Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1931, Page 30

WOM AN’S PAGE. Crocheted Collars and Cuffs BY MARY It is smart to do crochet work, and it s even to wear crochet trim- ming on your dresses. There are the very smart crochet mesh yokes that were worn on beach dresses at the re- sorts last Winter by way of showing | that one could be quite modestly dressed | without foregeing the satisfaction of | having _sun-tanned shoulders and arms. THen there are the new fish-net sweaters, originated by Schiaparelli, that | are entirely hand-crocheted in a simple sort of chain stitch, joined together to | make Jarge open meshes. Now we have crocheted accessory col- | lars and cuffs to be worn on light- | weight wool or silk dresses. These sets | are made of wool yarn in white or light pastel tones. The set we show today is made of coarse net with an edge of | BEDTIME STORIES Knows When He Has Enough. Enough is all you ever need ‘And wanting more betokens greed. —Old Mother Nature, Having discovered where the nest of ‘Whitetail the Marsh Hawk was, Reddy Pox was satisfled for the present. He hadn’t actually seen that nest, for the bushes growing around it hid it from any one not looking down on it, but a telltale feather that had fallen from the tail of Mrs. Whitetail enabled Reddy to guess exactly where that nest was. He knew every inch of that little dry mound just a little way in from the lower side of the Old Pasture. “Mrs. Whitetail dropped that feather, for now I think of it I noticed a gap in her tail when she turned in the air,” thought Reddy. ‘That feather wasn't white. It was brownish, with dusky bars across it. The long feathers of the tail of ‘& Marsh Hawk are not white, but the short feathers that cover the base of the tail are pure white, making a white spot easily seen for some distance. So is neighbors call Mr. Marsh Hawk ‘Whitetail. Mrs. Whitetail is brown, while Whitetail himself is bluish gray, and he is smaller than his mate. ly didn't try to get any nearer that nest that day. “She is still sit- ting on eggs,” thought he. “If there were babies there she and Whitetail THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE Enhance your charm by wearing flat- tering jacket costumes. It 1s a season of jackets! The one sketched is in the soft green printed crepe In combination with plain green silk ground. The skirt shows slenderizing line in pointed hip yoke treatment. The Jacket is in popular hip I ; Style No. 3436 comes in sizes 14, 16, 18 years, 36, 38 and 40 inches bust. 4 yards of 3%~ tnch figured with 1% yards of 39-inch plain material. Navy blue flat crepe silk with white eyelet embroidered batiste is exceedingly ‘The 16-year size requires outhful. L Beige flat crepe silk is also & fash- fonable cholice. Wool jersey, tweed and shantung also suitable for this interesting sports model. For a pattern of this style. send 15 cents in :‘unpl or coin directly to The Washington Star's New York Fashion Bureau, Pifth avenue and 20th street, New York. You will see one attractive style after snother as you turn over the pages of our new Fashion Book. crepe that matches the | MARSHALL, crocheted wool. If you know anything about crocheting, you may easily make up your own design, and you can achieve an interesting color scheme by using two or three tones of color In your yarn. The- first row of crochet stitches may be of one tone, the second of a lighter tone of the same color, and the final edge of still another shade. You may, of course, .prefer to do the entire thing with white. ‘The edges of the collars and cuffs are turned under and basted to a nar- row hem. Then work a single crochet border in the edge of the hem. And then put on a scalloped edge. Household Methods BY BETSY CALLISTER. “Can you give me directions for m: ing dressing for white shoes from powdered white chalk?—A. B. W.” ‘There is a homemade white shoe dressing made from one and one-half ounces of gum arabic dissolved in forty ounces of water, one ounce of vinegar, and twenty ounces of powdered white chalk. You will have to use a graded measuring _glass to get the right ounts. Merely mix the ingredients id shake well before using. It is | applied with a brush or sponge. There are 50 many inexpensive white shoe dressings that can be bought at a rea- sonable price that it seems better to | use them than to go to the trouble | of making this. “Is there any way to take out perspiration stains from a dress?— Jane. Fresh perspiration stains may be taken out by washing the material in | & solution of one part ammonia to twenty parts water. If the stains have stood for some time use twenty parts water to one part oxalic acid. If your druggist will not sell the pure oxalic acid he will probably be willing to sell you the acid and water solution. These methods apply only to washable mate- rials. Otherwise there is no way of removing the stain. “Can you give me a recipe for making potato griddle cakes from grated raw potatoes?—M. C." Mix two and one-half cups grated raw potatoes with two slightly beaten eggs and add eight tablespoonfuls of flour that has been sifted with half teaspoonfui salt and three teaspoonfuls baking powder. Add just enough milk to make a batter of desired thickness and fry until brown on both sides on hot greased griddle. (Copyright, 1931) By Thornton W. Burgess. would be bringing food. I'll keep out of sight, so that they will not suspect that I know where their nest is and later, when the young are big enough to make it worth while, Ill watch my chance to get them.” So after that Reddy stole over there every few days to see what was going on. He knew when the eggs haiched by the excitement of Mr. and Mrs. Whitetail. His eyes gleamed and his mouth watered. After that he nt much time hidden in the bushes, where he could watch what went on around the Whitetail home, There were busy days for the Whitetails. Growing chil- dren require a lot of food and Mr. and Mrs. Whitetail were kept busy hunting from daylight to dark. At first one al- ways remained at the nest while the other was away. But as the young ‘Whitetails grew bigger they demanded more food and father and mother were forced to leave them alone at times, while both hunted. However, Reddy no- ticed that one or the other never was far away. One hunted near home while the other hunted far away across the Green Meadows. So Reddy watched and bided his time and planned how he would slip in when both Mr. and Mrs. Whitetail were away. How many babies there were he didn't ey VG REDDY DIDN'T TRY TO GET ANY NEARER THAT NEST THAT DAY. know, for not yet had he had & chance to look into that nest, but by their cries when food was brought he guessed that there were several. At last one morning Whitetail and Mrs. Whitetail left tfhe nest together and both headed for the Green Mead- v “Now i my chance,” thought Reddy. He slipped out from his hiding place, leaped lightly across the wet, open space to the dry mound where the nest was, and swiftly crept through the bushes. There was the nest and there were the young Whitetalls, quite filling it, their first feathers showing through the down. “One, two, three, four, five,” counted Reddy gloatingly, snd wished that Mrs. Reddy was with him. He hadn't ex- pected to find 50 many. He approached the nest and was just about to seize the nearest one, when there was a rush- ing sound, and before he could so much as turn_his head, he was knocked flat. Before he could get to his feet he was struck again, this time with a stout hooked bill that tore his coat and hurt. Mrs. Whitetail had caught a Mouse just after leaving and has returned in the nick of time. Screaming shrilly she pounded Reddy with her wings, and tore at him with claws and beak. He did his best to fight, but he didn’t have a chance. No sooner would he get to his feet than he would be knocked over again. Once he caught & wing in his teeth and held on despite the cruel blows from that hooked beak. It was then that with a hiss of wings Whitetail arrived and knocked Reddy slmost breathless. That was enough. All Reddy wanted now was to get away. He is no coward, but he knows when he has had enough and he had had enough now. For an in- stant he was free, and he took advan- tage of the opportunity. He dodged un- der & bush and then ran. As he crossed the wet, open space he was struck again, and rolled in the mud. Then he reached the bushes and safety. He had had more than enough. | | FOOD PROBLEMS BY SALLY MONROE. Turkish Soap. PFive cups brown soup stock, one and one-half cupe cold, sirained tomatoes; one teaspoonful celery salt, one anc | one-hait fuls flour, one- | quarter cup rice, ten peppercorns, one- half Wbly wn!ul butter, one small Cook the rice in the brown stock until quite soft. h_c;nml?e .1.:: tomatoes, peppercorns, el sal and cook for one-half hour. Combine for the stouf articles. two mixtures and strain. Blend the flour and butter, and stir this into the mixture. Season with salt and necessary, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, 'MODES SPRINGTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. ‘There are two sorts of gardens in Spring, those with narcissus in them and those without. I use the word ! narcissus in its botanical sense, thus stretching it to cover the enchanting tribe of the daffodils, the jonquils and the narcissi in the more Trestricted meaning, wherein they class the “paper white” and the polyanthus clan, All the great garden flowers have their maniacal followers. As between the rose fans, the iris fiends, the sweet pea, columbine, chrysanthemum and lily’ fanclers, there is little enough to choose. Those of us who cling to the now almost quaint old custom of “fancy- ing” the narcissus family, are select among_the select! 1 think my real reason for loving the whole fragrant, starry, faithful, color- ful lot of them is partly for associa- tion’s sake. They bring back the inno- cence of Greece in its earliest dawn. There is something classic about nar- cissus found in no other genus of plants under the sun. They represent the Springtime of human history. Still, in the Spring, though Greece is long dead, and the world is old and weary and anything but innocent now, they bloom for us with a pagan freshness and de- hght They have an enchanting way, these flowers, of bursting out of a papery, enveloping leaf calied a spathe, ~For this reason, they always seem to be sloughing off Winter's old coat, to be peering eagerly round the corner, to be forcing open a door, trying to peer in at you, crowding to look over each other’s shoulders, like children coming to_a costume ball. When they sre full blown, the nar- cissus tribe, more than all other flow- ers, seem poised, birdlike, in some airy flight, as they arch upward and for- ward on their frail, straight stems, with their petals curved back like wings ready to fly away. Then, too, they are built on the plan of six, which is also true of another of nature’s most ex- quisite marvels, the snow crystal. Of all symmetries, the plan of six is some- how the most satisfying. ¢, these are super-flowers, for, as it it were not enough to have even the sepals (which in most flowers are the green outer part of the flower, entirely modest and_unremarked) turned into petals, the flower is not content with whit2' or golden sepals and petals: it adds one more elaboration, the coronna or crown or tube at the center. In jon- quils this is only a little low ridge, col- ored like the petals; in the poet nar- cissus, it is a higher ridge, and is often brilliantly colored, as jn the pheasant’s | eye type. But in the daffodils it is drawn out into a long, golden trumpet, more conspicuously even than the sepals and petals, and often of a different tint from them. No other flower has, in addition to sepals_and petals, such & big, third, petal-like structure, so that the daffodil, like the passion flower, is unique in its | structure, and like the passion flower, | unique in its queenly splendor. H To all of this add the magical glory | of the fragrance of these flowers! The odor of three jonquils in a room is so powerful as to make people faint. Ice Cream Sauce. Caramelize one cupful of sugar, stir- ring it constantly as it first dissolves, in an fron frying pan, then darken. Add one cupful of hot water and stir until dissolved. Cook together two cupfuls of brown sugar and one cupful of water, making a thick sirup. Re- move from the fire and flavor with one teaspoonful of butter, two teaspoonfuls of vanilla and enough of the caramel- ized sugar sirup to suit the taste, or about two tablespoonfuls. MENU FOR A DAY, BREAKFAST. Orange Juice, Bran with Cream Bcrambled Eggs with Sausages Popovers, Coffee LUNCHEON. Tomato Bisque, Fish Cakes ‘Whole Wheat Muffins, Date Salad, Sand Tarts Tea DINNER. Mock Turtle Soup Casserole of Beef, Baked Potatoes Creamed Carrots, Watercress Baiad, French Dressing Coconut_Custard Pie Coffee POPOVERS. Two eggs, two cups sweet milk, two cups flour, one teaspoonful salt, one teaspoonful baking Beat whites and yolks add yolks to milk, stir in flour with baking powder sifted into it, and salt, add whites and beat together. Bake in gem pans. TOMATO BISQUE. Stew one-half can tomatoes until soft enough to strain easily. Boil one quart milk in double boiler. Cook one tablespoonful butter and one tablespoonful cornstarch together in a smail saucepan, adding enough hot milk to make it pour easily. Stir it carefully imto the boiling milk | and boil 10 minutes, Add one tablespoonful butter in small pleces and stir until well mixed. Add salt and pepper and the strained tomatoes. If the toma- toes be very acid, add one-half saltspoonful soda before strain- ing. Serve very hot. Do not let the tomato and milk boil to- gether, CASSEROLE BEEF. Take two pounds of chuck beef, cut up into small pieces; two large onions cut into small pieces. Put into pan and put in with it two tablespoonfuls of canned tomatoes and one-quarter table- spoonful of paprika, one table- spoonful salt and one pint of water. Let it boil slowly until water is boiled off. Keep stir- ring until meat and onions are brown, then put & quart of water on and about eight potatoes cut into small pleces. Serve in cas- serole with chopped parsley on (Copyright, 1931) g_zlL/NEDzJTE? = “Please get our things We must together, for to- morrow . Our_hero tells his And do not get excited, for there are -m"'x"“u the: st e only place you see m now s a the county fair.” MONDAY, OF THE MOMENT Stuffed Beef Heart. To Erase Marks. Wash one beef heart both inside and | In this day of painted furniture, the psh ] !tnf‘!! :\ll!hl [ dl;flggpm;%c Wwith | housewife often tries her hand, but she hree-four pful o ed pecans, Oneourth cupful of ehopped pimento | Ainds that sometimes, after she has pepper, half a cupful of white sauce | Painted in the design, some of the car- and salt and pepper to taste. Sew up |bon marks show. To erase the marks, the heart opening and simmer until |apply a cloth, moistened with liquid tender, Then place in a baking dish, | furniture polish, but do not use until sprinkle with cracker crumbs or dry |the paint has had time to dry. bread crumbs, and brown quickly. | treatment both cleans and polishes. MARCH 30, 1931. Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED, ‘Undoubtedly there are few problems related to the care and feeding of nor- mal children which have not been cov- ered time and again in this department. But it is undoubtedly as true that un- til a problem is of personal interest to the reader its solution does not register with her. When Mrs. E. K. S. writes “I have been reading your column for a long time, but do not recall ever having seen any articles dealing with my prob- lems,” what she really means is that until these problems became hers to solve she was not sufficiently interested the answers to remember them. Mrs. E. K. S. asks the following ques- tion: “How many months should the baby's back be rubbed with oil? “At what age is it drinks? I always warm his drinking water, and also the water I put with fruit juices. “When can sugar in the formula be stopped? “How can a baby be taught or en- couraged to creep? “Our boy will be 9 months old April 1. Is he too old to have colic? Here is his program: 7 a.m., bottle; 10 a.m. crange juice; 12 m. farina; 3 p. bottle; 5:30, junket; 9 p.m. bottle.” Rubbing baby's back with oil is a nice but not compulsory habit. It may be stopped at any time. By all means give sonny both cool water to drink id cool water in his fruit juices. Warm water is actually nauseating, copious doses of warm water being given to induce vomiting. Sugar is taken out of the formula as soon as baby is old enough and weighs enough (20 pounds), so that whole milk is in order.” This happens usually at 1 year of age. month, the sugar may be amount. All the encouragement a baby needs to learn to creep is the opportunity to do so. Put the baby on the floor. A child of any age may have colic it ‘improperly fed, but as your present diet is open to criticism because of its limitedness, perhaps baby's actions are due to hunger. I would suggest that in addition to a bottle at 7 o'clock cereal be given then; at 10, orange juice; at 12, vegetables and bottle; at 5:30, ce- | real and bottle; at 9:30, bottle. decreased in this age. You failed to tell me baby's formula. = | Passengers carried by | total 166,000. fe to give cool | Beginning at the tenth | | This increases the diet considerably | and is the usual order when baby is at weight, 5o I cannot suggest any changes | that might be in order in the bottle | the Imperial | This | Airways of England in the last six years FEATURES. RANDOM notes in A Washington Day Book: Jim Watson, Republican floor leader of the Senate, has not the desire of Joe Robinson, D em o~ cratic floor leader, to have the choice seat in the Senate ch-mherlnom which to plan his _—=N attacks. TS Robinson’s posi- ¥an tion on the floor is the first seat on 3 the first row of the Democratic side. ‘Watson _takes his stand as Republican chief four seats from the aisle on | the second row—at the desk where sat Daniel Webst when he was in the Senate. doesn’'t move down opposite Robinson: | 'Old Senator Hoar of Massachusetts | ence sat here. The sergeant-at-arms proached him once with the request that he be permitted to make certain slterations in the desk. The old Sena- | tor said no, giving as his reason: ‘What | was good enough for Daniel Webster is good enough for me.’ | same way.” Incidentally there's another desk in | the chamber whose occupant says he'll never surrender it as long as he is a Senator. and his desk is the one where sat Jef- ferson Davis when he was a member 101 the Senate, Proud of his attendance record in the Senate is the handsome, soft-voiced Sheppard of Texas. To miss a session is something he never does if it is hu- manly possible to get there. He keeps books on his attendance. At the end of each day in Congress Shep- pard returns to his office, pulls down his ledger and records his activities dur+ ing the day. At the close of the Sev- enty-first, congress he found with pride that he had served a total of 5,898 days lm the Senate and had been absent only 13, an average absence of less than one day a year; that most of this time |away from the Senate was because in /1930 he was a member of the Senate committee appointed to attend the fu- neral of a fellow member of Congress; that prior to this funeral he had been continuously present at all sessions of the Senate for more than seven years. Senator McNary of Oregon, ringing A WASHINGTON BY HERBERT PLUMMER. Watson has this explanation why he | I feel much the | The Senator is Pat Harrison, | of the Senate, a roll call or a quorum | DAYBOOK |impatiently for an elevator in the Sen- ate Office Building, four women board the car with him. and the Senator gal- lantly commands the operator to put the women off first, then take him to his floor . . . which is unusual . . . Senator King of Utah alternately run- ning and walking through the corridor |leading from the Senate wing of the | Capitol to the House wing . . . John Me- | Duffie, Democratic whip of the Hor in dinner clothes on Connecticut av | nue, waving frantically and futilely for | a taxicab . . . and Sam Rayburn of Texas, his close friend and colleague, attracting a cabby's attention with per- fect ease. Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Psychic Income. | Economists say that we all have a psychic income, no matter how poor we may be in other w Psychie in- come is a “flow of satisfactions,” or “stream of enjoyments,” or “desirable results produced in the realm of feel- ings” during a given period of time. These economists assume that our | psychic income is variable, that we are psychologically richer some days, or some weeks, or some months, than we are during other similar periods of time. This psychic income is derived from anything that gives us a feeling of sat- isfaction. Some of it might flow from a new suit of clothes, some from the weather, some from friendships, and so forth. Now we cannot at any given time, say & moment, an hour, or a day, say just what things are involved in our | present psychic income. The way to determine the source of your psychic income is to study how you feel when you are deprived first of one factor, then of another. 1If, for instance, friendships play the leading role in your stream of satisfaction, you will feel poor when you have lost one. You will know exactly what things are best for your well-being, if you discover the ones that make you feel poor when they are temporarily taken from you. ‘This new term, psychic income, seems to be one of the very best that have come along in recent years. It helps us to take stock of our mental life, s0 that every now and then we may know just what things to strive for to | keep our mental life up to par. 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