Evening Star Newspaper, July 9, 1931, Page 38

woM AN’S PAGE. Catching-Up Jobs to Be Enjoyed. BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. ‘The days of Summer do not arouse one to feelings of initiative, but that does not mean that nothing can be accomplished on this account. There are plenty of household tasks, which THE REARRANGING OF LACE OR RIBBON BOXES IS A PLEASANT TASK FOR HOT DAYS. may be chosen partly from the fact that they are not too strenuous, which lend themselves to hot weather. A sense of accomplishment should attend their completion, although many of them are not in themselves of great significance. One can “pool” a lot of the small catching-up jobs, and consider the dis- patching of them as a full day’s work. Much ot the labor is in assemblying them beforehand, and, with a little forethought, this can be planned on a cool day, A list of numerous lesser tasks that have awaited the needle can be “inventoried” then, and the neces- sary button, tape or piece for patching, MENU FOR A DAY. BREAKFAST. Cantaloupe. Whole Wheat Cooked Cereal. Waffles. Maple_Sirup. Coffee. LUNCHEON. Fruit Salad. Ice-box Rolls. Watermelon Vanilla_Wafers. Tea. DINNER. Salmon in Aspic. Green Peas. Prench Fried Potatoes. Lettuce French Dressing. Blueberry Ple. Coffee. ‘WAFFLES. One pint flour, one pint milk, two eggs, one teaspoon baking powder, one-half teaspoon salt, two tablespoons sugar. Sift flour and baking powder into a bowl, add sugar and salt, rub butter in well, then the milk and yolks of the eggs, which have been beaten light. Then add the whites, which have been beaten %0 a otiff froth. Have your irons very hot and brush with lard or butter and bake waffles about two minutes or till brown. SALMON IN ASPIC. Two cups canned salmon, two cups cold liquid aspic, one and one-half cups cooked vegetables, mayonnaise, lettuce. Pour a little aspic into a mold previously dip- ped into cold water. When just about set cover with salmon flakes and carefully pour on a little more of the aspic. Over this arrange a layer of vegetables, carrots, peas, asparagus tips, sections of string beans, add more aspic and repeat until the mold is filled. Chill, unmold and garnish with lettuce and mayon- naise. Serves six. Aspic Jelly.—Two tablespoons granulated gelatin, three cups water, thinly peeled rind of one- half lemon, one-third cup lemon juice, one-third teaspoon salt, dash of paprika, white of one egg. Pour one-half cup cold water over gelatin. Bring re- maining water to boil with lemon rind, lemon and seasoning. Add softened gelatin and slightly beaten egg white. Whisk to- gether thoroughly until the mix- ture boils up rapidly. Set aside for 20 minutes, then strain through doubled cheesecloth. secured and placed with the article or garment to be repaired. On the day when any sort of physical exertion seems appalling, to sit quietly in a chair and sew, with perhaps a glass of iced tea to hand seems almo§ 2 pleasure. The rearranging of supply boxes con- | taining ribbons, notions, lace, etc., | catching-up job that beckons many a | homemaker who i too busy to answer | the summons when more important | work is calling on cool days. But when | the hot-day jobs are being considered, this is one that will aid considerably in {the running of the household ma- chinery when it is accomplished. | Letters that no longer need clutter | the pigeonholes of a desk can supply | another “catching-up” job. Some- times they have accumulated to such | an extent that they delay one’s progress |every time the desk is used, yet the moment for sorting them has never seemed to come. This matter of a few moments’ time 1s a pleasant and im- portant item in the list of hot weather | tasks. A tried and practical method to make the most of time devoted to such tasks is to list them as they come to | mind, so that there is no delay in try- | ing to recall what it was one thought | of day before yesterday that would be | so nice to sit down and do on a hot | day. Memory may play tricks, but can easily be “jogged” if the item has been | noted with a pencil on a pad. | ; Household Methods BY BETSY CALLISTER. | | It would be easy to pack shoes if you | had one of those shoe trunks to pack | in—a large trunk that opened up ltke |a wardrobe trunk with pigeon-hole, drawers for every pair of shoes—with a metal frame in which to slip the card ' on which is written the description of the shoes within. Then wide thin draw- ers beside, in which presumably one puts stockings. | That is not the kind of packing that { most of us have in mind—rather the sort of packing that means getting everything you need to wear on your holiday into one rather small trunk and a hat box. Put heavy things on the bottom— shoes, heavier sports clothes and cor> sets if you wear them. Put , light-weight things at the and put tissue paper in the folds of crushable frocks. Uncrushable frocks —those of georgette, for instance— travel best if rolled smoothly and tucked securely in place in the trunk. Lingerie of the uncrushable sort should also be rolled. If shoes must be carried with other things they should be slipped into cot- ton shoe bags. If you are carrying bottles of lotions and other liquid toilet preparations the corks should be securely held in position by fasten- ing them with adhesive tape. One damp garment in the trunk will make wrinkles in everything. So if you have clothes just back from the laundry be sure that they are bone dry before putting them in your trunk. Clothes packed in the damp atmos- phere of the seashore or on a damp | day anywhere will be much more badly wrinkled when unpacked than those packed in a dry atmosphere. For this reason make sure that everything you pack is as dry as possible. NANCY PAGE Can You Be as Cool as Cucumber at Luncheon? BY FLORENCE LA GANKE. It was a hot day. Nancy was giving' a shower for a frlend of hers. She | had bein undecided as to what to | serve, but she made up her mind that she would base her menu on the tra- ditional phrase, “cool as a cucumber.” SALAD IN -- (UCUMPBER_ .A .o She decided she would combine that idea with the “matrimonial sea.” And with those two ideas she worked out this menu: Seasoned Tomato Juice Cocktail. Chicken Salad in Cucumber Boats on Iceberg Lettuce. Clover Leaf Rolls. Briny Olives. Fresh Red Raspberries, Cream. Cake with Seafoam Icing. Iced Coffee. The tomato juice cocktail.-had a bit of onion juice, a dash of horseradish and lemon juice added to it after it had been salted to taste. Just a few | grains of sugar mellowed and smoothed the flavor. The cucumbers were chosen of uni- form size. They were cut into halves ’ lengthwise and hollowed. The cucum- ber pulp which was taken out was used with celery, fresh peas and chicken i cubes for the salad. At serving time the mixture was | put back into the well chilled cucumber boats. Some hostesses may want to add tiny flags, but Nancy resisted the' impulse. { In mixing her chicken salad, she marinated or added French dressing to the cooked, diced meat of the chicken and to the diced celery. She did not add the cucumber until serving time. . Franklin SUPERFINE Sugar quickly dissolves i nto all hard-to-sweeten things. Use it for fruits, cereals, iced drinks, and hot chocolate. “A Franklin Cane Sugar for every use” Franklin Sugar Refining Company i any WHO REMEMBERS? BY DICK MANSFIELD. Registered U. 8. Patent Office. ‘When Talmadge Hall, at 928 F street northwest, was famous for its tableaux and "r:mllc-l and literary entertain- ments? JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English BY JOSEPH J. FRISCH. ACCORDING TO A DOCTOR, SUCLESS DEPENDS UPON THE PROPER J. G. In fcrmal style, titles preced- | ing names are written in fuli, as, Pro- | fessor Smith or Professor Ralph T. Smith; General Pershing or General | John J. Pershing; Governor Roosvelt or | Governor Franklin Roosevelt; Reverend Jones or Reverend M. V. Jones, etc. Doctor is_always_abbreviated, as Dr. | Brown or Dr. A. C. Brown. ” NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. Tlustrations by Mary Foley. LIT. SPRINGTAILS. Thysanura. This insect has not advanced for a | " million years. No larger than a speck.| No history to speak of. Never had wings and never will. But she has a spring at the tip of her tail which enables her to get where she is going quickly, and when the spring is not in use it fits into a little hook under her bcdy. | ‘There are about 300 species of spring- | tails. They live in damp places and‘ love to reside in greenhouses, where you | will see them swarm. Tiny creatures, one-tenth of an inch long and some- | times black. They live on the surface of stagnant pools or puddles and lcok like specks until disturbed. Then you are surprised at the distance they can Jump. Some of them are blind. They have tiny feelers. The mouth is hidden, and food is obtained by suction. The six legs are on the body trunk, near the head, and the body is covered with! scales like those of the butterfly. A magnifying giass shows the scales to be beautifully marked, and will also | prove the perfection of the glass if these scales can be seen clearly. When ready to make a jump the owner of this unusual type of spring releases the “catch,” the long tip gives her a boost, and she gets a good start. It has a sticky, suctlon action and no doubt helps the jumper steady herself after the flight. They are most annoying to the gar+| dener. Sightless, they jump without sense of direction. They often strike you in the face. They are very annoying to stock, but cause no disease or damage to plants. There are a few instances where swarms of them attacked the plants by making tiny punctures in the tender leaves and staunted the growth, or, if too many :’uti‘hud upon the same plant, it was led. Some of these creatures live in rock crevices, others in moist seaweed, and one specles is white and lives in caves. ‘They appear and disappear quickly. Fossil remains of these insects show that they have not changed in all these years. g Stale Bread. You can make use of stale bread. Slice it thin, then place it is your gas oven to brown quickly. You will find it to be as crisp and delicious as zweiback and it will stay thad wa; TUESDAYS—FRIDAYS MYTIFINE Delivered Direct to Your Door \ DOROTHY DIX’S LETTER BOX Night Policeman Warns Letting Daughters Run Loose. EAR MISS DIX—I am & night policeman in a town of about 4,000 population and therefore see more of the doings of the younger n the average person. Within a year there have been more than-« people 25 forced marriages in this little town because the young men had neither work nor money. I see every night young girls from 12 to 15 years old out on the streets, or out joyriding ‘with boys until as late as 12 or 1 o'clock. This includes most of the girls in the town of those ages. Is it possible that their mothers have no interest in them? Our county judge says: girls aged from 12 to 16 to run around the mother should be spanked and spanked hard.” ers to wake them up. something to these mof NSWER—Your judge is«é0o merciful. should be done to the mothers young girls run on the loose. It woul in it, as they used to say in the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, to make the punishment fit the crime. Most of these mothers do get that punishment. They get it in the shame that comes to their daughte: wrecked lives. to do their duty. unnecessary. 'WHEN & young girl goes wrong, it is her mother's fault. It was Secause her mother was so careless and trouble to inculcate good principles in her. She never taught her to be modest. She never taught her to hold She never taught her how to protect herself against herself and that her gravest foe and the one she must always be upon her guard against was hers-lf. own impulses and her desire to be loved and petted and admired by men would be an ever-present danger against which she must protect herself, and that as long as she was mistress of herself she need fear no man. her honor above her life. ‘HE mother is to blame if she fails to control her daughter and keep her from doing the things that she knows she should not do. isn't & woman in the world so ignorant that she does not know that the period of adolescence is the most dan, when she most needs a mother's hand upon her and a mother's wisdom to guide her. Of course, the mothers will sa: can't keep their children from .doing and that as long as Mamie Smith and Sadie Jones and Jenny Brown ffll’adt the streets at night and go ef don't the mothers get together and and keep all of the girls at home and see that they receive their boy friends there at proper hours and mothers of the country hold the real power in their hands and could rule their children if ‘they had backbone enough to assert themselves and fight it out with headstrong yo (Copyright, 1931.) Meatless Meal as Treat MEATLESS meals may be most de- liclous. =~ Meatless luncheons and meatless breakfasts are quite a matter of course, in these days. But dinner, 00, may be meatless and delicious. Summer is the most tempting time for meatless dinners, just because there are so many good, fresh vege- tables to choose from. There is no | rardship in a meatless dinner if asparagus and fresh, green peas and ripe tomatoes may be served. The only | difficulty is to know where to draw the line in choosing good vegetables. There is an art in combining vege- bles temptingly. Certain vegetables 0" and certain don't. Color, taste and texture all play a definite part in the proper choice. The woman who makes a success of vegetable dinners understands this. “I don't know why it is” sald a young married woman, “but my Jack, who likes vegetables better than meat, doesn't seem to have any appetite when we have a vegetable dinner. Yet it w he that first suggested serving e The dinner she served consisted of onfons. turnips, beets, carrots, pota- | toes—all bojled and served au naturel. | The plate was just too tasteless for anything. If there had been steak ! Lives that were wrecked before they even began to live. Lives that were wrecked through ignorance and because mothers failed ‘That is the pity of it. t their Annies and Lulus and Floras do the same. | That would have been a delicious din- Mothers of Danger of that were bound to result in misery “When a mother allows her way of nights unprotected, Perhaps yoi can say Something worse than spanking lwho let their little, silly, ignorant some with boiling oil rs and in the knowle of their ‘The tragedy is so senseless, so indifferent that she never took the She never taught her that her “There gerous time in a girl's life, the time y in their own defense that they ‘what other people’s children do, joyriding with boys they have to ‘Well, then, why organize a girls’ protective union in a decent way? After all, the ungsters, DOROTHY DIX. or a chop there would have been a welcome tang to the flavor, a weicome change of texture to the meal. In one thing thiss vegetable plate was intelligently planned. There was variety of color. other respects it was stupidly prepared and planned. Now suppoce there had been creamed onions, baked potatces, buttered car- rots, green peas and sliced tomatoes. ner. Turnips, carrots and beets cer- tainly should never be served together, all being root vegetables. And the cream sauce added to the variety. The onions might have been served plain, with creamed carrots or potatoes. The tomatoes might have been fried or scalloped to add further variety—one baked or fried element is decidedly welcome. Pried parsnips or eggpliant add to a vegetable plate. So do scal- loped eggplant or scalloped potatoes. Here “are some other menus for vegetable dinners. Spinach, creamed onlons, Lyonnaise potatoes, = carrots, fried tomatoes; scalloped eggplant, parsley potatoes. peas, creamed caulifiower and sliced tomatoes, string beans, squash, cole- aw; buttered beets, mashed potatoes, lima beans, fried eggplant, sliced cucumbers. Wash Glove Is Chosen : PRACTICALLY &l light daytime, gloves nowadays are of the wash- able sort. Many women do not take| advantage of this fact, however, pre- ferring to_send their gloves to the | cleaners. But_the fact that they can be washed at home leaves one with no excuse whatever for wearing gloves after they have become the least bit soiled. ‘Washing gloves is really quite a sim- ple matter—and drying them satisfa torily is easy when you have a pair of wire glove frames, which can be bought at any notion counter. The wash water should be only a little more than luke warm. Use soap freely in the water, but do not apply directly to the gloves. 1t is a good plan to let them soak three or four minutes before washinz 5o as to | loosen the dirt. Then rub the gloves| | gently in the hands or put them on the | hands and proceed as if washing the hands. | The idea may occur to you to use a soft brush to remove the grime from badly soiled gloves, but this is a rather) bad plan as even a soft brush will roughen the surface of the kid or mar the even texture of fabric gloves. | Gloves should be rinsed once or twice if they have been quite soiled. The| rinse water should be of the same tem- DAILY DIET RECIPE CABBAGE FRANCAISE. Shredded cabbage, two . cups; butter, cne and one-half table- spoons; salt, one-half teaspoon; cream, four tablespoons; eggs, 2. SERVES 3 OR 4 PORTIONS. Steam cabbage until tender or add just a little water to it and cook rapidly until tender and water is absorbed. Add butter, salt and cream to cooked cab- bage, heat thoroughly, then add the well beaten eggs and turn mixture into a buttered frying pan, stirring until mixture is hot and becomes a delicate brown on the under side. Place a hot over the pan, turn out cabbage upside down so very delicate b’r;wn top will be on the upper side. DIET NOTE. Recipe furnishes portein, fat, fiber, lime, iron, vitamins A and B. Can be given to children 10 years and over. Can be eaten by normal adults of average or under weight. BISCUITS | behind the sporting page. perature as the wash water. A little | soap added even to the last rinse water | SONNYSAYINGS —_— BY FANNY Y. CORY. I'se terrible tired ob bein’ good! (Copyright, 1931.) LITTLE BENNY BY LEE PAPE. Pop wes smoking and thinking in his private chair, and ma sed, Well Will- yum, you may rest assured of one thing, little Willle is no fortune hunter. Meening my sister Gladdises baby, and pop sed, Thats cheering news. You dont meen to say he has refused to marry little Mildred whats her name because she has a rich grand- father? he sed. Youre on the rite track, at least, ma sed. I had him out for an airing this afternoon and old Mr. Shooster was out on his frunt steps injoying the air in a rocking chair, and it struck me as a golden opportunity to intrefuce him to Willie. Of corse I dident intend to mention anything about the ro- mantic plans that Mrs, Shooster and I have been discussing, because gen- relly men dont care to look that far ahead, but I thawt at least it couldent do any harm if he met little Willie and the 2 would get to like each other, she sed. Youre a scheeming woman, pop sed, and ma sed, Not at all, but a stich in time may save many vain regrets. Any- way, while I was approaching the Shoost- ers house I whispered to Willie that he must be very nice to old Mr. Shooster because he was a very rich old gentle- man and some day he mite leeve a lot of money to_little Mildred. Of corse Willie dident understand my words but | Im sure he comprehended my genrel | drift, because the moment cld Mr. | | Shooster took him on his lap he showed his resentment by taking his beard | with both his little hand, pulling with all his little mite, as much as to say | that his private life was his own little affair and.he wasent going to cater to anybody, rich or poor. Well of corse, ' Mr. Shooster put him down immeeditly, | or at least as soon as he could disen- | gage himself, but before I could regain | possession of him he had managed to | give Mr. Shooster several harty Kicks | on his white trouser legs, and of corse | while there's no serious strength in his | little feet, his little shoes happened to | be quite muddy as an aftermath of wawking through a mud puddle, so everything considered the incident prberly wont leave many endearing memories in Mr. Shoosters recollection, and I understand he has quite a reten- | tive memory. I was quite put out about | it, but at the same time I felt a certain by product of relief to think that Willie | is no fortune hunter, ma sed. And she started to do a crcssword | puzzle and pop shook his hed and got | Mint Punch. Wash in several waters enough fresh | they may 1s sometimes advised to keep the gloves from becoming too stiff when drying. | or dried mint to make one cupful after Once rinsed, the gloves should be | cutting fine. Mix it with the julce of gently squeezed to remove as much one lime and one lemon and one tea- water as possible and should then be put | spoonful of mint evtract, cover, and let on the wire driers, which are provided | stand for half an hour. Heat two cup- with small hooks at the top by which | fuls of water with one cupful of gran- be hung. Dry in_an air| ulated sugar and one cupful of powered place—not in the direct sunlight or|sugar in a double bofler until a richi{ near artificial heat of any sort. More telegrams were sent in Sweden last year than in any previous 12 months. p e " For All Tile and Po sirup, pour it over the mint, chill ang| strain through a dampened cheesecloth. Add the juice from one orange and serve in tall glasses half filled with chopped ice. Garnish with & few” mint eaves, rcelain HEREVER there are tile and porcelain to W clean, there’s just one soap to use. It’s Gold Dust—the quick, safe, easy cleaner that will not scratch or mar. Just use a tablespoonful of Gold Dust to a gallon of water, and the dirt is easily washed away. Letthe work choose the soap —and for the daily bathroom clean-up, use Gold Dust. It cleans things clean and kills germs, too. Enlarged Pores. Dear Miss Leedst I am & constant reader of your column and do hope you will help me solve my problems, (1) How can I get rid of enlarged pores on my noss permanently? Do you think that vanishing cream causes them and if so could you suggest a suitable powder base that mill not look greasy, as my nose becomes shiny a short time after powdered. (2) How can I bring the natural color back to my cheeks? (3) How can I get rid of warts on my fingers? BLONDY. Answer—(1) For a skin which is inclined to be somewhat oily and have | large pores the only way to keep them away permanently is by eternal vigil- ance. It is impossible to rid the skin | of them just once and then be sure | they are gone forever. horough cleansing at bedtime s the first step in the campaign against en- larged pcres. Pure castile soap and | warm water may be worked into a| rich lather and rubbed gently over the | face. Rinse several times in clear tepid water and then in cold water. Dry| with a soft, clean towel and then pat on a little of the following lotion and allow it to dry on the skin: Tincture of quillaja, 30 grains; rose water, 4| ounces; tincture of benzoin, 1 tes spoonful; essence of lavender, 20 drops. Mix well. Keep the lotion in a handy bottle to be used after washing the face and after a faclal massage with' cream. If it proves too strong for your skin dilute it with more rose water. Any cream containing wax is unsuited to a skin with large pores as the wax tends to clcg further the already over- | loaded pores. As many creams con-| tain this in, ient it may be that ycu | have been using that kind. Many with | your type of skin like a milky lotion as base for powder. It would be a| good idea for you to saturate a piece | of absorbent cotton in skin tonic or an | astringent. Pat this on the skin thor- oughly and zallow it to dry before ap- plying the foundation cream. (2) By bulilding up vigorous health through outdcor exercises, correct diet and sufficlent sleep. Stimulate the skin by applying hot and cold water alternately when rinsing. Finally rub with a piece of ice, first protecting the skin with a coating of cold cream or | = | else A (3) Apply cold cream in s ring around the warts and then touch then with glacial acetic acid. A toothpich with & wisp of cotton around the ti; makes a handy applicator to dip in th acid. This treatment may be given two or three times a week, care being taken not to touch the normal skin with the acid. LOIS LEEDS. (Copyright, 1931.) My Neighbor Says: Always keep cheese in a vell covered dish or it will become dry and tasteless. If cheese is wrapped in a cloth moistened with vinegar it will remain moist and retain its flavor longer. The easiest way to wash a bean-pot is to drop a pinch of soda Into it, fill it with hot water and put it in the oven a couple of hours. When emptied the bottom and sides of the pot will be as smooth as glass. An onion, green pepper and & tomato stewed together and put through a sieve, then strained and chilled and added to well chillel mayonnaise in equal quantity makes a deliclous Rus- sian dressing. 4 Never put fruit peelings directly into an enamel sink, for the acids in them will ruin the enamel, making it rough and hard to keep clean. (Copyright, 1981.) “FROM NOW ON, it’s Black Flag Liquid for me. It always works like magic—rids my house of flies and mosquitoes, moths, ants, bedbugs and roaches and saves me money, too! You’'ll find she’s right! » For Black Flag Liquid’s extra powerful killing ingredients make work surer and quicker. Just close the windows—spray it into the air—fill the room with its pure, pleasant-smelling, stainless liquid. Not a fly or mosquito escapes. Yet it’s harmless to humans money-back guarantee. Get Black Flag Liquid and pets. Sold with a to-day. 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