Evening Star Newspaper, July 3, 1931, Page 18

THE EVENING Clothes and Furnishing Fabrics and Their Care Best Methods of Shopping for the Family— Sclecting Cotton ( r00ds—Proper Use of Family Closets. VWISE planning and buying are the first factors in cfficient manage- ment of the family wardrobe and fur- nishing fabrics. It is important to take advantage of the seasonal sales which reliable stores offer at stated times to d carrying over a heavy stock to the next séason. Some of these are the regular white goods sales, different fur- nishing fabrics, and the sale of dresses and suits at the end of each season. When shopping for the family take with you a small memorandum book containing such_information as meas- urements for different garments for cach member of the family and the amounts of materials required for dif- ferent articles. Some of the measure- ments which you will find useful are length of dresses, nightgowns and slips, length of shoulder straps and the dis- tance betwecn the straps in front and back, and waist measure for step-ins and bloomers, so that you will know u to cut the elastic. Each an i making her own record will probably find other measurements which she will like to keep on file. Also take measurements of windows for curtains and draperics and all furnishings where fabrics are used. Selecting Cotton Goods. The dyes used to color a cotton fabric determine in many cases the satisfac- tion to be obtained from it. Whether or not they ore fast colors is a matter which must be considercd, but a dye that is really fast would remain perma- nently on a material under all condi- tions, but no dye yet has been discov- ered that will do this, and such perma- nency is not needed for ordinary pur- poses. Howover, it is necessary that the dyes_shall last during the lifetime of the fiber withstand the conditions under which the fabric is to be used, but not necessarily under all conditions. For instance, a curtain fabric need not be fast to perspiration, but in order to give satisfaction it should be fast to Iight. When buying material the con- ditions uncer which it is to be used shculd be considered, Color may have been introduced in a fabric_either by dyeing or by printing. The chief difference is that in dyeing, the material is soaked in a dye solution, while in printing the dye is part of a paste stamped onto the fabric or yarn by rollers of a printing machine. Usu- ally, dyed fabrics retain their original | appearance much longer than printed ones do, although the quality of dye may vary greatly in either case. The best w2y to protect yourself from unsatisfactry dyes is to take a sample of the fabric home and submit it to the conditions under which it is to be used. For example, cover a part of the sample with cardbcard and expose the rest to direct sunlight for at least a weck. Re- move the cardboard occasionally, and pare the exposed and the unexposed portions. Another test would be to wash | the sample under ordinary conditions and notice whether it fades or nct. Clothes Closets. A light, airy closet prolongs the life of clothes by keeping them clean, in | | the seam of a crepe, wool or silk dress ’ good shape, and by making the neces- sity for pressing less frequent. A clothes cleset should contain rods and plenty of hangers, shelves, and racks for shoes, s0 that nothing need be kept on the floor. Dust should never be allowed to accumulate on the walls or floor. Rods for hanging garments should be at sbout shoulder height of the person who uses them, both for convenience and to prevent the clothes from trail- ing on the floor. Special provision should be made for children, or better £till, special closets, with rods and hang- ers ‘adapted to their needs. Wocden hangers of all bought cheaply, but they should have no rough surfaces to catch and pull clothing. Rubber bands wound around the ends of the hangers will clothes frem slipping. Narrow shelves, metal racks, or shoe bags on the inside of the closet door are suitable for shoes. Shoes will keep in shape if shoe trees $re provided for each pair. New devices are now available to add to the beauly and convenience of a closet or wardrobe. There are new ring hangers, preitily covered in chintz or silk,” through which lingerie or sweat- ers ‘may be slipped so that they will not suffer from_stret on an ordi- nary hanger. Ne hangers re- semble t®e familiar trousers hangers and there is a combination type of hanger to hold a dress and ifs slip. There are cylindrical bags covered in chintz. When traveling, or if for any other reason you find yourself without dress hangers, you nced not be dis- couraged. substitute can be made by rolling a newspaper the widih of the shoulders of the dress or cont tie both ends to keep it in place, then tie a string around the eenter long enough to allow for a loop to hang it up on a hook. Order in Closet. When arranging the clothes in a closet, there should be a certain order. The best garments should be kept at t MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Raspberries. Wholewheat Cooked Cereal With Cream, Baked Eggs. Bran Muffins, Coffee. LUNCHEON. Macaroni au Gratin. ‘Toasted Muffins, Apricot Whip. Peanut Cookies. Iced Tea. DINNER. Asparagus Soup. Lamb_Chops. Riced Potatoes. g Succotash. Fruit Salad. Mayonnaise Dressing. Crackers, Checse. Coffec BRAN MUFFINS, One-quarter cupful sugar, shortening size of egg, one egg, one cupful sour milk (or sweet milk), one cupful bran, one and a fourth cupfuls flour, one level teaspoonful soda (or two tea- spoonfuls baking powder if sweet milk is used), pinch salt. Cream shortening and sugar together. Mix and sift ingredients. This will make 12 large muffins, PEANUT COOKIES. One-quarter cupful butter, one- half cupful sugar, onc egg, one cupful flour, two even table- spoonfuls baking powder, three- fourths cupful peanuts. Cream butter and sugar, add well beaten egg, flour and baking powder sifted together: lastly add pea- nuts cut_or chopped into small pieces. Drop on tins to bake in moderate oven. One quart of peanuts sufficient for this recipe. SUCCOTASH. One quart of green beans. boiled about two hours, with two slices of salt pork and a level teaspoonful of sug Then add a generous pint of corn cut from the cob and boil one hour more. (Coprright, 1931.) pes and sizes can be | |one end, where they will not come in | contact with the soil on those in daily |use. Garmen’s that are not used often | should be kept covered. There are vari- |ous types of covers that you can buy, |but they may be made at home out of | muslin, sateen, cretonne, gingham, per- |cale and many other materials. 'Bags | may be made with a buttonholed open- |ing in the top to slip over the hanger | hook and arranged to close at the bot- tom with snapfasteners, or they may be |closed on the side or at the center. | These covers should be large enough |in both width and length to give the | garments plenty of room. They should be 6 inches wider than the hanger and 6 to 10 inches longer than the garment to be covered. If different kinds of materials are chosen for this purpose, | they will add attractiveness to the ap- | pearance of the closet and will fur- |nish a means of finding a garment which has its particular cover. | "'A small closet can be made to accom- modate & great deal of clothing if tF arrangement is good. Either place a pole lengthwise of the closet an inch or two below the shelf, or else screw several small nickel bars, simiar to towel bars, to the under part of the | shelf. | From these more garments can be | | hung, side by side on hangers, than |can be cared for by the ordinary hook | arrangement. The old-fashioned ward- | robes and shallow_closets that will not | permit the use of a pole for hanging | garments thereon can be utilized by | using an iron shelf bracket. The bracket can be secured to the wall in such a way that there is plenty of !room for the hangers to slip over the top. Sewing and Repairing. THE STAR’S DAILY PATTERN SERVICE Here are lovely slenderizing lines for the matronly figure. . You'll love the new skirt cut with its clever diagonal lines to reduce hip bulk. The crossover bodice has applied band trim that is very effective and becom- ing, besides producing a flat line much appreciated by the larger figure. Printed crepe silk is an excellent medium for this model. Plain blending shade crepe is used for bands and bow. Eyelet organdie makes the tiny vestee. Style No. 3173 is designed for sizes 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 48 inches bust. | Size 36 requires four yards 39-inch | with S5 yard 35-inch contrasting and ' 7s_vard 3-inch lace. |, For resort, a grey and white printed (linen is smart with plain trim, with | white organdie inserted at neckline. | Shantung, georgette crepe and printed | \'c»llet are splendid ideas for its develop- ment. | For a pattern of this style, send 15 cents in stamps cr coin directly to the | Does the coat of your husband's pa- | jamas always wear out first. If so, | these suits may b2 remodeled for Sum- | mer wear. {and cuffs and sleeves and bird a low neck and sleeveless coat with material | from the slceves and from the bottom cut of the coat. A fold around the bot- tom of the coat where the material has | been removed will complete the gar- ment. As the buttons and button- | holes are already there, the remodel- ing will_require only a few minutes’ time and you will have a cool pair of pajamas at no extra cost In order to make little girls' bloom- ers wear as long as the dress they match, cut them the same length in the back and front, then, to make the front look smooth and hang nicely, Tun a tuck across the front on th> under side just below the band, beginning at the side placket and widening grad- ually to a width of half an inch in the center front. When the seat be- gins to show that it is wearing thin change the tuck to the other side and use the worn seat in front. When making rompers for a small boy always cut the back seat sections double, then when the first is worn through there is a patch already in |place and the same color as the rompers, as it has bcen washed just as_often. 1t you will run in long stitches along | several lengths of thread that was used |in making the dress th> thread will be |ready for mending the dress when needed. Also, it is & good plan to run a length of matching darning thread in Jong stitches at the top of silk stock- |ings, and the thread will be ready for !quick darning. Stockings should be darned diagonally, not in the direction |of the weave. They will then stretch more easily, and so wear longer. A |large hole in the leg of a child’s stoc ng shculd first be filled in with open et, carning through it. To Hem Table Linen. | When preparing to hem table linen, \when straightening the edge; then, | when the linen comes to the mending stage, use these threads that you have |saved to darn the table linen with. The | result will lis scarcely | linen ton. | linen | board or near any source of heat. In |a warm, dry atmosphere linen is liable |to_become dry and brittle and to turn ellow. Choose a cool place, free from dompness, in er to preserve the vhiteness and silky sheen and prevent mildew or discoloration. Linen to be tored for any length of time should not be starched in the final laundering. When lace-edged or hemstitched vcases begin to ook some soft material that matches the cclor scheme of the bed room and make a 4-inch border. This will give you a new set of bed linen | which will be as large as it was before cutting off the ragged part. If you do not care for a border that wide, use any width you like. One and one-fourth yards is enough to make a 4-inch bind- ing for pillowcases and sheet for a dou- | ble bed if the material is a yard wide. The cost is slight. Handsome bec quilts may be made at small cost and with little work. Buy | some regular table silence cloth the | length you wish your quilt to be; then { applique on it any design you may care | for. Silence cloth can now be bought | in most of the pastel colors as well as | white. A lovely quilt was made by ap- | pliqueing a purple and lavender morn- |ing g}ory design onto pale yellow silence clot be that the mended place noticeable because of the thread being used instead of cot- ‘Table linen and other articles of Broken and badly cracked glass and china can be repaired in the following way: Clean the pieces in hot water, dry, then while they are still hot apply | a little colorless cement to the broken |edges with a match_splint or small | camel’s hair brush. Bring the pieces | together "at _once, press them tightly | together and tie with tapes or string. | then leave to set. Cracks are treated by | rubbing in a little of the cement so as | to fill the spaces. Wipe clean and leave to harden. The cement is made as fol- lows: Put one ounce of isinglass in a | small bottle with enough methylated spirits to cover. Stand in a bowl of hot water to melt. Strain through fine muslin and use warm. Spinach and Cheese. Cook the spinach in its own juices after a thorough washing. Make a good cream sauce, season the spinach and sauce, cover the spinach with the sauce, leave under a broiler for a few minutes. This method can be used with many other vegetables, either fresh or canned. Alec the Great S Spming s - The little worries, like this fly, Will spoil life it we let them We dwell too much en petty things When we should just forget ‘em. i then patched diagonally before | sprinkl- liberally with grated cheese snd | Cut away the worn coliar | e : @JQ%@%@ Washington St:r's New York Fashion Bureau, Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth | | street, New York. Our large Summer Fashion Book offers a wide choice for your Summer wardrobe in daring styles for the chil- dren as well as the adu Price of bock, 10 cen Milady Beautiful BY LOIS LEEDS. Avoiding Painful Sunburn. It happens every Summer—the sun- ST LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Handkerchifs. When you dont know what to give somebody for a present, you genrelly waist & lot of time thinking, and then give them hankerchiffs. For this rea- | son the poorest peeple can lose naman_v t hankerchiffs as the richest Without | being any unhappier. Hankerchiffs with your initial in one corner are sippose to be more personel | than bare ones. but if everybody in the | werld was suddenly scrtched, at least a million peeple would have hankerchiffs | with somebody eltses initial. i A lady in a hurry can take one of her | husbands hankerchiffs without attract- ing any attention, but if a man used | {one of his wifes hankerchiffs in public | he would soon wish he hadent, especial- | ly one with the lace around. | Fellows are generally asked 2 main | questions by their mother about, their hankerchiffs, one being. Did you re- member to take a hankerchief? and the other being, Dont you ever change your hankerchiff? All sneezes should be aimed into a hankerchiff, but if a snceze sneezes it- self while you are still reetching for your hankerchiff at least it proves your intentions was pure. Hankerchiffs have many exter uses, such as to wave with, to dust off your shoes or other objecks with, to tie to- gether to make the tales o: ‘enger. and to kill flies with by ol corner and aiming with corner like a sharpshooter. Clean Straw Hat. Buy from a druggist a small quantity of peroxide of hydrogen and rub it well | into the straw with an old toothbrush. Rinse the hat in cold water and dry out- doors. The straw will become white as it dries. DAILY DIET RECIPE JEWEL SANDWICHES. Cut day-old bread very thin slices and shape into round or dia- monds, or even hearts and spades. With a small knife or small round cutter cut little holes in half the slices. Butter the bread and spread with cream cheese which has been softened with a little sweet cream. Spread some of the slices with finely minced hard-cooked egg yolk, others with chopped pistachio nuts, and oth- ers with quince or strawberry jelly. Then put on the top slices with the little center holes and the colors will peep through the openings like “jewels.” Good for afternoon tea, Sunday night sup- per or bridge refreshments. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes starch, pro- tein, fat. sugar. Lime, iron, vita- mins A and B present. Could be given to children 8 years and over. Could be eaten by normal adults of average or under weight. | shine feels so soothing and delightful | that in spite of previous experiences on> forgets that the skin is delicate and that too long exposure to the sun will | keep 'save all the threads that are pulled out result in a painful sunburn. | The first step in preventing a painful | |sunburn is to use moderation in ex- | posing the =kin for the first few days of | | the vacation and the second step is | adequate protection of the skin by a protective cream and powder. After the first week of exposure those who | | wish to attain a deeply sun-tanned skin | but during the first days of the out- | door vacation season, a cream or oil should be used freely every day. Thos> | whose skin is light and delicate will | take more joy in Summer weather if they always give the skin a certain amount of protection. Skins tan so | differently. “The brunette usually ac- | quires a very attractive dark coat of | haired people acquire a tan which is | them a yellow, jaundicd appearance. | A good salve to keep the skin from burning and one which 2lso makes a | good powder base is made by mixing 1 teaspoonful of quinine with 20 tea- spoonfuls of olive oil, petroleum almond ofl. face, peck, arms and legs or any part of the body exposed to the sun’s rays by the bathing attire. A good protective and soothing powder to be used over this base is stearate of zinc or a boric acid powder. Onp(c]om\ng indoors after a game of golf or a drive in the Summer sun apply a_soothing oily lotion immedi- ately. There are many good ones on the market, or milady may make her own of the following ingredients: Two ounces linseed oil, two ounces lime water, two ounces almond oil. This oil is a very effective cleansing agent as well as soothing to the skin. If the skin feels red and uncomfort- able, though not badly burned, the fol- | lowing lotion may be applied and left to dry on the skin after removing the | cleansing oil: One ounce cologne water, three ounces rosewcter, three ounces witchhazel. Pat this lotion on the skin with a piece of absorbint cotton, and after it has thoroughly dried dust with will be found soothing. on: heaping teaspoonful of boric acid powder in one pint of boiling water. Allow it to cool before using and apply to the skin immediately after coming indoors, and follow this with a cream or oil such as suggested aboye. Soft Icing. Cut four squares of bitter chocolate into small pieces and put into a sauce- pan. Add one cupful of sugar and one the boiling point, stirring constantly. Mix three tablespoonfuls of cornstarch with two tablespoonfuls of cold water. | Add slowly to the first mixture, stirring until thickened. Remove from the fire. one teaspoonful of vanilla. {use. 0 and one-half cupfuls of milk. Bring to should ncver be stored in a cup- | may dispense with the protective cream, | tan, but many fair-skinned and fair- | oil or | Shake well and apply to | powder. A talcum or boric acid powder | gests coolness, it retains heat well, as 1 Add two tablecpoonfuls of butter end| Coo!, ticn| broiler under a low fire sugar and f | spoons frigerator, NANCY PAGE Here Is Something New Under the . Sun BY FLORENCE LA GANKE, Lois was.a born experimenter. She liked to try new recipes, perh#ps she had acquired the habit from Nancy who had always been her pattern and ideal but at any rate the Miller family had much food experimenting done upon them. One hot day she made some choco- late ice cream in her iceless refriger- ator, Knowing that Nancy was taking life as easily as possible this Summer she sent Roger over with a genercus amount. Then she asked Nancy to guess what was in it. Nancy never did guess, so here is the answer. Lois found this idea would work in any mechanical refrigerator, She had tried dissolving 18 marshmallows in & cup of hot m and adding this to & mixture of cream flavored and seas- oned with fruit, but the tapioca idea was_nev She put two squares unsweetened chocolate in he upper part of double boiler and added two cups cold milk. When chocolate was melted she beat it with rotary beater to blend mixture. Then she added three tablespoons quick cookirg tapioca and cooked until the tapioca was clear—a matter of about 15 minutes. Then she strained this through a fine sieve and added one- quarter teaspoon salt, one-half cup tablespoons light corn CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM sirup. This was stirred and cooled. In the meantime she beat two egg whites until frothy, added two table- sugar. This was folded into tapioca mixture. So was one cup of cream whipped. Two teaspoons vanilla were added and the mixture was put into_freezing tment and frozen It might have packed in three hours if Lois had not had a mechanical re- (Copyr 1931, Summertime Use of Glass BY LYDIA LE DARON WALKER. | an unattractive red or one which gzives | ! 'There is no season of the year when glassware is more decoratively at- | tractive than Summer. The very hame, crystal glass, suggests coolness, for this is cne of the qualities of genuine crystal. The name is one that is associated with ice also, which, when it is especially fine, is sometimes re- |ferred to as crystal. There is about | all glass & hint ‘of chilliness to the eye | and the touch. This is true, though sometimes to a lesser degree, in colored glass, even when the hue is red. In the present era, with glass so | pronounced a vogue, it is not difficult for the homemaker to have the dining | table as refreshing in mppearance as in sustenance. Color of glass-serving dishes can lend zest to otherwise plain viands and aid in making them appeal to the appetite. Different courses can stress different colors in a_delightfully decorative way. For example the glass- ware used during the main course can be amber, while that for the dessert course can be rose. Or white may be for one course and green for another. Some homemakers collect but & single color of glass, in which case the table is considered as one unit decoratively. Some women collect Sets | of various colored glass, and think of courses as separate units and treat them as such in the way just described. It is fortunate that while glass sug- it also does cold. Glass cooking dishes Another simple homemade lotion for |are particularly gcod to use in Sum- a skin which is irritated because of ex- | mertime because they look cool, While posure to the sun is made by dissolving | thry nctually may be piping hot. art from the dining room, glass is | | | Savory Eggs. | Cook half a package of spaghetti in | two quarts of rapidly boiling salted water for nine minutes. Drain. Place in & frying pan two tablespoonfuls of fat, three tablespoonfuls of chopped green pepper, one small chopped onion and one-third teaspoonful of ~salt: Saute for about 10 minutes. Add to two | cupfuls of medium white sauce. Place| the spaghetti on a large platter and | arrange on the spaghetti three hard-| boiled ciiced eggs. Pour the sauce over the contents and rprinkle with half 2| cupful of grated cheese. FPlace in a| for a minute ! and serve at once. ) 1mlt overtaxing the purse. GLASSWARE TODAY INCLUDESENTIRE TEA SERVICES. excellent to feature in Summertime ornaments just because it accents a certain frigid quality. There are all sorts of glass ornaments, vases, bowls, etc., in tones to suit every cclor scheme, to bring a dash of needed variety in an otherwise too definite color scheme. So much of the glassware can be had for trifing sums that it can be used for practical purposes and stress dec- oration or for ornament purely, with- (Copyright, 1931.) Eis for Epicure, Quick to praise The creamy flavor Of this fresh Mayonnaise. ot the Famous fiauz by the Vackers Parquct Te: Wrand Spicex Personal Health Service BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. Flaxseed Sterilization. Is there any way to sterilize flax- seeds? 1 buy it at the drug store or seed store, but have had to return it! sometimes because I find worms in it or | it soon becomes webby. (Mrs. F. W.) Answer—I do fiot know whether seeds may be sterilized and still retain thel felility. For your purposes, which suppose are to break the physic habit or possibly to_prepare foolproof cough medicine, I should think a moderate baking in the oven would destroy any worm or insect eggs in the seed. Jodine as Disinfectant. I wish you would print instructions for the use of iodine. Recently our cat scratched and bit my arm. I ran in the house and put hot water on it and iodins several times. When I went to bed 1 put on a bandage. By the next day I had to call the doctor to treat the swelling and burn from the iodine. * * (Mrs. B. M.) Answer—It is better to avoid water or other liquid or salve and swab or touch the raw wound once only with tre ting- ture of iodine. Then do not repeat the iodine. Even the unbroken skin is likely to be irritated and burned if you apply a second coat of jodine within several days. Diathermy. T owe to your column the new lease on life I am enjoying * * * doctors agreed the source of the poisoning was by ton sils, but owing to my bad heart not ing could be done. I was about re- signed to the life of a cripple when told of the advantage of diathermy * <0 I wrote you and you recommended Dr. I had to be carried in and out of his office the first two times. Now I am walking about, gaining every day, and my arthritis is certainly cured. 1 wouldn't mind the inability of my doctors to do anything, but I do resent their intolerance in condemning this new treatment as worthless and dan- gerous. * * * (D.H.A) Answer—No doctor who knows what diathermy is will condemn it. _Your | doctor just didn’t know about it. They'll | léarn in time. (Copyright, 1931.) OUR CHILDREN BY ANCELO PATRL Summer Food. The children lose their appetites in | hot weather. They no longer beg for a | {sccond piece of meat and they push | their food about their plates instead of devouring it with a relish as they | usually do. ~The heat slows their hun- ger. Yet they need food. ‘It is time to change the menu. Give them but little meat. | Some of it they should have, I believe. But give_them attractive vegetables in plenty. It seems that there are people who do not know how to cook vege- |tables for children, or grown-ups, vet ! They cover them with water and boil the life out of them. They cook away all color and flavor and leave the drab !remains to b2 dished on the table. Once a | day is enough, if they want it at all. | | Nobody wants to eat drab vegstables. | Life is sad_enough without serving gray peas and blue potatoes. Peas must be_em ow piled in brown | butt>r and Fnlti | and flecked kled with dark | green parsley. | The carrots and peas, beans and cab- | be cooked in a thick pot | with only enough water to save them | from frizzling up. A quick fire to the | nt. and then a slow fire. | it in the new cook books. ks are highiy intcresting read- ng: especially when you have a family of youngsters who arz asking for some- thing to eat and telling you that they don't lik= it. This 15 ice cream time. Ice cream is cod for children in warm weather. | Give them plenty of it. But, of course, it is best when made at home. Bettcr yet when they can learn to make it for themselves. The sherbets are fine. The { most_heat-worn child will brighten up ot sight of a dish of orange sherbet or lemon ice or whatever fruit is pressed | into service that day. An ice restores | | the most wilted child in a jiffy. | Let the children eat out of doors as | much as possible. Sandwiches and milk | | eaten und:r the maple tree taste like | Christmas and Fourth of July and birtR- day all in one. The simplest food takes on flavor when it is eaten under the sky. It might seem like a lot of trou- bl>, but if the service is once organized, | each child doing his share, it is easier | than getting a meal indoors and serving it to fretful children. i In the picnic lunch we can have all : sandwiches of whole d filled with whatever tasty on hand. Dat>s and cream cheese is a faithful peanut butter, green pinach, l:ttuce, cabbage, aste, are fine. Sweet fill- | ings—jams and jelly marmalade and ney. Meats | tongue | over. Ezgs and tomatoes and p:ppers— anything that can be eaten can go into sandwiches. A change in the menu, a change in the routine sharpens the heat-dulled appetites. SILVER POLISH (63;10:- FLAVOREP udweois’ "By MaLr A > cH \ pf JEuser FEATURES. Food Budgets May Be Cut If Housewife Knows Way BY SALLY MONROE. s this year th " the | necessity of cutting down their food budgets. “My husband, others,” writes Mary T, “has had to take a cut in salary. I don't mind. I know we can get along oy cutting down on everything a little. But I wish you would help me with the necessary cuts | o' our food budget. I have three chil- dren, the oldest a boy of 14. And 1 have cut down my food expenses a fi‘th | —or at least our income is a aquarter less than it was, and I thought focd would have to stand at lcast a fifth of the cut.” Mary T. is exceedingly sensivle in giving the food budget the lightest cut. In Summer, clothes for children can b very inexpensive. Children are just healthy and probably as happy in chean | as in expensive clothes. But food is the most important element in a child’s | life. The growing child demands a pro- portiorately greater amount of food than the adult, and the 15-vear-old boy needs more food, actually, than his desk-working father. | ‘The worst way to cut down cn the food budget is on milk. The best way is on elaborate desserts. Milk is a cheap form of protein food. Four quarts a day of good milk ate not too much for the family of five, with three children—a quart a day for each child, including the 15-year-old, and a pint for each adult. Perhaps tiae 15-ycar boy still likes to drink milk at brezk- fast and lunch. He's fortunate if he | does, for milk is so good for him. The rest of it he gets in milk soups and custards, puddings, milk schekes and blanc manges—desserts and crinks and soups with a foundation of milk. If each child has a quart of milk | daily, as a bevcrage and .n other food, he has an excellent founcaticn—for that gives him vitamins, protein and | various minerals of high value. | No cut should be made in the amount | of vegetables. They are cheap now.| And the cheapest, naost seascnable ones may always be chosen, the more ex- pensive ones omitted. You can get up a very good dinner with cnions and carrots, just as you can with peas and | asparagus. If the onions and carrots are cheaper, that's just zo much to the | zood for your budget. Ana us scason- | able vegetables vary, and therefore t | one vegetable and then ancther is cheap, it is possible to keep to the cheap vegetables and still not find them mo- notonous. Fruits can be treated in the same way as vegetables. The local, seasonak fruits will be low in price, and thos= should be chosen. If honevdew melons like many and plums are expensive today, perhaps huckleberries and windfail apples will be chegp—and they are just as nour- ishing.® A plentiful fruit supoly is de- cidedly valuable in the diet, ard if you have becn in the habit of spending & good deal of money on such cesserts as cream pufis and chocolate eciairs, you can put that money in your fruit budge and get more value for it. Eggs are usually, in Summer, a cheap meat_substitute. One danger in cut- ting down the food budget for growing children is that not enough proteins are provided. But if the houscwife re- members that cggs and cheese and nuts are 21l good bodv building. or protein, foods, and that they should bz served on days when meat i3 not serves she will safeguard the childre growth, JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English BEY JOSEPH J. FRISCH. — TWO TIMES DURING THE LAST WEEK | HEARD DAD SAY THAT THE RADIO HAS BROUGHT “_MANY A SERMON T HOME ; R. J. F—Although “two times” is not incorrect, usage has associated “twice” “‘once” so closely that the longer form, “two times,” is se'dom used. We say, Ve have been there once (not cne t'me)." 1 saw bim twice (not two times)." ‘He was shot three times (not thrice).” Thrice is restricted to, special uses. To Wash Chintz. Boil ehout two pouncs of rice in two galicns of water until it is cocked, then put saside until lukewarm. Dip the chintz in thiz, using the rice as a so0ap. Rinse in cold water and pull into shape 2s it dries. Tie chintz will be slightly stiff and will look a5 good as new. 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