Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1931, Page 24

WOMAN'’S PAGE. Styles of Fabric Napkin Holders BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. THE HOLDER FOLDS ABOUT THE NAPKIN AND FASTENS WITH A SNAP. ‘Textile napkin holders or rings are the most popular of all contrivances day by which personal napery is dis- tinguished and kept separate for use at consecutive meals. Without some means of knowing to whom papkins belong, it is impossible not to get them mixed up. So, unless clean napery is at each place at every meal, some method of keeping track of the different pieces is essential to preserve the niceties of table service. ‘Two patterns are offered today, one for Hardanger napkin holders, and the other for embroidered rings of another type. Each kind takes but a very short time to make, requires but a trifing amount of material, and little embroldery medium. By using different colors of the embroidery medium (silk or mercerized cotton) each person’s napkin is immediately recognized. Initials of members of a family can ‘be worked on different holders and the same color scheme can be used for an entire set. It is wise to have at least two without initials as guest napkin rings. On one guest ring put an X which always signifies the unknown in algebra and which in this instance indicates the unknown guest whom you hope to ‘welcome to your “board"—as & dining table was once termed. On the other put an O representing the circle of Iriendship. For Summer camps and cottages ‘where fabric napkins are used in pref- erence to paper napkins, the holders can be of a high grade of table oilcloth. It can match the damask design on a table ollcloth lunch or breakfast cover. The embroidered napkin ring in the patterns offered can be used to advan- tage for this work. Blanket stitch edges and outline the design in oil paints or substitute an initial, ofitlined in paint, for the floral design. Letters in the ‘Medallion Alphabet are excellent for this_ initialing. ‘The two napkin ring, or holder, pat- THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE A charming model for matrons. Its slenderizing lines so beautifully disguise overweight. The dip in the hip- line seaming especially conceals breadth, adding height to the figure. And it's so smartly appropriate for general day wear for Summer, fash- ioned of printed batiste, printed linen, ( or volile print. Why not make it now? You'll enjoy wearing it when the hot | to days arrive. Style No. 3117 may be had in sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust. Slu‘ 36 requires 3 yards of 39-inch material | with 33 yard of 39-inch contrasting and 1% yards of 2-inch ribbon. To make it! The bodice cuts all in one until it joins the skirt. The belt| may be worn at most becoming line. Shantung, cotton mesh. dotted dim- ity, men's shirting fabrics and flat ‘washable crepe silk are al<o suitable for this model. For a pattern of this style, send 15/ cents in stamps or coin directly to the | ‘Washington Star's New York Fashion Bureau, Fifth avenue and 20th street, New York. ! Vacation days are here again! So nearly here, at least, that it's time for you to be thinking about your Sum- mer wardrobe. We've prepared a book to help you plan for the most colorful fashion pe- riod of the year. A book that offers the best selection of styles for the season for the adult, miss, stout, and child, and helps the reader to economize. You can save $10 by ding 10 cents for this book. The editicn is lim- jted so we suggest that you send 10 cents in stamps or coin today for your copy to Fashion Department. beok, 10 cents, Price of | - i terns with full directions for making, and also directions for Kloster stitch embroidery of Hardanger work, will be forwarded on receipt of 5 conts (pre- ferably a coin) sent with a request and a self-addressed and stamped en- velope, Direct to Lydia Baron ‘Walker, care of this paper. If you want the entire Medallion Alphabet, suitable to mark these holders, inclose an extra 5 cents. Send a dime if you want the alphabet and both the napkin ring patterns with full directions for mak- ing and stitchery. (Copyright, 1931.) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Pop was looking at his mail while he | was eating brekfist this morning, and {ing, Poor little woman. | Wwhat? What woman, what do you mean? ma sed. O, nuthing, its not werth mention- | ing, pop sed. And he quick stuck the { letter in his inside pickit, and ma sed, | Willyum Potts what are you tawking | about, I demand to know immeditly, | what woman are you tawking about? No woman in particular, for Peet sake, cant I make a simple observation, such as Poor little woman, without bringing the roof dewn on my hed? pop sed. No you cant, at least not under such peculiar circumstances, ma sed. And why did ycu haff to cram that letter in your pockit like a gilty thief fleeing from honest justice? Whats in the let- ter? Show if to me, she sed. Why should I? I mean, its of no jintrist or importants at all, pop sed. Its a'bill. that what it is, he sed, and ma sed, O yes, & likely story, now youll show me that letter at once or there will be trubble. All rite, all rite, yee gods dont get excited, pop sed. And he took the letter out of his pockit and gave it to ma and she looked at it, saying, Why its ony a ordnerry bill for a pair of shces. Dident I say it was a bill? pop sed, and ma sed, Then what do you mean by all this Poor little woman bizness? O, thats just an old Sweedish excla- mation, the Sweeds use it in the same way that we say Tut tut, or Well well, | or My my, pop sed, and ma sed, No they dont either, and Ive got a good mind to throw ttis plate at your silly hed. And she picked up her plate and pop sed, You mite brake it, and youre sure miss me anyway, so youll just be werse off than before, pop sed, and ma your mouth. And she put the plate down so hard it broke anvways, making her still madder, the result beihg she’s going to meet pop down town todav and have dinner on the roof of the Stitz Hotel. Quick Pastry. A large amount of p‘e crust may be kept for a long time if the water is not added until ready for use. Mix enough for a dozen or more pies and keep in a cool place. When you wish to make a pie or two add water to the necessary amount of the prepared flour and have fresh ple crust without having to stop to mix flour, shortening and other in- gredients. Th's is a time saver, as well as a decided improvement over the old method of keeping fully mixed crust, since this does not mold or sour or harden. MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Diced Fresh Pineapple Farina with Cream Baked Eggs Breiled Bacon Melba Toast Coffee LUNCHEON. Fruit Salad in Gelatin Lettuce Sandwiches Strawberry Tarts Iced Tea DINNER. Vegetable Bouillon Hamburg Steak Brown Gravy Delmonico Potatoes String Beans Beet Salad French Dressing Rhubarb Pie Cheese CofTee BAKED EGGS. Butter baking dish or indi- vidual ramekins, break each egg into a cup, drop into the dish; sprinkle with salt and pepper, and bake. in a moderate oven; five minutes for soft cooked and 10 for hard cooked. Chopped red or green peppers sprinkled over the top of baked eggs is delici- ous. SALAD. One package lemon gelatin, one and three-fourths cups boil- ing water, two tablespoonfuls lemon juice, one cup diced pine- apple. one-half cup diced canned pears. one cup seeded white cher- rles, one-half cup red cherries, seeded Pour water over gelatin and stir until dissolved. Cool a little and add other ingredients. Pour into the individual molds which have been sed out of cold water. Set in d cold place to stiffen. Unmoid on lettuce and surround with salad dress- ing or mayonnaise. HAMBURG STEAK. Cut up a small onion and fry brown in butter, then add it to a pound of hamburg steak. Roll out about four crackers and add to the mixture, also a cup of milk: salt and pepper to taste. Fry brown in butter. (Copyright, 1931.) T [ A root entrance as well as a ground | he opened a pink letter and red it, say- | sed, O hush up and keep quiet and close | 1'[‘1‘ is an interesting fact that two THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Tllustrations by Mary Foley. THE CARPENTER BEE. Hymenoptera. HE first apartment hcuse builders in America were the lady car- penter bees. The bullder not only made them several stories high but often two rooms wide! floor entrance were provided for the dwellers. The mother bee has slept away from draught and danger all Winter. In the Spring she comes out into the sun- shine ‘to seek her mate and build a home for her children. She is a very determined builder, and woe betide any one who tries to interfere with her during these days. She is about the size of a bumblebee and is dressed in dark blue or black velvet. Her wings listen in the sunlight. Her strong jaws are used for cutting away the wood. She polishes with her tongue and has a secretion in her mouth which she spreads over the walls to make them smooth and damp-proof. A rafter, dead tree or any wood with a soft interfor is her choice for a home-site. She sets to work at once on the tcp-floor entrance. The front hall is about an inch wide and the length of her body. The front legs take the sawdust from her mouth and hold it until the pellets make a pile the size of a pea. She goes to & spot nearby and deposits this carefully. She is a canny bullder and saves every scrap of the material excavated. The hall completed, she turns to the right and digs straight down for 12 inches. It takes abcut two days to remove each inch of wood. The saw- dust pile grows and at last the long ummf and ground-floor entrance are completed. ‘The pile of sawdust now receives her attention. Taking a grain of this in her mouth, she covers it with a salivary secretion and goes into the last hallway. One inch frcm the en- trance she glues a pellet to the side of the wall. A second pellet is added until a circle is complete. The second row is begun, and soon the opening gets smaller and smaller until one tiny pellet closes the studded door. She flies away from the roof en- trance across the flelds and is lost to sight. Upon her return she goes down the long hall, and there she places the pollen she carried on her hind legs and from her mouth she drops a bit of honey. Upon this honey she lays a tiny banana-shaped egg and goes out by way of the roof. Back to the sawdust pile she goes, and, with the next pellet within an inch of the first floor, she begins the celling to the first apartment. The sec- ond room is filled as the first one, and 50 on, until every room is provisioned: she rests neither day nor night. Then she flies away. The first apartment baby carpenter grub hatches and eats with relish the food his mother left for him. He faces the door, weaves a silken robe and goes to sleep. A few days later he awakens & full-grown carpenter bee. With his strong jaws he gnaws his way out of the studded door and walks into the bright sunshine. His sister in the second apartment soon follows. She must cut her way through her door and then walk through her brother's room. Later the other members of the family go through the same experience. The one on the top floor goes through her ceiling and flies away. She is the only one who uses the airplane landing to leave the old | | home. | (Copyright, 1931.) | { Ice Cream Sauce. Boil half a cupful of sugar with. one- fourth cupful of water to a thin sirup, | but not thick enough to spin a thread, and add eight marshmallows cut into { small picces. Let stand for two min- utes, pressing the marshmallows under the sirup by using the back of a spoon. Add the mixture dually to one egg white beaten until stiff, but not dry. Continue the beating until the mixture Should e Wife Talk Before Breakfast? the inscrutable of * tlon.. \DorothyDix| 0. 0O, Considers 7% 9 AM. ‘Dangerous in .)larrlan y taste which defy all analysis and explana- ‘We can only look at such a one with wonder and amazement and reflect that some men never know their luck. For most of us the pre-breakfast time is a season when we not only fer to pass into the 35'» also, and nothing, generally sllence ourselves, but desire thase about us to , would do more to endear a wife to her husband than for her to hoid her peace until after he has had his second cup of coffee, and is soothed and fed and safe to be spoken to. ANY hustand can imagine & man asking for a divorce from a woran who got up in the morning with her tongue rested and refreshed after & night's slumber, and who went right into action with all the things she had left unsaid on the previous evening. But parting from a wife who was dumb in the early morning, no. unthinkable. Never. The th 8till, of course, if & man likes them chatty in the dawning, he likes ‘em that way, and there is no arguing about it any more than there is about s preference for tnails or jazz music. And what's a poor wife to do if she gets divorced if she does or if she doesn't? THs matrimonial episode stresses again the fact that the breakfast hour is the zero hour in family life, when husbands and wives say things to each other that they would be incapable of saying the balance of the day. Why this should be so, and why the breakfast table should be made a battleground where every disagreement is fought out to a bloody finish, we do not know. We merely know that such is the case. Ap) peal wife who ‘dolls herself up for her husband’s homecoming rances and manners reach their lowest ebb at breakfast. ‘The in the evening has no hesitation in appearing at breakfast with her hair in crimpers and cold cream on her face. The man who is entertaining and witty at the dinner table hides behind his newspaper at breakfast and growis out inarticulate replies when he any unpleasant communication to make, is asked a question. If either ty has e or she chooses lK:rbreBk- fast table at which to do it, although each knows that it is the time at which nerves are rawest, and one’s philosophy least able to bear a strain upon it. I'X‘ is not too much to say that it is at the breakfast table that domestic peace and harmony are put on the spot and assassinated, and if there were only some way in which to eliminate the dangerous hours from 7 to 9 a.m. it would do more divorce. than any other one thing to stop Most husbands and wives are so accustomed to the breakfast-table fail to attach the significance to it that it deserves. fast-table quarrel does not end with the man jamming on his hat and slamming the door behind him, and woman wiping her eyes on her napkin and starting to make out the other an impression that he or she wil {roeery list. Each has given the carry all day. DOROTHY 'DIX. (Copyright. 1931.) MONDAY, JUNE 8, MODES OF THE MOMENT is cool, then add one drop of ofl of peppermint and color green. Serve with chocolate ice cream. hink organdie with e :na?a. black vel- vet girale Tyl hfi&/@fiz. o D United States Senators who are most capable at holding & crowd spell- bound, and rarely fall to stage “a good show,” once had the urge to be Shakespearean ac- tors. They are Wat- | son of Indiana and { Borah of Idaho. ‘Watson, the publican leader of the Senate, and ‘4 Borah, chairman of the foreign J committee, & T e “‘super-showmen.” Watson from . early youth has been a student of Shakespeare. Even now., when oppor- tunity permits, he delights in reading again his favorite plays. Back in the days when he was a student in De Pauw _University—in 1886—the great Edwin Booth came to Indiana. %oung Watson forgot nearly everything in his desire to see and hear him. He followed Booth to several cities, and finally was fortunate enough to get an introduction and interview with the actor. He remembers that experience as vividly now as the day it occurred. “I asked Booth what he considered his greatest role,” he says. - ‘Kln‘, Lear,’ he replied. And he . “You 1 am King Lear when I play that role.’” ‘Watson’s stage career never got any farther than the “urge” stage. The year after he was graduated from De Pauw he was admitted to the bar and started the practice of jaw with his father. With _Borah it was different. The Idaho Senator came of a deeply reli- glous stock. His father was a Presby- terian and ofien filled the local pulpit in the absence of the regular minister. He spent his youth on a farm, but his bent was far more toward reading than “chopping” corn. His desire for the stage apparently was more pronounced than Watson's. He went so far as to succeed in run- \ ing_troupe. His hole was Marc Antony, but not ! for long. His irate father cut his career |short by summarily removing him to ‘the farm. It would not be difficult to imagine either of these two Senators as suc- cessful actors. Watch them in action the floor of the Senate and you will be convinced. Watson loves the dramatic. He is famous for his ability to make nice lit- tle gestures to his colleagues. In debate he is striking. He puts everything he possesses into the fray and usually convinces every one he is having the time of his life. Much of this & true also of Borah. A WASHINGTON BY HERBERT PLUMMER. ning away from home to join a travel- | DAYBOOK One of the Senate’s foremost orators, he | is not the speaker of the grandiloquent | type. Unusual gestures and body gyra- tions have no place when he tries to be effective. A swiftly descending right rm or a toss of his head are his only signs for emphasis. Cottage Cheese. Heat some sour milk or buttermilk slowly until the whey rises to the top. Pour it off, put the curd in a bag and let 1t dry for six hours without squeez- ing it. Pour it into a bowl and break it fine with a wooden spoon. Season with salt. Mold into balls and keep in & cool place. It is best when fresh. frisraaiendmedied Date Confection. Put one pound of stoned dates through a meat chopper and add two ounces of candied ginger and half a cupful of chopped walnuts. Knead and roll into sausage shape, using powdered mgr to prevent sticking. Serve cut in S elice » - with fruits FOR extra delight, put fresh or canned fruits in your bowl of Kellogg’s PEP Bran Flakes. Pour on the cream or milk, and enjoy that famous flavor of PEP. A fine all-around cereal. Whole wheat for mnourish- ment and just enough added bran to be.mildly laxative. At all grocers in the red- and-green package. Made by Kellogg in Battle Creek. JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English. BY JOSEPH J. FRISCH. . WHEN DAD TRIED TO EXPLAIN WHY HE WASN'T TD HOME LAST NIGHT, MOTHER WOULON'T LISTEN THE ONLY /A TIME SHE LISTENS TO HIM 1S WHEN 7—dy HE TALKS IN HIS SLEEP. 1931. WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD, Registered U. 8. Patent Office. When the famous Cremorne Circus showed for six months at Seventh street and Pennsylvania avenue north- west, opposite Center Market? SUMMERTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. When I went to school T was taught history by an enthusiastic spinster who gave us to understand that the Renais- sance burst on Europe like glad news. I gathered that the transformation in Juman happiness was an overnight ai fajr. Only with time I learned that few persons, as the fifteenth century opened in Italy, noticed any change in the intellectual climate. Few suspected they were in a golden age. Michel- angelo, at the height cf the Renais- sance, sighed, “The times are hard for art." So we arrive at Summer by an evo- lution of which we are hardly con- sclous. The date is not fixed by nature lovers _ The old name of Midsummer's day (June 21) is more like “first Sum- mer's day” with us. I would fix the boundary indefinitely, for our Washing- ton latitude, around the first weeks in June. For then Queen Anne's lace spreads out its fine handkerchiefs on the grass, the first black-eyed susans appear, the rose is at its height of glory, and the birds that intended a further flight have gone, leaving us the residents. Indeed, the courtship season now is over, and the first empty eggs are on the grass. There is always some- thing very moving about the frall, dis- carded shell we glimpse at our feet. What a miracle of song and airy flight was once constricted in that tiny com- pass! A vast patience is needed, on the part of the mother bird, as she sits on the eggs. All mothers, however, need patience—quantities of it. Egg collecting—if you care for amass- ing collections—is a deal less ‘exciting and varied than a boy's postage-stam: book, and while I do not deny that science needs museum trays full of birds’ eggs, I insist that museums are already numerous — vast marble halls wherein two or three scientists a day may burrow, and sightseeing honey- mooners wander without looking. One bird’s egg, to my untrained eye, looks too much like another. I am only cer- tain of robins’ eggs, when I see them, and it is. all in all, the prettiest egg in our avifauna. To me the chief mental association with eggs (aside from the price of the common kitchen variety) is the link that it points between the reptiles and the birds. The bird skele- ton is remarkably like many lizard ske'ctons. *So a nightingale and a crocodile are closer of kin that the poet’s bird and the poet himself. Keep Down Gx;s Bills, If you would keep down your gas bills, you must keep your appliances clean. 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Perhaps that is why ler puffs are named as they are. th“" dmv'll many m:xl:‘ rme‘rlnber that e device for applying powder is ac- tually & gufl and not something j which could be more accurately de- scribed by the word “scrub”? The way many women use these dainty accessories which are meant to be used as puffs is one of the causes of that warmer weather is here the puff will have to work overtime, for no one wants to be seen with a shiny, perspir- ing face. But please, when renewing the make-up during the day, don't just simply take out your puff and scrub it vigorously over the skin, driving the powder into the pores. Remember that the pores in a warm, perspiring skin are open and that using the puff incorrectly opens them still wider and then fills them up with powder, If possible, before applying more powder freshen the complexion and close the pores by wiping the face with | pieces of absorbent cotton which have been dipped in an astringent or a skin | tonic. 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