Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1931, Page 48

New Rugs and Carpets {Those Selected Should Harmonize With Plan of Room—Pattern Determined by Type of Furn- iture—Styles Represented in Work. WHE.'I’HER you select your rugs or carpets, you should be governed by the same principles. They must be appropriate to the room in which they are to be used. A rug or carpet that Jooks well in a living room would mot be suitable to use in a bed room. The colors must harmonize with the plan of the room. Certain color schemes in floor coverings will impart the cheeri- ness and warmth that is needed for a northern exposure, and certain other color schemes will cool off and refresh a room & southern exposure. Other floor coverings can make a room look larger or smaller than it actually is, or make it look higher than it is. ‘The pattern in a rug or carpet must harmonize with the type of furniture used. Large, massive furniture re- quires an accompanying large-pat- terned rug, whereas a conservatively patterned rug is in keeping with the more delicate periods of furniture. ‘The rug in general must follow the rule of being darker and duller than the curtains or walls. With a large patterned floor covering, use plain walls, and then, if wish, a design in your curtains. ith a figured floor covering, a deli- cately patterned wall and subdued de- signed or plain hangings may be used. It is on account of the rather difficult art of balancing pattern against pattern that many people prefer plain carpeting, | pensive, but be careful not to confuse them with genuine Orientals. the following rugs it is also well to re- member that a rug which looks well in the bed room is not suitable for the hall or living room. When making any of these rugs take care that the colors in the rug blend nicely with the color scheme of the room. A very pretty rug can be made by using simple colors for the center and darker colors for the border. the colors used in the border to blend with those in the center. that can be used in making these floor coverings. Beautiful crochet, knit or hooked rugs can be made from old socks and stockings, or old knit underwear, or bathing suits. Material that cannot be used for making crocheted, hooked or knitted rugs may be used for making a bralded rug. Feed sacks, which can be obtained from your grocer for the asking, will make a nice, warm rug to place at your bedside. These feed sacks can be dyed any solid color, and Wwill give the imgres;lun of a fur rug. Also look throug! out the colors that would help in mak- ing & rag rug. make, and it is very good looking. All FOOD PAGE. FOOD AND THRIFT IN THE HOME To get the best results when making Of course, it is necessary for ‘There is a great variety of material your plece bag and sort Sack Rugs. ‘This is the easiest of the rugs to THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, Plain Facts, BY MISSIS PHYLLIS. NOW be it known that when you say that a dinner is a good one to serve company, that doesn't mean that it isn't a good one to serve to a mere family. In this case, however, unless you have a fairly good sized family, it would be better to buy a thick slice of ham than a whole half. It can be cooked in almost the same way and served with exactly the same sort of things: Shrimp and Oyster Cocktail. Baked Half Ham. Buttered Onions. Potatoes au Gratin. Hot Rolls. Stuffed Fig Salad. Coconut Custard Pie. Coffee. Have you ever served a_coconut pie for a company dessert? Perhaps not, because lots of people never think of it. But it is a popular pie, as you will see if you watch it disappear at cafeterias. If you are afraid that there may be some guest, or if there is a member of the family who doesn’t care for coconut, light-weight material will make a good- sized rug. These rugs are reversible | and washable. Braided. A braided rug is made by cutting ma- terial of any kind or color into strips about an inch wide and braiding the strips together. If heavy-weight ma- terial is used, it may need to be only half an inch wide, while a very light- weight material will need to be about two inches wide. After cutting all the strips that you will need, fasten the Fancy Food that is easily arranged. Don't add co- conut to the ple filling, but sprinkle it generously over the top of the ple. It may then be very easily pushed aside without attracting any attention. Also, this is a good pie to serve if there are children to come to the table. ‘You may without too much trouble make them small custards in individual ple dishes and without any crust. They will not feel slighted and will not mind the difference between their “pie” and yours. Of course one doesn't ordinarily begin at the end of a meal, but while we are on the pie question we may as well take down the recipe. For coconut custard pie you will need one unbaked pie shell, one-half tea- spoonful vanilla, three eggs, three cups milk, one-third cup sugar, one-half or one cup coconut, one-fourth teaspoonful salt, one-fourth teaspoonful nutmeg. ‘This will be enough for one large, deep pie. Or for one medium-sized pie and two or three small custards for the children. When you put the dough in the pie tin build it up high around the sides, so that the filling will not run out and the pie may be deeper. A ome-crust pie grows more and more attractive as it grows deeper and deeper. You may use four eggs if you want a richer or more nourishing filling be- cause of the children. Add coconut to the custard before you put it in the oven, if you like, and sprinkle a bit more over the top. Toast the coconut in the oyen before putting it on the pie, if you prefer. Don't bake the ple too fast. Have the oven at about 425 to start with, but after 10 minutes lower it to 375 and FRIDAY, finish baking at that tangentmv It is done when the crust is browned and when 8 silver knife blade thrust into the custard comes out clean. It will take about an hour to bake. Serve cold. You may get a very good cocktail sauce for shrimp and oyster cocktail at the grocery store nowadays, put up in bottles, Or make your own by mix- ing tomato catsup, chili sauce and ta- basco sauce to a piquancy to suit your In the bottom of the cocktail glass put one raw oyster. Fill with shrimps (whole) and cocktail sauce which have been mixed and chilled. Put one large oyster on top and a parsley plume. Serve very cold with a wafer or two, if you like. Bofl your ham slowly in unsalted water for about three hours or until the skin is loose and the bone cracks. Re- move to a platter and peel the skin off the top. Score the fat in small squares or diamonds. Stick a whole clove in each square. To cook nicely a half ham will have to be baked (after the boiling process) two and a half or three hours. Make a paste of three tablespoonfuls of flour, five tablespoonfuls of brown sugar and a little ginger ale. Put this paste over the top of the ham and pour the rest of the bottle of ginger ale in the pan. The ham will brown beauti- fully and have a lovely, shiny top as well as an excellent flavor. If you were using a slice of ham, it wouldn’t need to be boiled. Soak it for half an hour in cold water. Then dot with cloves and sprinkle over it a little brown sugar. Pour the ginger ale around it and baste occasionally. Use ham about an inch and a half thick. Serve in slices cut from top to bottom, not crossways. If you use the half ham and have some left, grind or chop it and make croquettes. Make a very thick white sauce and add ham. Let cool. Shape into patties, dip in flour, then beaten egg, then bread or cracker crumbs and fry in deep fat. If you hawe some of the left-over ground ham left, make French-fried sandwiches. Trim crusts of bread, spread one piece with mustard and the MARCH 13, 1981 g:!::!r with the ham mixed with creamed iy Press the pieces of bread tightly to- gether to make a sandwich, dip in beaten egg to which milk has been added, and fry as you would French toast. Serve with tomato sauce or with a cream sauce to which two tablespoon- fuls of tarragon vinegar have been added. Use the black California figs for your stuffed fig salad. Cook until soft and tender. Cool. Split and stuff with cream cheese and nuts. Serve with French dressing. The cheese is nicest if beaten with a little cream until quite frothy. ‘Then mayonnaise and nuts should be added just before serving what you will find to be a delightful salad, very. un- usual and tasty. To Make Cloth Dolls. When making cloth dolls or animals for the baby, first make and stufl -.ni inside form of muslin or cheesecloth, and over this it a gingham cover, which may be easily removed and laundered. Use colored buttons for eves and for Peter Rabbit's jacket. These are quick- ly replaced if the outside cover is sep- arate from the form. Breakfast DULL? try New Cereal today HEINZ Breakfast Wheat with nut- like flavor delights children. Supplies energizing nutriment, vitamins and mineral salts of rich whole wheat— also natural ‘‘vegetable effect’” of- fered formerly in Heinz Rice Flakes only. Exclusive feature, process patented by Heinz. Try both cereals today. " HEINZ BREAKFAST WHEAT with new "Vegetable Effect erely“ runes --but not ‘as usual” Cook and pit the required amount of prunes. Drain and set aside to cool. Thin 3 tablespoons of Hip-o-lite sery but here there is danger of monotony. With a plain floor covering either the wall or the drapery must be figured. In rare cases, both wall and drapery may be figured, but in such a case the wall design should be subordinate to the drapery pattern. ‘The old-time carpet has come into favor again. Even unadorned, a car- zet produces & good effect because it & means of obtaining an unbroken expanse of floor space in a room o small proportions, and it is easily cleaned by use of a vacuum cleaner. Beauty and Service. ends of three strips together and braid | them into a plain braid half an inch wide. When you have reached the end of one strip, place another strip on the end and continue to braid until you have enough to make your rug of the right size. When all the material is braided, sew the material into shape with a large needle and No. 20 thread. ‘To shape, lap back the end of the braid 18 inches and sew together. Lay this flat on a table and continue to sew around and around until the rug is as large as you want. Take great care to keep the rug perfectly flat while sewing, also be careful when blending the col- |ors. Braid all the strings of one color | before starting with another color. This will make the rug striped when the braids are sewed together. Linoleum Rugs. There are two special kinds of lino- leum on the market. One kind is printed and the other kind is inlaid, the difference being that the pattern is only printed upon the surface of the nn{-memltmed. while the colors in the inlaid linoleum are carried by a definite process straight through to the back. The design wears off from printed lino- leums but not from the inlaid. To pre- serve printed linoleum, use floor varnish | on it once or twice a year, but give your inlaid linoleum only a monthly coating of high-grade floor wax polish. An old discarded linoleum rug can be made into a very good rug for a sun porch. First, clean and trim the edges smoof ey are broken or frayed, the strip about half an inch wide. When | and eut into Sar $i05 ray St you tany cutting the ribbed part, a three-eighths- | like. Coat with a good porch paint in inch strip will be wide enough, and| any desired color. One coat will be when cutf silk hose. allow only five- | enough, then dry. For a border, if you eighths inch for the width. do not care to buy & stencil, cut one Cut the ends of the strips into points | from stiff brown jper or cardboard and sew together, being careful to lay|and paint over e stencil pattern, e ponts Sat when plecing, then | using a contrasting color. There are stretch the strips until they look round | many colorful transfers that you can like thread. Roll each color into & sepa- | buy for decorating. At last over all rate ball. With your crochet needle|apply a good clear floor varnish. make a chain 18 inches long, turn, and make a single crochet stitch in each To Store Rugs. stitch of the chain. Continue to go| Use care in storing your rugs, espe- around, blending the colors as you go. | cially Orientals and others. Clean them | When turning at each end of the rug, | first, then roll tightly over a pole. | add a few extra stitches each time 50 | Wrap in heavy paper that can be sealed as to make the rug perfectly flat. Two|at both ends. Store in a clean, cool, | and one-half pounds of any kind of |dry place, up off the floor. | you will need are five good feed sacks. | Those that have no brand prints on | them are best to use. If the sacks are not clean wash them in warm soapy water, Use one sack for a flat founda- tion for the rug, then cut from the other sacks some strips three inches wide and ravel out one and one-fourth inches on each side of the strips, leav- ing half an inch unraveled down the center of each strip. Take the strips you have raveled and double in the center. ¥Turn the raveled edges out and stitch the strips to the foundation, starting at the edge and mnnnuln: to | sew one inch apart until you have Wiltons.—This rug gives the impres- | covered the entire foundation. The slon of luxury and comfort because it |raveled-out strips ,will stand up and has & thick, heavy body and the pile or| ®ok like If you do mot D e e, W | You may dye the fnished rug any color tinction to any Toom on account of its | YOU like. good quality. It is also a very service- able rug and is especially suitable for & living room, hall or dining room. Brussels—This rug is similar to the ‘Wilton, but is not as luxurious because it does not have s heavy a body and because the pile or nap is known as a loop pile and does mot stand up as straight as does the cut pile found in the Wilton rug. However, the Brussels is less expensive than the Wilton and it may be used for the same purposes as the more expensive Wilton. It is some- what easier to keep tlean than the Wil- ton, but the pile of the rug is more liable to pull out, as it is in the form of a loop—that is, if the loops are caught on a nail or chair leg or clawed by a household pet they will pull out, but with careful treatment this is a good serviceable rug. is quite often Axminst tterned after hand-made Orientals. t does not compare with the Wilton in durability and weight of body, but it is & colorful rug, costing much less than the Wilton or Dty and has dura- Orient slightly with a bit of the fruit juice and add the prunes. 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