn a living, and, believe me, you won't find it any more thrilling to scrub pots and pans than you do shampooing heads, nor is there anything more exciting in polishing a cook stove than there is in polishing figernails. And there is a lot more money and less labor in one than in the other. Girls who marry poor men because they are tired of mDO for a Junatfc asylum, are fit inmates Y DIX, (Copyright, 1931.) A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK BY HERBERT PLUMMER. JNE of the most mild-mannered and quiet men in the United States Senate—Arthur Capper of Kansas—has ahead of him a task that bids fair to assume staggering proportions. He is chairman of a subcommittee of the Senate Agri- culture Committee which will' inquire into food prices. ‘They will try to de- termine, for exam- ple, why the price of bread has not followed the price of wheat down- ward. Since he first of- fered his resolution to conduct an in- quiry into bread prices in the Dis- trict of Columbia, the scope of the inquiry has been so widened that before his committee gets through a general food investigation may be had. ‘The Senate already has authorized the Capper Committee to look into the situation as regards sugar. There are pending resolutions which would in- clude milk and all dairy products, as well as meat and meat products. With a trained investigator and $15,000, Senator Capper and his com- mittee already are hard at work. ‘The Kansas senator has & back- ground which will doubtless be of value to him in this investigation. Before he became a member of the Senate he sat in the press galleries of Congress as correspondent for a metropolitan dally newspaper. In fact, he has been in turn a type- ELINOR GLYN world-famous writer on romance #GLADYS and HELEN write me that they’re ‘ugly ducklings.’ How ean they hope to win love? “Girls, many of the most fascinating women of history have been plain. But they’ve had the charming self-confidence that utter femininity gives a woman. And men have been fascinated by it. “Such POISE isfar more potent than beauty. And it’s.a quality every girl can win. “Clothes can help you. Clothes affect YOU even more than they affect those who see you. LINGERIE, especially, when it is colorful and exquisite, makes you feel ut- terly feminine and confident of charm. And ings self-confidence is contagious! this little recipe is so helpful to poise— 1. Choose the daintiest lingerie you can. setter, reporter, Washington correspond- ent, proprietor of a weekly paper, and then editor and publisher of powerful dailies and widely-read agricultural and political magazines, It was not until he reached the age of 47 that he entered politics. After one defeat he was chosen governor of Kansas—the first native-born chief executive of that State—and after two terms in that office came to the United States Senate. In has centered his attent tural problems. He was the.. grain futures act, de: mbling in the grain mar) othicr farm laws. s, @ly thin, with fine gray of the most in- conspic inj the Senate. He rarely on the floor. He is a great lover of children, and has done things for the children of Kansas which have endeared him to the hearts of many. Every year-he “adopts” the entire juvenile population of his county for one day. His first “birthday party” was given July 14, 1910, and each year since then he has invited all children of the county to a fete in a Topeka park, throwing open every concession booth to them. He holds open an offer to any crip- | pled child in Kansas to come to & Kan- sas City hospital at his expense, and his benevolences in' this direction reach many children. He is also a governcr of Moosehart, the children’s home city maintained by the Loyal Order of Moose at Moosehart, I1l. The first known treaty of peace be- tween two nations, made between the Hittites and the Egyptians in 1280 B.C., was presented for the first time in parallel columns in 1920. can afford them. That's why 2. Always keep it color-fresh and lovely. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, “Don’t think your budget won’t include colorfil underthings. Tux they will stay NEW so long every girl “Ordinary ‘good’ soaps often fade and wear out delicate fibres, but Lux is made to keep colors adorable, silks soft and new. “AT HOME too:—Charming surround- give you poise! You feel at ease when you know everything about you, from pretty draperies to colorful table linens, is fresh and new—as Lux alone keeps them,” 1931. T THE STAR’S - DAILY PATTERN No wonder so many smart women are adopting this new pajama 3 For instance, take this style No. 640 I've selected for y. It is a Paris replica. It is captivat- ing in fiat silk crepe in orangey-red shade. Trimming bands of red and of black crepe’ lengthen the effect of the ue bodice. ‘The jacket is lined in the black crepe. The trousers are extremely full and swing with the same grace as a skirt when wearer moves. This adorable new pajama model can be had in sizes 14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust. Sapphire blue silk crepe with acqug- marine blue crepe bodice which aj again in coat lining is chic with darker blue. For a pattern of this style send 15 cents in stamps or coin directly to The Washington Star's New York Fashion of | Bureau, Pifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, New York. DAILY DIET RECIPE APPLES STUFFED WITH SWEET POTATO. Baking apples, six. Sweet potatoes, six. Pineapple juice, one cup. Butter, two tablespoonfuls. Salt, one teaspoonful. Marshmallows, six. SERVES SIX PORTIONS. Core apples. Rub apples and potatoes with vegetable fat and bake them without peeling about 25 minutes, or until both are ten- der. The apple skins should not be broken. Let both cool until easy to handle. Peel potatoes and mash thoroughly. Scoop out apple pulp, leaving peeling un- broken. Mash apples well and combine with potato, pineapple juice, salt, butter. When mixture is well blended fill apple skin with it. Top with marshmallow. Bake in oven about 10 or 15 min- utes until heated through and marshmallow is lightly browned. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes fiber, starch, some fat and sugar, lime, fron, vitamins A and B. Can be given to children 10 years and over. Can be eaten by normal adults o average or under weight. If you wash them in ELINOR GLYN silk and lace damsged. Dissppointing! If it’s safe h it’s just ag safe in LUX ’ ) ¥ FEATUR A Kind of Fuilure. One of the best things that ever hap- pened to me was losing a certain job. Of course I didn't realize it at the time. Instead I felt pretty badly about it. And several years passed before I realized that Fate instead of d me a blow dulne me 1 n my earlie days of work, wanted, above allly prepares advertis- poien Woodward. ing for a number of different products. I had already written & little advertising about books, and everybody told me that only in agency could I really learn the busi. ness. Imagine, then, my delight when, through the help of & friend, I finally did get a job in a very lively agency. My work was to order engravings for ires in the ads; also to look out ting of booklets. chance to write copy for the ads 48 soon as possible. A Sermon for Today BY REV. JOHN R. GUNN. “As Long as I Live.” “I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live.”—Ps. 104: 33. We frequently hear people use the phrase, “as long as I live,” making some foolish declaration in connection with it. For instance, I recently heard one say of another whom he felt had wronged im, “I'll never forgive that man; I'll hate him as long as I live.” No matter how badly wronged, I should not want to tie myself up to such 4 life-long program of unforgiveness and hate. One who does that spoils for himself the romance and joy of living, and filis the cup of life with the bitter- est dregs. There is nothing that so de- grades life as clinging to one’s grudges and hatreds. When we make a lifetime commit- ment to & thing, it should be something that will not us, but 1ift us up. In the text, David commits himself to a program of song and praise unto the Lord, to ‘which he declares his purpose to adhere as long as he lives. We know what that exalted committal did for David. It him to rise above his enemies. It saved him in many a time of temptation, trial and trouble. When he was cast down by affliction and adversity, it lifted him up and set him on his feet again. It was this committal that kept his harp and voice in tune. We have the fruits of it in his psalms, which through the centuries have so blessed mankind with their sweet melodies and heavenly aspirations. A man ought to have a life program, some high and noble to which he is committed for as otherwise there will iffe will appear and void, and when he will be tempted to let himself drop down to the lower levels of the flesh and the world around In life, we encounter all sorts of things, things that irritate us, that e us, that e Bread Balls. Heat two and one-half table oroughly mixed. 3 n _drop small pieces from the tip of a spoon The Woman Who Makes Good BY HELEN WOODWARD. Who started her career as a frightened typist and who became one of the highest paid business women in America. ES. were kind and everything looked rusy. But alas, although 1 understood about engravings and printing, when it came to handling the work on & large scale T was hopelessly incompetent. I was far too careless. I could not keep order in my records. I got very frri- table and lost my temper. In six weeks 1 was such a complete failure that I resigned. My resignation was accepted with unflattering promptness and with visible relief. I felt a miserable despair. My one big chance was gone. Well, 1t was several years before I a job With an agency again. In meantime T had been writing advertis- ing about books and magazines for pub- lishing houses. And to my amazement I found that agency work was child’s play for me. It turned out that selling one thing to the public was very much like selling another, except that it was harder to sell books because people don’t need them. And it was easier to sell pots and pans or condensed milk because people have to have those things. So I was actually further along because I had not made good at that first job than if I had. I had learned how to sell books, which was hard. Now I had to sell canned foods, which was easy. That's the way it is in all lnes. Something which at first glance looks wonderful to you turns out not to amount to much. And & seeming disas- ter winds up as something very good. So don't be too discouraged if an ap- parent failure comes along. Many & girl fails at one job because she’s better fitted for something else. Don't sit down and say, “I'm no good.” Instead say, “Well, T can’t do that. Now what can I do?” (Copyright, 1931 Girls having probiems in connection their work may write to Miss Woodward, in care of this paper. for her personal advice. tucky Ave. SE., Washi was feverish and quite found he was constipated. “A friend told me about achy, constipated children is | California Pig Syrup. Give it at bad breath, | first: sign of tongue, listlessness feverishness. or its use; digestion is assisted; | stomach and bowels are given tone |and strength. For fifty years, doctors have en- this Y:" vegetable ‘The genuine is always marked by the word California. Look for that when buying or you may get an imitation. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP LAXATIVE-TONIC for CHILDRE| | (Below) Lingerie washed 12 times in Lux— color fresh and unfaded, silk and lace like new. 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