Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1931, Page 37

Refrigerators for Natural Ice BY LYDPIA LE BARON WALKER.' of refrigerators not artificially is a matter of which we hear less inge the introduction of the iceless va- , but knowledke of how to do it remains valuable in many homes. keeping of it “sweet” so that foods THE WATER SHOULD BE PIPING HOT. put in it do not “tasté of the refrigera- tor” is essential, also the cleansing of it after an unexpected week end away from home, when in the hurry some- thing may have been overlooked that ‘would spoil. It is pf first importance to keep the “trap” clean and the pipe leading to it from the ice chamber, clear of foreign substance. On a day when the ice is Jow or the temperature permits the food to stand outside for a bit, het erator brush of a wire be thrust down the refrigetator drain, and a refrig- erator brush or & wire be thust down to see that it is properly The ives sl be oved, put in a bath of et.h.‘nun‘hlnc and wa- ter, hed with 8 mop and not & cloth, lest the hands suffer from con- tact with the harsh soda. Use a eloth, however, to dry the shelyes and put them in the out of doors sun and air for 10 or 15 minutes. This latter pro- cess returns them sweeter to their use than merely wiping them dry, although that will serve. A captain:r of hot water and soda so- lution s set on the flogr of the refrig- erator and the entire inner wall is washed, also the lining to the door. Avold the use of ammonia for this P , as its odor is so strong as to cling to the chest and impart an un- pleasant quality to foods after. A the t in shortly 3 very mild solution of bath salts gives a freshness suggestive of fra- grance to follow the actual cleansing ss of the soda and water. A refrigerator sponge is & usefu] thing to have ging in cloge proximity to the ice chest. Even in the best regu- lated households something occasionally gets knocked over in the ice box, with the putting in and taking out of foods. ‘The annoyance is minimized with the use of this sponge. It can be quickly used and rinsed out. SUMMERTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. The hordes of the locusts used to be feare they came (and still do sometimes come) in armies that actual- iy darkened the skies, devouring all things. But locusts are not really numerous insects, and the harm they do is directly visible. The common housefly, which gets commoner with every day that we advance into the warm months, s probably the most numerous and widely spread insect on earth. Even out in the woods, after & few moments, especially if you open 8 picnic basket, a few housefiles will ap- ) p?l'herl are no parts of the world, ex- cept in the Arctic circles, where they are not omnipresent, and it is no longer good sense to say “harmless as a fly, since flies are harmful beyond all rat- tlesnakes, tigers and gunmen. They are hatched and live in filth, Forgetting for the moment, however, the unpleasant sides of fly life, there are other Summer _species around Washington besides the hated | musca domestica that 1 have begun to notice with increasing interest. FPirst of these is the swarmfly, a European species that is bt(innfln}! to gain ground in the Capital. e is much smaller and is generally seen in schools or gyres swarming 'round and 'Tound a chandelier or string from an electric light or any other centrum for his fantastic love of circulation. Seldom lighting, swarmflies cannot easily be led; if you open the window and try to shoo them eut they disperse to | the corners of the reom snd then as| soon as you have closed the window | they gleefully assemble for their dance marathon. A few flies are really beautiful, like the blue-bottle flies and the green flies that do such harm to rosebushes. And some flies are almost perfect super- ficial imitations of bees and like bees frequent the nectaries of flowers. But there is no bad enough to say about the ugly rsefly, and those of us who can remember back of the sutomobile reeall the agony that horses suffered from these brutes and the long toll of accidents caused by horses that boited or bucked when stung by them. PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. B Recovery From Mastoiditis. About half of all cases of mastoiditis 80 on to complete recovery without spe- cial treatment, often without having ‘been recognized as mastoiditis. Pain back of the ear or tenderness to pressure upon the bone directly behind the ear canal, or swelling of the sur- face in that- reglon, may indicate mastoiditis, but in many cases no such signs are found and in some very grave cases these signs are totally lacking. More or less involvement of the air eells in the mastoid bone accompanies most cases of inflammation of the mid- dl. ear (otitis media). When such acute middle ear inflammation “breaks” and discharges matter from the ear, a very profuse discharge usually indicates mastolditis. If the discharge can be! seen to pulsate it is certainly mastoid- itis. An ear discharge persisting for many days or weeks after a ‘“gather- ln{ hreaks is indicative of compll- cating mastoid infection, especially if the patient has slight fever a little while every day. The reason why mastoiditis is re- rxdtd with anxiety is that it involves he risk of infection getting into the brain cavity, through the "very thin bany wall between the seat of trouble in the mastoid process of the temporal bone and the meninges or membranes covering the brain. There is not only the danger of a septic meningitis or in- flammation of these brain coverings, but also the danger of septic sinus thrombosis, or infection in the great vein paths within the skull. Fortunately these dreaded effects oc- cur only rarely, compared with the frequency of mastoiditis. It is well to treat every case of acute earache where inflammation is assumed to be present, as a potential mastoiditis, as indeed it is, and save all the fuss young children, for the spontaneous _recovery is where the patient is a young child. Some of the older folk, who have suf fered or rather tolerated chronic run. ning ear for many years and dilly- dallied with it, seem to have little rc- sillency when they develop mastoid complications, and with them it's oh, pshaw, it's nothing today and gone to- morrow. More than once when I have been at a loss what to do with a recal- citrant old body with chronic otitis media, we have settled it all by just burying him. I recall only one infant that failed to recover from mastoiditls, and in that case we operated. Aside.from the treatment of the acute ear inflammation there is no special remedy for mastoiditis. 1 don't think I'd submit to a masteid operation my- self unless some good tlm\l¥l physician sanctioned and urged it, on his own in- formation and belief and without eon- nivance of a specialist. (Copyrisht, 1 of flies | THE EVENING NATURE’S CHILDREN BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. PR Tiustrations by Mary Foley, ES, fhere are ters in Ithe insect world and parasites, too. They come to pay a short visit and stay the rest of their lives. ‘Worse than most of oyr human visitors, they leave a big family behind for the obliging host to feed and rear. “The ants are famous for harboring ahout 3,000 species of pets. They are the dupes of more grafters than you ever thought possible. Oh! well, she is so busy she has no time to be bothering her brain with all the mean things the peaple of her world are up to. ‘The Rove beetle into the ant home and is so low she even mimics their form. The ant sentinels let her pass. Her useless wing-cases feel like the hunched hind-body of the ant. She has & whip-like pair of feelers with five knobs and one joint, her legs are npfi:r-l&u and she ‘is rust brown in color. Another member of this family has worked her graft shamelessly. She goes into the home and lays her eggs among those of the ants. The bables are tended and cared for with as much af- fection as thelr own, When the babies are grown up they leave this kindly shelter, walk about sightseeing, and then enter the home of another mem- | ber of the ant family, remaining all Winter. In the Spring. these non- paying guests return to their first host, lay many more eggs in the nursery, and stick around until the children are grown and cared for and again sponge off the second obliging family. For some unknown reason the ant seems to respect this beetle in spite of its habits. Another beetle grafter and a long- staying guest of the common yellow ant is called by the impossible name, Clavi- ger testaceous. It is only one-tenth of an inch long, its body is hairy, its legs are short, each ending with one claw. It is a slow traveler and the ants who seem to adore it, will let it ride for hours on their backs as they go about their work. Sometimes you will see | one hauled sbout in the ant's mouth. | When it is hungry, the tiny one re- | ceives its drop of nectar from its | friend’s mouth. It lives among the baby ants and is cared for by the ant nurses. When the nurse has her back turned, the little mite will attack a baby ant and eat it. That's gratitude for you! I am sorry to say the ant holds the | record for keeping open house. There | is & mosquito who watches for the ant's | return from market. She is confronted by the masquito, and, after some hesi- tation, the ant will give her some of the nectar she has taken from the scale insect. Better than some of our own_ hold-ups, she takes only what she | needs. There are mites who are pensioners on the bounty of other, more hearty | insects. They pick the crumbs from their tables, so to speak. There are erickets which, tiring of the great out- doors and the white lights, seek seclu- |slon and peace in the city of the ants., They pay for their board by massaging which the crickets like. Sometimes the ants take to this form of graft kindl and then, from the looks of the crickets, | they have turned upon them and the crickets lost a leg or two. The Compsilura fly, imported from Europe, watches her chance to deposit | her live, squirming baby on the back of | the gypsy moth, cabbage worm and | tussock moth. In two weeks the baby has killed her hostess and drops to the ground. She crawls into loose bark. where she stays for about eight days to finish her growing up, then she files about seeking out our enemy, the| gypsy moth. Another friend of ours is the wasp, which boldly attacks the Japanese| beetle. Watching her chance she lays | her egg at just the right tender spot on | the beetle'’s back. When the mother | goes to the nursery in the evening, | after dining on our trees or flowers, the egg drops off into the cradle of the "Mb,\n Later it hatches and eats with gusto the juicy grublet. The grafters who lie in wait for the | slow-moving, plump caterpillar are legion. The insect world is filled with the most canny grafters and parasites known. Behind some juicy leaf or fruit an enemy is lurking. Hard on| the victim but lucky for us. | the ants, who have a covering of grease lj STAR.. WASHINGTON, D. C, MODES OF THE MOMENT === THURSD.AY, I ‘Parie For cool "on e beack., Yarne. makes a short foor ribbed wool to wear” withia dotted luie and white wool dresr. The The Woman Who Makes Good BY HELEN WOODWARD. Who started her career as a frightened typist and who became one of the highest-paid business women in America. She is now married to one ©of America’s famous authors. Less Talk—More Money.. “I've worked for three motion pic- ture companies” sald a stenographer to me the other day. “And I'm through. 1 didn't like the first one because the boss always played practical jokes.” “He didn't play sny on you, did he? “No, she said, “but I never knew when maybe might be the one.” “What sort of Jokes?” [vell, . doeday he got a man’s coat that was hanging on & hanger and car fully nailed it in such a way that when th man started to grab the coat off he wouldn't see the nails, and the coat came off in pieces. Of course, the men played jokes back again. One of them gave the boss a cigar that ex- ploded and he didn't like that one a little bit, maybe because it was such dumb joke. You can’t play practic jokes without hurting somebody else's Teeling. So I quit.” How about the other places you worked at?” “In the second job"” she went on, “they had a policy that just drove me crazy. They tried to make everrbody think that they were going to lose their jobs the next minute. They had a’sort of assistant, who was supposed to watch what you did. “We can't afford to have the people cut when they're sick, be- cause the work stops, 50 we have this girl to learn your work in case you get sick.” Of course, the real idea was that if I didn't come right up to the mark I'd lose my job, pronto, or if I stayed home sick. “Well I left that job and got another place, and I liked it all right, but by that time I'd got it into my dumb head that stenographers in the movies get less money than they get in other busi- nesses.” Helen Woodward. “But why did you go in the movies in | the first place?” “Oh, you know, like a fool I thought I'd get a chance to act or write, or something like that. I really wanted to meet big people. I wanted to work with famous people.” ‘Well, did you? “Sure, but they don't seem very This “ACCEPTED” Seal denotes that SELF-RISING WASHINGTON FLOUR (and advertisements for it) are accept- able to the Committee on Foods of the American M edical Association d bother of chiselling into the mas- id cells later on. Masteid operations, by the way, were formerly done womh':;u~—x‘&m£ th: L were a [ ge! md chisel into play in such cases. Today, I am just as sure, the practice of most good doctors and sur- geons in dealing with this treacherous condition is quite conservative. Doctors should be conservative in treating such cases, particularly in My Neighbor Says: Dried apples, apricots, prunes, etc., should be soaked over night in cold water before cooking, so as to “plump” them and soften the dried tissues. Raw ammonia will _remove paint spots from a door. Be care- ful not to allow the ammonia to remain on too long, as it will eat the wood. ‘The safest way to melt choco- late is to put it into a small frying pan or saucepan over & low or in the oven. If it is to be mixed with a liguid, the best way is to melt it with a little of that liquid first and stir to & cream. . ‘To sharpen seissors, eut sev- eral times through coarse sand T, POPET: copyright, 1021) Alec the Great like windows in & house, to let in light. 1 always do my best. outlook bright. my What you’ll like about it is the thorough dependability of elf-Rising It'll make those biscuits, waffles, shortcakes, doughnuts, muffins, ATEVE! tries, etc., with the SAME DELICIOUS RESULTS Y BAKING—and made ready for the oven “in a jiffy.” It doesn’t require baking powder. You don’t have to change your baking recipes—SELF-RISING WASHINGTON FLOUR meets every kitchen conditien—because i That's why we guarantee e faction groeers Wilkins-Rogers Milling Co. or your money will be and delieat i | itk tessens in all sizes from 2-1b. sacks up. is the Kitchen Flour. y Washington, D.C. NG R famous if you've seen them around every day.” ‘ou mean they're rude or mean?" “No, no, most of them are awfully nice, good-natured and kind. But they that the diet is improved and weaning don't look so good on the lot as they do in the films. Lots of them are silly, Anyway, they don’t seem any d: ferent {fro; nybody else, after you" worked around the lot awhile. the movie actors?” “No-0,” derisively. “My thousand men in offices that have more because tress and couldn’t ing at things. mind and that's where I belong, guess. “1 don't have s0 much to talk about when I get home at night. But I have | more money ta spend.” (Coprright. = o Fruit Pies. A fruit ple is usually juicy. edge of the lower crust is moistened | with cold water, | pressed lightly into | gether better. 'm neither a writer nor an ac- 've got the bus\ne;; 1931) it will stick or brush with an unbeaten egg white allow to stand en it until cool. will help to prevent = soggy lower crust will be more flaky after baking. Peach Pie. Cover with Mix one- sprinkle with a little flour. ut eight slices peaches. cupful of sugar and sprinkle over the peaches. Dot with butter. pastry strips lattice fashion. Bake in a duce the heat and bake until the peaches are tender and the crust is a nice brown. CCIDENTS will happen! But there’s a quick and easy way to clean and sweet, and neat again. A tablespoon- ful of Gold Dust to a gallon of warm water will dissolve the dirt and kill all dangercus germs. “Didn't you get a crush on any of she drawled on the word goodness, you see a | 8. A. than thase movie men. Perhaps it's | et their way of look- | It the the top crust when! To prevent the lower crust from becoming soggy, either sift a little dry flour over the bottom erust Place baked pies on a cake cooler and This Do not grease a pie plate. A good pastry greases its own tin. Leave in the re- frigerator for a while and the pastry Line s pie pan with pastry, then | third eupful of flour with three-fourths | ¥ Cover with | except bald- hot oven for about 10 minutes, then re- | an JULY 23 1931 Your Baby and Mine BY MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED. ‘Weaned by Tenth Month. Ml:‘lnnn months is 'A? s ot which to e 4 the probebly 1"ina. samplicntions in prol one of ‘compliea in this nun-sluplni ntunlo,n which PATTIY baby is nearly My nearly 10 old,” she writes. “He was Dflmmfllh- ing six pounds, and now weighs 24. He has two teeth. I feed him wheat cereal for breakfast and supper, veg- etables for dinner and two elght-ounce feedings of milk a day. The rest of his nourishment he gets from my hl’a:'.. o “My problem is sleeping. I put him to bed at 7:30 p.m. and 11: nlr::ly Te- fuses to go to sleep, even though he does mnol n: late in the afternoom. He is not played with very much and It he eries for | is never tossed about. for .llolnikt\lxml:lnl: have been in the habit of picl up ang I think now 1s ?he trouble. . r wn!lll let il- tr‘ynlig out one or two nights, but peaple tell me he will rupture himself, and this makes me afraid. “He 1s definitely not sick. Once or twice when I have let him ery have then picked him up he has vomit- ed, Is this temper? “I have a three-year-old daughter and this baby, and as I have no one to help me, the only free time I have is at night.” Not only are you entitled to evenin, free of the children but baby is liki wise entitled to his rest. I doubt very much & you have analyzed the situation correctly. I do not think it is temper, but probably insufficient food. He is an_enormous weight and I would step nursing him. Put him on four bottles of milk a day with vegetables and cer- eals and orange juice daily, The vomit- ing might be attributed to exertion aft- er eating, or it might mean that baby has worked hard to get enough nou ishment from an empty breast. It de- pends largely on whether he is bottle or breast fed at this time, I have seen a baby vomit usly after nursing for 15 minutes and gain- ing nothing in weight, indicating that ad been imbibed, while the certain that she had milk, refused to wean the baby. See that baby has one long nap right after the 10 or 11 o'clock feeding, and | one short nap, not to exceed one hour, between 2 and 3. Then let him stay awake until after his 6 or 7 o'clock di ner. If he does not go to sleep imme- diately, do not take him up but sit by the bed for a few moments so that he | remains lying down. Babies go to sleep easily if they can be kept quiet, but oft- | en keep themselves awake by gallop- | ing about. Stop worrying about the rupture, See completed, and then expect that the | baby will go to sleep if he is kept quiet. Some mothers have achieved this by putting the baby attired in a diaper in- | to a sleeping bag made of the thinnest of cotton material. In this the baby cannot grasp the rails and pull him- self up and, being thus hampered, lies quietly and goes to sieep. JOLLY POLLY A Lesson in English BY JOSEPH J. FRISCA. THE BEACHES ARE SO CROWDED THAT NO ONE EXCEPT BALD-HEADED MEN ARE GETTING SUN-BURNED .P“,, ) M.—"No one except bald-headed men is getting sun-burned” is the required form. Notice that the subject is “no one.” Therefore “is,” not “are,” is re- quired. This is clearly demonstrated when the sentence is transposed, as fol- “No one is getting sun-burned aded men.” g o Only about 6,000 stars are visible to the unaided eye, while millions are | seen through a powerful telescope. make your refrigerator Don’t use gritty cleansers that scratch and mar. Let the work choose the soap. For cleaning up all dirty dirt use Gold Dust, the safe, sure, easy 15| be amaller? Will FPEATER Coiffure for Long Hair, (1) I have & heat !ufi-fl-l;’o lu.gut a coiffure? ::l‘l I Il‘l 18 ynnmosll. “nd.: 8 inches and weigh . Am under weight? (3) Myufl‘p- are always chapped and reugh from my biting them. How ean I keep them Azol‘t‘? Answer: (1) By all means have your hair thinned out. Heavy heads of hair are not fashionable nor comfortable. wo b then eross them over and turn the ends under, glllfl-: firmly. (2) You sre 14 pounds below the average. (3) It s impossible to have pretty .l‘lr 0 as one cultiyates the habit uunuc m. Keep them well oiled wi cold cream, or use a white lip- stick which you may purchase at any store. If you prefer you may e yourself a special lip salve of the | following ingredients: One eunce sper- macetti, 1 ounce olive oil, 1 dram tinc- ture of myrrh, 6 drops oil of rose ger- anium. LOIS LEEDS. | Reducing Exercise. Dear Miss Leeds: (1) How can I re-| duce my abdomen, legs and chin? I| am 16 vears old, 5 feet 2 inghes tall | and weigh 120 pounds. (2) How can I make my eyelashes curl? | ANXIOUS. Answer: (1) You are not very much above the average weight for your age | and height—only & matter of seven | pounds. You do not seriously need to b’hlt rlfl’;fl‘, to improve your | figure correct ure. Learn to A youmetl as tah &8 You cen with | abdomen in and chest out. You have been letting yourself slouch and this is why your abdomen seems too large. Stand up straight and your abdomen will assume its proper place. The double chin is also the result of poor posture. Hold your chin up, don't let it sink down. Here 1is & simple exercise for making those lazy abgominal muscles firmer. Lie on your back on the floor, feet to- gether. Slowly raise leg! vertically, keeping knees straight. owly lower ES. legs to_floor and repeat Rest. In the same starting slowly raise head and the and then sit up witheut touch- ing the floor with your hands. arms forward as yoy raise your Il |in order to assist in the movemynt. head-turning exereises. Walking briskly the double chin do neck-bending and & miles & day will reduce legs. (2) The Crossed over & pinned at lashes may be encouraged to curl by brushing them upward every day with a small eyebrow brush moistened with olive ofl. There are small devices sold for curling lashes. They may be ob- tained at most shops where a full line of cosmetics is carried. LOIS LEEDS. (Copyright. 1831) . Yack. o] French Toast. Beat one egg slightly and add one- fourth teaspoonful of salt and threes fourth cupful of milk. Cut a iarge hole in the center of each slice of bread, using six slices. Dip the slices in th egg mixture and place in a hot pan well buttered. Drop a whole :ga in each piece of bread. Brown the br on one side 1 the hot fat. Turn and brown the otner side. Serve hot. 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