Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1931, Page 39

- WOMAN’S PAGE.’ “ Courtesies in Use of the Radio BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. you may not be just what is preferred most by another. Radio courtesy de- mand that a hostess should try to tune in on the numbers best liked by & guest, if the instrument is played during the time when a caller is present. Good form also suggests that the guest should waive her preferences, if she has any least inkling that the hostess wants especially to hear a certain num- ber at the time when she is at the home. A hostess should be very careful not to have radio talks going on while those in a room are trying to converse. conflict of voices and difference in sub- jects discussed is most confusing. It tires the brain. It is possible to have a mellow undertone of music during conversation and have this agreeable. Should it prove in the least disturbing, the radio should be turned off. The sound of & radio when not quite loud enough to have the talk or the music distinguishable in its entirety is very disturbing. The sound can be so egulated now that this is unnecessary. ‘Those who are in a room with the radio can have the sound agreeably loud in there without its intruding on the rest- fulness of other rooms. Good form also demands that no radio in a home should prove unpleasantly loud to neighbors, nor that it be on late at night nor very early in the morning, unless in so low | a pitch that it would not annoy. The pleasure of a radio is so great that those who have one can bring its messages of music or spoken words to their friends who are as yet without one. When some specially fine thing is transmitted, ask those who would en- THE EVEI‘}D‘TG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1931 SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY Y. CORY. It's all bery well for Tommy Tru- man to say they aren't nuffin’ to ‘at- riddle he ast me; but how kin he laugh off all ‘em sebens?— \ (“As I was goin’ to St. Ives I met a man wif seben wives, each wife had seben sacks, in each sack was seben cats, each cat had seben kits—Kkits, cats, sacks an’ wives, how many was goin’ to St. Ives?”) Everyday Psychology DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Why It Is More Important for a Wife to Hold Her Husband Than for a Husband to Hold His Wife. Dm MISS DIX—Why do you and all the other writers of advice to wives always stress the importance of the wife keeping herself neat and clean in her personal appearance, meeting heryhusband with a glad, sweet smile when he comes home of an evening and making herself an entertaining and sympathetic companion? Why don't you give the same advice to the mmunda?AD L Answer—We do. I know I am forever urging husbands to realize that no ‘woman can make a happy home alone and unaided and that it is just as much up to them to be little rays of sunshine as it is uj in season and out of season, I am perpetually exi to their wives. Furthermore, rting husbands to show their wives tenderness and appreciation, to tell their wives that they still love them and think them the greatets women in wife to be a mind reader and know it remind husbands that housework and beby-tending is a dull, monotonous the world, instead of expecting friend by divination. Also, I never ou.u’ou; and that they should break the strain by taking their wives out to places of amusement at least once a week. If I put the loud pedal on the necessity of wives keeping themselves attrac- interestes tive looking to their husbands and being 'd companions and making their homes places that men want to'stay in instead of places they want to get away from, it is for the very practical reason that wives are in more danger of losing their husbands than husbands are of losing their wives and because it is far more important for a wife to keep her husband than it is for a husband to keep his wife. WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office. I wish I could say something that would make women have the courage to | | g face this bald, bleak fact. Husbands and wives do not stand on an equality in marriage. Men have the best of it there, as they have it everywhere else in life. And this being true, wives have to make more effort to please their husban than husbands do to please their wives. Look the situation squarely in the eye, sisters. Aside from love and happi- ness, it is important for a woman to keep her home together because of its finan- clal side. Homemaking is her profession, the occupation by which she makes her living. Take that away from her and only too often she has no means of livelihood for herself and her children except what meager alimony she can When girls snapped rose leaves on gir] ds | their foreheads to test the sincerity of their loved ones? Savory Tomatoes. Put half a can of tomatoes into a pan in which bacon has been cooked, with a little of the gravy. Thicken FEATURES, WHENEVER a child d oesn’t eat; seems fretful, feverish, or can't sleep, a mother'sdutyseems twice as hard—unless she knows about Castoria. No mother can always guess what makes a child restless, but the remedy can always be the same. For Castoria has a soothing influence at REST[ESS, N HILDL any time. There's comfort in every drop of this pure vegetable remedy. There's nothing likeitin emergencies; nothing better for every-day use. When tiny tongues are coated or the breath is bad. Whenever there’s need of gentle regulation. Wise mothers are never without Castoria’s help. Is there a bottle in your medicine cabinet now? When you buy be sure to get genuine Castoria bearing the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher. joy it to listen in with you. The treat may be a symphony, a message from across the seas, a world-famed singer, violinist, etc. If such a ‘delightful in- vitation is accepted, etiquette demands that neither hostess nor guest talk dur- with flour, season well, and serve with « Children love its tastel the bacon, or sausage gravy may be| But _divorce does not break up a man’s life as it does a woman's. He goes |used and the mixture poured over on with his business just the same as he did before. He has all of his old oc- |sausage balls. - cupations and amusements. He has only freed himself of wife and chlldren.l extract from her ex-husband. BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Imitation-Suggestion. REGULATE THE TONE OF THE RA- DIO TO SUIT THE OCCASION. delight. It is sometimes made a nui- sance by lack of thought on the part of the person running it. Radio programs are so widely varied that every taste can be catered to. The very diversity indicates that what suits JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English. BY JOSEPH J. FRISCH. ‘THE MEN THAT CAUSED THE “TROUBLE WERE DISCHARGED. DESPITE THEIR AGITATION FOR SHORTER HOURS, AN HOUR STILL CONSISTS OF SIXTY MINUTES A. M. H—"The men that caused the trouble were discharged,” means “Not all the men caused trouble, but those that did were " “The men, who caused the trouble, were dis- c! ” means “All the men caused the trouble and were discharged.” Note commas in the second sentence. Send a stamped, return envelope for Polly's leaflet on “Who, That and Finger ing the period of transmission. The hostess will add greatly to the pleasure | of such an occasion if after the radio entertainment she has tea, if in the aft- ernoon, or some light refreshments in the evening, while the program is dis- c (Copyright, 1931.) MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Orange Julce. Cereal with Cream Puffy Omelet Graham Mufins Coffee LUNCHEON. Baked Stuffed Tomatoes Cloverleaf Rolls French Crullers Tea DINNER. Baked Shad, Sliced Lemon Riced Potatoes Creamed Onions Cucumber Relish One cupful graham flour, one- half cupful wheat flour, one ta- blespoonful lard, one tablespoon- ful sugar, two teaspoonfuls bak- ing powder, salt, one egg and about two-thirds cupful milk. Bake in muffin tins. FRENCH CRULLERS. Put one cupful boiling water, two level tablespoonfuls sugar, & grating of orange rind and one- fourth cupful butter over the fire; when boiling sift in one cup- ful sifted pastry flour and stir and cook to a smooth ball of paste; turn into an earthen dish or bowl and beat in one after another three eggs. Beat the mixture smooth between each ad- dition of an egg. Drop from a tablespoon, in as smooth shape as possible, into hot fat; turn often and cook until well puffed up and browned. on soft paper. MERINGUE. Mix one cupful sugar with four tablespoonfuls cornstarch and the juice and pulp of two lemons, stir the mixture into one quart boiling water and cook in a dou- ble boiler for 15 minutes, stirring constantly. Chill, ur over sliced and sweeten oranges, cover with the whites of three eggs beaten until stiff with three tablespoonfuls wdered sugar and flavored with vanilla, and brown lightly. Serve cold. -Prints on Woodwork ’S awful how quickly your woodwork gets smeared and soiled with finger-prints. Don’t worry. There’s a quick and easy way to get it clean—a tablespoonful of Gold Dust in a pail of water. In no time at all, woodwork is spotlessly clean. Beware of harmful solutions. Let the work choose the soap. Gold Dust is the safe, sure cleaner touse for every dirty job. It’s at your grocer’snow. FOR DIRTY DIRT It is a great deal easier to work in a | group than to work alone, It is easier to be a disciple in a cult than to be its founder. It is easy to wear clothes that are in _vogue, despite their oddness. It is hard to pass a window where a group of people seem to have found something interesting to look at. It is easy to root at a ball game where everybody does some yelling. You want to attend the shows you bors about. terest to insinuations statements of fact. Two things account for these and for a great many other characteristics of your behavior. First, you are a born Second, you are always open to suggestion. Imitation-suggestion is the compound mechanism of most human behavior; it is the key to mind. Our similarities in behavior make us think we possess the same reason for behavior. And that reason is called | and agreeable companions to their husbands. the mind. whereas the woman is generally simply sunk, with the children hanging about her neck. Any woman is an idiot who does not realize that a man has far more tempta- tation to be unfaithful to his wife than she has to be unfaithful to him, and that in consequence of this the wife has to work harder to meet the competition than the man does. In addition to the women he meets socially, every man works nowadays in an office or store where he is brought into contact with married pretty, fresh, intelligent, snappy young doesn't meet two attractive young men a month. girls, but the ayerage woman The fact that & man is middle-aged and has a family doesn't keep girls from making eyes at him and, if he has any money, trying to vamp him and take him away from his wife. But no man casts an amorous glance at a fat, middle-aged woman with a pack of kids hnging to her skirts. Lastly, in case of divorce, the man can always marry again, and re-establish his life, but the woman who gets a divorce after she is 40 years old hasn't a 100-t5-1 shot at getting another husband. It is for these reasons, because it is so vitally important to a woman to keep her home together and because husbands are subjected to so much temptation and because every wife has to meet the e competition of younger and prettier women that I urge wives to keep themselves looking attractive and to be pleasant (Copyrigh DOROTHY DIX. t. 1931.) BY SALLY MONROE. 'RUIT is, and ought to be, one of the standbys of the child's diet. In earlier civilizations fruit has given chil- dren the sweet that now they get from candy. That is, until sugar was used, and unless honey was available, fruit gave children about the only sweets they had. You can imagine how they must have loved it, how greedy for its flavor they must have been. ‘The more you can satisfy the modern child's craving for sweets with fruit, the better. Surely it is more whole- some than much candy. For in addi- tion to sweet, it contains valuable min- erals and indispensable vitamnis. So if your children can be coaxed into eulrt.ln‘ fruit greedily, so much the bet- Oranges, of course, are excellent for children. While they are high priced, we must not be too generous with . But when they are cheap let the chil- dren drink all the orange juice they will. Let them eat halved oranges with a spoon. Let them have sliced and diced oranges for rt. Bananas are wholesome for most children. And for the child of 8 or 10 banana salad is & good luncheon dish. A couple of crisp pieces of lettuce, half a banana rolled in chopped peanuts, some French dressing and you have a delicious luncheon salad to serve in place of dessert. Grapefruit, too, is worth whatever attention you can afford to give. Fruit in Children’s Diet It is| of grapefruit, freed from really inexpgnsive at times and most children like the fruit. I have found that if let grapefruit stand out of the refrigerator for several days before using it becomes decidedly mellower, less -h:rr—qnd that's the way most children like it best. Apples, raw, are among the best fruits for children, and fortunately so, for they are among the cheapest, too. You can serve them in different ways to make them seem attractive. One way, for breakfast, is to remove the cores with a corer, wash the skin and then slice the apples in perhaps six crosswise slices. le them up ap- ple shaped. The children eat them slice by slice, paring the skin from a slice at a time. Or you may pare and core the apple and then cut it in long slivers, pile them on a plate and serve them. Cooked apples, too, are wholesome— baked and stewed and in apple sauce. The apple sauce may be flavor by adding whole cloves some- grated orange peel sometimes, 'mon juice some- core & prune or two with pits removed. Stewed nes are always good, al- ways a ble when other fruits are expensive. These may be given various aspects and flavors by serving them sometimes with stewed apricots—two or three prunes, two or three pleces of stewed, dried apricot or with segments three pieces or two of grapefruit with two or three prunes. - Sometimes children tire of stewed prunes. Then try preparing prunes in this way: Wash them thoroughly with hot wal and then soak them over- night in cold water. In the morning drain them and dry them on a clean cloth and serve three or four on a plate for each child. When Summer comes there is a whole new deal, so far as fruits are concerned. Rhubarb—if it isn't a fruit, at least we serve it in place of fruit— all the berries, cherries, plums, pears, peaches, grapes; children them all and can eat all of them with benefit }gfl:’:‘:heh“uh. so":o sure that you seasons as they progress with th;utlmelybefrulu * 'member, there are always some of the standbys to fall back on. 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That's the creamy cheese spread with a dash of olives and sweet pickle relish. There are all sorts of ways of arranging the sticks—on a round platter radiating, like spokes of a wheel, from a nest of olives or parsley, for instance. But I leave that to your own ingenuity. After-school s;ucb that don’t spoil dinner appetites Here’s a way of meeting those hungry kitchen raiders. If you are preparing a vegetable or fruit for dinner—say car- rots, cabbage or pineapple—grate a little and mix it with “‘Philadelphia” Brand Cream Cheese. This delicious cheese and vegetable mixture makes a light but very nutritious sandwich, ideal for afternoon snacks. We have made a booklet of Kraft Cheese recipes with detachable leaves to fit your filing cabinet. It’s yours— free! Address Home Economics Kitch- en, Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corporation, Dept. N, 400 Rush Street, Chicago, IIl. Division of National Dairy Products Corporation. > . +BY MARYEIDAHNKS