Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1931, Page 29

NANCY PAGE Well Set Table Is Real Accomplishment. BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. As the new maid showed her sketches of proper table set-ups to Nancy, her ive employer, she e T Gihes and” Siver wets vinced.as they were. “You see, Mrs. Page, at luncheon time we used lace dollies and runners. Our napkins were luncheon size and edged with the same kind of lace as was used for the table cover. “We folded the napkin as shown and . placed it at the left of the luncheon ork. This fork is the size known as deasert. For this lunch we planned a cream soup, a ‘made’ dish or entree ‘Wwith vegetables, a salad and a dessert LUNCHEON- course. We brought the silver for the dessert, course in at the time the dessert was served. “The bread and butter plate with butter knife placed squarely across it 18 at the tip of forks. We used a goblet, rather than a tumbler. The round bowled soup spoon is at the outermost right beyond the dessert knife (which is used for the main course) and the tea knife, which is the size we were told is proper for the salad. “In setting up the dinper we used a damask cloth with napkins to mateh, ‘The napkin was felded into thirds one ‘way.and then into fifths the other way. “We placed a small container (either silver or glags) for nuts close to the seryice plate on the right. We uefl the goblets for water and for miner: ‘water or a beverage, such as raspberry "We used the fish, dinner and salad | B g Senators are compelled to work is Dr.|to ceiling. dinner knives, At the right of the fish knife we placed the large-bowled soup spoon. The dessert silver and the after ns we were trained to bring in at the mrmutmmummul. this mee 3 1, Page?” rlmv:yz ;lltdhml: . Hougehold Methods BY BETSY CALLISTER. “Please tell me how to remove stains from unpainted woodwork in the kitchen. Washing with soap and water only seems to darken the stamns.” So writes a “Puzzled Housewife.” The stains appear darker and larger because the hot water used to wash them melts the grease and drives it further into the wood. A fresh stain has been added. Old scrubbed with strong hot sods water. A _thorough cleaning of unpainted wood surfaces is best accompliched with the help of oxalic acid. Dissolve one teaspoonful of the acid to & eupful of , taking cere that it does not touch the hands. Dip an old brush in this solution and scrub the wocd thor- oughly with it. Let the wood dry and then rinse "léfl‘laclear "a;gr. SR Oxalic ac an unpleassnpf of n to have about and m%mxlfl sure to get rid of what jou have left over so that it can do no further damage. The best plan is to cissolve it and pour it down the drain. You may not even be able to buy it at your drug will doubt- store. If not your Jess be able to provide you with some- thing to use instead. (Copyright, 1031.) MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST, Stewed Apricots. Prepared Cereal with Cresm. Bacon and Eggs. Popovers. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Baked Mu:aron‘i :Idml Cheese. Sugar _ Cookies. Tea. DINNER. Boutllon. Brolled Steak With Mushrooms. Escalloped_Eggplant. Baked Potatoes. Sweet, Pepper Salad. Prench Dressing. Rhubarb Pie. Che: Coffee. POPOVERS. Bift together 1 cup bread flour and one-quarter teaspoon salt; add graduslly seven-eighths cup milk, stirring constantly until & “smooth batter is formed 4 two eggs beaten until thick and jemon tinted and one-half tea- n olive oil or melted bulfitr. Beat with an egg bester ot least two minutes. Turn into buttered custard cups or iron gem cups and ‘bake 35 minutes in a hot oven. The thick and heavier cups are much better for this~ purpose. The strongest heat must come evenly from the bottom of the oven and cups if you wish the mixture to puff well and pop over. Serve hot. PRUNE SALAD. One-half pound large prunes, walnut _meats, mayonnaise, let- tuce. Soak the prunes in cold water to cover overnight. until tender, cool and carefully remove the stones, without mar- ring the shape of the prunes. Pill the cavities with quarters of wal- nut meats. Lay either three or four stuffed on each bed of shredded lettuce or white let- tuce leaves, Top with mayonnaise and serve very cold with browned crackers and cream cheese. salad may be varied by filling the runes with balls of cream or eufchatel cheese instead of nuts. RHUBARB PIE. cupful sugar and three crack- ers, rolled. Bake with two crusts in moderate oven. . (Copsright, 1991) . 0da | Corry “over ftheir physical condition, | must, be as patient in such things with et s “as with ‘ordinary human WOMAN’ 5. |DorothyDix a her i {Doro l THI most important thing in the world to a child is his mother's point of view, for it is through her ey m‘-‘t he first sees life, and the way she looks at things fixes the angle at which he sees them as long as he lives. If a mother is gay and eptimistic ane her children will meet whatever d_courageous, life brings them wi high but if mother is a dark-blue jmist her il de':‘pl’rm'l“ &r who will surrender to fate wi.t'hnua ever putting up a fight. 3 If & mother is ambitious, her children will be go-getters. If she is frugal and a good manager they will know how to save and how to get the most out of a dollar, but if she is one of th: women who have ne purposs in life, no gesire 1o achieve anything, who are self-indulgent and wasteful, her children Will almost invariably be the kind who take the easiest way and who never amount to & row of pins. It doesn't matter half so much in what circumstances a child is placed by fate as it does Wwhat his mother thinks about them. Whether even poverty is a curse or 8 blessing to a youngster d:pends upon his mother’s attitude toward it. Not very leng age I heard a very rich and sucecessful man say: “I know now that when I was a child we were very poor. I had so few eclothes that my mother used to wash at night the little shirt that I were to sechool the next day, but I was always clean and neat. I had to begin earning money almest as soon as I could walk, and I delivered papers when I was so little I could hardly reach a bellpull. We had sueh plain fobd that it was a gala day to be remembered for weeks when we had pie for dinner. «“But T never knew that I was peor because I never remember to have heard the subject mentioned in our family, My mother never whined and complained about what she couldn't have or beeause ghe wasn't as well off as other women or beeause she couldn't give us ehildren the advantages that rich parents could give their children, She was always cheerful and made our home the happiest Place in the world, and if we didn't have anything but stew and bread for supper we l&-utn ‘w zthe ‘accompaniment of so much laughter and good cheer that it made it a feast. “My mother never let us bhe sorry for eurselves, She never inoculated us with the virus of self-pity, as so many poor mothers do their children. She never let us feel that it was hard luck that we had to werk when other children played. She managed somehow to make us feel that we were superior to the poor little rich children who had to ask their parents for pennics, because we were clever enough to earn money ourselves. She made us feel that we were men and women while they were still children, I can remember being actually sorry for the little boys who didn't have newspaper routes and had nothing te do but to play marbles, while I was a responsible individual with what I cen- sidered an important job. “My mother never deplored the fact that she couldn't give us college educa- tions and that our father didn't have a bank that he could take us into as soon l.sb:ye wers grown. She never even intimated that poverty was a handicap to & boy. / “On tho ~ontrary, she talked to us continually about the boys who had be- come millionaires, about the boys who had no schooling, but who had educated themselves by reading and study; about the boys who had gone from behind plows and the towpaths of canals, from the humblest places, to the President’s ehair. The names of great doctors, lawyers, merchants., men of affairs who had | won their places were always on her lips, and it was just bred into us that we | could be like them if we were men enough to do it. “I often think of my mother and other poor mothers that I have known since—mothers who make failures of their children in their very cradles by bringing them up in an atmosphere of gloom that chokes out every hove and, as- piration and makes them feel that they are the victims of a malign destiny | against which it is no use to struggle. “It is their mcther's attitude toward marriage that is responsible for so | many youngsters rushing off to the divorce court before they give marriage half a tryout. Listen in on any convocation of mothers and you will hear them talking about the selfishness of husbands and the drudgery of housework and bt the unfaithfulness of men in general. “The result is that when some girls get married they live up to mother’s teaching, which is to get all and give nothing and to throw up their hands and quit when the sledding gets hard.” ROTHY DIX. (Copyright, 1931.) A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK . BY HERBERT PLUMMER. 'VER alert as tp the health and eon- | three large windows in the north wall ditions under which United States|of the chamber, reaching from floor: Other proposed changes Copeland of New York, himself a mem- | would completely alter its present ap-| ber of the Senate. pearance. 'rhe!docwr i.ld a| Sentiment, economy, Inck of definite veritable crusader | proof that present conditions are actu- in this matter of| gy unhealthful, stop the doctor at every turn. At present he is rather diseouraged. His colleagues have laugh- ed his propositions out of court. K “Go ahead,” he has told them. “I| will outlive a lot of you anyhow. But if anything happens, remember I told you—" SONNYSAYINGS BY FANNY ¥, CORY. a you Senators,” (is constantly try- ‘"fie to make his t:colleagues surround themselves with conditions _eondu~ ealth. and he sounds it at every possible op- | portunity. | His_col s hear him good natur- | edly, laygh @ great deal about his con- crack jokes when he flm serious about the thing, and generally allay his fears with grins. But the doctor plugs on, bt less, firmly helieving that one For a long time Copeland has railed | and roared about atmospheric condi- tions in the Senate chamber. The lack of natural light there frightens him. He is sure that just as a plant brought up in the dark becomes a white, with- ered thing, so is the blood of every Senator being whitened and lowered in its vigor by his being compelled to live | under conditions prevalent in the Sen-| ate chamber. | He points to the fact that since he has been in the Senate 36 or 37 mem- | Ofu( o bogz :;;';me& add, “the “Of course.” ns , “the | Oh, Baby! What if Santa Claus majority of them, no doubt, would have |, OF; BRO¥L WAL s | ‘hope: ’x‘.‘h‘}u:'n"f'-&’.;#é‘.‘.’ e shortened | Caves in on him!" It aren't his fsult you got spanked. ving these itions.” L i e (Copyright, 1931.) What he points to with somethi) akin to horror is that the light whicl fioods the Senate ehamber from the | ceiling is artificial. The only natural light coming into the chamber is just the little which filters through the doorways at the east and west en- “More sky shine,” he pleads—"more sky shine—" A real difficulty confronts the doctor in his crusade for the thing called sky shine. To get it, it would be neces sary to tear up the whole Senate cham ber. t, his less health-con. sclous colleagues say, is something un speakable. In order sky, it would be necessary to construct | THE STAR’S AILY PATTERN SERVICE A chic little tailored model with the French guimpe effect that youth adores. It'’s charming in pilot blue light- weight woolen with lighter blue flat crepe. The belt is suede in a still deep- er blue shade, The circular skirt, eut with gores, gives that flatness over the hips so modish. The pattern also provides for long sleeves. Style No. 2964 may be had in sizes 12, N,tls, 18, 20 years, 36 and 38 inches us It's indispensable for sports in wool Jersey with pique contrast. 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