Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1931, Page 39

3 a WOMA Tasks That Consfime Much Time BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. The rush and hurry of modern life is - partly responsible for little extra jobs accumulating for the servantless home- maker. One of these minor tasks is keeping doorknobs clean. The woman sometimes has to respond to doorbell or ne bell with hands damp from telepho: too quick washing and drying, or per- | be.constantly guarding against such an- haps sticky because she could not do | | | | THE KNOBS WITH A HOT, SOAPY CLOTH. this job thoroughly in the few seconds at her command. If she does not hasten to answer whichever bell sum- mons her, she may find some friend has gone from the door, believing she is out, or the telephone is “dead” be- cause the operator has given the reply “They don't answer” to the party try- ing to get you. ‘Whenever such interruptions occur, the homemaker’s hands are im- maculate, a minor task of washing telephone receiver or doorknob usually | MILADY B BY LOIS Care of Elsows. A little regular dad® care will keep elbows soft and -smotth enough, but many women fail in ¢his little detall of daintiness. For everywhere one will see women in sleeveless gowns, the whole effect ruined by a pair of elbows which are red and rough in appearance. Those who have been fortunate enough to this condition, even without giv- N’S ‘PAGE has to be done. This is trifiing, in it- self, but it is the sum of trifies in housekeeping that consume time. Where there are little children in a family, sticky doorknobs are not in- frequent, and there is a good excuse for them, however disturbing it is to handle such knobs. A mother has to noyances, first by training the little | folk to keep their hands clean, and sec- | ond. by going around the house very frequently with a wet, soapy cloth and a towel and washing any knobs that require it. There is little kindly lenlericy for the woman who does her own work and in whose house sticky doorknobs are found, It seems to bespeak poor man- agement. That there are actual rea- sons for extenuating circumstances has been indicated. These have been given not to condone poor housekeeping, but to forestall the homemaker against criticism by calling attention to | trivial task that may be slighted. (Copyright, 1931.) Everyday Psychology BY DR. JESSE W. SPROWLS. Self-Portraits. Your first notions about the world in general and yourself in particular were born of imagination rather than knowl- | edge. It is even true of adults| that where knowledge leaves off, imagi- natign begins. Imagination is & good thing but it is iikely to be somewhat extravagant. The products of the imagination are called phantasies — unconscious, extravagant, biased personal opinions. Among the very earliest phantasies are those that pertain to your esimate of yourself. Call them self-portraits, | and you get the correct notion. These self-portraits tend to last throughout life. So what you think of yourself as & self today is largely the product of your imagination of many years ago. As you grow older and get more and more experience, youy early phantasies change somewhat. The amount of change depends a great deal on how and disappointments tend to reduce in grandevr your portrait of yourself. Easy living tends to enlarge it. Ex-| treme reductions or enlargements are dangerous. It would be well for all of us if we could get a reasonable portrait to go by. Some people can't stand prosperity be- | cause they cannot picture themselves | living an easy life. They have too small It of themselves. ‘The law holds good for the reverse. Those who have had it very easy and | who therefore hold high opinions of | themselves cannot easily stand a heavy | loss or a severe s| . A recent study of suicides shows that they take place more frequently among the well-to-do than among the unskilled laboring classes. (Copyright, 1931.) T Caramel Rice Pudding. One and one-half cups boiled rice, one cup dark brown sugar, two table- spoons flour, one-fourth teaspoon salt, two egg yolks, one and one-half tea- spoons vanilia, three cups milk and two egg whites, beaten. Blend sugar, flour and salt. Add vanilla, egg yolks and milk. Mix thoroughly. Add rice and fold in beaten egg whites. Set in pan of hot water and bake 35 minutes in | slow oven. Remove from hot water. | Cool and chill. If preferred, a meringue can be made by beating egg whites and thre: tablespoons of sugar. Spread this rau:hlsy on pudding after it | has been baking 25 minutes. EAUTIFUL LEEDS. hazel and then powder lightly with a delicate flesh-tinted face powder. | Dry, horny elbows are 2lso seen very frequently, and this is a defect which needs special treatment, but cne which can be easily conquered. Such elbows | needs a massage with warm oil. At night after first scrubbing with warm water and soap, wrap hot towels around the elbows to open the pores. Then the elbow is ready for a massage with warm ofl. For this one may use cocoa THE EVENING NANCY PAGE Nancy Plans April Fool Party for Club BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. ‘The Nancy Page Club was meeting at Nancy’s home on April Focl's day. The members expected to play bridge, but their wildest dreams had never con- jured up the rules which Nancy laid down. At the first table, said she: “You will, in fact you must, play a two no trump hand. *Now don't ask me how to do it. That's your job.” ‘When partners sat at the second table they found st each place a lolli- pop. The rules said that they must play the entire game with the lollipop in the mouth, never taking it out, not even for bidding. The third table was piled high with | canvas gloves, the kind which may be | purchased for a trifling sum. These gloves ere used when tending furnace or shoveling snow. Each player had to don gloves before shufing cards and keep the gloves on until the hands were | played. When it came time to count score the procedure was as follows: Each member took her score, added her house number to the same and then sub- tracted her telephone number. The re- | sult represented her score. “Wouldn't you know it would be just my luck to have a hcuse number of 26 | and a telephone number of 3148.” And then came the next surprise. The low- est score won the first prize. So the| moaning of the “26” lady was not so| loud and long after all. The first prize | was the centerpiece of flowers which Nancy had on her buffet table. During the evening they varled the bridge game | with anagrams worked backward. They | were asked to identify certain flowers and were shown only the roots. They | were ushed out the back door when it | were ushered out the back door when it came time to say “good-by.” They | decided Nancy was not backward about | fooling them. Tablecloths and Doilies. Store small tablecloths and doilies on rollers and they will lie flat and not | be creased. | SONNYSAYINGS f BY FANNY Y. CORY. | and that cause a man to wonder whether it is worth it and mak 4 Lists Ideal Virtues Wives of Women WOMAN asks: “What is & man's idea of a good wife?” A man’s idea of a good wife is a woman who has discovered the Fountain of Perpetual Youth. At 50 she is still a flapper, just as slim and lithe as she was when he married her and she still has a peaches-and-cream complexion and hasn’'t a gray hair in her head. She can be up all night nursing a sick baby and then cook breakfast and appear at the table as fresh and sparkling as a rose with the dew on it. Nothing ever worries her or gets on her nerves. Sickness. Debt. Work. Balky gas ranges. Unexpected company. Meddling relatives, Noisy children. She laughs them off and is elways gay and smiling, a human ray of sunshine in this merry old world. She is a Miracle Worker. Ste can cook and wash and scrub and combine the labor of half-a-dozen servants, but she is never tired, and comes out of the kitchen, or up from scrubbing the bathroom floor in alluring, ladylove kind of garments that she has conjured up out of the air in some way. For she always looks like & daily hint from Paris and is so smart and well groomed that she makes other women envious and men rubber, but she never spends any money on clothes. She never runs up bills, which are the shadow on the honeymoon and the cause of war ever after in most households. No indeed, the ideal wife has some sort of magic that conjures up a beautiful home artistically furnished, and in which nothing ever wears out or has to be replaced, but that costs nothing. Also, she merely waves her hand and delicious food appears upon the table, and all without any of those horrid, disenchanting rem s from the butcher and baker and grocer and milkman about how much it costs to support a faemily, s Fim figure out how much golf he cculd plav and how many new cars he could have and lhnwflmany poker games he could sit in if he hadn't burdened himself with a amily. The ideal wife never had any relatives, She was born an orphan and there is no mother-in-law to come and pay long visits and put her daughter up to asserting herself and not giving in to her husband and putting her foot down about his smoking in the house and smelling up the curtains., Neither are there any younger sisters and brothers who are always camped in the guest room and who snitch his cigarettes and take the car and use up all the gaso- line and get the fenders bumped and fill the house with jazzy youngsters, The ideal wife is always ready for anything. When he comes home, tried, at night, after a hard day at the office, she may be =ll dolled up, ready to step out for a good time, but if he doesn't like gofng, she says: “Why, of course, it is all right.” They will just stay at and it will be just as entertaining to her to watch him snoozing on t! s it would be to go to sce a new play. Probably the play isn't much, a If he comes home feeling in the mood to go on a party, she says perfectly wonderful.” Just wait two minutes until she changes ker frock. It Wwill be just lovely to go somewhere and dance, although she may in reality be dog-tired from having hung the curtains in the living room and polished up the | furniture and cooked three meals and walked a million miles after the baby. She is never si¢k. Heavens, no. She would never think of being tI of drag on a man. Or, if she is sick, she has sense enough to know gmgu:mmm is no good in a sick room and she says: “Darling, don't stay in this stuffy old house this lovely afternoon. Really, I don’t need you. I can do everything I need for myself and I would feel so much better if I knew you were out in the sunshine playing golf. And do stop downtown and have ner. It is so dull eating by yourself, and go afterward to a good musical comedy or something funny, You need something to cheer you up.” Of course, when a man is sick it is different, and when he has to lie abed she never leaves his side even for a moment and she holds his hand and believes he is going to die every time he has a headache and she runs her feet off putting plasters on him and bathing his fevered brow and cooking up little messes to | tempt his appetite. She never criticizes him or gets things wrong. She knows a man must have relaxation when he works hard, so she just kisses him and says have a good time when he puts on his hat and starts out of an evening, leaving her alone at home with the children. She makes a funny story of his coming home all lit up and she doesn’t get jealous because he has an eye for pretty girls, but she would never think of doing any sidestepping herself. Above all, she is his admiring ‘audience. She considers him an oracle and | wonders why the President doesn’t ask his advice. She is always begging him to tell his funny stories over again and to repeat that wisecrack he made at the office. And she is so humbly grateful to him for. condescending to marry her that she never wearies of burning incense at his feet. This is the portrait that the average man draws of an ideal wife and he considers that the reason his marriage is a failure is because he somehow failed to get her. DOROTHY DIX. Copyright, 1931. Straight Talks to Women About Money BY MARY ELIZABETH ALLEN. Waste. Isn't it exasperating to watch the | heayy losses caused by moths you will woman who scrimps to save, but wastes | also discover soiled clothing. her money prodigally in little ways? | 3!19 Lt‘hréuelgle;* ]}f;llis‘vedl could nr[:t b 5 _ | understand why half of her iinen supply There are women who serve half por- | g €0 0n® oY Bgy o T £ mes was tions, cut down on help, and stint the | not needed on this case. She had kept whole family on clothing purchases, | her linen in a neat ple, but had always only to waste thelr own savings in petty | put laundered linen on top. As a re- ways. sult half of her linen had never been We know of one woman who insists | used, and the other half had been worn upon starching her husband’s soft col- | threadbear or out. The result is that he will not| One of the most amusing wastes wear a collar-attached shirt unless it is ' called to our attention was that of a forced upon him. A subsequent result | busy society woman. She had evolved is that he wears a few shirts incessantly, | an interesting attitude toward her hus- and wears them out. Other shirts are | band’s socks. If they had tiny holes not worn at all. They are wasted. | she did not think they needed darning, Another woman couldn't understand | but large holes warranted discarding. | why her shoe bills were so high. We |By that means she obviated darning, learned that she threw shoes without | and saved herself trouble if not money. | trees to hold them in shape into a warm | Another woman once asked us to in- | closet. Of course they curled up into | vestigate her rather ‘impressive food | all sorts of fascinating shapes, and soon | bills. We learned that her cook did all became useless. the ordering and buying. A petty form of waste that prevails |lived at home, and each evening took |in some households is the quaint cus- | home with her all of the “leftovers.” |tom of putting away clothes without | It was more than a coincidence that the | cleaning them first. The result is that | leftovers were substantial in quantity. the stains and grease spots offer tempt- Ing nests for moths. Wherever you find | The cook | THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN Fashion this model of brown and white printed crepe silk and you'll It has splendid points so kind to plied front that extends to the waist- line narrows its breadth. | front gives the figure a lengthened | The skirt plaits also help to carry out a vertical line. The sleeve flounce and waist frill are a delicate pink shade crepe. White tucked in at the neckline is| dainty and feminine. Style No. 3076 that may be copled exactly at a substantial saving is de- signed for sizes 36. 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50 and 52 inches bust. 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Cook | one minute. Add egg and cook one minute. Serve at once, poured over | toas STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 193I. SERVICE for those six little mouths. that he should be off hunting, too, but he knew the best thing he could do was to remain quiet for a while. “I wonder what Mrs. Reddy thinks happened to me,” thought he as he lay watching the youngsters course, I'll have to tell her. want to, but I must. let her know that I wasn't smart BEDTIME STORIES To things you've That other folk and helped him clean his coat. she left him to keep watch of the six| lively little Foxes playing arcund the exclaimed Reddy. doorstep and went hunting. No matter what might happen there must be food {1t when you found the nest,” returned Reddy felt | Mrs. Reddy, sweetly. “Ot I don't I'm ashamed to BY THORNION W. BURGESS knflw of that nest,” replied Reddy, hone . estly. Tned youre sure 10 find | " Mrs. Reddy chuckled. “I found it be- Reddy P fore you did,” she sald. “It was quite by accident,” she added. “I was hunt- Wisely, Mrs. Reddy asked no ques-|ing a Rabbit near there and happened the mature figure. Note how the ap- |tions of Reddy Fox when, lame, bruised, |to see Mrs. Whitetail drop down in the wounded and muddy, he returned home. | And how | She simply did what she could to make | what that meant and watched until I the dip in the hip seaming at the him feel better. She licked his wounds saw Whitetail do the same thing. Then i Then |I knew they were building a nest.” bushes with some grass. I guessed “And you didn't say a word about it!" “No more did you say a word about Reddy had nothing to say to this. enough to get those young Marsh Hawk: and not be caught' doing it. Perhaps I ought to have told her about that nest. Working together, we might have succeeded. Now Whitetail and Mrs ‘Whitetail know that I know about that nest and one or the other will always be on guard.” Late that afternoon Mrs. Reddy laid down beside him. She was tired, for | she had been hunting most of the day. | However, she had had good luck and the six youngsters had full stomachs and were taking & nap. Reddy was just getting ready to tell her what had hap- ied to him when she spoke. “Whitetail or Mrs, have returned home rather unexpcc:- edly” said she. There was a twinkle ke in _her eyes which Reddy didn't see. QUESTIONS OP REDDY FOX WHEN, | Reddy’s eyes flew wide open w | prise. “What's that?" |7 “I said that Whitetail or Mr tall must have returnel home unex-|pest>" he repeated M; y “What _do you know about it?” de- e o' e e Reddy, e < followed it. You were hidden in the “I know that you have been watching | didn' = - thint niest Tor some thine st T chigiins | ars S now 1 Was about® explained the rest,” replied Mrs. Reddy. “It takes | g¢ i big claws and hooked beaks to tear & succeed in getting those young Hawks coat the way yours is torn. The White- | family, so I sai falls are the only Hawks that nest on | bumt sa. of mre y Souim o the ground, so are the only ones you |fere, Just the same, I didn't think you would have trouble with. I decided 1ong | wouid" be successril. I hoped . you ago that I would leave. them alone.|would, but I had a feeling you were The risk was ¥ “Do—do—do you know where that|ago I gave up all thought of trying to nest 157" Reddy's surprise was 5o great | gey those young Hawke. With these that he stammered. “Of course,” | pectedly Fifth avenue and Twenty- Also a series of Shrimp De Luxe. chopped 'pimentoes, ‘Whitetail must WISELY, MRS. REDDY ASKED NO LAME, BRUISED, WOUNDED AND MUDDY, HE RETURNED HOME. “How did vou know I was watching the I ran across your trail one day and bushes and so intent watching that you Mrs. Reddy. “I knew that if you did you would bring them home to the wasting your time. As for me, long youngsters of ours to take care of, I retorted Mrs. Reddy. uldn't afford to tak Did you think you were the only smart | T elad 1 gian'te o onY chances. ne in the Old Pasture?” | “I thought I was the only one who! “I wish I hadn't.” sighed Reddy. (Copyright, 1931.) a Lenten suggestion! o« to the thrifty-minded who also value the well-balanced diet: BUTTER. .. BUTTERMIIK .. . EGGS « + » COTTAGE-CHEESE AND PURE, RICH CHESTNUT FARMS MILK should be in your daily menus. Call Potomac 4000 . . . and order deliveries straight from the World’s Model Dairy Plant Entertainment—Drama—History—on the National Dairy Radio Program every Sunday night at 10.15 (E. S. T.) over WRC and associated N. B. C. stations. 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